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Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con
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.
http://www.ash.org.uk/?bigone
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The Truth about Big Tobacco in Its Own Words
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.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313
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Frontline: inside the tobacco deal
Interview with Dr. David Kessler.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/kessler.html
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The Special Privileges of Tobacco
Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.
http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/zbk01.htm
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Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence
Washington post article covers tobacco industry document shredding, attempts to discredit anti-smoking activists, and attempts to bribe health officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6138-2001Dec6
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Memo to Commerce Committee on Tobacco Documents
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
http://www.house.gov/commerce_democrats/comdem/press/105mem01.htm
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Tobacco Industry Witnesses on Whether Smoking Causes Lung Cancer
Tobacco industry witnesses who argued against restrictions on secondhand smoke were asked if firsthand smoke, smoking cigarettes, causes lung cancer. These are their answers.
http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/oshaglantz.html
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A Frank Statement
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.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddfrankstatement.html
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Big Tobacco Bounces Back
"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."
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/phmor.htm
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Industry Spy Poses as A Science Writer - for 35 years [06/03/99]
A tobacco public relations man, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" science, scientists, and scientific organizations for more than a third of a century.
http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html
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