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  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.
  The Decade-Long Scandal that Makes Enron Look Like Small Potatoes http://www.thedenenbergreport.org/article.php?index=171
Columnist Herb Denenbert comments on how little the government does about tobacco's toll.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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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