Legacy Tobacco Documents Library - Digital library of internal tobacco industry documents from the files of top tobacco companies. Over 20 million pages, relating to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes. Searchable and indexed by the University of California at San Francisco.

Joe Camel Campaign - In the litigation Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection, R.J. Reynolds and its advertising agencies were ordered to produce several million pages of documents regarding the design and implementation of the Joe Camel Campaign. Some of the most important documents from that are now available here.

The Cigarette Papers - A "webumentary" documenting what the industry knew and when they knew it, in their own words, and what they did to hide their knowledge, and to get their customers to doubt the dangers of smoking.

Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach - "Big picture" presentation: money, power, addiction, sales, and how it plays out in different countries.

CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.

AS3 Archives: The Cigarette Company Mentality Collection - Archive of industry quotes, public and private.

CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95 - How the tobacco industry promotes spit tobacco, particularly to kids; how the industry organizes fake grass-roots groups to oppose smokefree public places; how the industry intimidated California TV stations from running a tough anti-smoking ad; and how the Weekly Reader, owned by the controlling shareholder of R.J. Reynolds, ran an industry PR piece on the "unfairness" of smokefree laws.

Exposé 'Journalist' Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco - "A tobacco public relations man, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" science, scientists, and scientific organizations for more than a third of a century. He spied on newsmen and newswomen, too."

Cig Lies Raise New Questions - Article on the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) argues it was a front group for Big Tobacco, used to generate doubt about the health effects of the product.

Tobacco Industry Secret Documents - Congressman Waxman's site lays out the evidence; what did the industry know, when did they know it.

CJR - Darts & Laurels, Jan/Feb 1993 - (Search for "Burning Issues"). In the 1970s "twenty-six bioscientists who were studying the link between smoking and disease were suddenly fired by R.J. Reynolds after company lawyers had collected their laboratory reports; the research was never made public and was never resumed". Meanwhile Reynolds, with the rest of the tobacco industry, continued to maintain that the link between smoking and disease was "not proven" and "more research was needed".

No Sale: 5. Legislative Recommendations - "Faced with the prospect that state laws may be strengthened, the tobacco industry initiated a campaign to avert effective reform by enacting its own weaker proposals, designed to give the false appearance of reform without effecting meaningful change."

Tobacco Industry Sponsorship in the United States - Public health report documents the nature and extent of tobacco industry sponsorship of events and organizations; 304 separate sponsorships identified during the period 1995-1999.

Tobacco industry undermines public health efforts worldwide - Documentation on tobacco industry PR, junk science, campaign contributions, lobbying, advertising and product promotion. Features story of how the U.S. Trade Representative, on behalf of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, helped force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to water down their tobacco restrictions.

Trust Us: We're the Tobacco Industry - Concise guide to the millions of pages of confidential tobacco industry documents released through litigation in the United States; reveals what was going on behind closed doors in the tobacco companies.

Cigarettes Killed The Marlboro Man - David McClean, who was the Marlboro Man for Philip Morris, died of lung cancer caused by smoking. The text of his widow's lawsuit against Philip Morris provides information on industry conduct over the years.

Australian Tobacco Industry Internal Documents - Australian researcher presents internal tobacco industry documents on: advertising, targeting children; confusing the public on smoking and health; funding scientists, doctors, and consultants; secondhand smoke; plain packaging and health warnings; corporate plans, industry meetings; and product manipulation.

Tobacco Documents Online: Timelines - Groups tobacco industry memos by date to show a timeline of industry action on intimidation, PR, product engineering, lobbying, buying silence, using front groups, marketing, influence of media and news, and much more.

CDC's Tobacco Industry Documents Web Resource - Organized set of (formerly secret) tobacco industry documents; some searchable, some displayable.

Inside Quotes from the Tobacco Industry - Brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Health.

Multinational Monitor: The Tobacco Papers - Formerly secret industry documents. "Buying votes, buying friends" tobacco industry political influence; Big Tobacco and the Law; Big Tobacco goes global; Smoking Guns I: Marketing to Kids; Smoking Guns II: Nicotine Manipulation.

American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Targeting of Youth, Minorities, and Woman - The "Joe Camel" advertising campaign, related promotional materials, and branding campaigns.

Committee on the Judiciary - Humphrey Statement - Statement by Minnesota Attorney General Humbert Humphrey III before the House Judiciary Committee on tobacco policy and the June 20th settlement. "All the tobacco industry asks you to do, Mr. Chairman, is to guarantee them decades of prosperity...Members of this Committee, you don't need Philip Morris' blessing to proceed."

Prying Open the Door to the Tobacco Industry's Secrets About Nicotine - AMA scientific article. Tobacco industry documents "reveal that for decades, the industry knew and internally acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive drug and cigarettes are the ultimate nicotine delivery device; that nicotine addiction can be perpetuated and even enhanced through cigarette design alterations and manipulations."

DayOne broadcast on tobacco industry. - Transcript of the DayOne show on nicotine manipulation by the tobacco industry.

Don't Be Fooled Again Report - "Welcome to a new era of cooperation" as B&W Tobacco put it on March 1998. A kinder, gentler, tobacco industry? This report from Public Citizen is skeptical.

Secrets of BAT Industries - "Inside the restricted laboratory compound on the south coast of England, five senior scientists for BAT Industries, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, were devising ways to make it harder for people to quit smoking..."

Pervasive Influence of the Tobacco Industry - Report from National Network for Health outlines economic, political, legal, and marketing power of the industry.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: The Tobacco Industry - Book chapter provides quotes and facts; all sources cited.

The Guildford Documents - Tobacco industry documents "show that the industry conducted extensive research into ways to enhance and fortify the nicotine in cigarettes and tried to cope with the shrinking market for the product by using sophisticated 'lifestyle' advertisements aimed at young people. It also introduced 'light' cigarettes to try to prevent health conscious smokers from quitting."

American Heart Association: Tobacco Industry's Economic and Political Influence - AHA shows how tobacco companies have used their economic power to wield considerable influence on the political process.

FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money - Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry.

FDA Report On Nicotine In Cigarettes - Features "Industry Statements on Nicotine's Drug Effects" and "Industry Manipulation and control of nicotine delivery".

Troubled Times for the Tobacco Industry? - Internal documents the tobacco industry kept secret for decades are coming to light in cases against them.

Dave Goerlitz, former Winston Man - Goerlitz was a lead model for Winston cigarettes during the 1980's. In 1988, he began a personal journey to try to undo the damage his ads have done in addicting young people to tobacco products. His message is: (1) the ads are lies, (2) tobacco use will not make you "cool" or a success as the ads promise.

JAMA: Public vs. Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Addiction, Light Brands - Nicotine and Addiction; Low Tar Cigarettes; Industry Research and PR. Compares what the tobacco industry said privately with what it told the public, the Congress, and its customers.

Tobacco Industry Exposed - Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents (letters, memos): what the industry knew and when they knew it on cancer, disease, death, secondhand smoke, nicotine and addiction. Section on documents related to New Mexico.

JAMA: Public vs Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Smoking and Disease - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. Succinct chart compares what the industry said in public with what it said in private.

JAMA: Public vs Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Cancer; causation; secondhand smoke. - Example: internal Brown and Williamson Tobacco document in 1986: "involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in health nonsmokers"; public statements by the industry at the same time: "environmental tobacco smoke has not been shown to cause lung cancer in nonsmokers".

McSpotlight on the Tobacco Industry - Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers.

Physician: Tobacco industry habitually spins research results - The tobacco industry systematically distorted research to confuse smokers about the product's dangers and prevent them from quitting. This according to John Holbrook, who has written the chapter on smoking in a widely used medical textbook.

PioneerPlanet: Minnesota tobacco litigation - The site details Minnesota's and Blue Cross/Blue Shield's lawsuit against the tobacco industry. Includes St. Paul Pioneer Press articles and links to other resources.

Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Industry News - Collection of stories published in the Washington Post.

Philip Morris: Death, Disease, and Duplicity - Rundown on tobacco giant Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. Features a section on its advertising abroad.

Smoke in the Eye - "The Insider" is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie.

Criminal Investigation Of The Tobacco Industry, Clifford E. Douglas - Douglas is the President of Tobacco Control Law & Policy Consulting. Speech given to the Northeastern University School Of Law.

Exporting addiction? - Article from the Charlotte Observer; industry activity in Japan and worldwide.

Tobacco Tactics Project - Project aims to organize tobacco industry tactics by subject; site provides preliminary map featuring industry PR, issue framing, lobbying, harassment, and intimidation.

Tobacco Industry Backgrounder - Tobacco Industry Under Siege, from Facts on File.

Review of R.J.R.'s Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. R.J.R. - The suit that brought the end of Joe Camel also produced some very interesting documents, formerly tobacco industry secrets, which reveal exactly how, why, and when R. J. Reynolds designed the Joe Camel campaign. Find out what kids are worth to the tobacco industry.

Tobacco Industry Information - Formerly secret tobacco industry documents expose the tactics and objectives of the tobacco industry and its collaborators. E.g. "I guarantee that I will use Brown & Williamson tobacco products in no less than five feature films, for a fee of $500,000.00. Sincerely, Sylvester Stallone, April 28, 1983"

Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On - How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.

Secret Tobacco Documents - from the Tobacco BBS, a great collection of links to (formerly) secret tobacco industry documents. What the industry says in private continues to be a highly revealing guide to how smoking spreads across the globe.

Manipulation: The Story of Imperial Tobacco and its Cigarettes - A history of Canadian tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco; incorporates information from recently released industry documents.

A Frank Statement - On January 4, 1954, in response to continuing scientific reports on the health effects of smoking, the tobacco industry published this ad in more than 400 newspapers. It was a seminal moment in the history of tobacco, and also of public relations.

Tobacco Dirt - Tobacco industry news, quotes, and documents.

Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked - About.com Guide. Documentation on how tobacco companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked.

Tobacco Industry Conduct: An Analysis of Selected Issues - K.H. Ginzel, MD, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, provides an analysis of industry promotion and marketing; public statements; nicotine manipulation; product engineering; fire-safe cigarettes.

Tobacco, A Vector Analysis - Medical bulletin. "The world's most widespread, serious infection is spread by its vector: the tobacco industry. Public health advocates must study the life patterns of the tobacco industry as they would any other disease vector."

Tobacco industry documents - Annotated links to online industry documents.

Statements of Former Philip Morris Employees - CourtTV provides statements of Ian Uydess, William Farone, and Jerome Rivers. Covers nicotine manipulation, nicotine impact boosting, and research conducted by Philip Morris on nicotine addiction.

Tobacco Industry Targetting of Children, Women, and Minorities - Syllabus and resources for course at The University of Dayton Law School.

Tobacco: Up in Smoke? News archive from The Richmond Times-Dispatch - Special coverage of the tobacco industry from the heart of tobacco industry country: Richmond, Virginia, headquarters of Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. Over 200 news articles written by Richmond Times-Dispatch staff writers.

The Y-1 Papers - Internal tobacco industry documents on nicotine manipulation. As an industry research leader put it, the tobacco company "should learn to look at itself as a drug company, rather than a tobacco company."

Tobacco Facts - From British Columbia, lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.

Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con - From Action on Smoking and Health in the UK. Covers emissions, smoker compensation, differences between expectations and reality for low tar cigarettes, and what the industry knew and how it behaved.

The Truth about Big Tobacco in Its Own Words - Editorial in the British Medical Journal urges opening of the Guildford depository of tobacco industry documents and explains what we've learned already from industry documents.

Philip Morris news from Moreover.com - Headlines and Links to Philip Morris news and press releases.

Tobacco industry paid scientists for letters - The tobacco industry paid 13 scientists more than $150,000 to writing letters and manuscripts attempting to discredit studies linking secondhand smoke to lung cancer.

Tobacco's Big Lie - Speech given by Jimmy Carter. "Like many public officials, I believed the tobacco industry could be persuaded to behave responsibly. Today I know better. I know that tobacco is a powerfully addictive substance that kills more Americans than alcohol,illegal drugs, car and airplane crashes, homicide, suicide, fires and AIDS combined. And I know that the tobacco industry cannot be trusted to protect our children."

Filtering Out the Bad News About Smoking - Cigarette companies have a history of trying to keep the facts about the dangers of smoking from the American public. Now, formerly secret industry documents offer a vivid example of Big Tobacco's manipulation of the truth.

Tobacco equals Death - Observations and comments on tobacco and tobacco marketing, in particular in Hong Kong.

The Hazards Of Tobacco Companies - Article from environmental newsletter; mostly on industry media campaigns on secondhand smoke; some information on industry litigation and PR.

Industry Executives Knew Nicotine Addictive - What the industry knew, and when it knew it, are the issues examined in this article.

Tobacco's Dirty Tricks - ANR information on tobacco industry strategies.

Frontline: inside the tobacco deal - Interview with Dr. David Kessler.

Tobacco Industry Pressured Insurance Cos. - "When insurance companies started offering reduced premiums to nonsmokers in the late 1970s, cigarette makers fought them, industry documents show." The story from Channel 4000, WCCO.

The Special Privileges of Tobacco - Tobacco industry use of lawyers to hide research.

Industry Activity around the World - Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.

tobaccopapers.org: Looking Past the Smokescreen - Tobacco industry documents relating to industry operations in Canada, in particular documents from BAT (British America Tobacco) and its subsidiaries obtained from BAT's document depository in Guildford, England.

Tobacco Industry Tactics - Tactics used by the tobacco industry to legitimize its activities, promote its product, defeat health measures, and protect its profits, such as: glamorizing tobacco products; targeting youth, minorities and women; reassuring concerned smokers; tobacco industry "prevention" ad campaigns; "Helping" the Community"; using power and politics; creating front groups; creating controversy; using the legal system to "hide" information; resistance to regulation.

GASP of Colorado: Tobacco Industry and Front Groups - Papers on Philip Morris's accommodation/pre-emption program; Philip Morris media plan for Colorado; RJR's field force; smoker's groups bankrolled by the tobacco industry.

Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence - Washington post article covers tobacco industry document shredding, attempts to discredit anti-smoking activists, and attempts to bribe health officials.

eye - The Cigarette Papers - New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, manipulated nicotine and more. Article from Eye magazine.

The Tobacco Industry's Use of Nicotine as a Drug - ACSH report by Clifford Douglas.

The Firesafe Cigarette: the other Tobacco War - History and analysis of fires caused by cigarettes; details on industry lobbying against requirements to make the product firesafe.

Lorillard counts on Shook, Hardy & Bacon to defend it from a cancer death lawsuit - Covers one of the major tobacco law firms.

Secret Tobacco Document Quotes - Tobacco industry internal memos provide an inside look at the industry's knowledge and views of nicotine, addiction, product design, and the customer.

Tobacco researcher funded by industry lawyers - Article from the Nando Times: tobacco industry lawyers paid over $7 million over 25 years to finance Gary Huber, a scientist who attempted to discredit research on the effects of secondhand smoke. Some of the money was hidden, kept off the books.

Memo to Commerce Committee on Tobacco Documents - Memo from John Dingell, ranking member, to Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee, on the subpeonaed tobacco documents. Provides overview of what the documents reveal about industry manipulation, lobbying, litigation, PR, and lawyer control of scientific research.

Multinational Monitor - January/February issue of the magazine focuses on the tobacco industry.

Lawyer Control of Internal Scientific Research and Products Liability Lawsuits: The Brown and Williamson Documents - JAMA article on industry use of lawyers to control industry science.

Tobacco Industry Witnesses on Whether Smoking Causes Lung Cancer - Tobacco industry witnesses who argued against restrictions on secondhand smoke were asked if firsthand smoke, smoking cigarettes, causes lung cancer. These are their answers.

Operation Berkshire - Article from British Medical Journal. Internal documents from the tobacco industry show that in 1977 seven of the world's major tobacco companies conspired to promote "controversy" over smoking and disease, in an exercise called Operation Berkshire.

Romania typical foreign target of tobacco firms - USA Today article on activities of U.S. tobacco industry in Romania.

The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.

Tobacco firms Sabotaged Passive Smoking Study - Covers a multimillion dollar campaign by the tobacco industry to blur the risks of passive smoking.

Tobacco Industry Exposed - Formerly secret internal industry memos used to explore conduct of the industry.

No Proof that Smoking Causes Disease, says Tobacco CEO - Geoffrey Bible, CEO of Philip Morris, steadfastly maintained that nobody can prove smoking causes disease.

bmj.com Philip Morris memo - Formerly secret memo describes Philip Morris's programs to influence the political and scientific process in Europe in the 1990s.

Tobacco Industry Misconduct - Factsheet documents industry misconduct, what the industry did and did not do.

Smoking Gun - What's the biggest tobacco stock you've never heard of? Try Wal-Mart. Forbes article explains.

The Secret Tobacco Industry Documents: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? - A look at industry control of medical research.

Big Tobacco Bounces Back - "Philip Morris et al. are recasting themselves as kinder, gentler companies concerned about their communities. Meanwhile, they're strong-arming the TV networks to block counter-ads which might persuade you otherwise."

USNews: New Tobacco Industry Papers - Industry memos document tobacco company lawyer control of industry research into smoking and health and efforts to conceal what they knew from that research.

Tobacco Explained: chronologies - ASH UK paper summarizes thousands of internal tobacco industry documents released through litigation and whistleblowers. Never before has this level of documentation been available on industry activities.

The Tobacco Industry in the UK - ASH-UK factsheet. Covers the major companies, market share, their promotional activities, related organizations.

Tobacco Company CEOs Declare Under Oath that Nicotine is Not Addictive - Transcript of the famous congressional hearings in which 7 tobacco CEOs declared that nicotine is not addictive.

Diary of Denial - An Australian history of tobacco industry denials about the health effects of smoking, addictiveness of nicotine and marketing of tobacco products to children.

Industry Spy Poses as A Science Writer - for 35 years [06/03/99] - A tobacco public relations man, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" science, scientists, and scientific organizations for more than a third of a century.

The Tobacco Industry and Me - Essay by a former smoker outlines industry promotion and deception; features cigarette ads used in her lifetime.

CBC News - Indepth: Smoking Up a Storm - Interviews with tobacco whisteblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, and a tobacco indsutry PR representative.

Where There's Smoke - Article on industry liability in court focuses on industry conduct in product design, marketing and promotion, and public relations.

Big Tobacco Bounces Back - Philip Morris et al. are recasting themselves as kinder, gentler companies concerned about their communities. Meanwhile, they're strong-arming the TV networks to block counter-ads which might persuade you otherwise.

Greg Louganis and Big Tobacco - From the Tobacco History Timeline, an example of how the industry uses its influence and buys silence.

"Operation Berkshire": the international tobacco companies' conspiracy - Tobacco industry documents reveal the establishment of a conspiracy between Philip Morris, R J Reynolds, British American Tobacco, Rothmans, Reemtsma, Gallaher and Imperial, starting in 1977, to promote controversy over smoking and disease and to reassure smokers.

Selling Death: Tobacco's Strategy for Survival - Article by Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan on how an industry that sells an inherently dangerous product survives in America in the health conscious 1990s.

Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists TheStreet.com: Warning: Tobacco Shares Best Suited to Industry Loyalists - Investment column. "If you're jazzed up about the recent strength, take a closer look. You'll see a business that's less than thoroughly compelling."

Evidence to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Inquiry into the Conduct of the Tobacco Industry - Report by ASH-UK and the Royal College of Nursing on tobacco industry conduct; draws heavily on internal industry documents; focus on industry duplicity, particularly regarding addiction and low tar cigarettes.

The Manufacturer of This Product May Have Engaged in Cover-Ups, Lies, and Concealment - Legal scholarship, extensively footnoted, provides examples of tobacco industry concealment.

Industry Secrets - Documents from the AG lawsuits regarding industry knowledge of health effects, marketing tactics, strategy to confuse the science, manipulating tobacco's addictive properties, fighting against clean indoor air standards, and political involvement in opposing prevention efforts.

Stash and Destroy - Tobacco lawyers schemed to hide damaging evidence from federal regulators, cancer victims, and the Congress since the 1960s, according to a confidential memo.

California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository - Once-secret tobacco industry documents provide insight into industry plans to weaken enforcement of and support for California's smoke-free workplaces; industry efforts to form a network of groups to advance the tobacco industry position thereby creating the sense of a grass roots movement, and industry efforts to undermine the California tobacco control program.

Law News Network -- Scathing Opinion in Smoking Case - Judge Munter says the evidence proves that Philip Morris waged a campaign to addict teen-agers and conspired to hide the health consequences of smoking from the public.

Our Good Friend, the Governor - Mother Jones article on tobacco industry influence on government in general, and Philip Morris influence specifically.

Shameful Science: Four Decades of the Tobacco Industry's Hidden Research - Analysis of internal tobacco industry memos reveals research it did on smoking and health, in particular in Germany.

Shameful Science: The Continuing Saga - Supplement covers Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds actions from 1992 to late 1998, plus some older documents that have come to light.

Tobacco Industry Pressured Insurance Companies - Story on tobacco industry pressure on insurance companies to drop nonsmoker rates.

Cigarette Secrets - Mother Jones article on funny things that pop up when you start sifting through thousands of pages of once-secret tobacco documents.

Former Surgeon General: Big Tobacco Attacked Efforts to Safeguard Public - The tobacco industry refused to cooperate with government efforts to reduce deaths and disease caused by smoking, the surgeon general under former President Jimmy Carter testified.

Concentration of Power - Section from report on the tobacco industry examines where power is concentrated in the tobacco industry.

Tobacco Buster: Interview With Michael Pertschuk - A leading figure in tobacco control discusses industry activity, lobbying, and use of economic power, and explains why tobacco is so weakly regulated in the U.S.

PR Watch: Why Philip Morris Hates Trial Lawyers - Short item on tobacco giant Philip Morris, how it litigates, how it lobbies.

Monitoring and Countering Tobacco Industry Influence - Seession from health conference addresses political and economic influence of the tobacco industry, its effects, and public health responses.

Lorillard Documents Show Company Knew Nicotine Was Addictive, Adjusted Levels - Short report on confidential Lorillard memos that reveal Lorillard knew its customers smoke because they were addicted to nicotine, and that high school students were the core of its customer base.

Philip Morris Tried to `Bury' Damaging Nicotine Research - News article; secret memos reveal that Philip Morris officials suggested that internal documents about research should be destroyed, and negative information should be kept secret.

Daily Doc: Philip Morris aggression - Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals started marketing Nicorette gum in the early 1980s. In response, Philip Morris ceased all of its humectant purchases from Dow, and let them know why.