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Six (6) new articles and publications have been written using the tobacco industry documents in July and August. Read up on changing corporate narratives, direct marketing strategies and ingredients disclosures to name a few.
Article Highlight:For many years, the tobacco industry has sought affiliation with major sporting events, including the Olympic Games, for marketing, advertising and promotion purposes. Since 1988, each Olympic Games has adopted a tobacco-free policy but according to the authors, continued efforts by the tobacco industry to be associated with Olympic ideals have led to a variety of indirect associations which have undermined the Olympic tobacco-free policy.
A few key strategy documents from the archive:
Eight (8) new papers/publications have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography - a growing list of resources written using the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
Campbell RB, Balbach ED. Cigarette Excise Taxes in Context: Cautionary Lessons from the U.S. Experience. International Journal of Health Services 2015 July 01;45(3):564-577.
This article reviews collaboration between progressive organizations in the United States and the tobacco industry in the 1980s and 1990s, documenting potential sources of unanticipated resistance to excise taxes and highlighting the tobacco industry’s capacity to engage in policy issues through third-party surrogates.
Key documents from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library:"To implement the excise tax strategy, the Tobacco Institute needed assistance from groups with credibility on tax policy that could promote opposition to cigarette excise taxes as an important issue for progressives."
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/zxbv0136
Tobacco Institute budgets included a payment to Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) of $10,000 in 1984 - The Tobacco Institute also provided funding for conferences and publications, public relations assistance, and other support for CTJ projects:
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/kqpv0085
In 1984, the TI established the Tobacco Industry Labor Management Committee (LMC), consisting of the Tobacco Institute and 4 additional trade unions besides the Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco: the International Association of Machinists, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers:
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/pmyw0101
The LMC became the principal vehicle for organizing the Tobacco Institute’s efforts to generate trade union and progressive opposition to cigarette excise tax increases.
"The Tobacco Institute, through the LMC, established relationships with additional progressive groups to expand its roster of excise tax allies. These groups complemented CTJ and lent additional weight to the Institute’s effort to establish a sense of robust and independent opposition to cigarette excise taxes. Key additions included the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN), the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and Citizen Action."
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/yqfc0002
"Citizen Action’s national office received $120,000 in 1992, with funding also continuing to state affiliates. Its work included preparing a briefing book, Single Payer National Health Insurance, which was distributed to “members of Congress, state legislators, the media, and other key opinion leaders."
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/tzdh0026
