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 The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed [Recommended] Description: 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." (no-smoke.org) |
| 'Another Cynical Ploy': ALA Responds to Philip Morris Announcement Description: Response by the American Lung Association to Philip Morris's announcement that it would consider regulation. (lungusa.org) |
| A Worldwide Tour of Outrageous PM and BAT Behavior Description: Short descriptions of the marketing and promotional activities of Philip Morris and British American Tobacco in a wide range of countries. (essentialaction.org) |
| ACLU and Big Tobacco Description: 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. (tobacco.org) |
| Adolescent Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Magazines Description: Reserach finds that cigarette brands popular among young adolescents are more likely than adult brands to advertise in magazines with high youth readerships. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Targeting of Youth, Minorities, and Woman Description: Describes efforts of the tobacco industry, with reference to the Joe Camel campaign, and the brands Uptown, Virginia Slims, and Dakota. (americanheart.org) |
| An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest Description: PRWatch article on tobacco industry use of PR firms and front groups to push "tort reform". (prwatch.org) |
| APCO, Philip Morris, and TASSC Description: Journalist investigates internal docuemnts showing the connections between APCO, Philip Morris, and TASSC. (electric-words.com) |
| Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups and the Tobacco Industry Description: "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. (toolworks.com) |
| Baltimore Sun Cigar Coverage Description: Summary of series of articles that appeared in the Baltimore Sun about the marketing of cigars in the 1980s. (healthwatcher.net) |
| Big Tobacco and Rupe Description: "Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch's tobacco-friendly media. He's also just happens to be on their board." (motherjones.com) |
| Big Tobacco Buys a Round for the National Licensed Beverage Association Description: Report on how the tobacco industry uses the NLBA as a key third party to publicly oppose smokefree policies in workplaces. (no-smoke.org) |
| Big Tobacco Gambles the American Gaming Association's Credibility Description: Documents how the tobacco industry has used the AGA as a public third party to fight smokefree policies. (no-smoke.org) |
| Big Tobacco Rides East Description: Describes smuggling and the marketing of tobacco products in Vietnam. (motherjones.com) |
| Big Tobacco Serves the "Butt End" to the National Restaurant Association Description: Explains how the tobacco industry used this restaurant trade group as a front to fight smokefree workplaces. (no-smoke.org) |
| Big Tobacco Smothers Latin America Description: Article on U.S. tobacco companies and their promotional and marketing efforts in Latin America; cites examples, summarizes. (americas.org) |
| Big Tobacco's Global Reach Description: The Reagan and Bush administrations used their econinmic and political clout to pry open markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and China for American cigarettes. (washingtonpost.com) |
| Cancer Cash: Light Up. Be Cool. Drop Dead. Description: Article about R. J. Reynolds tobacco promotion at bars and clubs catering to young people in Seattle area. (washingtonfreepress.org) |
| Cato Institute: "Libertarian" in a Corporate Way Description: Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding and advocacy for the industry. (accuracy.org) |
| Cigarette Push Defies Law's Spirit Description: News article on new tobacco industry marketing technique: approaching shoppers in grocery and convenience stores. (sptimes.com) |
| Cigars: The Shaping of an Illusion Description: Baltimore Sun articles examine the cigar boom of the 1980s, and cigar industry manipulation of media to promote the product. (tobaccodocuments.org) |
| CLEAR Profile: Steven Milloy Description: Profiles and explores the tobacco industry connections of lobbyist Steven Milloy. (clearproject.org) |
| Corporate Lapdog Poses as Citizen Watchdog Description: Covers Contributions Watch, a fraud which pretended to expose special-interest money in elections, was secretly created and controlled by a lobby shop paid for by special-interest money. (multinationalmonitor.org) |
| Designer front group Description: Documents origins of TASSC. (tobacco.org) |
| Double Standards of U.S. Tobacco Companies in International Cigarette Labeling Description: Report from Public Citizen examines cigarette pack warning labels in 45 countries. Conclusion: what Philip Morris says about its product varies by country. (citizen.org) |
| Essential Action Condemns USTR Pressure on Korea Description: "The U.S. Trade Representative is up to its bad, old tricks, working on behalf of Big Tobacco," said Weissman of the group Essential Action; item has the story. (lists.essential.org) |
| Exporting the Epidemic: Tobacco and the Third World Description: Book chapter discusses tobacco promotion in developing countries and the third world. (web.idrc.ca) |
| FAIR: Media Moguls on Board Description: Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also a Philip Morris board member; Cato has taken money from Philip Morris and RJR. (fair.org) |
| How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman" Description: PR Watch article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco connections. (prwatch.org) |
| India Inhales Description: Describes tobacco promotion efforts in India, and efforts to combat it. (tve.org) |
| Internal industry memo calls Gov. Pete Wilson "Pro-Tobacco" Description: 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. (no-smoke.org) |
| Junk Science and the Art of Spin-doctoring Description: Sites that portray research on secondhand smoke as "junk science" turn out to have tobacco money behind them. (electric-words.com) |
| Marlboro Man Goes East Description: Report on industry activity in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and other East European nations. (multinationalmonitor.org) |
| Marlboro Man Goes Overseas Description: Op-Ed examines Philip Morris cigarette promotion in Asia, Russia, Central Europe and Latin America. (treatycheck.org) |
| Marlboro Man Rides High as Smoking, Death Rates Soar Description: Radio Free Europe reports on tobacco industry marketing in central and eastern Europe. (rferl.org) |
| Marlboro Man Rides into Russia Description: Short CNN article on tobacco industry activity in Russia. (cnn.com) |
| Opening Pandora's Box Description: 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. (sfweekly.com) |
| Philip Morris Paid Rick Berman and Center for Consumer Freedom Description: Expose of Rick Berman and the Center for Consumer Freedom documents payments totallying $2,950,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris to Rick Bermman. (consumerdeception.com) |
| PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed! Description: "Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group. (prwatch.org) |
| Project SCUM Description: Article in San Franscisco Weekly; tobacco industry documents expose an R.J. Reynolds marketing plan targeting S.F. gays and homeless people. Its name: Project SCUM. (sfweekly.com) |
| Public-Interest Pretenders Description: According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the public-interest pretender game better than the tobacco industry"; this article explains. (ash.org) |
| RJR's Field Force Unravelled Description: Reports names RJR field operatives in charge of coordinating and developing the "smoker's rights" movement and how much they were paid. (gaspforair.org) |
| Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page Description: 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) |
| Smoke Screen: Big Tobacco is Working Hard to Ensure the Whole World will Get Its Taste Of Freedom Description: Article from Hamburg, Germany, explores Philip Morris cigarette promotion worldwide. (inthesetimes.com) |
| Smoke Screen: U.S. Tobacco Overseas Description: Transcript of radio program on promotion of tobacco in developing countries by U.S. tobacco giants. (radioproject.org) |
| SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995 Description: Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance. (tobacco.org) |
| Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions Description: LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents the gap between its claimed membership and dues members paid. (gaspforair.org) |
| Strange Bedfellows: the Tobacco Industry and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association Description: Covers history of the collaboration, and examines how and why the MRA helped the tobacco industry. (globalink.org) |
| Study Shows Weekly Reader Conveyed Tobacco Industry Message Description: National Cancer Institute study finds that the Weekly Reader gave a pro-tobacco message at the time it was owned by tobacco interests. (cancernetwork.com) |
| TASSC and Other Tobacco Industry Ploys Description: Journalist Stewart Fist surveys the origins, history, and uses of TASSC, and the documentation on the above. (electric-words.com) |
| The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco industry? Description: Report examines the question (PDF format). (nsra-adnf.ca) |
| The Great Tobacco Robbery Description: Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding tobacco companies accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking". (cato.org) |
| The International Tobacco Industry: Current Developments Description: FAQ on worldwide marketing of tobacco products. (health.usyd.edu.au) |
| The Nicotine Network Description: 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) |
| The Tobacco Industry Funds "Hospitality" Organizations Description: Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization of pro-smoking efforts in the hospitality industry. (airspace.bc.ca) |
| The Tobacco Industry in New Zealand Description: Public health monograph of 105 pages (PDF format covers how the tobacco industry in New Zealand relates to the direct health effects of smoking, the addictiveness of nicotine, the effects of secondhand smoke, industry misuse of product design and opposition to harm reduction, industry opposition to tobacco control initiatives. (wnmeds.ac.nz) |
| The Tobacco Institute's Center for Indoor Air Research Description: Uses original industry documents to show how, when, and why the CIAR was created. (tobaccofreedom.org) |
| The War in the States Description: Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco to push for state "pre-emption" laws. (motherjones.com) |
| The War in the States (cont'd) Description: 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. (motherjones.com) |
| Those Lovable Tobacco Execs Description: Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the National Smokers Alliance. (andrewtobias.com) |
| Through the Smoke Screen: Another Philip Morris Front Exposed Description: Article on Philip Morris, the NSA, and Contributions Watch. (mediareader.org) |
| Ties that Bind: the ACLU and Big Tobaccco Description: Transcript of radio program. Guests include Morton Mintz, who wrote an article on the subject, and Stan Glantz. (radioproject.org) |
| Timeline: Front Groups Description: Internal tobacco industry memos, letters, organized in time provide a look at the industry's use of front groups. (tobaccodocuments.org) |
| Tobacco Companies Targeting the Poor Description: Article on tobacco promotion in Pakistan. (dawn.com) |
| Tobacco Company Masquerades as a Consumer Group Description: Campaign finance reform group provides a case study of Philip Morris bankrolling a front group. (bettercampaigns.org) |
| Tobacco Giant Blows Smokescreen on Risks Description: British American Tobacco (BAT) tried to undermine the work of health experts in southern Africa in the 1990's; article explains. (itechnology.co.za) |
| Tobacco Giants Accused of Smokescreen Description: Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant and bar trade bodies to maintain smoking in public places. (nature.com) |
| Tobacco Industry Front Groups in Canada Description: Provides history and design of tobacco industry front groups in Canada. (nsra-adnf.ca) |
| Tobacco Industry Organization and Support of Hospitality and Restaurant Coalitions Description: Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use of restaurant and hospitality organizations. (apha.confex.com) |
| Tobacco Industry Strategies and Front Groups Description: Covers the NSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, and others. (no-smoke.org) |
| Tobacco Industry Targetting of Children, Women, and Minorities Description: Syllabus and resources for course at The University of Dayton Law School. (udayton.edu) |
| Tobacco Marketing - Where There's Smoke, There's Deception Description: Article on how Philip Morris is selling the Marboro Man in Egypt. (web.idrc.ca) |
| Tobacco Strategy, 1994 Description: Inside memo shows how the tobacco industry influenced the Heartland Institute, National Journalism Center, National Association of Manufacturers, Tax Foundation, and other groups to advocate and lobby for tobacco industry positions and interests. (legacy.library.ucsf.edu) |
| Tobacco's Hired Guns Description: How the tobacco industry gets researchers, scientists, and engineers to testify against smokefree measures. (tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu) |
| Washingtonpost.com - Fighting for Lungs and Minds in Asia Description: Article on targetting of Asia by the tobacco industry. (washingtonpost.com) |
| Where There's Smoke Description: Article on smoking and tobacco in Hungary. (guardian.co.uk) |
| World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative, Eastern Mediterranean Description: Publications on the tobacco industry's tactics to undermine tobacco prevention in Egypt and North Africa, illicit tobacco trade in the Middle East, the economics of tobacco in Egypt and Morocco, and papers on tobacco in English and Arabic. (emro.who.int) |
| Writer Exposed as Tobacco Industry Hack Description: News summary and collection of articles covering Roger Scruton's deal with Japan Tobacco to write articles for them, such as attacking the World Health Organization. (ash.org.uk) |
