Original sentence: It publishes a journal (Economic Affairs), a student magazine (EA), books, discussion papers and holds regular lectures.The IEA is rated by the accountability group Transparify as "highly opaque".The IEA's director Mark Littlewood said "We want to totally reframe the debate about the proper role of the state and civil society in our country … Our true mission is to change the climate of opinion.There has been long-term funding by British American Tobacco (BAT), Japan Tobacco International, Imperial Tobacco and Philip Morris International.This does not affect IEA it does not accept money from government
Edited sentence: It has supported legislation banning charities receiving public funds from lobbying the government (this does not affect IEA itself; as a registered educational charity it is exempt from many taxes, but its funding is private).It is not known what the IEA actually is, or on whose behalf it speaks, or how it is funded.It is rated by the accountability group Transparify as "highly opaque".It publishes a magazine, books, and holds lectures regularly.Its director Mark Littlewood said "We want to totally reframe the debate about the proper role of the state and civil society in our country … Our true mission is to change the climate of opinion.The IEA's sources of funding are not known, except that there has been long-term funding by British American Tobacco (BAT), Japan Tobacco International, Imperial Tobacco and Philip Morris International.There has been discussion in the press and among parliamentarians as to whether the IEA is more accurately described as a lobbying operation than as a think tank