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SW: →Philip Morris Corporate Affairs Department: fixed ref
Corporate Affairs was in charge of coordinating with other tobacco companies to interfere in legislated efforts to enact smoking laws. It was also in charge of setting up phone banks and pressuring employees of PM and those of its food and drink subsidiaries, like Kraft and Miller Beer, to make calls to policymakers opposing smoking laws.[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wzq81f00]
On August 2, 1988, the ''Wall Street Journal'' had reported that Philip Morris spent $10,000 to bring 40 smokers to a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia to form an early smokers rights group called the American Smokers Alliance. The ''Journal'' reported that PM had paid the participants’ round trip air fare, hotel rooms and some meals, and that Guy L. Smith, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at PM, spoke at the meeting and hinted that the ASA might get more funding from PM if ASA got more members to join.<ref [''Philip Morris calls for national smokers group''. The Wall Street Journal 1988 Aug 2 /ref>]
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