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Tobacco Control 1999;8:132; doi:10.1136/tc.8.2.132
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Tob Control 1999;8:132 ( Summer )

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Corky, the satellite, and Fishbone Fred

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Philip Morris (PM) has been causing serious outbreaks of nausea in the United States, Australia, and other countries for many months now, by its new youth programmes about tobacco (see "The pied pipers of puffing" on pages 14-16 of the Spring issue of Tobacco Control). It clearly hopes that projects as inappropriate, most would surely say, as "The Mafia Drugwatch Alert", or "The Adolf Hitler Foundation for Racial Tolerance", will be embraced by greedy, lazy, or stupid, naive politicians. PM's presumed aim is to restore a reputation so unfortunately tarnished by the relentless revelations that the big tobacco companies have systematically lied, bribed, obstructed, and otherwise deceived the world in almost as many ways as the millions of their internal documents which serve as proof.

But now PM has a competitor: Brown and Williamson (B&W), American subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), has come up with a real corker. . . . [Full text of this article]
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