- 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
- 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
- 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
- CLEAR Profile: Steven Milloy
Profiles and explores the tobacco industry connections of lobbyist Steven Milloy.
http://www.clearproject.org/reports_milloy.html
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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