Directory: Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco: Industry Critiques (65)

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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.

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.

Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach - "Big picture" presentation: money, power, addiction, sales, and how it plays out in different countries.

Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies - World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.

AS3 Archives: The Cigarette Company Mentality Collection - Archive of industry quotes, public and private.

DeNoble: Tobacco Industry Chooses Money Over Lives - Victor DeNoble, a former researcher for Philip Morris, shares his experience.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Inside Quotes from the Tobacco Industry - Brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Health.

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."

Pervasive Influence of the Tobacco Industry - Report from National Network for Health outlines economic, political, legal, and marketing power of the industry.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: The Tobacco Industry - Book chapter provides quotes and facts; all sources cited.

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.

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.

FDA Report On Nicotine In Cigarettes - Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery".

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.

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.

Smoke in the Eye - "The Insider" is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie.

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.

Manipulation: The Story of Imperial Tobacco and its Cigarettes - A history of Canadian tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco; incorporates information from recently released industry documents.

Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked - About.com Guide. Documentation on how tobacco companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked.

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.

Tobacco Facts - From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.

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.

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.

Frontline: inside the tobacco deal - Interview with Dr. David Kessler.

The Special Privileges of Tobacco - Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.

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.

eye - The Cigarette Papers - New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, and manipulated nicotine. Article from Eye magazine.

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.

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.

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.

Smoking Gun - What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.

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."

The Tobacco Industry in the UK - ASH-UK factsheet. Covers the major companies, market share, their promotional activities, related organizations.

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.

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.

Taking on Tobacco - Audio interview with David Kessler; requires RealPlayer.

Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists - Investment column.

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.

Our Good Friend, the Governor - Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.

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.

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.

Concentration of Power - Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.

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.

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.

The tobacco industry in Australia - Chapter in book on smoking covers tobacco industry structure, financials, lobbying tactics, public relations, and liability.

More Dirty Linen For Big Tobacco - Report on how the tobacco industry pressured other companies to scale back marketing of quit-smoking products.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tobacco's Dirty Tricks - ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.

The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.

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.

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