Dirty Tricks by Tobacco Industry

Story about tabacco industy front groups.

"Public health professionals need to be aware that the "sound science" movement is not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients. "

The documents reviewed by Ong and Glantz unambiguously reveal that TASCC was established by Philip Morris explicitly for the purpose of undermining EPA efforts to regulate second-hand tobacco smoke. A European version of TASSC was also spawned, called the "European Science & Environment Forum" to head off development of regulations in Europe.


http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Industry/2001-11ongandglantz.htm