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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.
 
4-H Yes, Philip Morris No! - Information on the Philip Morris partnership with 4-H.
 
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.
 
An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest - PRWatch article on tobacco industry use of PR firms and front groups to push "tort reform".
 
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.
 
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."
 
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.
 
Designer front group - Documents origins of TASSC.
 
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.
 
How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman" - PR Watch article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco connections.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed! - "Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.
 
Philip Morris Chief's Board Link to Murdoch - Geoffrey Bible, chairman of Philip Morris, is on Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.'s board; article explores implications.
 
Philip Morris front group exposed - "Nobody blows smoke into the American political system better than the tobacco industry. The case of Contributions Watch (CW), a Philip Morris front group, serves as a powerful illustration of how cigarette companies can corrupt the debate over smoking and public policy."
 
Public-Interest Pretenders - According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the public-interest pretender game better than the tobacco industry"; this article explains.
 
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.
 
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."
 
SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995 - Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance.
 
 
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