Confidential Tobacco PR Memo
Memo from tobacco industry PR firm on how to sell and lobby for the industry's "proposed resolution".
http://www.citizen.org/Tobacco/prmemo.htm
How the Industry Argues That Nicotine Is Not Addictive
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.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/210
Death of a Watchdog
Long article covers the creation and exposure of Contributions Watch, a front for Philip Morris.
http://www.altpr.org/webonly/watchdog.html
Keep America Beautiful
PR Watch article examines whether KAB is a grassroots non-profit or a tobacco front group.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q3/kab.html
Art At Any Cost?
Editorial in Contemporary Dance magazine explores Big Tobacco's involvement and sponsorship of the performing arts and dance in particular.
http://www.article19.co.uk/comment-artatanycost.php
Tobacco's Secondhand Science of Smoke-Filled Rooms
PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/secondhand.html
Flack Attack
PR Watch article on tobacco industry PR.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/
WHO Faces Up to Its Tobacco Links
PR strategies used by the tobacco industry to get the World Health Organization to derail or weaken its tobacco campaign.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/314
Brown and Williamson's "Responsible" Web Site
Extended analysis of Brown and Williamson Tobacco's website, its purposes, PR, and messages.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/na-docs/aa990426.shtml
Timeline: Public Image
Tobacco industry documents grouped on a timeline show inside thinking on PR.
http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=32
Rick Berman and Tobacco Front Groups
PRWatch exposes the $600,000 in Philip Morris money used to create "Guest Choice", and Berman's other connections to Big Tobacco.
http://www.prwatch.org/improp/ddam.html
An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest
PR Watch article highlights use of front groups by Philip Morris and the tobacco industry.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q3/attack.html
Council for Tobacco Research
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.
http://www.prwatch.org/improp/ctr.html
Documents Reveal the Tobacco Industry's Spin Control
Knight-Ridder article examines what tobacco industry documents show about industry PR and litigation.
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/98/04/23/tobacco.2-1.html
BAT's Socially Responsible Smoke Screen
PR watch article provides background and analysis of tobacco giant BAT's latest image campaign.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q4/bat.html
Big Tobacco Feels the Heat
Article describes PR mechanisms and strategies used by the tobacco industry, including infliltrating campaign groups to weaken their impact.
http://www.hero.ac.uk/research/big_tobacco_feels_the_hea1416.cfm
Smoking'! How the Tobacco Industry Employs PR Scum
News article covers the development of the PR industry with the tobacco industry, and how and why tobacco uses PR today.
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-22-95/cover.htm
Council for Tobacco Research - Disinfopedia
Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_Tobacco_Research
The War on Truth
Interview with John Stauber, a PR-industry watcher, has a short section on use of PR by the tobacco industry.
http://www.lastwizards.com/pages/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14