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- "Operation Berkshire": the international tobacco companies' conspiracy - Tobacco industry documents reveal the establishment of a conspiracy between Philip Morris, R J Reynolds, British American Tobacco, Rothmans, Reemtsma, Gallaher and Imperial, starting in 1977, to promote controversy over smoking and disease and to reassure smokers.
www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/321/7257/371
- 1980 Philip Morris Memo Outlined Need to Conceal Nicotine Studies - Washington Post article covers secret Philip Morris memo which acknowledged that nicotine was a drug and highlighted the company's need to downplay that fact.
the-tech.mit.edu/V118/N20/dmemo.20w.html
- A Frank Statement - 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.
www.tobacco.org/History/540104frank.html
- Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach - "Big picture" presentation: money, power, addiction, sales, and how it plays out in different countries.
www.essentialaction.org/addicted/addicted.html
- American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Economic and Political Influence - AHA shows how tobacco companies have used their economic power to wield considerable influence on the political process.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11224
- American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Targeting of Youth, Minorities, and Woman - The "Joe Camel" advertising campaign, related promotional materials, and branding campaigns.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11226
- AS3 Archives: The Cigarette Company Mentality Collection - Archive of industry quotes, public and private.
www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~as3/archive/archive.html
- Australian Tobacco Industry Internal Documents - Australian researcher presents internal tobacco industry documents on: advertising, targeting children; confusing the public on smoking and health; funding scientists, doctors, and consultants; secondhand smoke; plain packaging and health warnings; corporate plans, industry meetings; and product manipulation.
www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/ozdocs.html
- Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence - Washington post article covers tobacco industry document shredding, attempts to discredit anti-smoking activists, and attempts to bribe health officials.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6138-2001Dec6
- Big Tobacco Bounces Back - "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."
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/phmor.htm
- Big Tobacco Bounces Back - 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.
www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc18.html
- Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies - World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2000/tobacco.htm
- Big Tobacco Spied on Health Groups - News article covers tobacco industry practice of spying on public health groups.
www.bradenton.com/mld/bayarea/news/world/3398895.htm
- bmj.com Philip Morris memo - Formerly secret memo describes Philip Morris's programs to influence the political and scientific process in Europe in the 1990s.
www.bmj.com/misc/philipmemo.shtml
- California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository - Once-secret tobacco industry documents provide insight into industry plans to weaken enforcement of and support for California's smoke-free workplaces; industry efforts to form a network of groups to advance the tobacco industry position thereby creating the sense of a grass roots movement, and industry efforts to undermine the California tobacco control program.
galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/calminnesota
- CBC News - Indepth: Smoking Up a Storm - Interviews with tobacco whisteblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, and a tobacco indsutry PR representative.
cbc.ca/news/indepth/smoking/insider.html
- CDC's Tobacco Industry Documents Web Resource - Organized set of (formerly secret) tobacco industry documents; some searchable, some displayable.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/industrydocs/index.htm
- Choking In Their Own Smoke - Article on recent tobacco ligigation covers "tactics used by tobacco companies to intimidate people out of filing suit".
www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4125412%255E20741,00.html
- Cigarette Secrets - Mother Jones article on funny things that pop up when you start sifting through thousands of pages of once-secret tobacco documents.
www.motherjones.com/sideshow/mehta.html
- Cigarettes Killed The Marlboro Man - David McClean, who was the Marlboro Man for Philip Morris, died of lung cancer caused by smoking. The text of his widow's lawsuit against Philip Morris provides information on industry conduct over the years.
www.courttv.com/legaldocs/business/tobacco/marlboroman.html
- CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.
www.cjr.org/html/95-11-12-smoking.html
- CJR - Darts & Laurels, Jan/Feb 1993 - (Search for "Burning Issues"). In the 1970s "twenty-six bioscientists who were studying the link between smoking and disease were suddenly fired by R.J. Reynolds after company lawyers had collected their laboratory reports; the research was never made public and was never resumed". Meanwhile Reynolds, with the rest of the tobacco industry, continued to maintain that the link between smoking and disease was "not proven" and "more research was needed".
www.cjr.org/html/93-01-02-d_l.html
- CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95 - How the tobacco industry promotes spit tobacco, particularly to kids; how the industry organizes fake grass-roots groups to oppose smokefree public places; how the industry intimidated California TV stations from running a tough anti-smoking ad; and how the Weekly Reader, owned by the controlling shareholder of R.J. Reynolds, ran an industry PR piece on the "unfairness" of smokefree laws.
www.cjr.org/html/95-01-02-d_l.html
- Committee on the Judiciary - Humphrey Statement - 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."
www.house.gov/judiciary/10119.htm
- Concentration of Power - Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm12/ConcentrationofPower.html
- Criminal Investigation Of The Tobacco Industry, Clifford E. Douglas - Douglas is the President of Tobacco Control Law & Policy Consulting. Speech given to the Northeastern University School Of Law.
www.tobacco.org/Misc/980531douglas.html
- Daily Doc: Philip Morris aggression - 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.
www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmagg.html
- Dave Goerlitz, former Winston Man - Goerlitz was a lead model for Winston cigarettes during the 1980's. In 1988, he began a personal journey to try to undo the damage his ads have done in addicting young people to tobacco products. His message is: (1) the ads are lies, (2) tobacco use will not make you "cool" or a success as the ads promise.
www6.bcity.com/formerwinstonman
- DeNoble: Tobacco Industry Chooses Money Over Lives - Victor DeNoble, a former researcher for Philip Morris, shares his experience.
www.nd.edu/~observer/09141999/News/2.html
- Diary of Denial - An Australian history of tobacco industry denials about the health effects of smoking, addictiveness of nicotine and marketing of tobacco products to children.
www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/diaryofd.html
- Don't Be Fooled Again Report - "Welcome to a new era of cooperation" as B&W Tobacco put it on March 1998. A kinder, gentler, tobacco industry? This report from Public Citizen is skeptical.
www.citizen.org/Tobacco/fooled.htm
- Evidence to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Inquiry into the Conduct of the Tobacco Industry - Report by ASH-UK and the Royal College of Nursing on tobacco industry conduct; draws heavily on internal industry documents; focus on industry duplicity, particularly regarding addiction and low tar cigarettes.
www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/evidence.html
- eye - The Cigarette Papers - New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, manipulated nicotine and more. Article from Eye magazine.
www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.16.99/news/cigarettes.html
- Failed Promises of the Cigarette Industry and its Effect on Consumer Misperceptions about the Health Risks of Smoking - 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.
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/suppl_1/i110
- FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money - Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry.
www.fair.org/extra/9409/smoke.html
- FDA Report On Nicotine In Cigarettes - Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery".
www.fda.gov/bbs/tobacinfo/juristoc.html
- Filtering Out the Bad News About Smoking - Cigarette companies have a history of trying to keep the facts about the dangers of smoking from the American public. Now, formerly secret industry documents offer a vivid example of Big Tobacco's manipulation of the truth.
www.drkoop.com/news/focus/feb/smokescreen.html
- Former Surgeon General: Big Tobacco Attacked Efforts to Safeguard Public - 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.
www.onlineathens.com/1998/102298/1022.a3tobacco.html
- Frontline: inside the tobacco deal - Interview with Dr. David Kessler.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/kessler.html
- GASP of Colorado: Tobacco Industry and Front Groups - 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.
gaspforair.org/gedc/gedcphlp.htm
- Greg Louganis and Big Tobacco - From the Tobacco History Timeline, an example of how the industry uses its influence and buys silence.
www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html#aa14
- Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con - 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.
www.ash.org.uk/?bigone
- Herb Denenberg Tobacco Columns - Denenberg outlines tobacco industry recruiting and promotional efforts for cigarettes, highlights industry conduct on addiction, and summarizes industry PR versus the facts on secondhand smoke.
www.pa-newspaper.org/distribution/denenberg/column187.htm
- Industry Activity around the World - Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0797.06.html
- Industry Executives Knew Nicotine Addictive - What the industry knew, and when it knew it, are the issues examined in this article.
personalmd.com/news/a1998100608.shtml
- Industry Secrets - Documents from the AG lawsuits regarding industry knowledge of health effects, marketing tactics, strategy to confuse the science, manipulating tobacco's addictive properties, fighting against clean indoor air standards, and political involvement in opposing prevention efforts.
www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/secrets.htm
- Industry Spy Poses as A Science Writer - for 35 years [06/03/99] - 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.
no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html
- Inside Quotes from the Tobacco Industry - Brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Health.
www.health.state.ok.us/program/tobac/quotes.htm
- JAMA: Public vs Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Cancer; causation; secondhand smoke. - Example: internal Brown and Williamson Tobacco document in 1986: "involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in health nonsmokers"; public statements by the industry at the same time: "environmental tobacco smoke has not been shown to cause lung cancer in nonsmokers".
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_274/no_3/5042t1c.htm
- JAMA: Public vs Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Smoking and Disease - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. Succinct chart compares what the industry said in public with what it said in private.
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_274/no_3/5042t1b.htm
- JAMA: Public vs. Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Addiction, Light Brands - Nicotine and Addiction; Low Tar Cigarettes; Industry Research and PR. Compares what the tobacco industry said privately with what it told the public, the Congress, and its customers.
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_274/no_3/5042t1a.htm
- Joe Camel Campaign - 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.
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini
- Law News Network -- Scathing Opinion in Smoking Case - Judge Munter says the evidence proves that Philip Morris waged a campaign to addict teen-agers and conspired to hide the health consequences of smoking from the public.
www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=A537-1999Apr6&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0
- Lawyer Control of Internal Scientific Research and Products Liability Lawsuits: The Brown and Williamson Documents - JAMA article on industry use of lawyers to control industry science.
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_274/no_3/sc5046.htm
- Lorillard Counts on Shook, Hardy and Bacon To Defend it From a Cancer Death Lawsuit - Covers a major tobacco industry law firm.
kcstar.com/standing/stories/shook1.htm
- Lorillard Documents Show Company Knew Nicotine Was Addictive, Adjusted Levels - Short report on confidential Lorillard memos that reveal Lorillard knew its customers smoke because they were addicted to nicotine, and that high school students were the core of its customer base.
tobacco.neu.edu/tcu/3-1/lorillard.htm
- Manipulation: The Story of Imperial Tobacco and its Cigarettes - A history of Canadian tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco; incorporates information from recently released industry documents.
www.smoke-free.ca/documents/Manipulation1.htm
- McSpotlight on the Tobacco Industry - Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers.
www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/tobacco.html
- Memo to Commerce Committee on Tobacco Documents - 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.
www.house.gov/commerce_democrats/comdem/press/105mem01.htm
- Monitoring and Countering Tobacco Industry Influence - Seession from health conference addresses political and economic influence of the tobacco industry, its effects, and public health responses.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3330.htm
- Multinational Monitor - January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.
www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0192.html
- Multinational Monitor: The Tobacco Papers - Formerly secret industry documents. "Buying votes, buying friends" tobacco industry political influence; Big Tobacco and the Law; Big Tobacco goes global; Smoking Guns I: Marketing to Kids; Smoking Guns II: Nicotine Manipulation.
www.tobaccodocuments.com/papers/9812weissman.htm
- No Sale: 5. Legislative Recommendations - "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."
stic.neu.edu/trri/No_Sale/pt5.htm
- Operation Berkshire - Article from British Medical Journal. Internal documents from the tobacco industry show that in 1977 seven of the world's major tobacco companies conspired to promote "controversy" over smoking and disease, in an exercise called Operation Berkshire.
bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/371
- Our Good Friend, the Governor - Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.
www.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone1.html
- Pervasive Influence of the Tobacco Industry - Report from National Network for Health outlines economic, political, legal, and marketing power of the industry.
www.nnh.org/tobacco/a-8-2.htm
- Philip Morris News from Moreover.com - Headlines and Links to Philip Morris news and press releases.
w.moreover.com/philipmorris
- Philip Morris Tried to `Bury' Damaging Nicotine Research - News article; secret memos reveal that Philip Morris officials suggested that internal documents about research should be destroyed, and negative information should be kept secret.
www.s-t.com/daily/09-96/09-18-96/b03lo073.htm
- Philip Morris: Death, Disease, and Duplicity - Rundown on tobacco giant Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. Features a section on its advertising abroad.
www.ratical.com/corporations/mm10worst94.html#n8
- Physician: Tobacco Industry Habitually Spins Research Results - The tobacco industry systematically distorts research to confuse smokers about the product's dangers and prevent them from quitting, according to the author of the chapter on smoking in a widely used medical textbook.
www.naplesnews.com/today/florida/a133122q.htm
- PR Watch: Why Philip Morris Hates Trial Lawyers - Short item on tobacco giant Philip Morris, how it litigates, how it lobbies.
www.prwatch.org/prw_issues/1996-Q3/philip.html
- Prying Open the Door to the Tobacco Industry's Secrets About Nicotine - AMA scientific article. Tobacco industry documents "reveal that for decades, the industry knew and internally acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive drug and cigarettes are the ultimate nicotine delivery device; that nicotine addiction can be perpetuated and even enhanced through cigarette design alterations and manipulations."
jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v280n13/abs/jlm80013.html
- Review of R.J.R.'s Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. R.J.R. - The suit that brought the end of Joe Camel also produced some very interesting documents, formerly tobacco industry secrets, which reveal exactly how, why, and when R. J. Reynolds designed the Joe Camel campaign. Find out what kids are worth to the tobacco industry.
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini/report
- Romania Typical Foreign Target of Tobacco Firms - USA Today article on activities of U.S. tobacco industry in Romania.
uen-ro.globalink.org/USA.html
- Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On - How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.
nasw.org/users/ASkolnick/naswtob.htm
- Secret Tobacco Document Quotes - Tobacco industry internal memos provide an inside look at the industry's knowledge and views of nicotine, addiction, product design, and the customer.
www.tobacco.org/Documents/documentquotes.html
- Secret Tobacco Documents - from the Tobacco BBS, a great collection of links to (formerly) secret tobacco industry documents. What the industry says in private continues to be a highly revealing guide to how smoking spreads across the globe.
www.tobacco.org/Documents/secretdocuments.html
- Secrets of BAT Industries - "Inside the restricted laboratory compound on the south coast of England, five senior scientists for BAT Industries, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, were devising ways to make it harder for people to quit smoking..."
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/315
- Selling Death: Tobacco's Strategy for Survival - Article by Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan on how an industry that sells an inherently dangerous product survives in America in the health conscious 1990s.
www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0602/strategy.html
- Shameful Science: Four Decades of the Tobacco Industry's Hidden Research - Analysis of internal tobacco industry memos reveals research it did on smoking and health, in particular in Germany.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/0002verband.html
- Shameful Science: The Continuing Saga - Supplement covers Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds actions from 1992 to late 1998, plus some older documents that have come to light.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/0004verband.html
- Smoke in the Eye - "The Insider" is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/index.html
- Smoked Out - ACSH article discusses what a tobacco law firm memo reveals about tobacco industry behavior.
www.healthfactsandfears.com/high_priorities/smoked/2002/document030102.html
- Smoking Gun - What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.
www.forbes.com/forbes/00/0821/6605054a.htm
- Special Report: Philip Morris Has Not Changed - Report on tobacco giant Philip Morris finds the tobacco giant is still bombarding kids with cigarette advertising, and still fighting effective tobacco education programs for kids.
www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/philipmorris
- Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked - About.com Guide. Documentation on how tobacco companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked.
quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/weekly/aa071999.htm?iam=mt
- Stash and Destroy - Tobacco lawyers schemed to hide damaging evidence from federal regulators, cancer victims, and the Congress since the 1960s, according to a confidential memo.
www.mojones.com/news_wire/tobacco_survey
- Statements of Former Philip Morris Employees - CourtTV provides statements of Ian Uydess, William Farone, and Jerome Rivers. Covers nicotine manipulation, nicotine impact boosting, and research conducted by Philip Morris on nicotine addiction.
www.courttv.com/legaldocs/business/tobacco/statements.html
- The Cigarette Papers - 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.
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/webumentary/TEXT/The_Cig_Papers/CP.1
- The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty/wiener/files/smoke.html
- The Firesafe Cigarette: the other Tobacco War - History and analysis of fires caused by cigarettes; details on industry lobbying against requirements to make the product firesafe.
sbm.temple.edu/~thalbert/firesafe.html
- The Guildford Documents - Tobacco industry documents "show that the industry conducted extensive research into ways to enhance and fortify the nicotine in cigarettes and tried to cope with the shrinking market for the product by using sophisticated 'lifestyle' advertisements aimed at young people. It also introduced 'light' cigarettes to try to prevent health conscious smokers from quitting."
www.cctc.ca/NCTHweb.nsf/35e6ce3c8d94c333852569c8006725c8/129c682000236817852569bd0048c997?OpenDocument
- The Hazards Of Tobacco Companies - Article from environmental newsletter; mostly on industry media campaigns on secondhand smoke; some information on industry litigation and PR.
www.monitor.net/rachel/r321.html
- The Manufacturer of This Product May Have Engaged in Cover-Ups, Lies, and Concealment - Legal scholarship, extensively footnoted, provides examples of tobacco industry concealment.
www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no1/mabry.html
- The Secret Tobacco Industry Documents: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? - A look at industry control of medical research.
tobacco.neu.edu/apha
- The Special Privileges of Tobacco - Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.
www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm
- The Tobacco Industry In Its Own Words - Quotes from tobacco industry memos show what the industry says in private about nicotine, cigarette design, nicotine manipulation, marketing to children, the disease caused by the product, and what to say in public.
www.no-smoking.org/feb98/02-20-98-1.html
- The Tobacco Industry in the UK - ASH-UK factsheet. Covers the major companies, market share, their promotional activities, related organizations.
www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact18.html
- The Tobacco Industry's Use of Nicotine as a Drug - ACSH report by Clifford Douglas.
www.acsh.org/publications/reports/tobind.html
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: The Tobacco Industry - Book chapter provides quotes and facts; all sources cited.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter29/table_of_contents_chap29.html
- The Truth about Big Tobacco in Its Own Words - 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.
bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313
- Tobacco Buster: Interview With Michael Pertschuk - 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.
www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/issues/messed%201992/01/MM019~10.HTM
- Tobacco Company CEOs Declare Under Oath that Nicotine is Not Addictive - Transcript of the famous congressional hearings in which 7 tobacco CEOs declared that nicotine is not addictive.
www.jeffreywigand.com/insider/7ceos.html
- Tobacco Dirt - Tobacco industry news, quotes, and documents.
www.4avoice.com/tobacco/index.asp
- Tobacco Documents Online: Timelines - Groups tobacco industry memos by date to show a timeline of industry action on intimidation, PR, product engineering, lobbying, buying silence, using front groups, marketing, influence of media and news, and much more.
www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines
- Tobacco equals Death - Observations and comments on tobacco and tobacco marketing, in particular in Hong Kong.
www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/tobacco/tobacco.html
- Tobacco Explained: chronologies - ASH UK paper summarizes thousands of internal tobacco industry documents released through litigation and whistleblowers. Never before has this level of documentation been available on industry activities.
www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/chronologies.html
- Tobacco Facts - From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.
www.tobaccofacts.org
- Tobacco firms Sabotaged Passive Smoking Study - Covers a multimillion dollar campaign by the tobacco industry to blur the risks of passive smoking.
www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2000-04/tobacco070400.shtml
- Tobacco Industry Backgrounder - Tobacco Industry Under Siege, from Facts on File.
www.facts.com/wnd/tbclst.htm
- Tobacco Industry Conduct: An Analysis of Selected Issues - K.H. Ginzel, MD, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, provides an analysis of industry promotion and marketing; public statements; nicotine manipulation; product engineering; fire-safe cigarettes.
tobacco.neu.edu/Extra/papers/Ginzel.htm
- Tobacco Industry Documents - Annotated links to online industry documents.
tobacco.neu.edu/apact/doclinks.htm
- Tobacco Industry Exposed - Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents (letters, memos): what the industry knew and when they knew it on cancer, disease, death, secondhand smoke, nicotine and addiction. Section on documents related to New Mexico.
www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents
- Tobacco Industry Exposed - Formerly secret internal industry memos used to explore conduct of the industry.
tobaccofreedom.globalink.org/issues/documents/index.html
- Tobacco Industry Misconduct - Factsheet documents industry misconduct, what the industry did and did not do.
www.gasp.org/misconduct.html
- Tobacco industry paid scientists for letters - The tobacco industry paid 13 scientists more than $150,000 to writing letters and manuscripts attempting to discredit studies linking secondhand smoke to lung cancer.
www.enviroweb.org/hecweb/archive/pestfile/tobacco.htm
- Tobacco Industry Pressured Insurance Companies - Story on tobacco industry pressure on insurance companies to drop nonsmoker rates.
www.channel7000.com/news/stories/news-980727-154744.html
- Tobacco Industry Pressured Insurance Cos. - "When insurance companies started offering reduced premiums to nonsmokers in the late 1970s, cigarette makers fought them, industry documents show." The story from Channel 4000, WCCO.
www.channel11000.com/news/stories/news-980727-154744.html
- Tobacco Industry Secret Documents - Congressman Waxman's site lays out the evidence; what did the industry know, when did they know it.
www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs/pdf_inves/pdf_tobacco_attorney_rep.pdf
- Tobacco Industry Sponsorship in the United States - Public health report documents the nature and extent of tobacco industry sponsorship of events and organizations; 304 separate sponsorships identified during the period 1995-1999.
dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/tobacco
- Tobacco Industry Statements - The tobacco industry has promised a new honesty and responsibility; 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.
www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_tobacco/index_doj.htm
- Tobacco Industry Tactics - Tactics used by the tobacco industry to legitimize its activities, promote its product, defeat health measures, and protect its profits, such as: glamorizing tobacco products; targeting youth, minorities and women; reassuring concerned smokers; tobacco industry "prevention" ad campaigns; "Helping" the Community"; using power and politics; creating front groups; creating controversy; using the legal system to "hide" information; resistance to regulation.
www.cctc.ca/ncthweb.nsf/Menu/38CD98E50E7E36A3852569FA0052D0BF?OpenDocument
- Tobacco Industry Targetting of Children, Women, and Minorities - Syllabus and resources for course at The University of Dayton Law School.
www.udayton.edu/~health/syllabi/tobacco/lesson04.htm
- Tobacco industry undermines public health efforts worldwide - Documentation on tobacco industry PR, junk science, campaign contributions, lobbying, advertising and product promotion. Features story of how the U.S. Trade Representative, on behalf of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, helped force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to water down their tobacco restrictions.
www.infact.org/health.html
- Tobacco Industry Witnesses on Whether Smoking Causes Lung Cancer - Tobacco industry witnesses who argued against restrictions on secondhand smoke were asked if firsthand smoke, smoking cigarettes, causes lung cancer. These are their answers.
www.tobacco.org/Misc/oshaglantz.html
- Tobacco Industry's Smoke Screen Blown - Report on tobacco industry tactics to attack WHO atni-tobacco efforts including: secretly paying individuals to attack WHO in the media; using paid contacts to infiltrate WHO committees and divert funds away from tobacco control; using paid scientists and journalists to manipulate research findings.
www.biomedcentral.com/news/20000802/07
- Tobacco researcher funded by industry lawyers - Article from the Nando Times: tobacco industry lawyers paid over $7 million over 25 years to finance Gary Huber, a scientist who attempted to discredit research on the effects of secondhand smoke. Some of the money was hidden, kept off the books.
www.nando.com/newsroom/ntn/biz/111597/biz1_19459_noframes.html
- Tobacco Tactics Project - Project aims to organize tobacco industry tactics by subject; site provides preliminary map featuring industry PR, issue framing, lobbying, harassment, and intimidation.
trochim.human.cornell.edu/results/tobaccotactics
- Tobacco's Dirty Tricks - ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.
www.no-smoke.org/shenanigans.html
- Tobacco, A Vector Analysis - Medical bulletin. "The world's most widespread, serious infection is spread by its vector: the tobacco industry. Public health advocates must study the life patterns of the tobacco industry as they would any other disease vector."
www.medicusmundi.ch/bulletin/bulletin723.htm
- tobaccopapers.org: Looking Past the Smokescreen - Tobacco industry documents relating to industry operations in Canada, in particular documents from BAT (British America Tobacco) and its subsidiaries obtained from BAT's document depository in Guildford, England.
www.tobaccopapers.org
- Trinkets and Trash - 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.
www.trinketsandtrash.org
- Troubled Times for the Tobacco Industry? - Internal documents the tobacco industry kept secret for decades are coming to light in cases against them.
www.productslaw.com/grady2.html
- Trust Us: We're the Tobacco Industry - Concise guide to the millions of pages of confidential tobacco industry documents released through litigation in the United States; reveals what was going on behind closed doors in the tobacco companies.
www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/trustus.html
- USNews: New Tobacco Industry Papers - Industry memos document tobacco company lawyer control of industry research into smoking and health and efforts to conceal what they knew from that research.
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980504/4toba.htm
- Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists - Investment column.
www.thestreet.com/markets/marketfeatures/933545.html
- Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Industry News - Collection of stories published in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/tobaccoindus.htm
- Where There's Smoke - Article on industry liability in court focuses on industry conduct in product design, marketing and promotion, and public relations.
www.thenation.com/issue/950918/feature.htm
- Legacy Tobacco Documents Library - Digital library of internal tobacco industry documents from the files of top tobacco companies. Over 20 million pages, relating to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes. Searchable and indexed by the University of California at San Francisco.
legacy.library.ucsf.edu
- The Cigarette Papers - Book on what the Brown and Williamson documents reveal about B&W, cigarettes, smoking, and the tobacco industry. Entire book now available free, online.
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers
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