Blowing Smoke Rings Around the Statehouses - Washington Monthly article on tobacco industry lobbying in state legislatures. www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/archives/9605.mintz.html
Double Dippin' - Article from the Texas Observer looks at tobacco money and influence on a Texas public official. www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=223
Lobbyist Lurking in Disguise - Seattle times story covers how a Philip Morris lobbyist works. archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=godden13&date=20010713
Philip Morris and Gifts to Legislators - Short article on money and gifts accepted by Virginia legislators from Philip Morris, and pending tobacco issues before the Virginia legislature. www.people.vcu.edu/~jcsouth/on-the-lege-2000/project/philip-morris.htm
Tobacco Lobbyists Have Earned Their Pay - 1997 Pulitzer prize winning editorial on tobacco lobbyists in the state of Iowa, how they served the tobacco industry, and influenced what laws get on the books. www.pulitzer.org/year/1997/editorial-writing/works/2.html
While Making deal, Philip Morris officials gave to Thompson - "As their lawyers were hammering out a multibillion-dollar settlement with the states, Philip Morris executives and their subsidiaries did their best to clog Gov. Tommy Thompson's campaign coffers with cash." Article explains. (Thompson is now US Secretary of Health and Human Services). www.jsonline.com/news/Spice/1119spice.asp
