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.
Taking on Tobacco
Audio interview with David Kessler; requires RealPlayer.
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.
CBC News - Indepth: Smoking Up a Storm
Interviews with tobacco whisteblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, and a tobacco industry PR representative.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Multinational Monitor
January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.
Industry Activity around the World
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
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.
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.
Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked
About.com Guide. Documentation on how tobacco companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked.
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."
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.
The Tobacco Industry in Asia: Revelations in the Corporate D ocuments
Analysis of tobacco industry memos and internal documents reveals industry strategies to undermine tobacco prevention and push up cigarette sales in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
Public Versus Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry
Report contrasts what the tobacco said publicly with what it said in private, over a period of decades, on the subjects of nicotine and addiction, low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes and smoker compensation, tobacco industry research and public relations, smoking and disease, and secondhand smoke.
1980 Philip Morris Memo Outlined Need to Conceal Nicotine Studies
Washington Post article covers secret Philip Morris memo that acknowledged that nicotine was a drug and highlighted the company's need to downplay that fact.
Public Health Under Attack: ASSIST and the Tobacco Industry
Research paper reports on how the tobacco industry mobilized a well-coordinated attack on a national stop-smoking project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Tobacco Industry in the UK
ASH-UK factsheet. Covers the major companies, market share, their promotional activities, related organizations.
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.
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.
More Dirty Linen For Big Tobacco
Report on how the tobacco industry pressured other companies to scale back marketing of quit-smoking products.
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.
Tobacco Industry Pressured Insurance Companies
Story on tobacco industry pressure on insurance companies to drop nonsmoker rates.
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.
McLean v. Philip Morris
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.
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.
Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach
"Big picture" presentation: money, power, addiction, sales, and how it plays out in different countries.
eye - The Cigarette Papers
New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, and manipulated nicotine. Article from Eye magazine.
FDA Report On Nicotine In Cigarettes
Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery".
Smoking Gun
What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.
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.
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.
The Tobacco Reference Guide: The Tobacco Industry
Book chapter provides quotes and facts; all sources cited.
Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies
World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.
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."
Inside Quotes from the Tobacco Industry
Brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Health.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
The Manufacturer of This Product May Have Engaged in Cover-Ups, Lies, and Concealment
Legal scholarship, extensively footnoted, provides examples of tobacco industry concealment.
The Special Privileges of Tobacco
Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.
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.
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.
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.
Our Good Friend, the Governor
Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.
The Hazards Of Tobacco Companies
Article from environmental newsletter; mostly on industry media campaigns on secondhand smoke; some information on industry litigation and PR.
The Cigarette Papers
The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
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.
DeNoble: Tobacco Industry Chooses Money Over Lives
Victor DeNoble, a former researcher for Philip Morris, shares his experience.
Pervasive Influence of the Tobacco Industry
Report from National Network for Health outlines economic, political, legal, and marketing power of the industry.
Tobacco's Dirty Tricks
ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.
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.
Frontline: inside the tobacco deal
Interview with Dr. David Kessler.
Smoke in the Eye
"The Insider" is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie.
PR Watch: Why Philip Morris Hates Trial Lawyers
Short item on tobacco giant Philip Morris, how it litigates, how it lobbies.
Tobacco and Health: Deception on a Grand Scale
Journal article is also expert witness testimony covering history of tobacco and the tobacco industry.
The tobacco industry in Australia
Chapter in book on smoking covers tobacco industry structure, financials, lobbying tactics, public relations, and liability.
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.
Tobacco's Smokescreens Revealed
Recent research identifies tobacco industry strategies to fight, delay, and water down health warnings, to prevent regulation of the tobacco industry, to circumvent advertising restrictions, and to give tobacco giant Philip Morris more lobbying power.
Manipulation: The Story of Imperial Tobacco and its Cigarettes
A history of Canadian tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco; incorporates information from recently released industry documents.
Concentration of Power
Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
AS3 Archives: The Cigarette Company Mentality Collection
Archive of industry quotes, public and private.
Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists
Investment column.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tobacco Facts
From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.
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.
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.
Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Industry News
Collection of stories published in the Washington Post.
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