Web Directory

» A Brief Analysis of the Brown and Williamson Website: An Effort to Taint Juries? by Cliff Douglas
   An attorney takes a close look at the new web site and finds "a slick effort to make Brown and Williamson look responsible and caring and to inoculate it against liability and punitive damages."
   http://www.tobacco.org/News/9908douglasbwsite.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

» 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

» 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

» Council for Tobacco Research - Disinfopedia
   Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles.
   http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_Tobacco_Research

» Flack Attack
   PR Watch article on tobacco industry PR.
   http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/

» 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

» 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

» Lawyer Control of the Tobacco Industry's External Research: Brown and Williamson Documents
   Medical journal documents tobacco industry funding of research to generate good publicity for the industry, to deflect attention away from tobacco as a health danger, and to attempt, sometimes secretly, to influence policymakers.
   http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/3/241

» Masters of Manipulation: Tobacco-industry Tactics
   Examines tobacco industry tactics in detail, with focus on Canada.
   http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28826-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

» 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

» 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

» 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