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99 Listings - DR (10/10)99 Listings - DR (10/10) Tobacco Giants Accused of Smokescreen - http://www.nature.com/nsu/020527/020527-4.html
Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant and bar trade bodies to maintain smoking in public places.
230,016 Listings - DR (10/10)230,016 Listings - DR (10/10) Marlboro Man Rides into Russia - http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9707/13/russia.tobacco/
Short CNN article on tobacco industry activity in Russia.
12 Listings - DR (9/10)12 Listings - DR (9/10) Public-Interest Pretenders - http://ash.org/watchdog.html
According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the public-interest pretender game better than the tobacco industry"; this article explains.
5 Listings - DR (8/10)5 Listings - DR (8/10) Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups and the Tobacco Industry - http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/astrotrf.htm
"How the tobacco industry uses bogus grass-roots groups to oppose local smoking laws." Thorough look at the National Smokers Alliance (NSA). Article from the Pacific Sun.
11 Listings - DR (8/10)11 Listings - DR (8/10) Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand - http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html
Photo essay reveals Rite Aid's pro-smoking activities and questions its claim to be against heart disease in women.
47 Listings - DR (7/10)47 Listings - DR (7/10) FAIR: Media Moguls on Board - http://www.fair.org/extra/9801/cato-media-moguls.html
Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also a Philip Morris board member; Cato has taken money from Philip Morris and RJR.
865 Listings - DR (7/10)865 Listings - DR (7/10) Big Tobacco's Global Reach - http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/asia.htm
The Reagan and Bush administrations used their econinmic and political clout to pry open markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and China for American cigarettes.
865 Listings - DR (7/10)865 Listings - DR (7/10) Washingtonpost.com - Fighting for Lungs and Minds in Asia - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A13232-2000Sep15¬Found=true
Article on targetting of Asia by the tobacco industry.
94 Listings - DR (7/10)94 Listings - DR (7/10) The Great Tobacco Robbery - http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-06-99.html
Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding tobacco companies accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking".
83 Listings - DR (6/10)83 Listings - DR (6/10) Big Tobacco Rides East - http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/01/dreyfuss.html
Describes smuggling and the marketing of tobacco products in Vietnam.
83 Listings - DR (6/10)83 Listings - DR (6/10) Big Tobacco and Rupe - http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1998/08/murdoch.html
"Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch's tobacco-friendly media. He's also just happens to be on their board."
83 Listings - DR (6/10)83 Listings - DR (6/10) The War in the States - http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/brokaw.html
Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco to push for state "pre-emption" laws.
83 Listings - DR (6/10)83 Listings - DR (6/10) The War in the States (cont'd) - http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/brokaw.jump.html
continuation of article; covers Citizens Against Tax Abuse, Citizens Against Government Interferencel, Minnesota Coalition of Responsible Retailers, Citizens for Fair Taxes, Maine Grocers Association, others.
59 Listings - DR (6/10)59 Listings - DR (6/10) SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995 - http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/smokefree_air_summer_95.html#aa4
Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance.
59 Listings - DR (6/10)59 Listings - DR (6/10) Designer front group - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddtassc.html
Documents origins of TASSC.
59 Listings - DR (6/10)59 Listings - DR (6/10) ACLU and Big Tobacco - http://www.tobacco.org/News/aclu11.96.html
Secret documents reveal ACLU ties to the tobacco industry. Find out how taking $1,000,000 from the tobacco industry may have changed the ACLU's positions.
38 Listings - DR (6/10)38 Listings - DR (6/10) Double Standards of U.S. Tobacco Companies in International Cigarette Labeling - http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=6654
Report from Public Citizen examines cigarette pack warning labels in 45 countries. Conclusion: what Philip Morris says about its product varies by country.
1,655 Listings - DR (6/10)1,655 Listings - DR (6/10) Where There's Smoke - http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,2763,369849,00.html
Article on smoking and tobacco in Hungary.
6 Listings - DR (6/10)6 Listings - DR (6/10) Essential Action Condemns USTR Pressure on Korea - http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000512.html
"The U.S. Trade Representative is up to its bad, old tricks, working on behalf of Big Tobacco," said Weissman of the group Essential Action; item has the story.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Cato Institute: "Libertarian" in a Corporate Way - http://accuracy.org/article.php?articleId=51&type=&searchterms=cato
Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding and advocacy for the industry.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Philip Morris Paid Rick Berman and Center for Consumer Freedom - http://www.consumerdeception.com/append4.html
Expose of Rick Berman and the Center for Consumer Freedom documents payments totallying $2,950,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris to Rick Bermman.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Those Lovable Tobacco Execs - http://www.andrewtobias.com/bkoldcolumns/000216.html
Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the National Smokers Alliance.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Smoke Screen: Big Tobacco is Working Hard to Ensure the Whole World will Get Its Taste Of Freedom - http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/12/washington2512.html
Article from Hamburg, Germany, explores Philip Morris cigarette promotion worldwide.
53 Listings - DR (5/10)53 Listings - DR (5/10) Strange Bedfellows: the Tobacco Industry and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/misc-docs/0003ritch1.shtml
Covers history of the collaboration, and examines how and why the MRA helped the tobacco industry.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) India Inhales - http://www.tve.org/lifeonline/index.cfm?aid=1143
Describes tobacco promotion efforts in India, and efforts to combat it.
45 Listings - DR (5/10)45 Listings - DR (5/10) American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Targeting of Youth, Minorities, and Woman - http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11226
Describes efforts of the tobacco industry, with reference to the Joe Camel campaign, and the brands Uptown, Virginia Slims, and Dakota.
5 Listings - DR (4/10)5 Listings - DR (4/10) Ties that Bind: the ACLU and Big Tobaccco - http://www.radioproject.org/archive/1998/9819.html
Transcript of radio program. Guests include Morton Mintz, who wrote an article on the subject, and Stan Glantz.
5 Listings - DR (4/10)5 Listings - DR (4/10) Smoke Screen: U.S. Tobacco Overseas - http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2000/0046.html
Transcript of radio program on promotion of tobacco in developing countries by U.S. tobacco giants.
39 Listings - DR (4/10)39 Listings - DR (4/10) Marlboro Man Rides High as Smoking, Death Rates Soar - http://www.rferl.org/specials/tobacco/default.asp
Radio Free Europe reports on tobacco industry marketing in central and eastern Europe.
37 Listings - DR (4/10)37 Listings - DR (4/10) Exporting the Epidemic: Tobacco and the Third World - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28836-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Book chapter discusses tobacco promotion in developing countries and the third world.
37 Listings - DR (4/10)37 Listings - DR (4/10) Tobacco Marketing - Where There's Smoke, There's Deception - http://web.idrc.ca/ev_en.php?ID=5611&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Article on how Philip Morris is selling the Marboro Man in Egypt.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Through the Smoke Screen: Another Philip Morris Front Exposed - http://www.mediareader.org/Issue1Stories/1_philipMorris.html
Article on Philip Morris, the NSA, and Contributions Watch.
41 Listings - DR (4/10)41 Listings - DR (4/10) Marlboro Man Goes East - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/01/mm0192_12.html
Report on industry activity in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and other East European nations.
41 Listings - DR (4/10)41 Listings - DR (4/10) Corporate Lapdog Poses as Citizen Watchdog - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1196.08.html
Covers Contributions Watch, a fraud which pretended to expose special-interest money in elections, was secretly created and controlled by a lobby shop paid for by special-interest money.
15 Listings - DR (4/10)15 Listings - DR (4/10) A Worldwide Tour of Outrageous PM and BAT Behavior - http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/qofm/0101a.html
Short descriptions of the marketing and promotional activities of Philip Morris and British American Tobacco in a wide range of countries.
6 Listings - DR (4/10)6 Listings - DR (4/10) The Tobacco Institute's Center for Indoor Air Research - http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/ets/cia_center/
Uses original industry documents to show how, when, and why the CIAR was created.
13 Listings - DR (3/10)13 Listings - DR (3/10) Cigars: The Shaping of an Illusion - http://tobaccodocuments.org/youth/AmCrNON19980111.Ar.html
Baltimore Sun articles examine the cigar boom of the 1980s, and cigar industry manipulation of media to promote the product.
13 Listings - DR (3/10)13 Listings - DR (3/10) Timeline: Front Groups - http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=13
Internal tobacco industry memos, letters, organized in time provide a look at the industry's use of front groups.
15 Listings - DR (3/10)15 Listings - DR (3/10) Opening Pandora's Box - http://www.sfweekly.com/1999-11-17/news/opening-pandora-s-box/
SFWeekly article covers tobacco industry activity in California between 1988 and 1993, primarily diversion of Prop. 99 funds; politicians who helped the industry; industry use of PR firms, lobbyists, and front groups.
15 Listings - DR (3/10)15 Listings - DR (3/10) Project SCUM - http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2001-05-02/bayview.html
Article in San Franscisco Weekly; tobacco industry documents expose an R.J. Reynolds marketing plan targeting S.F. gays and homeless people. Its name: Project SCUM.
20 Listings - DR (3/10)20 Listings - DR (3/10) Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=87
LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents the gap between its claimed membership and dues members paid.
20 Listings - DR (3/10)20 Listings - DR (3/10) RJR's Field Force Unravelled - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=83
Reports names RJR field operatives in charge of coordinating and developing the "smoker's rights" movement and how much they were paid.
870 Listings - DR (3/10)870 Listings - DR (3/10) Adolescent Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Magazines - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9480361
Research finds that cigarette brands popular among young adolescents are more likely than adult brands to advertise in magazines with high youth readerships.
111 Listings - DR (3/10)111 Listings - DR (3/10) Cigarette Push Defies Law's Spirit - http://www.sptimes.com/News/071501/TampaBay/Critics_say_cigarette.shtml
News article on new tobacco industry marketing technique: approaching shoppers in grocery and convenience stores.
15 Listings - DR (3/10)15 Listings - DR (3/10) The Nicotine Network - http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone2.html
Series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particular emphasis on "astoturf": front groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.
37 Listings - DR (3/10)37 Listings - DR (3/10) Tobacco Industry Organization and Support of Hospitality and Restaurant Coalitions - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_6123.htm
Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use of restaurant and hospitality organizations.
16 Listings - DR (3/10)16 Listings - DR (3/10) Big Tobacco Serves the "Butt End" to the National Restaurant Association - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=80
Explains how the tobacco industry used this restaurant trade group as a front to fight smokefree workplaces.
16 Listings - DR (3/10)16 Listings - DR (3/10) The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed - http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=257
ANR report on the NSA. "The goal of this piece is to reveal the origins, modus operandi, and game plan of the National Smokers Alliance, a "smokers' rights" front group created and funded by Big Tobacco to protect its profits."
16 Listings - DR (3/10)16 Listings - DR (3/10) Big Tobacco's Front Groups and Allies - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=62
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights report covers a number of front groups used by the tobacco industry to fight smokefree policies.
16 Listings - DR (3/10)16 Listings - DR (3/10) Big Tobacco Gambles the American Gaming Association's Credibility - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=67
Documents how the tobacco industry has used the AGA as a public third party to fight smokefree policies.
16 Listings - DR (3/10)16 Listings - DR (3/10) Tobacco Industry Strategies and Front Groups - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
Covers the NSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, and others.
77 Listings - DR (3/10)77 Listings - DR (3/10) Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page - http://skepdic.com/refuge/junkscience.html
Charges that "The Junk Science Page is not about junk science so much as it is about anything which does not support a conservative, Rush Limbaugh type, political agenda."
19 Listings - DR (2/10)19 Listings - DR (2/10) How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman" - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/junkman.html
PR Watch article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco connections.
19 Listings - DR (2/10)19 Listings - DR (2/10) PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed! - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/wolves.html
"Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.
19 Listings - DR (2/10)19 Listings - DR (2/10) An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/attack.html
PRWatch article on tobacco industry use of PR firms and front groups to push "tort reform".
8 Listings - DR (1/10)8 Listings - DR (1/10) The Tobacco Industry in New Zealand - http://www.wnmeds.ac.nz/Academic/Dph/Publicationsreports/TobaccoMonograph.pdf
Public health monograph of 105 pages (PDF format covers how the tobacco industry in New Zealand relates to the direct health effects of smoking, the addictiveness of nicotine, the effects of secondhand smoke, industry misuse of product design and opposition to harm reduction, industry opposition to tobacco control initiatives.
On Target - DR (1/10)On Target - DR (1/10) Tobacco Giant Blows Smokescreen on Risks - http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=125&art_id=vn20030106055622787C980583&set_id=1
British American Tobacco (BAT) tried to undermine the work of health experts in southern Africa in the 1990's; article explains.
633 Listings - DR (1/10)633 Listings - DR (1/10) World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative, Eastern Mediterranean - http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/InPrint.htm
Publications on the tobacco industry's tactics to undermine tobacco prevention in Egypt and North Africa, illicit tobacco trade in the Middle East, the economics of tobacco in Egypt and Morocco, and papers on tobacco in English and Arabic.
200 Listings - DR (0/10)200 Listings - DR (0/10) Tobacco Strategy, 1994 - http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dtv34e00
Inside memo shows how the tobacco industry influenced the Heartland Institute, National Journalism Center, National Association of Manufacturers, Tax Foundation, and other groups to advocate and lobby for tobacco industry positions and interests.
87 Listings - DR (0/10)87 Listings - DR (0/10) Tobacco Industry Targetting of Children, Women, and Minorities - http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/lesson04.htm
Syllabus and resources for course at The University of Dayton Law School.
200 Listings - DR (0/10)200 Listings - DR (0/10) Tobacco's Hired Guns - http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/vent/vent_hg.cfm
How the tobacco industry gets researchers, scientists, and engineers to testify against smokefree measures.
5 Listings - DR (0/10)5 Listings - DR (0/10) The Tobacco Industry Funds "Hospitality" Organizations - http://airspace.bc.ca/bd0900.html#a1
Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization of pro-smoking efforts in the hospitality industry.

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