Directory of Opposing Views Resources

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The Advocacy: Pro-Tobacco: Public Relations: Opposing Views category focuses on websites that criticize activities intended to promote the public image of the tobacco industry and the companies within it.

Subcategories

• Philip Morris
• Secondhand Smoke
• Youth Smoking Prevention

Resources in This Category

• A Brief Analysis of the Brown and Williamson Website: An Effort to Taint Juries? by Cliff Douglas

  http://www.tobacco.org/News/9908douglasbwsite.html
  An attorney takes a close look at the new web site and finds "a slick effort to make Brown and Williamson look responsible and caring and to inoculate it against liability and punitive damages."

• Council for Tobacco Research - Disinfopedia

  http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_Tobacco_Research
  Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles.

• How the Industry Argues That Nicotine Is Not Addictive

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/2/210.full
  Analysis of the industry argument that nicotine is not addictive. Extensive documentation on how industry PR misleads and confuses the public about the science, on a critical issue: addiction.

• Lawyer Control of the Tobacco Industry's External Research: Brown and Williamson Documents

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/3/241
  Medical journal documents tobacco industry funding of research to generate good publicity for the industry, to deflect attention away from tobacco as a health danger, and to attempt, sometimes secretly, to influence policymakers.

• Smoking'! How the Tobacco Industry Employs PR Scum

  http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-22-95/cover.htm
  News article covers the development of the PR industry with the tobacco industry, and how and why tobacco uses PR today.

• WHO Faces Up to Its Tobacco Links

  http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/314
  PR strategies used by the tobacco industry to get the World Health Organization to derail or weaken its tobacco campaign.

 

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