Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach

By Ross Hammond




Resources




Articles and Books:

John Bloom, "International Interests in U.S. Tobacco Legislation," Health Science Analysis Project, (Washington, DC: Advocacy Institute,1998). http://scarcnet.org/hsap/international.htm

Ross Hammond and Robert Weissman, "International Tobacco Sales," U.S. Foreign Policy In Focus, Vol. 3, No. 17 (Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, 1998).

http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol3/v3n17tob.html

Philip Hilts, Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up, (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996).

David Holzman, "Tobacco Abroad: Infiltrating Foreign Markets," Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 105, no. 2, February 1997.

INFACT, Global Aggression: The Case for World Standards and Bold U.S. Action Challenging Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco, (Boston: INFACT, 1998).

Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred Year Cigarette War, the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, (New York: Vintage Books, 1997).

Anne Platt McGinn, "The Nicotine Cartel," World Watch , July/August 1997.

Multinational Monitor, July/August 1997. http://www.essential.org/monitor

U.S. General Accounting Office, Advertising and Promoting U.S. Cigarettes in Selected Asian Countries, (Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 1992.)

http://www.gwjapan.com/ftp/pub/policy/gao/1993/93-38.txt

Washington Post (excellent 1996 series on global tobacco issues): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/nov/18/series.htm

Magazines:

Multinational Monitor
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel. 202-387-8030
e-mail: monitor@essential.org


Journal of Tobacco Control
BMJ Publishing Group
PO Box 299
London WC1H 9TD
United Kingdom
http://www.bmjpg.com/data/tob.htm


Tobacco Reporter (trade journal)
3000 Highwoods Blvd., Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27604
tel. 919-872-5040
http://www.TobaccoReporter.com


Tobacco International (trade journal)
130 W. 42nd Street, Suite 2200
New York, NY 10036
tel. 212-391-2060


News Sources:

GlobaLink -- International Union Against Cancer (bulletins and electronic conferences on global tobacco issues): http://www.uicc.ch


International Tobacco List-serv:
Send the message "subscribe intl-tobacco <your name>" to <listproc@essential.org>


Smokescreen Action Network (action alerts and updates):
http://www.smokescreen.org


Tobacco BBS (newspaper and wire stories, plus more):
http://www.tobacco.org


Tobacco News Summaries
http://www.jointogether.org/Wire/NewsList.asp?SiteID=Quitnet
World Health Organization:
http://www.who.ch/programmes/psa/toh.htm


Country Specific Information:
World Health Organization Country Case Studies:
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/who/whofirst.htm


China

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong English language newspaper) http://www.scmp.com

Mexico:

El Financiero (news and analysis in English & Spanish)

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx

Mexico Update (weekly English e-mail bulletin on economic and political developments in Mexico)
Send the message "subscribe" in the subject line to:
<information-request@mixcoac.uia.mx>


Russia

Moscow Times
http://www.moscowtimes.ru


St. Petersburg Times
http://www.times.spb.ru


Senegal
MAT/Senegal Mouvement Anti-Tabac-Senegal (MAT)
http://www.polarisinc.com/MAT


South Africa
Business Day
http://www.bday.co.za


The Star
http://www.star.co.za


Vietnam
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Orgs.
http://www.aapcho.org


The Mekong Digest
http://www.mekongdigest.com


Industry Information:
Brown & Williamson
http://www.bw.com


Corporate Watch:
http:// www.corpwatch.org


Dimon Incorporated
http://www.dimon-inc.com


IRRC Tobacco Information Service (profiles of tobacco companies around the world)
http://www.irrc.org/profile/tis/tishome.htm


Jack Cannon's Tobacco Industry Information :
http://www.gate.net/~jcannon/tobacco.html
Philip Morris
http://www.philipmorris.com


RJ Reynolds
http://www.rjrt.com


Securities & Exchange Commission:
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar


U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service:
http://www.fas.usda.gov


Organizations:

Advocacy Institute
1707 L St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Voice: (202) 659-8575
Fax: (202) 659-8484
http://www.advocacy.org


Center for Communications, Health & the Environment
3333 K St. NW, Suite 110
Washington, DC 20007
Voice: (202) 965-5990
Fax: (202) 965-5996
http://www.igc.org/ceche


Essential Action
PO Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
Voice: (202) 387-8030
Fax: (202) 234-5176
http://www.essential.org/action


Hammond & Purcell Consulting
88 Norwich Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel/fax: 415-695-7492
e-mail: margross@igc.org


INFACT
256 Hanover Street
Boston, MA 02113
Voice: (617) 742-4583
Fax: (617) 367-0191
http://www.infact.org


National Center for Tobacco Free Kids
1707 L Street, NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Voice: (202) 296-5469
Fax: (202) 296-5427
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org


San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition
c/o SF Department of Public Health
1540 Market Street, Suite 250
San Francisco, CA 94102
Voice: (415) 554-9154
Fax: (415) 241-0484
http://www.globalink.org/gtm/SFTFC


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