Society, Issues, Health, Tobacco, Advocacy, Pro-Tobacco, Public Relations, Opposing Views
- Long article covers the creation and exposure of Contributions Watch, a front for Philip Morris.
- PRWatch exposes the $600,000 in Philip Morris money used to create "Guest Choice", and Berman's other connections to Big Tobacco.
- An attorney takes a close look at the new web site and finds "a slick effort to make B&W look responsible and caring and to inoculate it against liability and punitive damages."
- PR Watch article highlights use of front groups by Philip Morris and the tobacco industry.
- PR strategies used by the tobacco industry to get the World Health Organization to derail or weaken its tobacco campaign.
- Interview with John Stauber, a PR-industry watcher, has a short section on use of PR by the tobacco industry.
- Examines tobacco industry tactics in detail, with focus on Canada.
- Editorial in Contemporary Dance magazine explores Big Tobacco's involvement and sponsorship of the performing arts and dance in particular.
- Tobacco industry documents grouped on a timeline show inside thinking on PR.
- Research article in medical journal documents how the tobacco industry funded research to generate good publicity for the industry, to deflect attion away from tobacco as a health danger, and to attempt, sometimes secretly, to influence policymakers.
- PR watch article provides background and analysis of tobacco giant BAT's latest image campaign.
- Analysis of the industry argument that nicotine is not addictive. Extensive documentation on how industry PR misleads and confuses the public about the science, on a critical issue: addiction.
- PR Watch article examines whether KAB is a grassroots non-profit or a tobacco front group.
- Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles.
- PR Watch report on tobacco front described by the Wall Stree Journal as "the longest-running misinformation campaign in US business history"; covers personnel, history, funding, and provides a case study.
- PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics.
- Internal company records reveal a key tobacco industry player's sophisticated PR campaign.
- Article describes PR mechanisms and strategies used by the tobacco industry, including infliltrating campaign groups to weaken their impact.
- PR Watch article on tobacco industry PR.
- News article covers the development of the PR industry with the tobacco industry, and how and why tobacco uses PR today.
- Extended analysis of Brown and Williamson Tobacco's website, its purposes, PR, and messages.
- Short article on extent and nature of tobacco industry PR activities.
- Knight-Ridder article examines what tobacco industry documents show about industry PR and litigation.
- Memo from tobacco industry PR firm on how to sell and lobby for the industry's "proposed resolution".
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