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Expose of Rick Berman and the Center for Consumer Freedom documents payments totallying $2,950,000
from tobacco giant Philip Morris to Rick Bermman.
http://www.consumerdeception.com/append4.html
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Tobacco Company Masquerades as a Consumer Group
Campaign finance reform group provides a case study of Philip Morris bankrolling a front group.
http://www.bettercampaigns.org/standard/display.php?StoryID=254
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Tobacco Industry Front Groups in Canada
Provides history and design of tobacco industry front groups in Canada.
http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/news_info.php?cPath=26_45&news_id=92
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The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco industry?
Report examines the question (PDF format).
http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/DOCUMENTS/PDFs/nfraser.pdf
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Big Tobacco Serves the "Butt End" to the National Restaurant Association
Explains how the tobacco industry used this restaurant trade group as a front to fight smokefree
workplaces.
http://www.no-smoke.org/NRA.html
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Big Tobacco Gambles the American Gaming Association's Credibility
Documents how the tobacco industry has used the AGA as a public third party to fight smokefree
policies.
http://www.no-smoke.org/AGA.html
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Big Tobacco Buys a Round for the National Licensed Beverage Association
Report on how the tobacco industry uses the NLBA as a key third party to publicly oppose smokefree
policies in workplaces.
http://www.no-smoke.org/NLBA.html
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Ties that Bind: the ACLU and Big Tobaccco
Transcript of radio program. Guests include Morton Mintz, who wrote an article on the subject, and
Stan Glantz.
http://www.radioproject.org/archive/1998/9819.html
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Tobacco's Hired Guns
How the tobacco industry gets researchers, scientists, and engineers to testify against smokefree
measures.
http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/vent/vent_hg.cfm
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Timeline: Front Groups
Internal tobacco industry memos, letters, organized in time provide a look at the industry's use of
front groups.
http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=13
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Study Shows Weekly Reader Conveyed Tobacco Industry Message
National Cancer Institute study finds that the Weekly Reader gave a pro-tobacco message at the time
it was owned by tobacco interests.
http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncnews/n9512u.htm
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Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions
LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents the gap between its claimed membership
and dues members paid.
http://gaspforair.org/gedc/gedcnatl.htm
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Through the Smoke Screen: Another Philip Morris Front Exposed
Article on Philip Morris, the NSA, and Contributions Watch.
http://www.mediareader.org/Issue1Stories/1_philipMorris.html
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Strange Bedfellows: the Tobacco Industry and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association
Covers history of the collaboration, and examines how and why the MRA helped the tobacco industry.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/misc-docs/0003ritch1.shtml
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Junk Science and the Art of Spin-doctoring
Sites that portray research on secondhand smoke as "junk science" turn out to have
tobacco money behind them.
http://www.electric-words.com/junk/pr/junk-doctors.html
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The Tobacco Industry Funds "Hospitality" Organizations
Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization of pro-smoking efforts in the
hospitality industry.
http://airspace.bc.ca/bd0900.html#a1
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How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman"
PR Watch article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco
connections.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/junkman.html
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Tobacco Industry Organization and Support of Hospitality and Restaurant Coalitions
Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use of restaurant and hospitality
organizations.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_6123.htm
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Cato Institute: "Libertarian" in a Corporate Way
Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry
funding and advocacy for the industry.
http://accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm
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'Another Cynical Ploy': ALA Responds to Philip Morris Announcement
Response by the American Lung Association to Philip Morris's announcement that it would consider
regulation.
http://www.lungusa.org/press/association/ploy_022900.html
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APCO, Philip Morris, and TASSC
Journalist investigates internal docuemnts showing the connections between APCO, Philip Morris, and
TASSC.
http://www.electric-words.com/junk/pmdocs/2025493120.html
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Tobacco Giants Accused of Smokescreen
Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant and bar trade bodies to
maintain smoking in public places.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020527/020527-4.html
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Internal industry memo calls Gov. Pete Wilson "Pro-Tobacco"
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.
http://www.no-smoke.org/wilson.html
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Public-Interest Pretenders
According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the public-interest pretender game better than
the tobacco industry"; this article explains.
http://ash.org/watchdog.html
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An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest
PRWatch article on tobacco industry use of PR firms and front groups to push "tort
reform".
http://www.prwatch.org/prw_issues/1996-Q3/attack.html
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Corporate Lapdog Poses as Citizen Watchdog
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.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1196.08.html
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SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995
Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance.
http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/smokefree_air_summer_95.html#aa4
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The Tobacco Institute's Center for Indoor Air Research
Uses original industry documents to show how, when, and why the CIAR was created.
http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/ets/cia_center/
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Those Lovable Tobacco Execs
Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the National Smokers Alliance.
http://www.andrewtobias.com/bkoldcolumns/000216.html
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The War in the States (cont'd)
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.
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/brokaw.jump.html
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Opening Pandora's Box
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.
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/1999-11-17/feature.html/page1.html
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Designer front group
Documents origins of TASSC.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddtassc.html
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CLEAR Profile: Steven Milloy
Profiles and explores the tobacco industry connections of lobbyist Steven Milloy.
http://www.clearproject.org/reports_milloy.html
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Tobacco Industry Strategies and Front Groups
Covers the NSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association,
and others.
http://www.no-smoke.org/shenanigans.html
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Writer Exposed as Tobacco Industry Hack
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.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/press/020124.html
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RJR's Field Force Unravelled
Reports on RJ Reynolds document that names RJR field operatives in charge of coordinating and
developing the "smoker's rights" movement in various states, and how much they were paid.
http://www.gaspforair.org/gedc/gedcramh.htm
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TASSC and Other Tobacco Industry Ploys
Journalist Stewart Fist surveys the origins, history, and uses of TASSC, and the documentation on
the above.
http://www.electric-words.com/junk/pmdocs/tassclink.html
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Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page
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."
http://skepdic.com/refuge/junkscience.html
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The War in the States
Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco to push
for state "pre-emption" laws.
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/brokaw.html
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The Nicotine Network
Series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particular emphasis on "astoturf": front
groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone2.html
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Tobacco Strategy, 1994
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.
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dtv34e00
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Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups and the Tobacco Industry
"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.
http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/astrotrf.htm
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PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed!
"Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/wolves.html
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The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed
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."
http://www.no-smoke.org/nsa.html
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FAIR: Media Moguls on Board
Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also a Philip Morris board member; Cato has taken
money from Philip Morris and RJR.
http://www.fair.org/extra/9801/cato-media-moguls.html
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The Great Tobacco Robbery
Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding tobacco companies
accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking". Not mentioned: the Cato
Institute takes tobacco money.
http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-06-99.html
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Big Tobacco and Rupe
"Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch's tobacco-friendly media. He's
also just happens to be on their board."
http://www.motherjones.com/sideshow/murdoch.html
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4-H Yes, Philip Morris No!
Information on the Philip Morris partnership with 4-H.
http://www.onyx-group.com/4HTOC.htm
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ACLU and Big Tobacco
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.
http://www.tobacco.org/News/aclu11.96.html
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