Chapter 29 The tobacco Industry

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The tobacco Industry: General

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"The irony is that while the tobacco industry spouts 'local control' rhetoric, it is cynically

using front groups and statewide pre-emption laws to snuff out genuine grassroots

initiatives to control smoking...In all, 28 states have now passed pre-emption laws."

Mother Jones, May-June 1996, p. 55

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"We would accept money from the Mafia if they offered it."

Statement from the manager of the Ailey dance troupe, commenting on accepting

money from Philip Morris (Ashes to Ashes, p. 621)

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The Council for Tobacco Research, formerly TIRC, or Tobacco Industry Research

Committee, was formed by the industry ostensibly for research, but more than 50% of

its budget was devoted to public relations.

Smokescreen, p. 15

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The tobacco industry "disinformation machine" was created in 1953, and it might be

the largest and most expensive public - issue campaign ever, expending over a billion

dollars so far. The campaign began with 38 public relations experts, and the industry

found scientists who said that cigarettes probably did not cause cancer. An example

of a prominent scientist was Dr. Clarence Cook Little, a founder of the National

Cancer Institute and former head of the organization that became the American

Cancer Society. He believed in genetic susceptibility to cancer and discounted

environmental influences such as tobacco smoke. "And so, he was hired on as the

first chief of the Scientific Advisory Board of the newly-formed Tobacco Industry

Research Committee."

Smokescreen, pp. 8-9

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