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Industry influence on lawmakers and lawmaking.

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• Cancer Converts Tobacco Lobbyist

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=76
  Victor Crawford, retired tobacco industry lobbyist dying of cancer, gives a revealing interview on what he did for the industry.

• Control of "Grasstops" Government

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddcontrolgrasstops.html
  1993 Philip Morris memo reveals much about industry strategy and tactics for influencing government.

• CorpWatch: Bush Administration Tobacco Industry Ties

  http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=896
  Article on the tobacco industry ties of senior members of the Bush administration.

• Molly Ivins on Tobacco Bill Death

  http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n487/a03.html
  Columnist Molly Ivans comments on the lobbying behind the death of the McCain tobacco bill.

• On the Money Trail With GOP

  http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96273&page=1
  ABC News report says tobacco money gets tobacco lobbyists access in Washington.

• Republican National Committees

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/president/guide/charts/rnpc.html
  The tobacco industry is a top giver of "soft money" to both political parties, but lately Republicans have been getting about 80% of tobacco money.

• Secondhand Diplomacy

  http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/03/ma_284_01.html
  After closed-door meetings with cigarette makers, the Bush administration is seeking to derail a global tobacco treaty.

• Smoke and Mirrors: Tobacco Industry Influence on "Grassroots"

  http://www.citizen.org/documents/smokeMirors.PDF
  Public Citizen report on the tobacco industry's influence on the "grassroots" campaign for liability limits.

• Texans for Public Justice Lobby Watch

  http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/lw.html
  Reports on lobbying in the state of Texas include reports on tobacco industry activity: "Rove a Mile for a Camel", "Second-Hand Smoke", "Death Merchants Hire More Accomplices", "Philip Morris' Newest Smokers", "Health Hypocrisy", and "Tobacco Spends Big Bucks for Political Favor".

• The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby

  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/09/the-quiet-victory-of-the-cigarette-lobby-how-it-found-the-best-filter-yet-congress/304762/
  Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.

• The Tobacco Industry Successful Efforts to Control Tobacco Policy Making in Switzerland

  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/09t535s7
  UCSF report. Executive summaries in German, English, and French. Full report in English.

• The Tobacco Presidency

  http://www.thegully.com/essays/US/politics_2001/010319tobacco_bush.html
  Essay discusses the tobacco connections of George W. Bush.

• Tobacco Industry Activity in the U.S.

  http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/state.html
  Reports on industry activity by state; extensive and recent reports available for Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

• Tobacco Industry Attempts to Subvert European Union Tobacco Advertising Legislation

  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r1334mz
  Research report on tobacco industry programs aimed at defeating EU legislation governing tobacco advertising and promotion.

• Tobacco Industry Spent $10.6 Million to Lobby Congress in First Half of 2003

  http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/id_0706
  As Congress conducted negotiations over major tobacco legislation for the first time in years, the tobacco industry spent over $10 million to lobby Congress, over $116,000 every day Congress was in sessoin.

• Tobacco Industry Spent More Than $20 Million to Lobby Congress in 2002

  http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press_releases/post/id_0682
  New report totals that cash the tobacco industry spent to lobby Congress in 2002: over $100,000 per day every day Congress was in session, not even including campaign conributions.

• Tobacco Institute Lobbying report for 1989

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddproactive.html
  Internal tobacco industry document outlines its lobbying activities in 1989 such as pre-empting local smokefree laws.

• Tobacco Lobbying Outlays Soared in 1998

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/outlays103098.htm
  Covers money spent and industry resources invested, e.g. putting 192 lobbyists into Washington, about one for every three members of Congress" Names the major lobbying firms and lobbyists used.

• Tobacco Wars: Canada

  http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/cdn_medical_association/cmaj/vol-156/issue-2/0237.htm
  Article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal describes the tobacco industry's power in Canada.

• Tommy Thompson and Tobacco

  http://www.tobacco.org/News/thompsonfull.html
  Report on the tobacco money, tobacco record, and tobacco industry connections of Bush appointee Tommy Thompson, director of HHS, in charge of CDC, NCI, and the Surgeon General's office.

• Victor Crawford on 60 Minutes

  http://www.tobacco.org/News/95.04.05_Tob_News.html#aa33
  Interview with ex-tobacco industry lobbyist Victor Crawford, on how the industry influences Washington.

• Washingtonpost.com: Big Tobacco Filters Into Campaign Coffers

  http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/wa050898.htm
  Many different ways an elected official can take tobacco money; this article summarizes.

 

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