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A Brief Analysis of the Brown and Williamson Website: An Effort to Taint Juries? by Cliff Douglas - http://www.tobacco.org/News/9908douglasbwsite.html
An attorney takes a close look at the new web site and finds "a slick effort to make Brown and Williamson look responsible and caring and to inoculate it against liability and punitive damages."

An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/attack.html
PR Watch article highlights use of front groups by Philip Morris and the tobacco industry.

BAT's Socially Responsible Smoke Screen - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q4/bat.html
PR watch article provides background and analysis of tobacco giant BAT's latest image campaign.

Brown and Williamson's "Responsible" Web Site - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/na-docs/aa990426.shtml
Extended analysis of Brown and Williamson Tobacco's website, its purposes, PR, and messages.

Council for Tobacco Research - Disinfopedia - http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_Tobacco_Research
Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles.

Death of a Watchdog - http://www.altpr.org/webonly/watchdog.html
Long article covers the creation and exposure of Contributions Watch, a front for Philip Morris.

Flack Attack - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/
PR Watch article on tobacco industry PR.

How the Industry Argues That Nicotine Is Not Addictive - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/210
Analysis of the industry argument that nicotine is not addictive. Extensive documentation on how industry PR misleads and confuses the public about the science, on a critical issue: addiction.

Keep America Beautiful - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q3/kab.html
PR Watch article examines whether KAB is a grassroots non-profit or a tobacco front group.

Lawyer Control of the Tobacco Industry's External Research: Brown and Williamson Documents - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/3/241
Medical journal documents tobacco industry funding of research to generate good publicity for the industry, to deflect attention away from tobacco as a health danger, and to attempt, sometimes secretly, to influence policymakers.

Masters of Manipulation: Tobacco-industry Tactics - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28826-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Examines tobacco industry tactics in detail, with focus on Canada.

Smoking'! How the Tobacco Industry Employs PR Scum - http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-22-95/cover.htm
News article covers the development of the PR industry with the tobacco industry, and how and why tobacco uses PR today.

Timeline: Public Image - http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=32
Tobacco industry documents grouped on a timeline show inside thinking on PR.

Tobacco's Secondhand Science of Smoke-Filled Rooms - http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/secondhand.html
PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics.

WHO Faces Up to Its Tobacco Links - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/314
PR strategies used by the tobacco industry to get the World Health Organization to derail or weaken its tobacco campaign.

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