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No Proof that Smoking Causes Disease, says Tobacco CEO - Geoffrey Bible, CEO of Philip Morris, steadfastly maintained that nobody can prove smoking causes disease.
 
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."
 
OncoLink: Congress told Tobacco Firm Suppressed Findings on Nicotine - OncoLink summarizes the testimony of two former tobacco industry scientists: the tobacco industry conducted research on nicotine, then covered it up.
 
Operation Berkshire - Article from British Medical Journal. Internal documents from the tobacco industry show that in 1977 seven of the world's major tobacco companies conspired to promote "controversy" over smoking and disease, in an exercise called Operation Berkshire.
 
Our Good Friend, the Governor - Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.
 
PR Watch: Why Philip Morris Hates Trial Lawyers - Short item on tobacco giant Philip Morris, how it litigates, how it lobbies.
 
Passive Smoking Cancer Risk Downplayed By Industry - Internal documents from Phillip Morris and other tobacco companies provide evidence that the tobacco industry has closely monitored and tried to actively interfere with an international epidemiological study on lung cancer and passive smoking.
 
Pervasive Influence of the Tobacco Industry - Report from National Network for Health outlines economic, political, legal, and marketing power of the industry.
 
Philip Morris Tried to `Bury' Damaging Nicotine Research - News article; secret memos reveal that Philip Morris officials suggested that internal documents about research should be destroyed, and negative information should be kept secret.
 
Philip Morris news from Moreover.com - Headlines and Links to Philip Morris news and press releases.
 
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.
 
Physician: Tobacco industry habitually spins research results - The tobacco industry systematically distorted research to confuse smokers about the product's dangers and prevent them from quitting. This according to John Holbrook, who has written the chapter on smoking in a widely used medical textbook.
 
PioneerPlanet: Minnesota tobacco litigation - The site details Minnesota's and Blue Cross/Blue Shield's lawsuit against the tobacco industry. Includes St. Paul Pioneer Press articles and links to other resources.
 
Review of R.J.R.'s Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. R.J.R. - The suit that brought the end of Joe Camel also produced some very interesting documents, formerly tobacco industry secrets, which reveal exactly how, why, and when R. J. Reynolds designed the Joe Camel campaign. Find out what kids are worth to the tobacco industry.
 
Romania typical foreign target of tobacco firms - USA Today article on activities of U.S. tobacco industry in Romania.
 
Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On - How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.
 
Secret Tobacco Document Quotes - Tobacco industry internal memos provide an inside look at the industry's knowledge and views of nicotine, addiction, product design, and the customer.
 
Secret Tobacco Documents - from the Tobacco BBS, a great collection of links to (formerly) secret tobacco industry documents. What the industry says in private continues to be a highly revealing guide to how smoking spreads across the globe.
 
Secrets of BAT Industries - "Inside the restricted laboratory compound on the south coast of England, five senior scientists for BAT Industries, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, were devising ways to make it harder for people to quit smoking..."
 
Selling Death: Tobacco's Strategy for Survival - Article by Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan on how an industry that sells an inherently dangerous product survives in America in the health conscious 1990s.
 
 

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