JULY/AUGUST 1998 · VOLUME 19· NUMBER 7&8

Articles by David Tannenbaum and Robert Weissman

I. Meet the Tobacco Papers:
Where They Come From, How to Find Them, What's Missing
**With a Citation Key for the Entire Issue**

II. Buying Votes, Buying Friends:
Tobacco Industry Political Influence
A. From Head to Toe: Big Tobacco's Political Stratagems
B. Tobacco's Astroturf
C. Unlikely Friends
Sidebar: Lobbying Plan: Defense Against Excise Increases

III. Big Tobacco and the Law
A. Tobacco and the Campaign for Tort Deform
B. Preemption Obsession
Sidebar: Smoking Guns I: Marketing to Kids
Sidebar: Smoking Guns II: Nicotine Manipulation

IV. Big Tobacco Goes Global
A. Assault on the Third World
B. Philip Morris in China
C. The USTR Connection

Behind the Lines

Editorial
The Power of Public Opinion

The Front
Expropriation Madness
Blue Cross/Blue Criminal

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Interview
What's Good for Tobacco is Bad for Public Health
An Interview with Stanton Glantz

Money & Politics

Names in the News

Resources