Tobacco News on the Web Archive, Sep. 1996
Tobacco News on the Web
Archive, Sep. 1996
9/29/96: UST Splits from Smokeless Tobacco Council Industry Rift over PM/UST youth-access proposal. Read the story at the Richmond Times-Dispatch tobacco page.
9/29/96: Philip Morris, Burson-Marsteller, State Affairs Co., and the non-profit "watchdog" group, "Contributions Watch" What's the connection? Washington Post has the sad, important story on Monday's Front Page.
And Don't Miss the new PR Watch WebSite, which along with CounterPunch was instrumental in bringing this to light. See their story!
9/25/96: "I'm not this evil demon out there that certain people talk about" Rebecca Reeve's latest 3-day symposium with tobacco farmers and health advocates is covered by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
9/20/96: THE List of Lobbyists from the National Law Journal. Also, See the story And here are some addresses/phone numbers
Stage Directors & Choreographers in Civil War over Major Award to Philip Morris
9/20/96 NY Times has the story online (look for the section, Where There's Smoke) or in hard copy on Page C2
Get $$ info on Cigarette Advertising in Magazines in this 9/2/96 article on what the FDA regulations would mean to the magazine industry. From Advertising Age
Tobacco's Surprising Toll on the South
Philip Morris Cover-up Documents Unearthed in Lawsuit Read the story in the very hometown of Philip Morris' Richmond Research and Development Center.
American Cancer Society Names Willie Brown "Humanitarian of the Year" -- the man "who has received more tobacco contributions than any other politician in U.S. history."
"Bizarre beyond words" -- Stanton Glantz
And here's an Editorial --with contact numbers--by Wayne Papy
WSJ reports on Marlboro's New Magazine for "Regular Guys" (This is the new URL of this story, as of 9/18/96)
NYTimes covers Gyro Worldwide, the Philadelphia-based, Gen-X ad agency that handles RJR's Red Kamel brand.
9/12/96 James Fort FOUND! And check out the remarkable Jamestown Rediscovery site.
Here's MSNBC's coverage of this historic event.
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch Philip Morris' home town paper now has a "Tobacco Team"--and a constantly updated central location of all their fine tobacco stories. Their latest is an examination of the T-D survey findings that Virginians overwhelmingly support FDA regulations.
Advanced Gravis Shareholders Reject Tobacco Tender Offer
9/6/96: The story continues: WORLD WIDE WEB: The shareholders have been threatened by Gravis legal counsel, Davis & Co. not to disclose the Gravis WWW site on the offer.
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