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	Public Citizen \| Congress Watch \| Congress Watch - Burning Down the Houses: Big Tobacco's 1997 Congressional Lobbying
		Big Tobacco wants to foreclose the possibility of lawsuits against itself and it is sparing no expense to ensure this result.
		Tobacco companies were willing to invest $35.5 million last year alone to lobby Congress to pass their version of tobacco policy and thereby virtually immunize themselves against the lawsuits they fear.
		Tobacco lobbyists, lobbying firms and lobbying expenditures were identified using 1997 end-of-the-year reports and addendums filed with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
	www.citizen.org /congress/civjus/prod_liability/tobacco/articles.cfm?ID=908 (3517 words)

	USATODAY.com - Big showdown: Tobacco trial begins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The nation's biggest tobacco companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking, a federal lawyer alleged Tuesday at the start of a civil racketeering trial in which the government seeks a record $280 billion from the industry.
		Tobacco officials falsely claimed in public statements and in legal and congressional testimony that nicotine is not addictive, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, prosecutors say.
		Tobacco firms allegedly spiked the nicotine in cigarettes, using the right tobacco blend, filters and paper to deliver the most potent kick to smokers.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/2004-09-20-tobacco_x.htm (1952 words)

	Tobacco's Big Lie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I know the president is deeply concerned about the increase in tobacco use among children and that he is considering how to combat it.
		Again in 1965, tobacco companies adopted a voluntary cigarette-advertising code as part of their public relations response to the first surgeon general's report.
		Politicians of both parties understand that to oppose protection of children from tobacco is to be on the wrong side of history.
	www.cartercenter.org /viewdoc.asp?docID=59&submenu=news (718 words)

	CorpWatch : Tobacco's Global Ghettos: Big Tobacco Targets The World's Poor
		To those of us in the tobacco control business, we know it is but a drop in the ocean to Big Tobacco, and a small price to pay to ensure that they will be able to continue business as usual in the rest of the world.
		Big Tobacco increased political campaign contributions and conducted slick strategic lobbying campaigns to block and circumvent the spirit of Proposition 99.
		Big Tobacco continued to "sponsor" ethnic events which attempt to buy credibility and standing within those communities: from Alvin Ailey's Dance Theater of Harlem, to lectures on the Civil Rights movement by Julian Bond, to African American art exhibitions at reputable museums.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=3970 (1088 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Sebok: The Federal Government's RICO Suit Against Big Tobacco
		Under the settlement, Big Tobacco agreed to pay the states between $206 and $250 billion, over a 25 year period, if the states would drop their lawsuits against it.
		But perhaps they were concerned that their evidence against Big Tobacco would not satisfy the very high "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard that applies in a criminal case.
		Big Tobacco also knew that there was not much in its present behavior that could be enjoined.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /sebok/20041004.html (1951 words)

	Town of Big Flats - Growing Tobacco in Big Flats
		This led to unemployment during the winter months because most of the tobacco growers worked in the warehouses during the winter and in their fields in the summer.
		Tobacco pulp is made into paperlike sheets and used for the wrapper.
		During the time that tobacco was being grown in Chemung County, when a farmer grew too old to farm, he would sell the farm, buy a little land and a house in the village and grow a few acres of tobacco as a cash crop.
	www.bigflatsny.gov /index.php?n=History.Tobacco (816 words)

	Opinion: Big Tobacco's big deception
		Tobacco companies have gotten away with this by figuring out a way to beat the standard government test for measuring nicotine, the addictive element in cigarettes.
		When the tobacco industry was sued in the 1990s by state governments for the harm it caused to public health, industry documents turned over during the litigation unearthed its unsavory practice of spiking the nicotine content of cigarettes.
		Tobacco is still not a drug regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/09/04/Opinion/Big_Tobacco_s_big_dec.shtml (407 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Features \| Beating big tobacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1999, the WHA initiated the first comprehensive international response to the use of tobacco and paved the way for multilateral negotiations to formulate regulations hindering the spread of tobacco in the 21st century.
		The internal documents of big tobacco companies were made public in the US in late 1990s.
		Given the huge economic incentives and revenues at stake, and with many states involved in the tobacco industry itself, the extent to which signatories to the treaty will be obliged to change their behaviour remains in question.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/641/fe2.htm (1025 words)

	Big Tobacco Hopes to Rebound from Tough Times
		Tobacco industry analysts said they view the weak economy as the primary source of concern in the short term, but there was no consensus among them as to how long it might take the industry to bounce back to profitable levels.
		Tobacco litigation and policy analyst Mary Aronson of Aronson Washington Research said Big Tobacco is no longer able to fight these legislative efforts like it did in the past.
		Sanders said Big Tobacco has to worry about excise taxes and no-smoking ordinances in the short term, but its biggest challenge could come with the thousands of lawsuits that were brought against companies several years ago and remain on appeal.
	www.crosswalk.com /1183237 (1210 words)

	Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals
		With Big Tobacco we saw the suppression of studies that said nicotine was addictive, or of studies linking the inhalation of tobacco smoke to lung cancer.
		That is, of course, another similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: they both use direct-to-consumer advertising to create demand for their products.
		There was a Big Tobacco settlement a few years ago where the states got involved, and I think there is just such a lawsuit coming against the pharmaceutical companies.
	www.newstarget.com /008291.html (7033 words)

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		Whether Big Tobacco succeeds will depend in significant part on whether anti-tobacco groups and their many new allies of various stripes refuse to succumb to Big Tobacco's combined intimidation and charm offensive.
		Big Tobacco knows it is going to be facing an endless series of juries in coming years.
		Finally, and probably most important, Big Tobacco knows that demonization of the industry -- clever and hard-hitting illustrations of how the tobacco companies manipulate, deceive and disregard human life in pursuit of the almighty dollar -- is the most effective anti-smoking message.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/tncs/phmor.htm (905 words)

	USNews.com: Bernadine Healy, M.D.: Big Tobacco's triumph
		That obviously would mean banning tobacco as the addictive, carcinogenic, heart-attack-and stroke-promoting, skin-wrinkling, teeth-rotting, breath- and life-destroying scourge that it is. But the Supreme Court said no, ruling that only new law could grant the agency such tobacco over-sight.
		Big T also gained a certain credibility by being able to say that its products were government approved.
		Indeed, even the whiff that smokeless tobacco might be stamped by this health agency as safer is likely to clean up its image.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/articles/030623/23healy.htm (623 words)

	Tampabay: Big Tobacco's absolute nemesis
		Before tobacco, Acosta's best known case involved a $3.1-million jury verdict he got for Janet Harduvel of Lutz, the widow of an Air Force pilot who died in a crash in an F-16.
		Tobacco had known for years, he says, the dangers of smoking and purposefully addicted people.
		Acosta couldn't get local courts to set up special tobacco divisions to hear his cases, which meant he would have 10 judges hearing his cases instead of one.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/04/17/TampaBay/Big_Tobacco_s_absolut.shtml (1248 words)

	Tobacco Explained: 8. Big Tobacco and Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Factors such as the changing position of women in society, their increasing social and economic independence and the past failures of the anti-smoking lobby and health promotion agencies to present smoking and its effects as a problem relevant to women need to be taken into account.
		It has fostered the idea that the big three smoking diseases - lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic bronchitis (chronic pulmonary obstruction) - are male diseases and that purely because of gender, women may be less at risk.
		The tobacco companies use the research to find out about women's political views and to understand wide social trends, so that their marketing effort can ride on the back of social movements.
	www.ash.org.uk /html/conduct/html/tobexpld8.html (6588 words)

	States Accused of Hypocrisy in Spending Big Tobacco Bucks
		The money technically does not have to be spent on tobacco prevention programs, but when 46 state attorneys general reached a settlement with Big Tobacco in 1998, they indicated that is were it would go.
		It was in the late 1990s when Big Tobacco decided it was time to put an end to lawsuits brought by state attorneys general.
		The decision by the tobacco companies to change their image was spurred on by the settlement, which required states to place a top executive in charge of youth smoking prevention, among other things, said Lyndon Haviland, chief operating officer at the American Legacy Foundation, an anti-smoking group.
	www.crosswalk.com /1183058 (1531 words)

	americas.org - Tobacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Several factors contribute to Big Tobacco’s overseas expansion, including a drive for the cheapest labor, tobacco leaf and transport.
		Because a tobacco crop requires 10 times more labor per acre than beans or maize, many of the families pull their children from school to work in the fields.
		Big Tobacco often invokes the plight of U.S. tobacco farmers to argue against taxes and controls.
	www.americas.org /index.php?cp=item&item_id=346 (2092 words)

	Fighting Big Tobacco
		As part of this statewide effort, the "Proud to be Tobacco Free" campaign was created as a way for California's health care providers, pharmacists and patients to work together and show they truly care about healthy communities by supporting pharmacies and chain drugstores that are tobacco free.
		When tobacco is sold in such health care settings as drugstores, it sends a message, especially to our youth, that using tobacco is okay.
		By providing increased funding for tobacco education, Proposition 10 holds the promise of reducing smoking by another 33 percent, thereby saving the lives of thousands of Californians.
	new.cmanet.org /publicdoc.cfm/23/1 (459 words)

	Fighting Big Tobacco \| TPMCafe
		If you are interested in the case I was on, where the Manville Trust sued the tobacco companies to try to get them to help pay for lung cancer caused by a synergy of tobacco and asbestos, look here for a reprint of a Reuters story on the outcome.
		They wanted to punish the tobacco companies so badly that they brushed aside the evidence (and it was substantial) that there had been no "conspiracy" among the tobacco companies to commit fraud.
		Everyone knew, buy the mid-1960s (from the early 1950s, really), just how dangerous tobacco is. What the tobacco industry did was simply to refuse to admit that there were problems with their products, and to drag their heels in funding and conducting research (which really wasn't needed anyway--the facts were out there).
	houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com /blog/aaron_barlow/2006/sep/27/fighting_big_tobacco (805 words)

	Big Tobacco Infiltrated UN Agencies, Says Study - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
		Among the strategies the tobacco industry employed to these ends, the committee mentions infiltrating the agency and "establishing inappropriate relationships with WHO staff to influence policy." They also tried to "undermine WHO tobacco control activities by putting pressure on relevant agency budgets," and used other UN agencies to influence or resist WHO tobacco policies.
		The investigations were based on a series of internal tobacco corporation documents that were made public during legal actions in the United States against the industry.
		"Tobacco companies used 'independent' individuals and institutions to attack the WHO's competence and priorities in published articles and presentations to the media and to politicians, while concealing its own role in promoting these attacks," says the committee's report.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/tncs/2000/tobacco.htm (749 words)

	Big Tobacco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Big Tobacco is the nickname that is often applied to the "big three" tobacco corporations in the United States.
		The term usually refers to tobacco companies R.
		This page was last modified 15:03, 14 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Tobacco (79 words)

	JunePage2
		She also wrote a 20-page expert witness report that tobacco industry lawyers worked hard to tear apart both at a six-hour, pre-trial deposition and in court.
		An international authority on the prevention of alcohol and tobacco abuse as well as heart disease with children and adolescents, she doesn’t smoke and doesn’t.
		During even the most frantic and demanding parts of the trial, when some lawyers and witnesses subsisted mostly on coffee and candy bars and a couple hours sleep, she meditated daily, swam or used the treadmill regularly, ate "healthfully" (she’s a vegetarian), and drank tea rather than coffee.
	www.ahc.umn.edu /commnews/June98/junepg2.htm (1273 words)

	No Thanks Big Tobacco
		Rarely do movies show negative depictions of tobacco use such as characters becoming ill from smoking, families suffering from secondhand smoke, or people complaining about the smell of smoke on their clothes when leaving a smoke-filled room.
		Any film that shows or implies tobacco should be rated "R." The only exceptions should be when the presentation of tobacco clearly and unambiguously reflects the dangers and consequences of tobacco use or is necessary to represent smoking of a real historical figure.
		There should be no tobacco brand identification or the presence of tobacco brand imagery (such as billboards) in the background of any movie scene.
	www.nothanksbigtobacco.org /movies.html (468 words)

	THE TOBACCO TIMELINE
		Those in the Court of Montezuma, who mingled tobacco with the resin of other leaves and smoked pipes with great ceremony after their evening meal; and the lesser Indians, who rolled tobacco leaves together to form a crude cigar.
		The latter adapted tobacco smoking to their own religion, believing that their god, the almighty Manitou, revealed himself in the rising smoke.
		They reported that the natives wrapped dried tobacco leaves in palm or maize "in the manner of a musket formed of paper." After lighting one end, they commenced "drinking" the smoke through the other.
	www.tobacco.org /History/Tobacco_History.html (1014 words)

	Seattle arts scene has a sly new patron -- Big Tobacco
		Big Tobacco has also been great to Seattle's alternative press -- The Stranger and The Weekly -- as well as its alternative arts groups, such as the multidisciplinary contemporary arts center known as ConWorks, the Center on Contemporary Art, Bluebottle art boutique and the dance group 33 Fainting Spells.
		Straw didn't want to say how much Lucky has enriched the salon, but she said taking tobacco money was vital to the success of her business.
		Considering the growing number of critics tobacco has in government as well as anti-tobacco victories in court, the United States might not be far behind, giving Lucky's campaign a sense of urgency.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/159146_lucky03.html (1661 words)

	The PR Plan Behind Big Tobacco's Big Victory - Center for Media and Democracy
		The tobacco industry won a big victory Friday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in its favor, against the U.S. Justice Department.
		The near-invisible nature of the ongoing federal trial to determine whether Big Tobacco engaged in a conspiracy of fraud and deceit may represent another aspect of that very conspiracy - the successful efforts of tobacco industry PR to influence journalists.
		Internal tobacco industry documents shed light on the largely hidden phenomena of corporate tobacco lobbyists courting favor with editorial boards.
	www.prwatch.org /node/3264 (1242 words)

	Big Tobacco's Global Expansion
		Since U.S. tobacco companies are not bound by any borders in their insatiable drive for new customers, the United States must think globally and act locally in its efforts to control these companies if it hopes to stem the tide of death and disability in the rest of the world.
		By encouraging tobacco addiction, this program helped lay the groundwork for the later penetration of these countries by the tobacco multinationals.1 However this pales in comparison with the assistance given U.S. cigarette companies in Asia in the 1980s.
		"Tobacco companies were flooding the export market knowing full well that those cigarettes would end up in Canada illegally," she says.5 Michel Descoteaux, a spokesman for Imperial Tobacco Ltd., which is partly owned by BAT, told the New York Times that the companies "absolutely" knew that the cigarettes were destined to come back into Canada.
	www.essentialaction.org /addicted/main.html (11895 words)

	Joe Pernice: Big Tobacco: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Big Tobacco, reissued by his Ashmont label in 2001, stands apart from the majority of side projects, mostly because it sounds nothing like one.
		The tunes, although originally slated to comprise the fourth Scud Mountain Boys LP, are all instantly reminiscent of the Pernice Brothers, except with a little less grandeur (i.e.
		Pernice's bandmate, Thom Monahan, produced Big Tobacco (with Joe's assistance), and shows a keen ear for classic pop, directing firm, clear rhythm lines and complementary guitar accompaniment.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/p/pernice_joe/big-tobacco.shtml (370 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Special Report
		And in Beijing, America's biggest tobacco companies are competing for the right to launch cooperative projects with the state-run tobacco monopoly in hopes of capturing a share of the biggest potential market in the world.
		Asia is where tobacco's search for new horizons began and where the industry came to rely most on Washington's help.
		Female smoking is at an all-time high, according to Japan Tobacco's surveys, and one study showed female college freshmen four times more likely to smoke than their mothers.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/asia.htm (4359 words)

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