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• 1980 Philip Morris Memo Outlined Need to Conceal Nicotine Studies

  http://tech.mit.edu/V118/N20/dmemo.20w.html
  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.

• A Frank Statement

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddfrankstatement.html
  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.

• Big Tobacco Bounces Back

  http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/phmor.htm
  "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."

• Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies

  http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2000/tobacco.htm
  World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.

• Criminal Investigation Of The Tobacco Industry, Clifford E. Douglas

  http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/980531douglas.html
  Douglas is the President of Tobacco Control Law and Policy Consulting. Speech given to the Northeastern University School Of Law.

• Daily Doc: Philip Morris aggression

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmagg.html
  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.

• Failed Promises of the Cigarette Industry and its Effect on Consumer Misperceptions about the Health Risks of Smoking

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/suppl_1/i110.full
  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.

• Frontline: inside the tobacco deal

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/kessler.html
  Interview with Dr. David Kessler.

• GASP of Colorado: Tobacco Industry and Front Groups

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/index.php#8
  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.

• Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con

  http://www.ash.org.uk/?bigone
  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.

• Industry Activity around the World

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
  Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.

• Lawyer Control of Internal Scientific Research and Products Liability Lawsuits: The Brown and Williamson Documents

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/3/241
  JAMA article on industry use of lawyers to control industry science.

• Monitoring and Countering Tobacco Industry Influence

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3330.htm
  Seession from health conference addresses political and economic influence of the tobacco industry, its effects, and public health responses.

• More Dirty Linen For Big Tobacco

  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-dirty-linen-for-big-tobacco/
  Report on how the tobacco industry pressured other companies to scale back marketing of quit-smoking products.

• Multinational Monitor

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0192.html
  January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.

• Public Health Under Attack: ASSIST and the Tobacco Industry

  http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/240
  Research paper reports on how the tobacco industry mobilized a well-coordinated attack on a national stop-smoking project.

• Smoke in the Eye

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/
  A 1996 investigation of the controversial "60 Minutes" profile on the tobacco industry. Synopsis, interviews, and links.

• Smoking Gun

  http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/0821/6605054a.html
  What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.

• The Cigarette Papers

  http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/
  Book on what the Brown and Williamson documents reveal about their cigarettes, smoking, and the tobacco industry. The book now available free, online.

• The Special Privileges of Tobacco

  http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm
  Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.

• The Tobacco Industry in Asia: Revelations in the Corporate D ocuments

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/suppl_2/ii1.full
  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.

• The Truth about Big Tobacco in Its Own Words

  http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313
  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.

• Tobacco Industry Witnesses on Whether Smoking Causes Lung Cancer

  http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/oshaglantz.html
  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's Dirty Tricks

  http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
  ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.

• Tobacco's Smokescreens Revealed

  http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351794982.html
  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.

• Trinkets and Trash

  http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/
  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.

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