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The National Smokers Alliance: Exposed

- 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."

PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed! - "Special-interest Watchdogs" exposed as tobacco industry front group.
Cato Institute: "Libertarian" in a Corporate Way - Article explores the Cato Institute\\'s funding and advocacy, advocacy which include advocacy large tobacco industry funding and advocacy advocacy for the industry.
Strange Bedfellows: the Tobacco Industry and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association - Covers history of the collaboration, and examines how and why the MRA helped the tobacco industry.
Tobacco's Hired Guns - How the tobacco industry gets researchers, scientists, and engineers to critiques testify against smokefree measures.
SmokeFree Air Newsletter, Summer, 1995 - Short summary of front groups used to oppose advocacy NYC smokefree advocacy ordinance.
Tobacco Industry Targetting of Children, Women, and Minorities - Syllabus and resources for course at The University of critiques Dayton Law School.
Tobacco Strategy, 1994 - Inside memo shows how the tobacco industry influenced critiques the Heartland pro-tobacco Institute, National Journalism Center, National Association critiques of Manufacturers, Tax Foundation, pro-tobacco and other groups to critiques advocate and lobby for tobacco industry pro-tobacco positions and critiques interests.
India Inhales - Describes tobacco promotion efforts in India, and efforts advocacy to combat advocacy it.
Astro-Turf: Bogus Grass-Roots Groups and the Tobacco Industry - "How the tobacco industry uses bogus grass-roots groups to oppose pro-tobacco local smoking laws." Thorough look at the National Smokers pro-tobacco Alliance (NSA). Article from the Pacific Sun.
Cigars: The Shaping of an Illusion - Baltimore Sun articles examine the cigar boom of the 1980s, critiques and cigar industry manipulation of media to promote the product.
Smoke Screen: Big Tobacco is Working Hard to Ensure the Whole World will Get Its Taste Of Freedom - Article from Hamburg, Germany, explores Philip Morris cigarette promotion worldwide.
Washingtonpost.com - Fighting for Lungs and Minds in Asia - Article on targetting of Asia by the tobacco critiques industry.
Smoke Screen: U.S. Tobacco Overseas - Transcript of radio program on promotion of tobacco critiques in developing advocacy countries by U.S. tobacco giants.
Marlboro Man Rides into Russia - Short CNN article on tobacco industry activity in Russia.
An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest - PRWatch article on tobacco industry use of PR firms and front groups to push "tort reform".
American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Targeting of Youth, Minorities, and Woman - Describes efforts of the tobacco industry, with reference critiques to the Joe Camel campaign, and the brands critiques Uptown, Virginia Slims, and Dakota.
Philip Morris Paid Rick Berman and Center for Consumer Freedom - Expose of Rick Berman and the Center for advocacy Consumer Freedom advocacy documents payments totallying $2,950,000 from tobacco advocacy giant Philip Morris to advocacy Rick Bermman.
Tobacco Marketing - Where There's Smoke, There's Deception - Article on how Philip Morris is selling the critiques Marboro Man pro-tobacco in Egypt.
Big Tobacco Gambles the American Gaming Association's Credibility - Documents how the tobacco industry has used the critiques AGA as a public third party to fight critiques smokefree policies.
Through the Smoke Screen: Another Philip Morris Front Exposed - Article on Philip Morris, the NSA, and Contributions advocacy Watch.
Ties that Bind: the ACLU and Big Tobaccco - Transcript of radio program. Guests include Morton Mintz, who critiques wrote an article on the subject, and Stan Glantz.
How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman" - PR Watch article on Steven Milloy, his "Junk Science" website, and his tobacco connections.
Timeline: Front Groups - Internal tobacco industry memos, letters, organized in time pro-tobacco provide a look at the industry\'s use of pro-tobacco front groups.
Tobacco Industry Organization and Support of Hospitality and Restaurant Coalitions - Presentation at health conference summarizes tobacco industry use advocacy of restaurant pro-tobacco and hospitality organizations.
Tobacco Industry Strategies and Front Groups - Covers the NSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the critiques Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, and others.
The War in the States - Fund Article explores tobacco industry use of advocacy front groups with no obvious ties to tobacco advocacy to push for state "pre-emption" laws.
Designer front group - Documents origins of TASSC.
Exporting the Epidemic: Tobacco and the Third World - Book chapter discusses tobacco promotion in developing countries and the third world.
The Tobacco Industry Funds "Hospitality" Organizations - Documentation on tobacco industry covert funding and organization advocacy of pro-smoking advocacy efforts in the hospitality industry.
Opening Pandora's Box - SFWeekly article covers tobacco industry activity in California critiques between 1988 critiques and 1993, primarily diversion of Prop. critiques 99 funds; politicians who critiques helped the industry; industry critiques use of PR firms, lobbyists, and critiques front groups.
FAIR: Media Moguls on Board - Cato Institute board member Rupert Murdoch is also pro-tobacco a Philip pro-tobacco Morris board member; Cato has taken pro-tobacco money from Philip Morris pro-tobacco and RJR.
Big Tobacco's Global Reach - The Reagan and Bush administrations used their econinmic advocacy and political pro-tobacco clout to pry open markets in advocacy Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, pro-tobacco Thailand and China for advocacy American cigarettes.
Big Tobacco Rides East - Describes smuggling and the marketing of tobacco products critiques in Vietnam.
Adolescent Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Magazines - Research finds that cigarette brands popular among young pro-tobacco adolescents are critiques more likely than adult brands to pro-tobacco advertise in magazines with critiques high youth readerships.
Where There's Smoke - Article on smoking and tobacco in Hungary.
Cigarette Push Defies Law's Spirit - News article on new tobacco industry marketing technique: approaching shoppers advocacy in grocery and convenience stores.
Smoker Group's Thick Wallet Raises Questions - LATimes article on the National Smokers Alliance documents advocacy the gap critiques between its claimed membership and dues advocacy members paid.
Essential Action Condemns USTR Pressure on Korea - "The U.S. Trade Representative is up to its critiques bad, old advocacy tricks, working on behalf of Big critiques Tobacco," said Weissman of advocacy the group Essential Action; critiques item has the story.
The Tobacco Institute's Center for Indoor Air Research - Uses original industry documents to show how, when, critiques and why pro-tobacco the CIAR was created.
ACLU and Big Tobacco - Secret documents reveal ACLU ties to the tobacco advocacy industry. Find out how taking $1,000,000 from advocacy the tobacco industry may have changed the ACLU\'s advocacy positions.
Big Tobacco and Rupe - "Secret documents show that Philip Morris loves Rupert Murdoch\\'s tobacco-friendly media. He\'s also just happens to be on their board."
Tobacco Giant Blows Smokescreen on Risks - British American Tobacco (BAT) tried to undermine the critiques work of health experts in southern Africa in critiques the 1990's; article explains.
Big Tobacco's Front Groups and Allies - Americans for Nonsmokers\\' Rights report covers a number of front advocacy groups used by the tobacco industry to fight smokefree policies.
World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative, Eastern Mediterranean - Publications on the tobacco industry\\'s tactics to undermine advocacy tobacco prevention pro-tobacco in Egypt and North Africa, illicit advocacy tobacco trade in the pro-tobacco Middle East, the economics advocacy of tobacco in Egypt and Morocco, pro-tobacco and papers advocacy on tobacco in English and Arabic.
Tobacco Giants Accused of Smokescreen - Nature Science report on how the tobacco industry manipulates restaurant advocacy and bar trade bodies to maintain smoking in public advocacy places.
RJR's Field Force Unravelled - Reports names RJR field operatives in charge of critiques coordinating and developing the "smoker\\'s rights" movement and critiques how much they were paid.
Those Lovable Tobacco Execs - Column by money advisor Andrew Tobias examines the pro-tobacco National Smokers Alliance.
A Worldwide Tour of Outrageous PM and BAT Behavior - Short descriptions of the marketing and promotional activities advocacy of Philip Morris and British American Tobacco in advocacy a wide range of countries.
Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand - Photo essay reveals Rite Aid\\'s pro-smoking activities and questions its claim to be against heart disease in women.
Double Standards of U.S. Tobacco Companies in International Cigarette Labeling - Report from Public Citizen examines cigarette pack warning advocacy labels in advocacy 45 countries. Conclusion: what advocacy Philip Morris says about advocacy its product varies by advocacy country.
Public-Interest Pretenders - According to Consumer Reports, "no one plays the critiques public-interest pretender pro-tobacco game better than the tobacco industry"; critiques this article explains.
Corporate Lapdog Poses as Citizen Watchdog - Covers Contributions Watch, a fraud which pretended to expose special-interest pro-tobacco money in elections, was secretly created and controlled by a pro-tobacco lobby shop paid for by special-interest money.
Skeptic's Dictionary: The Junk Science Page - Charges that "The Junk Science Page is not critiques about junk critiques science so much as it is critiques about anything which does critiques not support a conservative, critiques Rush Limbaugh type, political agenda."
Marlboro Man Goes East - Report on industry activity in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and other East European nations.
Big Tobacco Serves the "Butt End" to the National Restaurant Association - Explains how the tobacco industry used this restaurant critiques trade group as a front to fight smokefree critiques workplaces.
The Great Tobacco Robbery - Cato Institute editorial condemns money made by plaintiff lawyers "holding advocacy tobacco companies accountable for Medicaid expenditures allegedly related to smoking".
The Tobacco Industry in New Zealand - Public health monograph of 105 pages covers how the tobacco pro-tobacco industry in New Zealand relates to the direct health effects pro-tobacco of smoking, the addictiveness of nicotine, the effects of secondhand pro-tobacco smoke, industry misuse of product design and opposition to harm pro-tobacco r
The War in the States (cont'd) - continuation of article; covers Citizens Against Tax Abuse, advocacy Citizens Against pro-tobacco Government Interferencel, Minnesota Coalition of Responsible advocacy Retailers, Citizens for Fair pro-tobacco Taxes, Maine Grocers Association, advocacy others.

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