Special Investigations: Tobacco - http://democrats.reform.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Tobacco Committee on Government Reform Monority Office provides reports on the tobacco industry, smuggling, government promotion of tobacco products, regulation.
U.S. Government Actions to Promote Tobacco - http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040830123356-71028.pdf 12 page document lists actions by the U.S. government to promote cigarettes and spit tobacco around the world.
Asia Times: Japanese Government Addicted To Tobacco - http://www.atimes.com/japan-econ/AK18Dh01.html Article on the government of Japan's ties to the Japanese tobacco industry, and the effect on health programs in Japan.
Smoking Health Issues "Still Ignored" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1858258.stm The deaths of five million people in the UK from smoking-related diseases have been partly blamed on decades of government inaction.
Still Waiting to Exhale - http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/prod_liability/tobacco/articles.cfm?ID=5796 Public Citizen 1998 report subtitled: "Do Nothing" Republican leaders do their thing for Big Tobacco contributors.
Support for Tobacco Trade: Up in Smoke? - http://www.afsa.org/fsj/Nov99/TobaccoTradeBeelman.cfm 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.
States Hooked on Tobacco Money - http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/state_tobacco_dependence.html State governments work to protect Big Tobacco: Wall Street Journal article.
Kentucky Legislators' Views on Tobacco Policy - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10343882&dopt=Abstract 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.
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