- 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."
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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.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - bmj.com Philip Morris memo
Formerly secret memo describes Philip Morris's programs to influence the political and scientific process in Europe, as of 1990.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository
Once-secret tobacco industry documents provide insight into industry plans to weaken enforcement of and support for California's smoke-free workplaces; industry efforts to form a network of groups to advance the tobacco industry position thereby creating the sense of a grass roots movement, and industry efforts to undermine the California tobacco control program.
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Mother Jones article on funny things that pop up when you start sifting through thousands of pages of once-secret tobacco documents.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - CJR - Darts & Laurels, Jan/Feb 1993
(Search for "Burning Issues"). In the 1970s "twenty-six bioscientists who were studying the link between smoking and disease were suddenly fired by R.J. Reynolds after company lawyers had collected their laboratory reports; the research was never made public and was never resumed". Meanwhile Reynolds, with the rest of the tobacco industry, continued to maintain that the link between smoking and disease was "not proven" and "more research was needed".
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How the tobacco industry promotes spit tobacco, particularly to kids; how the industry organizes fake grass-roots groups to oppose smokefree public places; how the industry intimidated California TV stations from running a tough anti-smoking ad; and how the Weekly Reader, owned by the controlling shareholder of R.J. Reynolds, ran an industry PR piece on the "unfairness" of smokefree laws.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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."
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Concentration of Power
Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Dave Goerlitz, former Winston Man
Goerlitz was a lead model for Winston cigarettes during the 1980's. In 1988, he began a personal journey to try to undo the damage his ads have done in addicting young people to tobacco products. His message is: (1) the ads are lies, (2) tobacco use will not make you "cool" or a success as the ads promise.
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An Australian history of tobacco industry denials about the health effects of smoking, addictiveness of nicotine and marketing of tobacco products to children.
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"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.
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New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, manipulated nicotine and more. Article from Eye magazine.
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