Search The Directory The Web for Home > Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Industry > Lobbying New! Submit a site   Categories: Lobbyists (28) State (5)     whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   "Involvement in the Political Process" - Reviews court- released documents, mostly industry memos, that address specific industry political efforts to defeat or preempt enactment of laws and regulations.   A Window on Tobacco Industry Opposition and Lobbying in Massachusetts - Short but fully documented report, covers industry activity in Massachusetts in the early 1990's.   Air Tobacco: Campaign Travel on Tobacco Industry Jets - Report on tobacco industry giving free jet travel to politicians.   Assembly Democrats ate free on Philip Morris - Article in Syracuse Online covers Philip Morris lobbying in New York State and its violations of state lobbying laws.   Big Tobacco Crashes the Party by Funding Fetes - Seattle Times article on tobacco money at the 2000 DNC convention. Barred from the official sponsor status at the convention, the industry instead gave undisclosed and unregulated gifts to fund private parties for lawmakers.   Big Tobacco and Astroturf - Tobacco industry documents show how the industry creates and uses fake grass-roots groups ("astroturf") to lobby.   Big Tobacco's Dollars Douse Push for Fire-Safe Cigarettes - LATimes article.   Big Tobacco's Spends $81,000 per Member of Congress on Lobbying in First Half of 1998 - Report on spending in 1998.   Blowing Smoke: Big Tobacco's 1998 Lobbying Skyrockets - Tobacco companies spent record amounts in the first half of 1998: an average of $81,000 for each member of Congress. Public Citizen report.   Bush White House May Blow Smoke at War on Tobacco - Covers tobacco connections, money, and influences in George W. Bush's administration, and considers what it's buying.   Buying Influence, Selling Death: Big Tobacco's Campaign Contributions - Common Cause report details the ways in which the tobacco industry seeks to buy political access and influence, the correlation between tobacco contributions and Congressional votes, and what the tobacco industry expects from the new Congress and Administration in return for its money.   CRP: Tobacco Tally - Center for Responsive Politics has "a snapshot of what Big Tobacco is contributing to Congress, and who's getting the money".   California's Gov. Wilson Sabotaged Anti-Tobacco Effort, Groups Charge - Article in the Christian Science Monitor covers Wilson's efforts.   Cancer Converts Tobacco Lobbyist - Victor Crawford, retired tobacco industry lobbyist dying of cancer, gives a revealing interview on what he did for the industry.   Candidates get by with (a lot of) help from their friends - Article in the Minnesota Star Tribune documents how tobacco cash affects state legislation.   Center for Responsible Politics: Tobacco Tally - Shows House and Senate recipients of tobacco money for 1995-96 and 1997-98 by name; summary info from 1979 through 1998.   Commentary: The Power of Tobacco - Short essay on tobacco industry power focuses on its lobbying and influence in the U.S. federal government.   Common Cause -- Tobacco Industry Political Giving - Outlines and summarizes by company a ten year history of campaign contributions, soft money, PACs.   Common Cause Report: Tobacco Political Giving Report - Reports which members of Congress have taken tobacco money, and how much.   Common Cause Report: Return on Investment: Nicotine Fix - 1997 report on tax breaks given by Congress to the tobacco industry after tobacco became a top giver of soft money.     [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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