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- 'Another Cynical Ploy': ALA Responds to Philip Morris Announcement - Response by the American Lung Association to Philip Morris's announcement that it would consider regulation.
www.lungusa.org/press/association/ploy_022900.html
- 4-H Yes, Philip Morris No! - Information on the Philip Morris partnership with 4-H.
www.onyx-group.com/4HTOC.htm
- ACLU and Big Tobacco - Secret documents reveal ACLU ties to the tobacco industry. Find out how taking $1,000,000 from the tobacco industry may have changed the ACLU's positions.
www.tobacco.org/News/aclu11.96.html
- An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest - PRWatch article on tobacco industry use of PR firms and front groups to push "tort reform".
www.prwatch.org/prw_issues/1996-Q3/attack.html
- APCO, Philip Morris, and TASSC - Journalist investigates internal docuemnts showing the connections between APCO, Philip Morris, and TASSC.
www.electric-words.com/junk/pmdocs/2025493120.html
- Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups and the Tobacco Industry - "How the tobacco industry uses bogus grass-roots groups to oppose local smoking laws." Thorough look at the National Smokers Alliance (NSA). Article from the Pacific Sun.
www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/astrotrf.htm
- Big Tobacco and Rupe - "Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch's tobacco-friendly media. He's also just happens to be on their board."
www.motherjones.com/sideshow/murdoch.html
- Cato Institute: "Libertarian" in a Corporate Way - Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding and advocacy for the industry.
accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm
- Designer front group - Documents origins of TASSC.
www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddtassc.html
- FAIR: Media Moguls on Board - Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also a Philip Morris board member; Cato has taken money from Philip Morris and RJR.
www.fair.org/extra/9801/cato-media-moguls.html
- How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman" - PR Watch article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco connections.
www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/junkman.html
- Internal industry memo calls Gov. Pete Wilson "Pro-Tobacco" - Confidential internal Philip Morris memo describes then-governor Pete Wilson as "still pro-tobacco" and assures contact that Wilson is keeping the bulk of his tobacco money.
www.no-smoke.org/wilson.html
- Junk Science and the Art of Spin-doctoring - Sites that portray research on secondhand smoke as "junk science" turn out to have tobacco money behind them.
www.electric-words.com/junk/pr/junk-doctors.html
- Opening Pandora's Box - SFWeekly article covers industry activity in California between 1988 and 1993, primarily diversion of Prop. 99 funds; politicians who helped the industry; industry use of PR firms, lobbyists, and front groups.
www.sfweekly.com/issues/1999-11-17/feature.html/page1.html
- Philip Morris Front Group Exposed - Investigative reporting on Contributions Watch, a Philip Morris front group.
www.parascope.com/articles/0297/smoke.htm
- PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed! - "Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.
www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/wolves.html
- Public-Interest Pretenders - According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the public-interest pretender game better than the tobacco industry"; this article explains.
ash.org/watchdog.html
- RJR's Field Force Unravelled - Reports on RJ Reynolds document that names RJR field operatives in charge of coordinating and developing the "smoker's rights" movement in various states, and how much they were paid.
www.gaspforair.org/gedc/gedcramh.htm
- Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page - Charges that "The Junk Science Page is not about junk science so much as it is about anything which does not support a conservative, Rush Limbaugh type, political agenda."
skepdic.com/refuge/junkscience.html
- SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995 - Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance.
www.tobacco.org/Misc/smokefree_air_summer_95.html#aa4
- Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions - LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents the gap between its claimed membership and dues members paid.
gasp.somedec.com/edu/old/natl_smokers_alliance_exposed.html
- Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions - LATimes article on the NSA; reports that dues paid by members accounts for less than 1% of the budget.
www.gaspforair.org/gedc/gedcnatl.htm
- Strange Bedfellows: the Tobacco Industry and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association - Covers history of the collaboration, and examines how and why the MRA helped the tobacco industry.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/misc-docs/0003ritch1.shtml
- Study Shows Weekly Reader Conveyed Tobacco Industry Message - National Cancer Institute study finds that the Weekly Reader gave a pro-tobacco message at the time it was owned by tobacco interests.
www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncnews/n9512u.htm
- TASSC and Other Tobacco Industry Ploys - Journalist Stewart Fist surveys the origins, history, and uses of TASSC, and the documentation on the above.
www.electric-words.com/junk/pmdocs/tassclink.html
- The Great Tobacco Robbery - Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding tobacco companies accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking". Not mentioned: the Cato Institute takes tobacco money.
www.cato.org/dailys/03-06-99.html
- The Nicotine Network - Series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particular emphasis on "astoturf": front groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.
bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone2.html
- The Tobacco Industry Funds "Hospitality" Organizations - Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization of pro-smoking efforts in the hospitality industry.
airspace.bc.ca/bd0900.html#a1
- The Tobacco Institute's Center for Indoor Air Research - Uses original industry documents to show how, when, and why the CIAR was created.
www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/ets/cia_center
- The War in the States - Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco to push for state "pre-emption" laws.
www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/brokaw.html
- The War in the States (cont'd) - continuation of article; covers Citizens Against Tax Abuse, Citizens Against Government Interferencel, Minnesota Coalition of Responsible Retailers, Citizens for Fair Taxes, Maine Grocers Association, others.
www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/brokaw.jump.html
- Those Lovable Tobacco Execs - Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the National Smokers Alliance.
www.andrewtobias.com/bkoldcolumns/000216.html
- Through the Smoke Screen: Another Philip Morris Front Exposed - Article on Philip Morris, the NSA, and Contributions Watch.
www.mediareader.org/Issue1Stories/1_philipMorris.html
- Ties that Bind: the ACLU and Big Tobaccco - Transcript of radio program. Guests include Morton Mintz, who wrote an article on the subject, and Stan Glantz.
www.radioproject.org/transcripts/9819.html
- Timeline: Front Groups - Internal tobacco industry memos, letters, organized in time provide a look at the industry's use of front groups.
www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=13
- Tobacco Giants Accused of sSmokescreen - Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant and bar trade bodies to maintain smoking in public places.
www.nature.com/nsu/020527/020527-4.html
- Tobacco industry front groups in Canada - Documents the origins of several groups through industry memos regarding them.
www.nsra-adnf.ca/english/frontgroup.html
- Tobacco Industry Organization and Support of Hospitality and Restaurant Coalitions - Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use of restaurant and hospitality organizations.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_6123.htm
- Tobacco Industry Strategies and Front Groups - Covers the NSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, and others.
www.no-smoke.org/shenanigans.html
- Tobacco Ties of the Cato and Fraser Institutes - Tobacco money taken by those organizations and its connections to their policy advocacy. Other ties the organizations have to the tobacco industry.
tobacco.neu.edu/tcu/3-4/cato.htm
- Writer Exposed as Tobacco Industry Hack - News summary andcollection of articles covering Roger Scruton's deal with Japan Tobacco to write articles for them, such as attacking the World Health Organization.
www.ash.org.uk/html/press/020124.html
- The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed - ANR report on the NSA. "The goal of this piece is to reveal the origins, modus operandi, and game plan of the National Smokers Alliance, a "smokers' rights" front group created and funded by Big Tobacco to protect its profits."
www.no-smoke.org/nsa.html
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