The Activism Behind CVS’s Cigarette Announcement
CVS Drugstores announced this week that they are finally acting on information the rest of us have known for fifty years: […]
CVS Drugstores announced this week that they are finally acting on information the rest of us have known for fifty years: […]
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In this 1993 application for grant funding, Professor David M. Warburton of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom
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In September, 1985 ,R. J. Reynolds created a sales presentation about shoplifting called “Pilferage in Perspective,” to try and talk
In this 1991 outline, Karen Daragan, Administrator of Media Affairs for Philip Morris USA, describes PM’s secret “Ninja Program,” in which
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This 1993 Philip Morris marketing research report evaluates Marlboro advertising to find ways to make the imagery more appealing to young Saudi
This 1987 Brown & Williamson marketing memo recommends a theme for an advertising campaign to sell a new brand of
This tobacco industry document from the Philip Morris collection is a translation of a letter written by a German scientist named
A 1998 internal Philip Morris memo, written by John Scruggs of Philip Morris Management Corporation’s Federal Government Affairs (lobbying) Office,
In 1996, R.J. Reynolds noted that the smoking incidence among professional truck drivers was a whopping 76%, and sought to capitalize
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