- Tobacco Industry Statements
The tobacco industry has promised a new honesty and responsibility; this report reveals how little the industry measures up on three critical issues: the health effects of smoking, the health effects of secondhand smoke, and the addictiveness of nicotine. http://www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_tobacco/index_doj.htm - Tobacco industry undermines public health efforts worldwide
Documentation on tobacco industry PR, junk science, campaign contributions, lobbying, advertising and product promotion. Features story of how the U.S. Trade Representative, on behalf of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, helped force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to water down their tobacco restrictions. http://www.infact.org/health.html - Tobacco researcher funded by industry lawyers
Article from the Nando Times: tobacco industry lawyers paid over $7 million over 25 years to finance Gary Huber, a scientist who attempted to discredit research on the effects of secondhand smoke. Some of the money was hidden, kept off the books. http://www.nando.com/newsroom/ntn/biz/111597/biz1_19459_noframes.html - Tobacco's Dirty Tricks
ANR information on tobacco industry strategies. http://www.no-smoke.org/shenanigans.html - Trinkets and Trash
Gallery of cigarette ads and tobacco industry promotional items: t-shirts, caps, radios, and a wide variety of other items designed by tobacco companies to sell cigarettes, spit tobacco, and cigars. http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/ - Trust Us -- We Are the Tobacco Industry
Guide covers what has been learned about the industry from formerly secret tobacco industry memos and documents. http://www.sickofsmoking.com/documents/trustus.html - US News on Secret Tobacco Papers
The 39,000 tobacco industry documents released in 1998 reveal evidence of coverups and suppression of scientific research to an extent not previously detailed. http://www.no-smoking.org/may98/05-04-98-3.html - USNews: Papers You Weren't Ever Supposed to See
Industry memos document tobacco company lawyer control of industry research into smoking and health and efforts to conceal what they knew from that research. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=19980504003836&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("19980504003836")&p_perpage=10&a |