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Tobacco Facts - http://www.tobaccofacts.org/
From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada. |
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Tobacco's Dirty Tricks - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
ANR information on tobacco industry strategies. |
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Smoke in the Eye - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/index.html
"The Insider" is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Special Privileges of Tobacco - http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm
Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Multinational Monitor - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0192.html
January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Inside Quotes from the Tobacco Industry - http://www.health.state.ok.us/program/tobac/quotes.htm
Brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Health. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Committee on the Judiciary - Humphrey Statement - http://www.house.gov/judiciary/10119.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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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Memo to Commerce Committee on Tobacco Documents - http://www.house.gov/commerce_democrats/comdem/press/105mem01.htm
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. |
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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. |
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FDA Report On Nicotine In Cigarettes - http://www.fda.gov/bbs/tobacinfo/juristoc.html
Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery". |
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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. |
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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. |