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The Pro-Tobacco: Critiques category focuses on reports about and evaluations of the activities of those who engage in pro-tobacco advocacy. Subcategories involve specific types of activities critiqued.

Subcategories

• Advertising
• Events and Sponsorships
• Lobbying
• Product Placement
• Secondhand Smoke
• Teen Smoking

Resources in This Category

• Adolescent Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Magazines

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9480361?dopt=Abstract
  Research finds that cigarette brands popular among young adolescents are more likely than adult brands to advertise in magazines with high youth readerships.

• Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups and the Tobacco Industry

  http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/astrotrf.htm
  "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

  http://motherjones.com/politics/1998/08/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."

• Big Tobacco Gambles the American Gaming Association's Credibility

  http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=67
  Documents how the tobacco industry has used the AGA as a public third party to fight smokefree policies.

• Big Tobacco Rides East

  http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/01/dreyfuss.html
  Describes smuggling and the marketing of tobacco products in Vietnam.

• Big Tobacco Serves the "Butt End" to the National Restaurant Association

  http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=80
  Explains how the tobacco industry used this restaurant trade group as a front to fight smokefree workplaces.

• Big Tobacco's Front Groups and Allies

  http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=62
  Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights report covers a number of front groups used by the tobacco industry to fight smokefree policies.

• Big Tobacco's Global Reach

  http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/asia.htm
  The Reagan and Bush administrations used their econinmic and political clout to pry open markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and China for American cigarettes.

• Cato Institute: "Libertarian" in a Corporate Way

  http://accuracy.org/article.php?articleId=51&type=&searchterms=cato
  Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding and advocacy for the industry.

• Cigarette Push Defies Law's Spirit

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/071501/TampaBay/Critics_say_cigarette.shtml
  News article on new tobacco industry marketing technique: approaching shoppers in grocery and convenience stores.

• Corporate Lapdog Poses as Citizen Watchdog

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1196.08.html
  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.

• Designer front group

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddtassc.html
  Documents origins of TASSC.

• Double Standards of U.S. Tobacco Companies in International Cigarette Labeling

  http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=6654
  Report from Public Citizen examines cigarette pack warning labels in 45 countries. Conclusion: what Philip Morris says about its product varies by country.

• Marlboro Man Goes East

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/01/mm0192_12.html
  Report on industry activity in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and other East European nations.

• Marlboro Man Rides into Russia

  http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9707/13/russia.tobacco/
  Short CNN article on tobacco industry activity in Russia.

• Opening Pandora's Box

  http://www.sfweekly.com/1999-11-17/news/opening-pandora-s-box/
  SFWeekly article covers tobacco 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.

• Philip Morris Paid Rick Berman and Center for Consumer Freedom

  http://www.consumerdeception.com/append4.html
  Expose of Rick Berman and the Center for Consumer Freedom documents payments totallying $2,950,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris to Rick Bermman.

• Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand

  http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html
  Photo essay reveals Rite Aid's pro-smoking activities and questions its claim to be against heart disease in women.

• RJR's Field Force Unravelled

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=83
  Reports names RJR field operatives in charge of coordinating and developing the "smoker's rights" movement and how much they were paid.

• Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page

  http://skepdic.com/refuge/junkscience.html
  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."

• Smoke Screen: Big Tobacco is Working Hard to Ensure the Whole World will Get Its Taste Of Freedom

  http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/12/washington2512.html
  Article from Hamburg, Germany, explores Philip Morris cigarette promotion worldwide.

• SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995

  http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/smokefree_air_summer_95.html#aa4
  Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance.

• Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=87
  LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents the gap between its claimed membership and dues members paid.

• The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed

  http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=257
  ANR report on the NSA. "The goal of this piece is to reveal the origins, modus operandi, and game plan of the National Smokers Alliance, a "smokers' rights" front group created and funded by Big Tobacco to protect its profits."

• The Tobacco Industry Funds "Hospitality" Organizations

  http://airspace.bc.ca/bd0900.html#a1
  Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization of pro-smoking efforts in the hospitality industry.

• The Tobacco Industry in New Zealand

  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bd8z7s2
  Public health monograph of 105 pages covers how the tobacco industry in New Zealand relates to the direct health effects of smoking, the addictiveness of nicotine, the effects of secondhand smoke, industry misuse of product design and opposition to harm reduction, industry opposition to tobacco control initiatives.

• The War in the States

  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/05/war-states
  Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco to push for state "pre-emption" laws.

• The War in the States (cont'd)

  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/05/war-states-contd
  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.

• Tobacco Giants Accused of Smokescreen

  http://www.nature.com/nsu/020527/020527-4.html
  Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant and bar trade bodies to maintain smoking in public places.

• Tobacco Industry Organization and Support of Hospitality and Restaurant Coalitions

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_6123.htm
  Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use of restaurant and hospitality organizations.

• Tobacco Industry Strategies and Front Groups

  http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
  Covers the NSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, and others.

• Tobacco Industry Targetting of Children, Women, and Minorities

  http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/lesson04.htm
  Syllabus and resources for course at The University of Dayton Law School.

• Tobacco Strategy, 1994

  http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dtv34e00
  Inside memo shows how the tobacco industry influenced the Heartland Institute, National Journalism Center, National Association of Manufacturers, Tax Foundation, and other groups to advocate and lobby for tobacco industry positions and interests.

• Where There's Smoke

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/18/smoking.features11
  Article on smoking and tobacco in Hungary.

• World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative, Eastern Mediterranean

  http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/InPrint.htm
  Publications on the tobacco industry's tactics to undermine tobacco prevention in Egypt and North Africa, illicit tobacco trade in the Middle East, the economics of tobacco in Egypt and Morocco, and papers on tobacco in English and Arabic.

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