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From Action on Smoking and Health in the UK. Covers emissions, smoker compensation, differences between expectations and reality for low tar cigarettes, and what the industry knew and how it behaved.
http://www.ash.org.uk/?bigone
Editorial in the British Medical Journal urges opening of the Guildford depository of tobacco industry documents and explains what we've learned already from industry documents.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.
http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
The tobacco industry has promised a new honesty and responsibility; this report reveals how little the industry measures up on three critical issues: the health effects of smoking, the health effects of secondhand smoke, and the addictiveness of nicotine.
http://democrats.reform.house.go...cuments/20040827162948-44223.pdf
JAMA article on industry use of lawyers to control industry science.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/3/241
Report contrasts what the tobacco said publicly with what it said in private, over a period of decades, on the subjects of nicotine and addiction, low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes and smoker compensation, tobacco industry research and public relations, smoking and disease, and secondhand smoke.
http://texts.cdlib.org/dynaxml/s...c.depth=1&anchor.id=JD_Page_15#X
Washington Post article covers secret Philip Morris memo that acknowledged that nicotine was a drug and highlighted the company's need to downplay that fact.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/V118/N20/dmemo.20w.html
A tobacco public relations man, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" science, scientists, and scientific organizations for more than a third of a century.
http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html
The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v262i0001_10.htm
Book on what the Brown and Williamson documents reveal about B&W, cigarettes, smoking, and the tobacco industry. Entire book now available free, online.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/
In the litigation Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection, R.J. Reynolds and its advertising agencies were ordered to produce several million pages of documents regarding the design and implementation of the Joe Camel Campaign. Some of the most important documents from that are now available here.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini
A "webumentary" documenting what the industry knew and when they knew it, in their own words, and what they did to hide their knowledge, and to get their customers to doubt the dangers of smoking.
http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...mentary/TEXT/The_Cig_Papers/CP.1
"Big picture" presentation: money, power, addiction, sales, and how it plays out in different countries.
http://www.essentialaction.org/addicted/addicted.html
World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2000/tobacco.htm
Archive of industry quotes, public and private.
http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~as3/archive/archive.html
Victor DeNoble, a former researcher for Philip Morris, shares his experience.
http://www.nd.edu/~observer/09141999/News/2.html
Transcript of the famous congressional hearings in which 7 tobacco CEOs declared that nicotine is not addictive.
http://www.jeffreywigand.com/insider/7ceos.html
"Faced with the prospect that state laws may be strengthened, the tobacco industry initiated a campaign to avert effective reform by enacting its own weaker proposals, designed to give the false appearance of reform without effecting meaningful change."
http://stic.neu.edu/trri/No_Sale/pt5.htm
Public health report documents the nature and extent of tobacco industry sponsorship of events and organizations; 304 separate sponsorships identified during the period 1995-1999.
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/tobacco/
Documentation on tobacco industry PR, junk science, campaign contributions, lobbying, advertising and product promotion. Features story of how the U.S. Trade Representative, on behalf of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, helped force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to water down their tobacco restrictions.
http://www.infact.org/health.html
Concise guide to the millions of pages of confidential tobacco industry documents released through litigation in the United States; reveals what was going on behind closed doors in the tobacco companies.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/trustus.html
Australian researcher presents internal tobacco industry documents on: advertising, targeting children; confusing the public on smoking and health; funding scientists, doctors, and consultants; secondhand smoke; plain packaging and health warnings; corporate plans, industry meetings; and product manipulation.
http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/ozdocs.html
Brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Health.
http://www.health.state.ok.us/program/tobac/quotes.htm
Statement by Minnesota Attorney General Humbert Humphrey III before the House Judiciary Committee on tobacco policy and the June 20th settlement. "All the tobacco industry asks you to do, Mr. Chairman, is to guarantee them decades of prosperity...Members of this Committee, you don't need Philip Morris' blessing to proceed."
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/10119.htm
"Welcome to a new era of cooperation" as B&W Tobacco put it on March 1998. A kinder, gentler, tobacco industry? This report from Public Citizen is skeptical.
http://www.citizen.org/Tobacco/fooled.htm
Report from National Network for Health outlines economic, political, legal, and marketing power of the industry.
http://www.nnh.org/tobacco/a-8-2.htm
Book chapter provides quotes and facts; all sources cited.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco...29/table_of_contents_chap29.html
AHA shows how tobacco companies have used their economic power to wield considerable influence on the political process.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11224
Gallery of cigarette ads and tobacco industry promotional items: t-shirts, caps, radios, and a wide variety of other items designed by tobacco companies to sell cigarettes, spit tobacco, and cigars.
http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/
Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery".
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/tobacinfo/juristoc.html
Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/tobacco.html
Collection of stories published in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/tobaccoindus.htm
Rundown on tobacco giant Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. Features a section on its advertising abroad.
http://www.ratical.com/corporations/mm10worst94.html#n8
Douglas is the President of Tobacco Control Law & Policy Consulting. Speech given to the Northeastern University School Of Law.
http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/980531douglas.html
A history of Canadian tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco; incorporates information from recently released industry documents.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/documents/Manipulation1.htm
About.com Guide. Documentation on how tobacco companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked.
http://quitsmoking.about.com/hea...brary/weekly/aa071999.htm?iam=mt
Medical bulletin. "The world's most widespread, serious infection is spread by its vector: the tobacco industry. Public health advocates must study the life patterns of the tobacco industry as they would any other disease vector."
http://www.medicusmundi.ch/bulletin/bulletin723.htm
CourtTV provides statements of Ian Uydess, William Farone, and Jerome Rivers. Covers nicotine manipulation, nicotine impact boosting, and research conducted by Philip Morris on nicotine addiction.
http://www.courttv.com/legaldocs...business/tobacco/statements.html
From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.
http://www.tobaccofacts.org/
Observations and comments on tobacco and tobacco marketing, in particular in Hong Kong.
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/tobacco/tobacco.html
Article from environmental newsletter; mostly on industry media campaigns on secondhand smoke; some information on industry litigation and PR.
http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r321.html
Interview with Dr. David Kessler.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fr...ttlement/interviews/kessler.html
"When insurance companies started offering reduced premiums to nonsmokers in the late 1970s, cigarette makers fought them, industry documents show." The story from Channel 4000, WCCO.
http://www.channel11000.com/news/stories/news-980727-154744.html
Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.
http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm
Washington post article covers tobacco industry document shredding, attempts to discredit anti-smoking activists, and attempts to bribe health officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac...e&node=&contentId=A6138-2001Dec6
Report on tobacco industry tactics to attack WHO atni-tobacco efforts including: secretly paying individuals to attack WHO in the media; using paid contacts to infiltrate WHO committees and divert funds away from tobacco control; using paid scientists and journalists to manipulate research findings.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20000802/07
New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, and manipulated nicotine. Article from Eye magazine.
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.16.99/news/cigarettes.html
Memo from John Dingell, ranking member, to Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee, on the subpeonaed tobacco documents. Provides overview of what the documents reveal about industry manipulation, lobbying, litigation, PR, and lawyer control of scientific research.
http://www.house.gov/commerce_de...ocrats/comdem/press/105mem01.htm
Tobacco industry witnesses who argued against restrictions on secondhand smoke were asked if firsthand smoke, smoking cigarettes, causes lung cancer. These are their answers.
http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/oshaglantz.html
On January 4, 1954, in response to continuing scientific reports on the health effects of smoking, the tobacco industry published this ad in more than 400 newspapers. It was a seminal moment in the history of tobacco, and also of public relations.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddfrankstatement.html
Formerly secret memo describes Philip Morris's programs to influence the political and scientific process in Europe in the 1990s.
http://www.bmj.com/misc/philipmemo.shtml
What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/00/0821/6605054a.htm
"Philip Morris et al. are recasting themselves as kinder, gentler companies concerned about their communities. Meanwhile, they're strong-arming the TV networks to block counter-ads which might persuade you otherwise."
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/phmor.htm
ASH-UK factsheet. Covers the major companies, market share, their promotional activities, related organizations.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact18.html
ASH Australia compilation of tobacco industry practices.
http://www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/Lv3resources_tobacco_industry.htm
An Australian history of tobacco industry denials about the health effects of smoking, addictiveness of nicotine and marketing of tobacco products to children.
http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/diaryofd.html
Interviews with tobacco whisteblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, and a tobacco industry PR representative.
http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/smoking/insider.html
Research reviews the public statements made by the tobacco industry and private statements inside the industry, assesses the extent to which cigarette companies fulfilled their 1954 promises, and evaluates the effect on consumer knowledge of the product.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/suppl_1/i110
Audio interview with David Kessler; requires RealPlayer.
http://archives.theconnection.org/archive/2001/02/0213a.shtml
Investment column.
http://www.thestreet.com/markets/marketfeatures/933545.html
Report by ASH-UK and the Royal College of Nursing on tobacco industry conduct; draws heavily on internal industry documents; focus on industry duplicity, particularly regarding addiction and low tar cigarettes.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/evidence.html
Legal scholarship, extensively footnoted, provides examples of tobacco industry concealment.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no1/mabry.html
Judge Munter says the evidence proves that Philip Morris waged a campaign to addict teen-agers and conspired to hide the health consequences of smoking from the public.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cg...99Apr6&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0
Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.
http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone1.html
Supplement covers Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds actions from 1992 to late 1998, plus some older documents that have come to light.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco...docs/secretdocs/0004verband.html
Story on tobacco industry pressure on insurance companies to drop nonsmoker rates.
http://www.channel7000.com/news/stories/news-980727-154744.html
The tobacco industry refused to cooperate with government efforts to reduce deaths and disease caused by smoking, the surgeon general under former President Jimmy Carter testified.
http://www.onlineathens.com/1998/102298/1022.a3tobacco.html
Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm12/ConcentrationofPower.html
Short item on tobacco giant Philip Morris, how it litigates, how it lobbies.
http://www.prwatch.org/prw_issues/1996-Q3/philip.html
Seession from health conference addresses political and economic influence of the tobacco industry, its effects, and public health responses.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3330.htm
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals started marketing Nicorette gum in the early 1980s. In response, Philip Morris ceased all of its humectant purchases from Dow, and let them know why.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmagg.html
Chapter in book on smoking covers tobacco industry structure, financials, lobbying tactics, public relations, and liability.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c14.htm
Report on how the tobacco industry pressured other companies to scale back marketing of quit-smoking products.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2.../08/14/national/main518608.shtml
Recent research identifies tobacco industry strategies to fight, delay, and water down health warnings, to prevent regulation of the tobacco industry, to circumvent advertising restrictions, and to give tobacco giant Philip Morris more lobbying power.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351794982.html
Research paper reports on how the tobacco industry mobilized a well-coordinated attack on a national stop-smoking project.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/240
A leading figure in tobacco control discusses industry activity, lobbying, and use of economic power, and explains why tobacco is so weakly regulated in the U.S.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/...es/messed%201992/01/MM019~10.HTM
January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0192.html
Papers on Philip Morris's accommodation/pre-emption program; Philip Morris media plan for Colorado; RJR's field force; smoker's groups bankrolled by the tobacco industry.
http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/index.php#8
Tactics used by the tobacco industry to legitimize its activities, promote its product, defeat health measures, and protect its profits, such as: glamorizing tobacco products; targeting youth, minorities and women; reassuring concerned smokers; tobacco industry "prevention" ad campaigns; "Helping" the Community"; using power and politics; creating front groups; creating controversy; using the legal system to "hide" information; resistance to regulation.
http://www.ncth.ca/ncth_new.nsf/...D8385256E160077B7FE?OpenDocument
David McClean, who was the Marlboro Man for Philip Morris, died of lung cancer caused by smoking. The text of his widow's lawsuit against Philip Morris provides information on industry conduct over the years.
http://www.courttv.com/archive/l...usiness/tobacco/marlboroman.html
Journal article is also expert witness testimony covering history of tobacco and the tobacco industry.
http://www.psljournal.com/archives/papers/tobacco2.cfm
Analysis of tobacco industry memos and internal documents reveals industry strategies to undermine tobacco prevention and push up cigarette sales in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/13/suppl_2/ii1