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Tobacco Industry Activity in the U.S. 
- Reports on industry activity by state; extensive and recent reports available for Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
- http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/state.html
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Secondhand Diplomacy - After closed-door meetings with cigarette makers, the Bush administration is seeking to derail a global tobacco treaty. - http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/03/ma_284_01.html    Hedrick Smith Productions: The People and the Power Game - 1996 mini series examining the power of the media and lobby groups including the tobacco industry lobbies. Offers press/viewer reactions to the series and information on how to buy the film. - http://hedricksmith.com/PBSDoc/thePeopleAndThePowerGame.shtml Air Tobacco: Campaign Travel on Tobacco Industry Jets - Report on tobacco industry giving free jet travel to politicians. - http://democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040827161228-67574.pdf On the Money Trail With GOP - ABC News report says tobacco money gets tobacco lobbyists access in Washington. - http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96273&page=1 U.S. Support for Tobacco Overseas: Going Out of Business? - Industry influence in different administrations is compared. - http://www.afsa.org/fsj/Nov99/TobaccoTradeBeelman.cfm Regulating the Tobacco Industry: Congress Takes a Bye - Public Integrity report on death of the McCain bill. - http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/index.asp?L1=20&L2=26&L3=40&L4=10&L5=0 CorpWatch: Bush Administration Tobacco Industry Ties - Article on the tobacco industry ties of senior members of the Bush administration. - http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=896 White House Sought to Soften Anti-Terrorism Legislation in Support of Tobacco Companies - As Congress passsed a bill aimed at cracking down on terrorists, tobacco lobbyists tried to insert language into the measure that would protect the tobacco industry from lawsuits; Public Integrity reports. - http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=284&sid=100 Cigarette Company Documents Outline Strategy to Derail Global Tobacco Treaty - British American Tobacco memos reveal the company's campaign to undermine international tobacco control measures. - http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=85&sid=200 The Buying of the Congress - Transcripts, Henry Waxman - Public Integrity interview with Congressman Henry Waxman. Not entirely about tobacco, but substantial material. - http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/BOC_T_HW.asp?L1=20&L2=26&L3=10&L4=40&L5=0&State= The Buying of the Congress - Transcripts, David Kessler - Public Integrity interview with David Kessler, MD, Ph.D. Topics include tobacco industry lobbying, power, money, and strategies in Washington. - http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/BOC_T_DK.asp?L1=20&L2=26&L3=10&L4=22&L5=0&State= Kicking the (US) Habit - Despite months of diplomatic arm-twisting, the Bush administration's tobacco-friendly treaty demands have gone up in flames, and a strong Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is going forward. - http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/03/we_328_01.html The Tobacco Industry Successful Efforts to Control Tobacco Policy Making in Switzerland - UCSF report. Executive summaries in German, English, and French. Full report in English. - http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmi/Swiss2001/ Tobacco Industry Attempts to Subvert European Union Tobacco Advertising Legislation - Research report on tobacco industry programs aimed at defeating EU legislation governing tobacco advertising and promotion. - http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmi/EU2002/ Cancer Converts Tobacco Lobbyist - Victor Crawford, retired tobacco industry lobbyist dying of cancer, gives a revealing interview on what he did for the industry. - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=76 Tobacco Industry Spent $10.6 Million to Lobby Congress in First Half of 2003 - As Congress conducted negotiations over major tobacco legislation for the first time in years, the tobacco industry spent over $10 million to lobby Congress, over $116,000 every day Congress was in sessoin. - http://tobaccofreekids.org/Script/DisplayPressRelease.php3?Display=706 Tobacco Industry Spent More Than $20 Million to Lobby Congress in 2002 - New report totals that cash the tobacco industry spent to lobby Congress in 2002: over $100,000 per day every day Congress was in session, not even including campaign conributions. - http://tobaccofreekids.org/Script/DisplayPressRelease.php3?Display=682 Tobacco Wars: Canada - Article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal describes the tobacco industry's power in Canada. - http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/cdn_medical_association/cmaj/vol-156/issue-2/0237.htm Big Tobacco Crashes the Party by Funding Fetes - Seattle Times article on tobacco money at the 2000 DNC convention. Barred from the official sponsor status at the convention, the industry instead gave undisclosed and unregulated gifts to buy private parties for lawmakers. - http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=smok16m&date=20000816 Philip Morris' Latest Smoke Screen - BusinessWeek news analysis finds Philip Morris's call for FDA regulation "has little to do with health -- and a lot to do with self-interest." - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_29/b3741056.htm Jesse Helms's honeypot - Column by Russ Baker comments on the Helms Center, and why the tobacco industry is a heavy funder. - http://www.russbaker.com/The%20Nation%20-%20Jesse%20Helm's%20Honeypot/The%20Nation%20-%20Jesse%20Helm's%20Honeypot.htm The Tobacco Presidency - Essay discusses the tobacco connections of George W. Bush. - http://www.thegully.com/essays/US/politics_2001/010319tobacco_bush.html Tobacco Political Action Committees, 2000 - Summary of political action committee giving by tobacco company, comes to about $2.4 million, broken down by company. - http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/industry.asp?txt=A02&cycle=2000 Pro-tobacco group sponsors retreat for lawmakers - Dozens of congressmen and congressional aides spent the weekend at a lavish resort in a getaway sponsored by the tobacco industry's lobbying group. - http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=toba&date=19970218&query=pro-tobacco Control of "Grasstops" Government - 1993 Philip Morris memo reveals much about industry strategy and tactics for influencing government. - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddcontrolgrasstops.html The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby - Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress. - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/smoking/drewf.htm Industry Donations Favor Bush, Republican - Philip Morris is the second biggest contributor to the GOP in the current election; Center for Reponsive Politics report identifies top 10 Congressional recipients of tobacco money - http://www.jointogether.org/plugin.jtml?siteID=miph&p=1&Tab=News&Object_ID=264711 House Speaker's Trip Paid For by Philip Morris - Kentucky House Speaker Jody Richards acceptance of a 5-day trip to Costa Rica becomes an issue when it's learned that it was paid for by Philip Morris; short article. - http://www.kypost.com/news/1997/spkr111997.html Tobacco Lobbying Continues - "Each day that Congress meets, the nation's four largest cigarette manufacturers spend more than $100,000 pushing their agenda on Capitol Hill." News article explains how the money is spent. - http://no-smoking.org/oct01/10-23-01-1.html Tobacco: Political Issues - Chapter from the Tobacco Reference Guide covers tobacco lobbying and influencing in politics at the state, local, and federal (US) level. - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter32/table_of_contents_chap32.html Tommy Thompson and Tobacco - Report on the tobacco money, tobacco record, and tobacco industry connections of Bush appointee Tommy Thompson, director of HHS, in charge of CDC, NCI, and the Surgeon General's office. - http://www.tobacco.org/News/thompsonfull.html Smoke and Mirrors: Tobacco Industry Influence on "Grassroots" - Public Citizen report on the tobacco industry's influence on the "grassroots" campaign for liability limits. - http://www.citizen.org/documents/smokeMirors.PDF Involvement in the Political Process - Once secret industry memos and documents address specific industry political efforts to defeat or preempt enactment of tobacco laws and regulations. - http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/politics.cfm "Involvement in the Political Process" - Reviews court- released documents, mostly industry memos, that address specific industry political efforts to defeat or preempt enactment of laws and regulations. - http://www.oshd.org/tobacco/politics.cfm Top Recipients: Tobacco - Identifies top takers of tobacco cash among candidates for elected office. - http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.asp?Ind=A02 Tobacco: Long Term Contribution Trends - Summarizes trends of $42 million of tobacco cash spent on political campaigns for 10 years. Broken out by party, and soft/PAC money. - http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=A02 Politicians Getting Indirect Tobacco Money - Washington Post article shows how tobacco money streams into policians through stealth channels, such as Kraft foods for Philip Morris. - http://www.no-smoking.org/may98/05-08-98-5.html Big Tobacco and Astroturf - Tobacco industry documents show how the industry creates and uses fake grass-roots groups ("astroturf") to lobby. - http://www.centerjd.org/press/stories/tobacco.htm Buying Influence, Selling Death - Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids breaks down tobacco industry political spending by state, party, and soft versus hard money, and finds that Congress and political parties have taken more than $8 million in tobacco cash in the most recent e - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/contributions/ Philip Morris -- Checkbook Democracy - INFACT report on Philip Morris's lobbying against FDA regulation. - http://www.infact.org/hos.html#ANCHOR2 The Lack Of Corporate Accountability - Column by Molly Ivans reviews PAC and soft money, including tobacco money, spent in 1997. - http://www.texnews.com/opinion97/molly051897.html The Struggle centred on Brussels - Industry lobbying in Europe focusses its efforts in Brussels; Philip Morris is the strongest player, putting 40 lawyers into place to lobby 20 Commissioners, for example. - http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/Pages/Smoke2-49.html#HEADING49-0 Big Tobacco's Front Groups for Tort Reform - Tobacco industry documents show how the industry created and funded dozens of front groups. - http://www.centerjd.org/lib/cala.htm Philip Morris is Top Contributor to GOP - Tobacco giant Philip Morris was the number one source of campaign money to the Republican party in the 2001-2002 election cycle, a report finds. - http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/toporgs/appendix.asp U.S. House Votes on Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Show Influence of Tobacco Campaign Contributions - Analysis shows that House members who voted to protect the tobacco industry have taken over five times as much tobacco money as those voting to support the federal lawsuit. - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/doj/chart2a.shtml Tobacco Industry Funded Campaign Against Wyoming Smokefree Restaurants - The tobacco industry funded more than three-quarters of a campaign against a proposed Wyoming restaurant smoking ban. - http://www.billingsgazette.com/wyoming/20000604_y3tobac.html Top All-Time Givers To Congress: Philip Morris - Profile of Philip Morris, one of the top all-time givers of money to Congress, provides 12 year itemized totals, breakout by party and by year. - http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000067 Big Tobacco's Dollars Douse Push for Fire-Safe Cigarettes - LATimes article. - http://www.no-smoking.org/jan98/01-01-98-2.html California's Gov. Wilson Sabotaged Anti-Tobacco Effort, Groups Charge - Article in the Christian Science Monitor covers Wilson's efforts. - http://www.monitor.net/monitor/free2/wilsontobacco.html Tobacco Diplomacy - Tobacco industry contributions to U.S. political parties and figures were followed by U.S. pressure on other countries to drop their tobacco regulation. - http://infinity.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/bushsr.html#tobacco Molly Ivins on Tobacco Bill Death - Columnist Molly Ivans comments on the lobbying behind the death of the McCain tobacco bill. - http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98/n487/a03.html Pro-tobacco lobbying expenditures - 1992 data briefly examined. - http://www.ucsf.edu/campus/schmed/ihps/Lobby.html Tobacco Lobbying Outlays Soared in 1998 - Covers money spent and industry resoures invested, e.g. putting 192 lobbyists into Washington, about one for every three members of Congress" Names the major lobbying firms and lobbyists used. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/outlays103098.htm The People & The Power Game: Interview with Mike Pertschuk - Industry funding of other groups to lobby for tobacco or not to lobby against tobacco; stealth lobbying; money; front groups. - http://www.pbs.org/powergame/files/pertsch.html Tobacco Institute Lobbying report for 1989 - Internal tobacco industry document outlines its lobbying activities in 1989 such as pre-empting local smokefree laws. - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddproactive.html The Marlboro Hombres - Report on Costa Rica vacation enjoyed by two Colorado legislators, courtesy of Philip Morris. - http://www.westword.com/issues/1997-08-21/news4.html Pack Contributions: Tobacco lobbyists do a smokin' business with politicians - Recent reports identify Philip Morris as the single largest contributor to politicians. A report on Colorado politicians who've taken money, and what Big Tobacco has gotten in return. - http://www.westword.com/issues/1997-10-02/news2.html Victor Crawford on 60 Minutes - Interview with ex-tobacco industry lobbyist Victor Crawford, on how the industry influences Washington. - http://www.tobacco.org/News/95.04.05_Tob_News.html#aa33 Tobacco lobbying in the 1996 primary - How Philip Morris paid for presidential debates, and bought goodies for reporters at the party convention. - http://www.opensecrets.org/newsletter/ce36/ce1196p7.html Tobacco firms Dip Deep to Lobby Hard - A.P. reporting on industry lobbying. - http://204.27.188.70/daily/09-96/09-09-96/a01wn012.htm Undermining Popular Government: Tobacco Industry Political Expenditures in California, 1993-1994 - Documents how the tobacco industry influences law in California. - http://www.ucsf.edu/campus/schmed/ihps/tobacco.html Washingtonpost.com: Big Tobacco Filters Into Campaign Coffers - Many different ways an elected official can take tobacco money; this article summarizes. - http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/wa050898.htm Tobacco Hard & Soft Dollar Summary for the 105th Congress - From the Center for Responsive Politics: the scorecard on who among your elected representives took tobacco money. - http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/tob96/tobacco.htm Tobacco PAC money: how it works - Report from the Center for Responsibe Politics on tobacco money taken by Congress and voting records on bills affecting the tobacco industry. - http://www.crp.org/pubs/DIYkit/Smoking/preventive_teenage_smoking.htm Serious Money: The Top 100 Contributors - The number one contributor to political parties in 1995-96 was Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. This report lists all of the top 100 contributors. - http://www.crp.org/pubs/bigpicture/top/bp.top100.2.html Republican National Committees - The tobacco industry is a top giver of "soft money" to both political parties, but lately Republicans have been getting about 80% of tobacco money. - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/president/guide/charts/rnpc.html Warning: Philip Morris Wants Regulation - Independent analysis of Philip Morris's call for regulation finds ways Philip Morris's proposed regulation would protect the industry, not the customer. - http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0501-08.htm Texans for Public Justice Lobby Watch - Reports on lobbying in the state of Texas include reports on tobacco industry activity: "Rove a Mile for a Camel", "Second-Hand Smoke", "Death Merchants Hire More Accomplices", "Philip Morris' Newest Smokers", " - http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/lw.html George W. Bush: Calling for Philip Morris - Article in The Nation covers George W. Bush's tobacco connections, his record on tobacco. - http://www.no-smoking.org/oct99/10-22-99-3.html Tobacco Lobying in 1997 and 1998 - Shows amounts spent by each tobacco company, both lobbying and campaign cash, for all election cycles since 1990. - http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=A02 Center for Responsible Politics: Tobacco Tally - Shows House and Senate recipients of tobacco money for 1995-96 and 1997-98 by name; summary information from 1979 through 1998. - http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/tobaccotally.htm The Inhalers - "They may not smoke tobacco products, but some in Congress are addicted to the industry's money." Common Cause on tobacco money in Congress: how much, who gets it, and what it buys. - http://www.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/exhale.html CRP: Tobacco Tally - Center for Responsive Politics has "a snapshot of what Big Tobacco is contributing to Congress, and who's getting the money". - http://www.crp.org/pubs/tobaccotally.htm |
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