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  Tobacco Facts http://www.tobaccofacts.org/
From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.
  Tobacco's Dirty Tricks http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.
  Smoke in the Eye http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/index.html
A 1996 investigation of the controversial "60 Minutes" profile on the tobacco industry. Synopsis, interviews, and links.
  Trinkets and Trash http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/
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.
  The Special Privileges of Tobacco http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm
Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.
  The Truth about Big Tobacco in Its Own Words http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313
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.
  The Cigarette Papers http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/
Book on what the Brown and Williamson documents reveal about their cigarettes, smoking, and the tobacco industry. The book now available free, online.
  Joe Camel Campaign http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini
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.
  Manipulation: The Story of Imperial Tobacco and its Cigarettes http://www.smoke-free.ca/documents/Manipulation1.htm
A history of Canadian tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco; incorporates information from recently released industry documents.
  Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach http://www.essentialaction.org/addicted/addicted.html
"Big picture" presentation: money, power, addiction, sales, and how it plays out in different countries.
  AS3 Archives: The Cigarette Company Mentality Collection http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~as3/archive/archive.html
Archive of industry quotes, public and private.
  Frontline: inside the tobacco deal http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/kessler.html
Interview with Dr. David Kessler.
  Lawyer Control of Internal Scientific Research and Products Liability Lawsuits: The Brown and Williamson Documents http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/3/241
JAMA article on industry use of lawyers to control industry science.
  GASP of Colorado: Tobacco Industry and Front Groups http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/index.php#8
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.
  Industry Activity around the World http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
  Public Health Under Attack: ASSIST and the Tobacco Industry http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/240
Research paper reports on how the tobacco industry mobilized a well-coordinated attack on a national stop-smoking project.
  McSpotlight on the Tobacco Industry http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/tobacco.html
Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers.
  Multinational Monitor http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0192.html
January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.
  The tobacco industry in Australia http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c14.htm
Chapter in book on smoking covers tobacco industry structure, financials, lobbying tactics, public relations, and liability.
  Shameful Science: The Continuing Saga http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/0004verband.html
Supplement covers Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds actions from 1992 to late 1998, plus some older documents that have come to light.
  Tobacco Industry Witnesses on Whether Smoking Causes Lung Cancer http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/oshaglantz.html
Tobacco industry witnesses who argued against restrictions on secondhand smoke were asked if firsthand smoke, smoking cigarettes, causes lung cancer. These are their answers.
  Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2000/tobacco.htm
World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.
  1980 Philip Morris Memo Outlined Need to Conceal Nicotine Studies http://the-tech.mit.edu/V118/N20/dmemo.20w.html
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.
  Criminal Investigation Of The Tobacco Industry, Clifford E. Douglas http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/980531douglas.html
Douglas is the President of Tobacco Control Law and Policy Consulting. Speech given to the Northeastern University School Of Law.
  More Dirty Linen For Big Tobacco http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/14/national/main518608.shtml
Report on how the tobacco industry pressured other companies to scale back marketing of quit-smoking products.
  Concentration of Power http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm12/ConcentrationofPower.html
Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
  A Frank Statement http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddfrankstatement.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.
  Former Surgeon General: Big Tobacco Attacked Efforts to Safeguard Public http://www.onlineathens.com/1998/102298/1022.a3tobacco.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.
  Big Tobacco Bounces Back http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/phmor.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."
  DeNoble: Tobacco Industry Chooses Money Over Lives http://www.nd.edu/~observer/09141999/News/2.html
Victor DeNoble, a former researcher for Philip Morris, shares his experience.
  Tobacco Buster: Interview With Michael Pertschuk http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/messed%201992/01/MM019~10.HTM
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.
  Tobacco Industry Statements http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/20040827161228-67574.pdf
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.
  Smoking Gun http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/0821/6605054a.html
What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.
  Industry Spy Poses as A Science Writer - for 35 years [06/03/99] http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.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.
  The Tobacco Industry in Asia: Revelations in the Corporate D ocuments http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/13/suppl_2/ii1
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.
  The Cigarette Papers http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v262i0001_10.htm
The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
  The Cigarette Papers http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/webumentary/TEXT/The_Cig_Papers/CP.1
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.
  No Sale: 5. Legislative Recommendations http://stic.neu.edu/trri/No_Sale/pt5.htm
"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."
  The Tobacco Reference Guide: The Tobacco Industry http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter29/table_of_contents_chap29.html
Book chapter provides quotes and facts; all sources cited.
  Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con http://www.ash.org.uk/?bigone
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.
  Tobacco's Smokescreens Revealed http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351794982.html
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.
  Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6138-2001Dec6
Washington post article covers tobacco industry document shredding, attempts to discredit anti-smoking activists, and attempts to bribe health officials.
  Daily Doc: Philip Morris aggression http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmagg.html
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.
  Monitoring and Countering Tobacco Industry Influence http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3330.htm
Seession from health conference addresses political and economic influence of the tobacco industry, its effects, and public health responses.
  Failed Promises of the Cigarette Industry and its Effect on Consumer Misperceptions about the Health Risks of Smoking http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/suppl_1/i110
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.
  Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists http://www.thestreet.com/markets/marketfeatures/933545.html
Investment column.

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