- Industry Activity around the World
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0797.06.html - Industry Secrets
Documents from the AG lawsuits regarding industry knowledge of health effects, marketing tactics, strategy to confuse the science, manipulating tobacco's addictive properties, fighting against clean indoor air standards, and political involvement in opposing prevention efforts. http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/secrets.cfm - Joe Camel Campaign
In the litigation Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection, R.J. Reynolds and its advertising agencies were ordered to produce several million pages of documents regarding the design and implementation of the Joe Camel Campaign. Some of the most important documents from that are now available here. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini - Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
Digital library of internal tobacco industry documents from the files of top tobacco companies. Over 5 million documents, over 20 million pages, relating to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes. Searchable and indexed by the University of California at San Francisco. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu - McSpotlight on the Tobacco Industry
Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers. http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/tobacco.html - Memo to Commerce Committee on Tobacco Documents
Memo from John Dingell, ranking member, to Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee, on the subpeonaed tobacco documents. Provides overview of what the documents reveal about industry manipulation, lobbying, litigation, PR, and lawyer control of scientific research. http://www.house.gov/commerce_democrats/comdem/press/105mem01.htm - Multinational Monitor
January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry. http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0192.html - Multinational Monitor: The Tobacco Papers
Formerly secret industry documents. "Buying votes, buying friends" tobacco industry political influence; Big Tobacco and the Law; Big Tobacco goes global; Smoking Guns I: Marketing to Kids; Smoking Guns II: Nicotine Manipulation. http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm1998/98july-aug/smoke1.html - 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." http://stic.neu.edu/trri/No_Sale/pt5.htm - 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. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/371 - Our Good Friend, the Governor
Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically. http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone1.html - 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. http://www.s-t.com/daily/09-96/09-18-96/b03lo073.htm - 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. http://www.ratical.com/corporations/mm10worst94.html#n8 - Prying Open the Door to the Tobacco Industry's Secrets About Nicotine
AMA scientific article. Tobacco industry documents "reveal that for decades, the industry knew and internally acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive drug and cigarettes are the ultimate nicotine delivery device; that nicotine addiction can be perpetuated and even enhanced through cigarette design alterations and manipulations." http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/280/13/1173 - 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. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini/report/ - 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. http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/documentquotes.html - 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. http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/secretdocuments.html - 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..." http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/315 - 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. http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0602/strategy.html |