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Companies

http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/ The US tobacco company offers a page containing information on a number of issues including the components of tobacco, youth smoking prevention, advice on how to quit and cigarette marketing practices. Although some may feel that the tobacco companies say one thing and do another, the site provides some useful information to do with tobacco control.

http://www.dimon.com/ Dimon Incorporated

http://www.irrc.org/profile/tis/tishome.htm IRRC Tobacco Information Service gives profiles of tobacco companies around the world.

http://www.phillipmorris.com/ Phillip Morris

http://www.rjrt.com/ RJ Reynolds

http://www.jti.com/ Japan Tobacco Inc.

http://www.bw.com/ Brown and Williamson

http://www.imperial-tobacco.com/ Imperial Tobacco Group Plc.

http://www.gallagher-group.com/ Gallagher Group Plc.

http://www.bat.com/ British American Tobacco Company

http://www.st.dk/ Scandinavian Tobacco Company

http://www.cbi.org.uk/ Confederation of British Industry.

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Industry Documents

http://tobaccodocuments.org/ A site that makes over 4 million tobacco industry documents available online with the facilities to search them. Registration is not necessary but is free and is beneficial as it provides added options to help search the large volume of material.

http://www.tobaccoarchives.com/ TobaccoArchives.com is a website available to the public and litigants that provides access to millions of pages of tobacco company documents that have been produced in civil smoking and health litigation in the United States. The documents available include those from Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Brown & Williamson Document, Lorillard Tobacco Company, The Tobacco Institute and The Council for Tobacco Research.

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Legal Cases

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/101399tobacco-warning.html An article from the New York Times discussing the 1999 admission by the Philip Morris company that smoking is harmful. l

http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/ Tobacco Control Resource Center (Massachusetts) and The Tobacco Products Liability Project (TPLP). This site gives a wealth of information concerning legal issues in tobacco. The site is fairly well updated and also provides a number of useful links.

http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco "This site contains key litigation documents from the cases brought by the Attorneys General of 44 states and similar actions against the tobacco industry. There are also links to a large number of industry documents, including those in the Guilford depository. Information on other areas of tobacco including European policy to tobacco is also given. The documents provided on this site can be viewed as web pages or downloaded as PDF files.

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Smokers' rights groups

http://www.kidon.com/smoke The 'Smoking-causes' website, is a pro-smoking site that tries to undermine scientific evidence of the harmful effects of tobacco. Links to other pro-smoking and smokers' rights groups are provided.

http://www.forces.org/index.htm Forces International pro smoking site lays out a number of 'facts' about smoking and attempts to discredit the views of anti smoking activists by describing the flaws of various studies and the dangers of some cessation aids such as Zyban. An evidence archive that cites various studies is available. Although interesting the site is incredibly one sided.

http://www.smokersclub.com/newsltr.htm The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter online. The newsletters are available to download and gives loads of links to other sites that have information relevant to smokers' rights.

http://www.forrest-on-smoking.org.uk A group with the aim of 'defending' the rights of the smoker.

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Other Information

http://www.irrc.org/ The investor responsibility research canter runs a tobacco information service which aims to provide up-to-date, impartial information on the tobacco investment debate. This site would be useful for anyone interested in the economic side of the tobacco industry. To access this service the user must be a subscriber to the site.

http://www.endchildlabour.org/ The site of Eliminating child labour in tobacco. The objective of the ECLT Foundation is to contribute to the elimination of child labour in tobacco growing. Members of the foundation include most of the major tobacco companies. Some interesting information is given.

http://www.tobaccoleaf.org/ Tobacco leaf is the site of the International Tobacco Growers' Association. Containing some facts and figures about the production of tobacco with publications, news and press releases. Very interesting as it provides an insight into the views of tobacco growers around the world. This could perhaps be useful for those interested in the international economics of tobacco and perhaps also a more social aspect. Available in English and Spanish.

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