* UCSF is home to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, an internationally recognized digital library of previously-secret internal tobacco industry documents.

During the first 42 years of tobacco litigation ( between 1954 and 1996 ) the industry maintained a clean record in litigation thanks to tactics described in a R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company internal memo as " the way we won these cases, to paraphrase Gen. Patton, is not by spending all of Reynolds ' money, but by making the other son of a bitch spend all of his.

* Tobacco industry

# REDIRECT Tobacco industry

Tobacco was a cash crop in Creedmoor and since the building of the railroad it made shipping the plant to nearby Oxford's Tobacco Research Facility and Durham's thriving smoking tobacco industry, with its companies like W. T. Blackwell and Company Tobacco Factory, American Tobacco Company, and Liggett & Meyers.

Brookneal has suffered an economic downturn due largely to the dissolution of the Virginia Tobacco Co-Op, which made tobacco warehouses defunct, and the late-20th century decline of the American textile industry, which resulted in the closing of the Dan River mill in Brookneal.

Known locally as " Tobacco City U. S. A .," because of the importance of tobacco growing in the region, Edgerton continues to be a center for the declining tobacco industry in the area.

The American Tobacco Company dominated the industry by acquiring the Lucky Strike Company and over 200 other rival firms.

The main result of the dissolution of American Tobacco Trust and the creation of these companies was an increase in advertising and promotion in the industry as a form of competition.

# Trade Investigations: comprises investigators who ensure industry compliance with the laws and regulations administered by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ( TTB ).

Big Tobacco is a pejorative term often applied to the tobacco industry in general, or more particularly to the " big three " tobacco corporations in the United States: Philip Morris ( Altria ), Reynolds American ( RJR ) and Lorillard.

Many survive to this day following restoration and changes of function: outstanding among them are the Stamatopoulos engine-works ( 1883 ), the Glavani-Kazazi factory ( 1896 ), the Papageorgiou textile workshop ( 1905 ), the Mortzoukou textile workshop ( 1908 ), the Adamopoulos cotton industry plant ( 1908, today a gymnasium ), the Papagianopoulos steel works ( 1909 ), the Volos Electricity Company Plant ( dating to 1911 and today the musical and theatrical centre of Volos ), the Tsalapatas brickworks factory ( 1925, today the National museum of Industrial Archeology ), the Etmektzoglou silkworks ( 1926, today the Silk Museum ), the Spirer Tobacco warehouse ( 1926 home of the Drury University Center ), the Styxnokarpos Factory ( 1929 ), the Papastratos Tobacco warehouse, and the Matsangos Tobacco warehouse, amongst many.

* Iranian Tobacco Company, established in 1928 to achieve improvement and progress in the global tobacco industry

In response to the World Bank's CTE, the industry made a number of attempts to discredit the report, especially through the public relations efforts of the International Tobacco Growers ' Association ( ITGA ) and by employing non-World Bank economists to release their own analyses.

* Tobacco industry

; Tobacco industry

Commercial sales became important in the late 19th century as major tobacco companies rose in the South, becoming one of the largest employers in cities like Winston-Salem, NC, Durham, NC and Richmond, VA. Southerners dominated the tobacco industry in the United States ; even a concern as large as the Helm Tobacco Company, headquartered in New Jersey, was headed by former Confederate officer George Washington Helme.

Tobacco was another major industry as Chinese business establishments focused on producing cheap cigarettes and cigars for Filipino populace.

In many of its WNTD themes and related publicity-materials, the WHO emphasizes the idea of “ truth .” Theme titles such as “ Tobacco kills, don ’ t be duped ” ( 2000 ) and “ Tobacco: deadly in any form or disguise ” ( 2006 ) indicate a WHO belief that individuals may be misled or confused about the true nature of tobacco ; the rationale for the 2000 and 2008 WNTD themes identify the marketing strategies and “ illusions ” created by the tobacco industry as a primary source of this confusion.

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library ( LTDL ) contains more than 11 million documents created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.

The visitor can also find books on tobacco, publications of the Greek Organisation of Tobacco, archives of the Commercial Tobacco Association, private documents, tobacco maps and drawings, furniture etc.

Internal documents produced to the court in Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, San Francisco Superior Court No. 959516, demonstrated the industry's interest in targeting children as future smokers.

Thousands of pages of the B & W documents were donated unsolicited to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives in 1994.

As part of the 1998 Tobacco Settlement Agreement, the Philip Morris corporation released millions of pages of documents concerning their operations.

However, with the release of confidential tobacco industry documents as part of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, the objectivity of Milloy's stance on secondhand smoke has been questioned.

* Tobacco Documents Online Tobacco-related documents that mention Little.

The credibility of Milloy's website junkscience. com was questioned by Paul D. Thacker, a writer for The New Republic, in the wake of evidence that Milloy had received funding from Philip Morris, RJR Tobacco, and Exxon Mobil.

Following extensive merger and acquisition activity in the 1990s and 2000s, international markets are dominated by five firms, in alphabetical order: Altria, British American Tobacco ( represented in the U. S. market by a 42 % stake in Reynolds American, Inc .), Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris International.

As of 2007, British American Tobacco, Reynolds American, Imperial Tobacco and Philip Morris are lobbying the European Union to lift a ban on smokeless alternatives to cigarettes.

Altria Group, Inc. ( previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc .) is based in Henrico County, Virginia, and is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc., U. S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, Inc., Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and Chateau Ste.

It is the world ’ s second-largest quoted tobacco company by sales, with 13 per cent global market share, and is one of four companies that constitute Big Tobacco, alongside Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco.

Local brands owned by British American Tobacco include: Benson & Hedges ( Bangladesh ), Belmont ( Colombia, Chile and Venezuela ), Jockey Club ( Argentina ), Stradbroke ( Australia ), Hollywood ( Brazil ), du Maurier ( Canada ), Prince ( Denmark ), North State ( Finland ), HB ( Germany ), Sopianae ( Hungary ), Wills ( India ), Ardath, Bentoel, and Country ( Indonesia ), Carrolls, Carrolls Kings, Grand Parade, Black Allen ( Germany ), Sweet Afton, Major ( Ireland ), Boots, Alas ( Mexico ), Gold Leaf ( Bangladesh, Pakistan ), Jan III Sobieski ( Poland ), Yava Gold ( Russia ), Courtleigh ( South Africa ), Benson & Hedges, Dunhill, Kent, Pall Mall, Perilly's, Peter Stuyvesant, and Rothmans ( Malaysia ), Parisienne ( Switzerland ), Maltepe ( Turkey ) and Xon ( Uzbekistan ), Marlboro ( with Philip Morris International ) ( Bangladesh ) Craven A ( Vietnam and Jamaica ) as well as BAT snus, Holiday, Freedom and Park Drive ( New Zealand ) Royals ( UK ), Embassy ( Kenya ), Viceroy, Newport, Lucky Strike in Dominican Republic and Delta in El Salvador.

Philip Morris sold the Canadian rights to the " Marlboro " name to Imperial Tobacco Canada in 1932.

Imperial Tobacco continues to sell a line of cigarettes under the Marlboro name in Canada, albeit with very different packaging from that of the Philip Morris product.

* Benson & Hedges ( with Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, and Gallaher Group )

It is the world ’ s fourth-largest cigarette company measured by market share ( after Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco ), and the world's largest producer of cigars, fine-cut tobacco and tobacco papers.

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, and U. S. Smokeless Tobacco Company now produce similar products called Camel Snus, Marlboro Snus, and Skoal Snus, respectively.

Some ( such as British American Tobacco and Philip Morris ) acknowledge the medical consensus that second-hand smoke carries health risks, while others continue to assert that the evidence is inconclusive.

* Philip Morris USA Document Archive, made public as a result of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

Founded in 1890 by Morris Shorin, the American Leaf Tobacco Co. imported tobacco to the United States and sold it to other tobacco companies.

They pursued city officials and tobacco executives who bought tobacco from farmers who were not members of the Dark Tobacco District Planters ' Protective Association.

Jeffrey Wigand was motivated by conscience to expose the Big Tobacco scandal, revealing that executives of the companies knew that cigarettes were addictive and approved the addition of carcinogenic ingredients to the cigarettes.

Soon after this incident, the seven executives of " Big Tobacco " testified during congressional hearings that they believed " nicotine is not addictive ".

For example, a memo made publicly available through www. tobaccoarchives. com was sent out to executives of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in preparation for the third annual World No Tobacco Day, which had the theme of “ Childhood and Youth Without Tobacco .” The memo includes a warning about the upcoming day, a document that explains the arguments they anticipate the WHO making, and an explanation of how the company should respond to these claims.

The aim of the new campaign was to put pressure on Big Tobacco executives to change its abusive procurement system.