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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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frontline: inside the tobacco deal - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/kessler.html Interview with Dr. David Kessler.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Multinational Monitor - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0192.html January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Special Privileges of Tobacco - http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Facts - http://www.tobaccofacts.org/ From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.

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.

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.

Tobacco's Dirty Tricks - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21 ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.

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.

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.

Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists - http://www.thestreet.com/markets/marketfeatures/933545.html Investment column.

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