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Welcome to TobaccoWiki, the online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet. The purpose of Tobaccowiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been learned about the industry through its documents.
Like Wikipedia, the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, Tobaccowiki is also a collaborative project. We need you to help us search through the tobacco industry documents now available online and enter information here about what you find. We welcome participation from everyone: students, journalists, smokers and non-smokers, food service workers, public health workers, tobacco control advocates, musicians, scientists, researchers and just plain curious folks. Everyone is invited to join in this project to facilitate access to information in the tobacco industry documents.
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Additives | Brainstorming documents | Brand information | Cigarette contaminants | Cigarette design | Consumer letters | Countermeasures against public health activities/programs| End-game strategies | Fire-safe cigarettes | Health claims/health reassurance | Hypotheses | In context of other drugs | Industry-related organizations | Tobacco industry responses to actions directed against it | Lawsuits | Legislation | Miscellaneous tobacco document information | Nicotine and nicotine addiction | People | PR strategies | Projects & operations | Promotions | Published papers about tobacco industry documents| Secondhand smoke workers compensation cases and deaths | Smokers | Smoking accessories and paraphernalia | Smoking initiation | Smoking in popular culture | Smuggling | Symbolism of smoking | Target marketing | Tobacco advertising | Tobacco industry information by country | Tobacco industry glossary and acronyms | Tobacco industry activity by state | Tort reform | Youth
- United States Department of Justice Final Findings of Fact in U.S. v Philip Morris et al. Final conclusions of the judge in the 1999-2006 federal trial in which tobacco companies were found guilty of conspiracy, racketeering and defrauding the public. (1,682 pages in PDF format!) For background on the case see The U.S. Government's racketeering case against Big Tobacco
- Bibliography of published tobacco document research articles List of all published journal articles that have studied, or that cite tobacco industry documents.
- British American Tobacco Documents Archive - Previously secret documents from the British American Tobacco Company, all searchable by keyword. (Contains approximately 7 million pages).
- UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos-Free, online archive of a wide range of videos produced for internal and external consumption by tobacco companies. Previously only available by traveling to the Minnesota Archive.
- UCSF Tobacco Industry Audio Recordings-Online archive of audio recordings produced by tobacco companies.
- Tobacco Documents Online-the first online database of tobacco industry documents to hit the Internet.
- Tobacco Videos-Roswell Park Cancer Institute's collection of tobacco videos, searchable by brand or keyword (find ads featuring pilots, dogs, cars, trains, doctors, etc.)
- Tobacco News- Gene Borio's incredible news archive.
- The Tobacco Timeline - A detailed history of tobacco, and efforts to minimize its damage to humanity, dating back to 6,000 B.C.
- Smoking statistics
- Images from the Campaign by the Tobacco Industry to Hide the Hazards of Smoking - Extensive Stanford University collection of advertisements from the 1920s - 1950s.
- UK Tobacco Industry Advertising Documents Database -Search, view and download over 650 documents from the United Kingdom tobacco industry's main advertising agencies ranging from 1994 to 1999.
- Searchable National SmokeFree Dining Guide- Add your favorite smoke free restaurant.
Tobacco Industry Projects & Operations
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The strategies, propaganda tactics and corporate behaviors employed by the tobacco industry can give insight into the behavior of other multinational industries and corporations. To that end,TobaccoWiki seeks to increase public understanding of tobacco industry strategies to deceive the public about the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke; delay regulation of cigarettes, influence regulation and standards in their favor;market their products more heavily in the third world, where there is less regulation; market to young people; form front groups, coalitions and fake "grassroots" groups to do the industry's bidding; leverage human emotional and psychological needs to make cigarette advertising more effective; target less-educated, low income and minority ethnic groups; alter the American judicial system to block lawsuits ("tort reform"); intimidate legislators, regulators, public health scientists and voluntary health organizations; draft and pass laws in their favor; preempt local efforts to limit indoor smoking; engineer cigarettes for addiction, and much, much more.
Like Wikipedia, the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, Tobaccowiki is also a collaborative project. We welcome participation from everyone: students young and old, journalists, smokers and non-smokers, food service workers, public health workers, tobacco control advocates, musicians, scientists, researchers and just plain curious folks."How They See Us"
This 15-minute video was made by the tobacco industry around 1988 to educate employees inside the industry on the "howl of outrage directed at the tobacco industry by an intense group of zealots." In discussing anti-tobacco advocates, the video says "We generally understand that fanciful, unscientific extrapolation is their substitute for rational, considered discourse," and that "they appear to resemble more an aboriginal shaman poring over chicken entrails than sober, thoughtful, seekers of truth."
The video examines "their specific quarrels with the tobacco industry," and says that "through the virtuosity of television technology," they are able to show clips of interviews with members of the tobacco control movement from around the world.
For additional videos, see the University of California, San Francisco Tobacco Industry Videos Collection which contains videotapes and DVDs related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.
This booklet, Smoke Without Fear, represents the kind of damaging information that appeared in the lay media during the mid-1950's, placed by the tobacco industry and its public relations firm Hill and Knowlton, shortly after the first medical reports emerged saying cigarette smoking caused cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. The author of this piece, Donald Cooley, worked with Hill and Knowlton (H&K) company to produce this 48 page, low-priced paperback booklet "published by the editors of True, the Man's Magazine" designed to be sold on newsstands in 1954.
A July 31, 1954 activity report from H&K states, "Considerable information and assistance was provided Donald G. Cooley in the preparation for his story in True magazine. This entailed conferences with the author to work on factual revisions."
Philip Morris quote from 1993
"Unless we continue to act forcefully against our opponents, the cigarette market will be fundamentally changed. Since PM-USA commands 37.9 percent of industry sales, nearly half of estimated industry profits and continues to grow, we have the most to lose from that change. Thus, we must continue to lead the fight against the anti-smoking movement and devote considerable resources to defeat or mitigate their initiatives..."
From a 1988 Philip Morris planning report titled "880000 - 920000 Five Year Plan Business Planning & Analysis 880300", Bates No. 2043774321/4463, 143 pages. This quote is at page 119.
Philip Morris Loses Final Appeal in Addiction Case
The Court's one-sentence ruling leaves intact an award that over the years has grown to more than $150 million with interest. If PM pays it in full, it will set a record in an individual smoker case. The Court's ruling comes after a dozen years of litigation between Philip Morris and Mrs. Williams.
Source: Greg Stohr, Bloomberg Altria Appeal of Smoker Award Dismissed by Top Court (Update2), March 31, 2009
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