Government Tobacco Health

Sites about actions taken, or not taken, by government officials, agencies, or candidates for public office, that primarily affect the tobacco industry and the use of tobacco products. This includes sites about factors that influence their actions.

• States Hooked on Tobacco Money - State governments work to protect Big Tobacco: Wall Street Journal article.
  
• Special Investigations: Tobacco - Committee on Government Reform Monority Office provides reports on the tobacco industry, smuggling, government promotion of tobacco products, regulation.
  
• Kentucky Legislators' Views on Tobacco Policy - Research into policymakers' views in a tobacco state performs a survey of 116 Kentucky legislators. Surprisingly, they were highly supportive of reducing the state's dependence on tobacco and more supportive of tobacco control policies than expected.
  
• Support for Tobacco Trade: Up in Smoke? - A look at U.S. tobacco industry promotion of product abroad concludes that U.S. government support for the trade is not as strong as it used to be.
  
• Smoking Health Issues "Still Ignored" - The deaths of five million people in the UK from smoking-related diseases have been partly blamed on decades of government inaction.
  
• The Decade-Long Scandal that Makes Enron Look Like Small Potatoes - Columnist Herb Denenbert comments on how little the government does about tobacco's toll.
  
• Asia Times: Japanese Government Addicted To Tobacco - Article on the government of Japan's ties to the Japanese tobacco industry, and the effect on health programs in Japan.
  
• Still Waiting to Exhale - Public Citizen 1998 report subtitled: "Do Nothing" Republican leaders do their thing for Big Tobacco contributors.
  
• U.S. Government Actions to Promote Tobacco - 12 page document lists actions by the U.S. government to promote cigarettes and spit tobacco around the world. [PDF]
  
  

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