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 A Brief Analysis of the Brown and Williamson Website: An Effort to Taint Juries? by Cliff Douglas Description: An attorney takes a close look at the new web site and finds "a slick effort to make B&W look responsible and caring and to inoculate it against liability and punitive damages." (tobacco.org) |
| An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest Description: PR Watch article highlights use of front groups by Philip Morris and the tobacco industry. (prwatch.org) |
| Art At Any Cost? Description: Editorial in Contemporary Dance magazine explores Big Tobacco's involvement and sponsorship of the performing arts and dance in particular. (article19.co.uk) |
| BAT's Socially Responsible Smoke Screen Description: PR watch article provides background and analysis of tobacco giant BAT's latest image campaign. (prwatch.org) |
| Big Tobacco Feels the Heat Description: Article describes PR mechanisms and strategies used by the tobacco industry, including infliltrating campaign groups to weaken their impact. (hero.ac.uk) |
| Brown and Williamson's "Responsible" Web Site Description: Extended analysis of Brown and Williamson Tobacco's website, its purposes, PR, and messages. (globalink.org) |
| Cigarette Company Documents Outline Strategy to Derail Global Tobacco Treaty Description: Internal company records reveal a key tobacco industry player's sophisticated PR campaign. (publicintegrity.org) |
| Cigarette Firms Prepared to Throw Millions Into Public Relations Battle Description: Short article on extent and nature of tobacco industry PR activities. (news.independent.co.uk) |
| Confidential Tobacco PR Memo Description: Memo from tobacco industry PR firm on how to sell and lobby for the industry's "proposed resolution". (citizen.org) |
| Council for Tobacco Research Description: PR Watch report on tobacco front described by the Wall Stree Journal as "the longest-running misinformation campaign in US business history"; covers personnel, history, funding, and provides a case study. (prwatch.org) |
| Council for Tobacco Research - Disinfopedia Description: Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles. (disinfopedia.org) |
| Death of a Watchdog Description: Long article covers the creation and exposure of Contributions Watch, a front for Philip Morris. (altpr.org) |
| Documents Reveal the Tobacco Industry's Spin Control Description: Knight-Ridder article examines what tobacco industry documents show about industry PR and litigation. (chron.com) |
| Flack Attack Description: PR Watch article on tobacco industry PR. (prwatch.org) |
| How the Industry Argues That Nicotine Is Not Addictive Description: Analysis of the industry argument that nicotine is not addictive. Extensive documentation on how industry PR misleads and confuses the public about the science, on a critical issue: addiction. (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Keep America Beautiful Description: PR Watch article examines whether KAB is a grassroots non-profit or a tobacco front group. (prwatch.org) |
| Lawyer Control of the Tobacco Industry's External Research: Brown and Williamson Documents... [Fulltext, Jul 19 JAMA. 1995;274:241-247] (c) AMA 1996 Description: Research article in medical journal documents how the tobacco industry funded research to generate good publicity for the industry, to deflect attion away from tobacco as a health danger, and to attempt, sometimes secretly, to influence policymakers. (jama.ama-assn.org) |
| Masters of Manipulation: Tobacco-industry Tactics Description: Examines tobacco industry tactics in detail, with focus on Canada. (web.idrc.ca) |
| Rick Berman and Tobacco Front Groups Description: PRWatch exposes the $600,000 in Philip Morris money used to create "Guest Choice", and Berman's other connections to Big Tobacco. (prwatch.org) |
| Smoking'! How the Tobacco Industry Employs PR Scum Description: News article covers the development of the PR industry with the tobacco industry, and how and why tobacco uses PR today. (tucsonweekly.com) |
| The War on Truth Description: Interview with John Stauber, a PR-industry watcher, has a short section on use of PR by the tobacco industry. (lastwizards.com) |
| Timeline: Public Image Description: Tobacco industry documents grouped on a timeline show inside thinking on PR. (tobaccodocuments.org) |
| Tobacco's Secondhand Science of Smoke-Filled Rooms Description: PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics. (prwatch.org) |
| WHO Faces Up to Its Tobacco Links Description: PR strategies used by the tobacco industry to get the World Health Organization to derail or weaken its tobacco campaign. (bmj.com) |
