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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