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Columnist Herb Denenbert comments on how little the government does about tobacco's toll.
http://www.thedenenbergreport.org/article.php?index=171
A look at U.S. tobacco industry promotion of product abroad concludes that U.S. government support for the trade is not as strong as it used to be.
http://www.afsa.org/fsj/Nov99/TobaccoTradeBeelman.cfm
The deaths of five million people in the UK from smoking-related diseases have been partly blamed on decades of government inaction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1858258.stm
As Congress rushed to pass a bill aimed at cracking down on terrorists, the White House pushed a measure that would protect the tobacco industry.
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/r...L3=15&L4=0&L5=0&State=&Year=2001
State governments work to protect Big Tobacco: Wall Street Journal article.
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/week...03/state_tobacco_dependence.html
Article on the government of Japan's ties to the Japanese tobacco industry, and the effect on health programs in Japan.
http://www.atimes.com/japan-econ/AK18Dh01.html
Public Citizen 1998 report subtitled: "Do Nothing" Republican leaders do their thing for Big Tobacco contributors.
http://www.citizen.org/congress/...ity/tobacco/articles.cfm?ID=5796
Research into policymakers' views in a tobacco state performs a survey of 116 Kentucky legislators. Surprisingly, they were highly supportive of reducing the state's dependence on tobacco and more supportive of tobacco control policies than expected.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entr...list_uids=10343882&dopt=Abstract
Committee on Government Reform Monority Office provides reports on the tobacco industry, smuggling, government promotion of tobacco products, regulation.
http://democrats.reform.house.go...investigations.asp?Issue=Tobacco
12 page document lists actions by the U.S. government to promote cigarettes and spit tobacco around the world.
http://www.democrats.reform.hous...cuments/20040830123356-71028.pdf