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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: General |
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| | A militant newspaper ad sponsored by STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco) |
| | reads: "Meet five of America's richest drug pushers." It features mug shots of |
| | middle-aged white businessmen, three of whom head tobacco companies, and two |
| | publishing moguls whose magazines are widely read by teens and carry heavy |
| | quantities of cigarette advertising. They are Rupert Murdock, Larry Tisch, Michael |
| | Miles, Henry Kravis, and Si Newhouse. Three are billionaires, and none smokes. |
| | Washington Post magazine, February 20, 1994, p. 11 |
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| | "Henry Kravis, prime mover behind the RJR Nabisco buyout and a man desperately in |
| | need of profits from cigarette sales to pay off the debt from this record-breaking |
| | leveraged buyout, earns a special STAT Hypocrite Award. Not only does he target |
| | children for cigarette sales, but then he hypocritically attends a fund-raising dinner for |
| | and contributes to the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse." |
| | Tobacco Free Youth Reporter, Summer 1993 |
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| | In the early 1960's before the first Surgeon General's report on smoking, Brown and |
| | Williamson Tobacco Company researchers found that cigarettes caused lung cancer, |
| | contributed to heart disease, and might cause emphysema. The information in these |
| | internal documents remained suppressed until 1994, when "stolen" copies were |
| | released. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, May 7, 1994, p. A7 |
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| | An ad running in 400 newspapers in 1954 read: "The tobacco industry considers their |
| | customer's health paramount to every other consideration of our business." |
| | Primetime Live, ABC News, February 1993 |
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