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• Nicotine and Addiction
• Secondhand Smoke
• Teen Smoking

Resources in This Category

• 1980 Philip Morris Memo Outlined Need to Conceal Nicotine Studies

  http://tech.mit.edu/V118/N20/dmemo.20w.html
  Washington Post article covers secret Philip Morris memo which acknowledged that nicotine was a drug and highlighted the company's need to downplay that fact.

• Anne Landman's Daily Documents

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/dd.html
  Presentation and analysis of confidential industry memos and papers includes youth programs; PR analysis and campaigns; attempts to influence science, media and government; studies of its customers; and the youth market.

• Big Tobacco Threatened Drug Manufacturers

  http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/features/reprisal.html
  Tobacco industry memos show cigarette companies pressured makers of stop-smoking aids to mute their message.

• Cigarette Secrets

  http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1998/03/mehta.html
  Mother Jones article on funny things that pop-up when sifting through thousands of pages of once-secret tobacco documents.

• Discoveries and Disclosures in the Corporate Documents

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/suppl_1.toc
  Series of research papers published in scientific journal analyses the discoveries made from formerly secret tobacco industry memos, letters, and documents, including tobacco industry secrets, tricks of the trade, marketing to youth, cigarette product design and engineering, cigarette marketing strategies, tobacco related promotion, and failed promises of the tobacco industry.

• Insights from Australian Tobacco Industry Documents

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/12/suppl_3.toc
  Full issue of research journal provides 14 papers on discoveries about the Australian tobacco industry from its own documents.

• Multinational Monitor: The Tobacco Papers

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm1998/98july-aug/smoke1.html
  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.

• Operation Berkshire

  http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/371
  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.

• Secret Tobacco Document Quotes

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/documentquotes.html
  Tobacco industry internal memos provide an inside look at the industry's knowledge and views of nicotine, addiction, product design, and the customer.

• Secret Tobacco Documents

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/secretdocuments.html
  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.

• The Tobacco Papers

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm1998/98july-aug/toc.html
  Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to the tobacco papers: secret tobacco industry documents now available online.

 

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