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Marlboro Classics Brand Communication Brief
A Philip Morris briefing report from January 1992 describing the creation and implementation of the Marlboro Classics clothing and stores, as an effective way to increase brand recognition among "urban, whilte collar males aged 24-35" and "students, young adult males under 25." The Campaign's Ad Gallery has images of the Marlboro Classics stores in the Slovak Republic , the Czech Republic, and England.

Tobacco Advertising & Promotion: The Need for a Coordinated, Global Response -- useful overview of global advertising issues from a January 2000 WHO conference

Tobacco advertising expenditures in the United States as reported to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission

"You're Going Too Far Baby": Village Voice piece on targeting of women

"Fatal Deception: The Tobacco Industry's 'New' Global Standards for Tobacco Marketing" (Spanish)
An expose of the tobacco industry's recently released global voluntary advertising code

Canadian Cancer Society, "Controlling the Tobacco Epidemic: Selected Evidence in Support of Banning All Tobacco Advertising and Promotion, and Requiring Large, Picture-Based Health Warnings on Tobacco Packages"

Advertising Galleries:

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Advertising Collections (USA)

Health 21 Hungarian Foundation (Hungary)

Chickenhead.com Truth in Advertising - Tobacco Ads from the 40s and 50s (USA)

Agriculture Issues:

Hooked on Tobacco -- a fascinating report on the impact of pesticide use on farmers' health in Brazil and the ways in which BAT controls the livelihoods of small-scale contract farmers.

Tobacco Briefing Room -- excellent source of data on global tobacco production and consumption from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

UN Food and Agriculture Organization's data collections

Web site of the Southern Tobacco Communities Project which brings together tobacco producers and public health groups

Core principles agreed to by major U.S. public health groups and tobacco producers

Tobacco, Farmers and Pesticides -- a good overview on tobacco and pesticide issues from the Pesticide Action Network

How Tobacco Farming Contributes to Tropical Deforestation - 1997 paper from Dr. Helmut Geist

Cessation/Tobacco Dependence

Treatobacco.net: A source of evidence-based data and practical support for the treatment of tobacco dependence. It is aimed at physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, psychologists, researchers, policy makers, regulators and anyone interested in the personal and public health issues connected with tobacco use around the world. The site is available in English, Spanish, and French.

WHO Europe and the European Partnership to Reduce Tobacco Dependence have released Evidence-Based Recommendations on the Treatment of Tobacco Dependence (pdf).

Cigarette Smuggling

Links to internal tobacco industry documents and other evidence of British American Tobacco's involvement in tobacco smuggling

Altadis

British American Tobacco (BAT)

BAT Russia

BAT Hungary

BAT Finland

Chiletabacos (BAT Chile)

Souza Cruz (BAT Brazil)

BAT Australasia

BAT Germany

Imperial Tobacco Canada

Japan Tobacco

What Big Tobacco's up to Around the World, Essential Action's compilation of outrageous industry activity across the globe.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's searchable database of publicly traded companies

Country Information

Student Health Action Network of India

Tobacco Free Asia: An excellent super-site sponsored by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance and ASH Thailand

Public Support for International Efforts to Control Tobacco: A Survey in Five Countries. Poll results from Argentina, India, Japan, Nigeria and Russia showing strong support for the FCTC process.

Tobacco Free Asia contains country profiles, tobacco control measures, information on industry activities, and news from the region.

Global Youth Tobacco Survey information (pdf)

Tobacco Control Country Profiles (2000)

Economics of Tobacco Control

International Trade Agreements and their impact on Public Measures to Reduce Tobacco Use: Prepared by Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada in collaboration with the Western Pacific Regional office of the World Health Organization and the Commonwealth Medical Association.

The World Bank Group's perspective: the economics of tobacco control

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

WHO's site on the Framework Convention, with links to official documents, background information and more

Framework Convention Alliance: a global coalition of NGOs working for a strong Framework Convention

FCTCnow

PARTNERS Call on Administration to Support Adoption of the Tobacco Treaty

Tobacco Litigation: The Australian Experience in a Global Context - This paper sets out the experience with tobacco litigation in Australia, including a proposal for a National Tobacco Compensation Tribunal, and sets it in a global context, including the potential scope for using existing and proposed international treaties and agencies in tobacco control efforts.

The Prospects for Globalizing Tobacco Litigation - a good overview of litigation around the world from a January 2000 WHO conference

Tobacco Products Liability Project

Miscellaneous Reports & Web Sites

International Labor Organization study on the global tobacco industry

Tobacco, Free Trade, and Globalization

Tobacco on Trial, a comprehensive site on global tobacco issues from the BBC.

Big Tobacco Rides East - Philip Morris in Vietnam. Mother Jones magazine, Jan/Feb 1999

Cambodia - Smoking Monks - National Public Radio story on a Cambodian physician working on smoking cessation with Buddhist monks. Features a photo gallery.

Women and Tobacco: Challenges for the 21st Century - A WHO monograph (PDF version only)

Washington Post Series on global tobacco issues

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline -- new guidelines on cessation from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Guidelines for Controlling and Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic - 1998 report from the World Health Organization

Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach - good overview of international tobacco issues

Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use - 1998 report from the Institute of Medicine

Simon Chapman's Tobacco Control Supersite

Speech by WHO Director-General Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, 18 March 1999

Tobacco BBS -- summaries and links to tobacco-related stories, updated daily. An invaluable source of news and analysis

Journal of Tobacco Control -- premier global tobacco journal

International Tobacco List-Serv -- daily news stories from around the world.

Tobacco Reporter - one of the better industry-friendly publications

Tobacco Asia - industry publication covering business developments in Asia

Organizations

Australia
ASH Australia
Australian Council on Smoking and Health

Bangladesh
Work for a Better Bangladesh
Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance

Canada
Canadian Cancer Society

Physicians for a Smoke Free Canada

China
Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health

Hungary
Health 21 Hungarian Foundation

Italy
Progeto Salute

Malaysia
Coalition for a Tobacco Free Malaysia

Romania
Fresh Air Romania

Thailand
Action on Smoking and Health

United Kingdom
Action on Smoking and Health
Action on Smoking or Health - international information

International and Regional Networks

Canadian Council for Tobacco Control: The CCTC is a national non-profit organization specializing in tobacco and health issues.

GLOBALink

International Network of Women Against Tobacco

International Non-Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco (INGCAT)

International Union Against Cancer

World Federation of Public Health Associations

Product Regulation

Tobacco Additives: Cigarette Engineering & Addiction - excellent 1999 discussion of how the industry purposely enhances the addictive of cigarettes from ASH-UK and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Why Low Tar Cigarettes Don't Work and How the Tobacco Industry Has Fooled the Smoking Public - 1999 paper from ASH-UK

Secondhand Smoke

Smoke Free Environments Law Project: Information and advice to protect employees and the public and related legal issues.

1999 report from the WHO Consultation on ETS and Child Health

Secret Industry Documents

Guide on how to search tobacco industry documents

Searchable Sites

U.S. Centers for Disease Control links page to all of the major document sites

British American Tobacco (BAT) documents (see also CDC's links to Guildford documents)

Compilations of quotes from industry documents from ASH-UK

Original Documents

Draft 1996 Philip Morris global plan to prevent further passage of clean air ordinances

U.S. Policy

Federal Leadership on Global Tobacco Control and Prevention -- President Clinton's Executive Order 13193 of January 18, 2001.

Guidelines for U.S. diplomatic posts abroad on how to handle tobacco issues

U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services Donna Shalala's address before the International Policy Conference on Children & Tobacco, March 1999

Cigarette Smoking in Pacific Rim Countries: The Impact of U.S. Trade Policy - 1996 working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research