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• BAT's Socially Responsible Smoke Screen - PR watch article provides background and analysis of tobacco giant BAT's latest image campaign.
• 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."
• Brown and Williamson's "Responsible" Web Site - Extended analysis of Brown and Williamson Tobacco's website, its purposes, PR, and messages.
• Council for Tobacco Research - Disinfopedia - Extensive article covering one of the tobacco industry's longest running PR vehicles.
• Flack Attack - PR Watch article on tobacco industry PR.
• 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.
• Keep America Beautiful - PR Watch article examines whether KAB is a grassroots non-profit or a tobacco front group.
• 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.
• Masters of Manipulation: Tobacco-industry Tactics - Examines tobacco industry tactics in detail, with focus on Canada.
• An Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest - PR Watch article highlights use of front groups by Philip Morris and the tobacco industry.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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. (November 22, 1995)