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ACLU and Big Tobacco
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.
http://www.tobacco.org/News/aclu11.96.html
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The Great Tobacco Robbery
Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding tobacco companies accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking".
http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-06-99.html
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FAIR: Media Moguls on Board
Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also a Philip Morris board member; Cato has taken money from Philip Morris and RJR.
http://www.fair.org/extra/9801/cato-media-moguls.html
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PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed!
"Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/wolves.html
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Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups 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.
http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/astrotrf.htm
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Tobacco Strategy, 1994
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.
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dtv34e00
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The Nicotine Network
Series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particular emphasis on "astoturf": front groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stone2.html
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Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page
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."
http://skepdic.com/refuge/junkscience.html
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Designer front group
Documents origins of TASSC.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddtassc.html
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Those Lovable Tobacco Execs
Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the National Smokers Alliance.
http://www.andrewtobias.com/bkoldcolumns/000216.html
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