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: PR WatchAn Open-ended Attack on the Public Interest
By CMD
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Over the past half century the tobacco industry, led by Philip Morris, has used front groups like the Tobacco Industry Research Committee and the National Smokers Alliance (a SAC client) to protect its $100 billion a year in gross profits.
Philip Morris is currently a major force and financier behind "tort reform"--the big business campaign to radically reduce the damages that companies must pay for the deaths, pain and suffering caused by their products.
Tobacco, an addictive drug, kills millions world-wide every year.
Full post as published by PR Watch on October 30, 2004 (boomark / email).
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