- The Cigarette Papers - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/
Book on what the Brown and Williamson documents reveal about B&W, cigarettes, smoking, and the tobacco industry. Entire book now available free, online.
- Joe Camel Campaign - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini
In the litigation Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection, R.J. Reynolds and its advertising agencies were ordered to produce several million pages of documents regarding the design and implementation of the Joe Camel Campaign. Some of the most important documents from that are now available here.
- The Cigarette Papers - http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/webumentary/TEXT/The_Cig_Papers/CP.1
A "webumentary" documenting what the industry knew and when they knew it, in their own words, and what they did to hide their knowledge, and to get their customers to doubt the dangers of smoking.
- Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies - http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2000/tobacco.htm
World Health Organisation report says tobacco industry sabotaged WHO tobacco control efforts.
- No Sale: 5. Legislative Recommendations - http://stic.neu.edu/trri/No_Sale/pt5.htm
"Faced with the prospect that state laws may be strengthened, the tobacco industry initiated a campaign to avert effective reform by enacting its own weaker proposals, designed to give the false appearance of reform without effecting meaningful change."
- Tobacco Industry Sponsorship in the United States - http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/tobacco/
Public health report documents the nature and extent of tobacco industry sponsorship of events and organizations; 304 separate sponsorships identified during the period 1995-1999.
- Tobacco industry undermines public health efforts worldwide - http://www.infact.org/health.html
Documentation on tobacco industry PR, junk science, campaign contributions, lobbying, advertising and product promotion. Features story of how the U.S. Trade Representative, on behalf of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, helped force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to water down their tobacco restrictions.
- Trust Us: We're the Tobacco Industry - http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/trustus.html
Concise guide to the millions of pages of confidential tobacco industry documents released through litigation in the United States; reveals what was going on behind closed doors in the tobacco companies.
- Australian Tobacco Industry Internal Documents - http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/ozdocs.html
Australian researcher presents internal tobacco industry documents on: advertising, targeting children; confusing the public on smoking and health; funding scientists, doctors, and consultants; secondhand smoke; plain packaging and health warnings; corporate plans, industry meetings; and product manipulation.
- Committee on the Judiciary - Humphrey Statement - http://www.house.gov/judiciary/10119.htm
Statement by Minnesota Attorney General Humbert Humphrey III before the House Judiciary Committee on tobacco policy and the June 20th settlement. "All the tobacco industry asks you to do, Mr. Chairman, is to guarantee them decades of prosperity...Members of this Committee, you don't need Philip Morris' blessing to proceed."
- Don't Be Fooled Again Report - http://www.citizen.org/Tobacco/fooled.htm
"Welcome to a new era of cooperation" as B&W Tobacco put it on March 1998. A kinder, gentler, tobacco industry? This report from Public Citizen is skeptical.
- Trinkets and Trash - http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/
Gallery of cigarette ads and tobacco industry promotional items: t-shirts, caps, radios, and a wide variety of other items designed by tobacco companies to sell cigarettes, spit tobacco, and cigars.
- FDA Report On Nicotine In Cigarettes - http://www.fda.gov/bbs/tobacinfo/juristoc.html
Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery".
- McSpotlight on the Tobacco Industry - http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/tobacco.html
Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers.
- Philip Morris: Death, Disease, and Duplicity - http://www.ratical.com/corporations/mm10worst94.html#n8
Rundown on tobacco giant Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. Features a section on its advertising abroad.
- Smoke in the Eye - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/index.html
"The Insider" is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie.
- Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked - http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/weekly/aa071999.htm?iam=mt
About.com Guide. Documentation on how tobacco companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked.
- Tobacco, A Vector Analysis - http://www.medicusmundi.ch/bulletin/bulletin723.htm
Medical bulletin. "The world's most widespread, serious infection is spread by its vector: the tobacco industry. Public health advocates must study the life patterns of the tobacco industry as they would any other disease vector."
- Statements of Former Philip Morris Employees - http://www.courttv.com/legaldocs/business/tobacco/statements.html
CourtTV provides statements of Ian Uydess, William Farone, and Jerome Rivers. Covers nicotine manipulation, nicotine impact boosting, and research conducted by Philip Morris on nicotine addiction.
- Tobacco Facts - http://www.tobaccofacts.org/
From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.
- Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con - http://www.ash.org.uk/?bigone
From Action on Smoking and Health in the UK. Covers emissions, smoker compensation, differences between expectations and reality for low tar cigarettes, and what the industry knew and how it behaved.
- The Truth about Big Tobacco in Its Own Words - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313
Editorial in the British Medical Journal urges opening of the Guildford depository of tobacco industry documents and explains what we've learned already from industry documents.
- Tobacco equals Death - http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/tobacco/tobacco.html
Observations and comments on tobacco and tobacco marketing, in particular in Hong Kong.
- The Hazards Of Tobacco Companies - http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r321.html
Article from environmental newsletter; mostly on industry media campaigns on secondhand smoke; some information on industry litigation and PR.
- Tobacco Industry Pressured Insurance Cos. - http://www.channel11000.com/news/stories/news-980727-154744.html
"When insurance companies started offering reduced premiums to nonsmokers in the late 1970s, cigarette makers fought them, industry documents show." The story from Channel 4000, WCCO.
- Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6138-2001Dec6
Washington post article covers tobacco industry document shredding, attempts to discredit anti-smoking activists, and attempts to bribe health officials.
- Tobacco Industry's Smoke Screen Blown - http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20000802/07
Report on tobacco industry tactics to attack WHO atni-tobacco efforts including: secretly paying individuals to attack WHO in the media; using paid contacts to infiltrate WHO committees and divert funds away from tobacco control; using paid scientists and journalists to manipulate research findings.
- eye - The Cigarette Papers - http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.16.99/news/cigarettes.html
New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, and manipulated nicotine. Article from Eye magazine.
- Memo to Commerce Committee on Tobacco Documents - http://www.house.gov/commerce_democrats/comdem/press/105mem01.htm
Memo from John Dingell, ranking member, to Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee, on the subpeonaed tobacco documents. Provides overview of what the documents reveal about industry manipulation, lobbying, litigation, PR, and lawyer control of scientific research.
- A Frank Statement - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddfrankstatement.html
On January 4, 1954, in response to continuing scientific reports on the health effects of smoking, the tobacco industry published this ad in more than 400 newspapers. It was a seminal moment in the history of tobacco, and also of public relations.
- bmj.com Philip Morris memo - http://www.bmj.com/misc/philipmemo.shtml
Formerly secret memo describes Philip Morris's programs to influence the political and scientific process in Europe in the 1990s.
- Smoking Gun - http://www.forbes.com/forbes/00/0821/6605054a.htm
What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.
- Big Tobacco Bounces Back - http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/phmor.htm
"Philip Morris et al. are recasting themselves as kinder, gentler companies concerned about their communities. Meanwhile, they're strong-arming the TV networks to block counter-ads which might persuade you otherwise."
- The Tobacco Industry in the UK - http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact18.html
ASH-UK factsheet. Covers the major companies, market share, their promotional activities, related organizations.
- The Tobacco Industry - http://www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/Lv3resources_tobacco_industry.htm
ASH Australia compilation of tobacco industry practices.
- Diary of Denial - http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/diaryofd.html
An Australian history of tobacco industry denials about the health effects of smoking, addictiveness of nicotine and marketing of tobacco products to children.
- Taking on Tobacco - http://archives.theconnection.org/archive/2001/02/0213a.shtml
Audio interview with David Kessler; requires RealPlayer.
- Selling Death: Tobacco's Strategy for Survival - http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0602/strategy.html
Article by Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan on how an industry that sells an inherently dangerous product survives in America in the health conscious 1990s.
- Law News Network -- Scathing Opinion in Smoking Case - http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=A537-1999Apr6&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0
Judge Munter says the evidence proves that Philip Morris waged a campaign to addict teen-agers and conspired to hide the health consequences of smoking from the public.
- Our Good Friend, the Governor - http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone1.html
Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.
- Shameful Science: The Continuing Saga - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/0004verband.html
Supplement covers Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds actions from 1992 to late 1998, plus some older documents that have come to light.
- Concentration of Power - http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm12/ConcentrationofPower.html
Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.
- Daily Doc: Philip Morris aggression - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmagg.html
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals started marketing Nicorette gum in the early 1980s. In response, Philip Morris ceased all of its humectant purchases from Dow, and let them know why.
- The tobacco industry in Australia - http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c14.htm
Chapter in book on smoking covers tobacco industry structure, financials, lobbying tactics, public relations, and liability.
- More Dirty Linen For Big Tobacco - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/14/national/main518608.shtml
Report on how the tobacco industry pressured other companies to scale back marketing of quit-smoking products.
- Tobacco's Smokescreens Revealed - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351794982.html
Recent research identifies tobacco industry strategies to fight, delay, and water down health warnings, to prevent regulation of the tobacco industry, to circumvent advertising restrictions, and to give tobacco giant Philip Morris more lobbying power.
- Public Versus Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry - http://texts.cdlib.org/dynaxml/servlet/dynaXML?docId=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e315&toc.id=d0e110&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=JD_Page_15#X
Report contrasts what the tobacco said publicly with what it said in private, over a period of decades, on the subjects of nicotine and addiction, low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes and smoker compensation, tobacco industry research and public relations, smoking and disease, and secondhand smoke.
- Tobacco Buster: Interview With Michael Pertschuk - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/messed%201992/01/MM019~10.HTM
A leading figure in tobacco control discusses industry activity, lobbying, and use of economic power, and explains why tobacco is so weakly regulated in the U.S.
- Multinational Monitor - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0192.html
January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.
- Industry Activity around the World - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
- GASP of Colorado: Tobacco Industry and Front Groups - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/index.php#8
Papers on Philip Morris's accommodation/pre-emption program; Philip Morris media plan for Colorado; RJR's field force; smoker's groups bankrolled by the tobacco industry.
- Tobacco Industry Tactics - http://www.ncth.ca/ncth_new.nsf/MAINframeset?OpenFrameSet&Frame=BodyFrame&Src=http://www.ncth.ca/NCTH_new.nsf/0/1F6FBC0640FBAD8385256E160077B7FE?OpenDocument
Tactics used by the tobacco industry to legitimize its activities, promote its product, defeat health measures, and protect its profits, such as: glamorizing tobacco products; targeting youth, minorities and women; reassuring concerned smokers; tobacco industry "prevention" ad campaigns; "Helping" the Community"; using power and politics; creating front groups; creating controversy; using the legal system to "hide" information; resistance to regulation.
- McLean v. Philip Morris - http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/business/tobacco/marlboroman.html
David McClean, who was the Marlboro Man for Philip Morris, died of lung cancer caused by smoking. The text of his widow's lawsuit against Philip Morris provides information on industry conduct over the years.
- The Tobacco Industry in Asia: Revelations in the Corporate D ocuments - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/13/suppl_2/ii1
Analysis of tobacco industry memos and internal documents reveals industry strategies to undermine tobacco prevention and push up cigarette sales in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
- Tobacco's Dirty Tricks - http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d21
ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.
- The Cigarette Papers - http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v262i0001_10.htm
The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
- Tobacco Industry Statements - http://democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040827162948-44223.pdf
The tobacco industry has promised a new honesty and responsibility; this report reveals how little the industry measures up on three critical issues: the health effects of smoking, the health effects of secondhand smoke, and the addictiveness of nicotine.
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