Short descriptions of the marketing and promotional activities of Philip Morris and British American Tobacco in a wide range of countries.

Secret documents reveal ACLU ties to the tobacco industry. Find out how taking $1,000,000 from the tobacco industry may have changed the ACLU's positions.

Research finds that cigarette brands popular among young adolescents are more likely than adult brands to advertise in magazines with high youth readerships.

Describes efforts of the tobacco industry, with reference to the Joe Camel campaign, and the brands Uptown, Virginia Slims, and Dakota.

PR Watch article highlights use of front groups by Philip Morris and the tobacco industry.

"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.

Documents how the tobacco industry has used the AGA as a public third party to fight smokefree policies.

Describes smuggling and the marketing of tobacco products in Vietnam.

Explains how the tobacco industry used this restaurant trade group as a front to fight smokefree workplaces.

"Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch's tobacco-friendly media. He's also just happens to be on their board."

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights report covers a number of front groups used by the tobacco industry to fight smokefree policies.

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.

Article explores the Cato Institute's funding and advocacy, which include large tobacco industry funding and advocacy for the industry.

News article on new tobacco industry marketing technique: approaching shoppers in grocery and convenience stores.

Baltimore Sun articles examine the cigar boom of the 1980s, and cigar industry manipulation of media to promote the product.

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.

Documents origins of TASSC.

Report from Public Citizen examines cigarette pack warning labels in 45 countries. Conclusion: what Philip Morris says about its product varies by country.

"The U.S. Trade Representative is up to its bad, old tricks, working on behalf of Big Tobacco," said Weissman of the group Essential Action; item has the story.

Book chapter discusses tobacco promotion in developing countries and the third world.

Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also a Philip Morris board member; Cato has taken money from Philip Morris and RJR.

Article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco industry connections. [PR Watch]

Describes tobacco promotion efforts in India, and efforts to combat it.

Report on industry activity in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and other East European nations.

Radio Free Europe reports on tobacco industry marketing in central and eastern Europe.

Short CNN article on tobacco industry activity in Russia.

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.

"Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.

Expose of Rick Berman and the Center for Consumer Freedom documents payments totallying $2,950,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris to Rick Bermman.

Article in San Franscisco Weekly; tobacco industry documents expose an R.J. Reynolds marketing plan targeting S.F. gays and homeless people. Its name: Project SCUM.

According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the public-interest pretender game better than the tobacco industry"; this article explains.

Reports names RJR field operatives in charge of coordinating and developing the "smoker's rights" movement and how much they were paid.

Photo essay reveals Rite Aid's pro-smoking activities and questions its claim to be against heart disease in women.

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."

Article from Hamburg, Germany, explores Philip Morris cigarette promotion worldwide.

Transcript of radio program on promotion of tobacco in developing countries by U.S. tobacco giants.

Short summary of front groups used to oppose NYC smokefree ordinance.

LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents the gap between its claimed membership and dues members paid.

Covers history of the collaboration, and examines how and why the MRA helped the tobacco industry.

National Cancer Institute study finds that the Weekly Reader gave a pro-tobacco message at the time it was owned by tobacco interests.

Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding tobacco companies accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking".

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."

Series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particular emphasis on "astoturf": front groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.

Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization of pro-smoking efforts in the hospitality industry.

Public health monograph of 105 pages (PDF format 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.

Uses original industry documents to show how, when, and why the CIAR was created.

Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco to push for state "pre-emption" laws.

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.

Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the National Smokers Alliance.

Article on Philip Morris, the NSA, and Contributions Watch.

Transcript of radio program. Guests include Morton Mintz, who wrote an article on the subject, and Stan Glantz.

Internal tobacco industry memos, letters, organized in time provide a look at the industry's use of front groups.

British American Tobacco (BAT) tried to undermine the work of health experts in southern Africa in the 1990's; article explains.

Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant and bar trade bodies to maintain smoking in public places.

Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use of restaurant and hospitality organizations.

Syllabus and resources for course at The University of Dayton Law School.

Article on how Philip Morris is selling the Marboro Man in Egypt.

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.

ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.

How the tobacco industry gets researchers, scientists, and engineers to testify against smokefree measures.

Article on targetting of Asia by the tobacco industry.

Article on smoking and tobacco in Hungary.

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.