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==Contact information==
<references /> ==Internal PM documents ==Information on how Philip Morris used disinformation is available from [http://www.pmdocs.com/ pmdocs.com], a webized collection of documents recovered during lawsuits against them. {{reflist|2}}
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*purposely [[Tobacco industry marketing aimed at youth|marketed to young people under 21]] to recruit "replacement smokers" and preserve the industry's financial future;
*publicly denied, while internally acknowledging, that [[Secondhand smoke|secondhand tobacco smoke]] is harmful to nonsmokers, and
*destroyed documents relevant to litigation[http://www.tobaccolawcenter.org/documents/FinalOpinion.pdf]
===Racketeering conviction upheld on appeal===
=== Covance Laboratories & Altria Group ===
Altria is a client of [[Covance Laboratories]]. <ref>[http://www.altria.com/Proxy/Proxy2007/2007proxy_11_0500.aspx Proposal 5 — Animal Welfare Policy], Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Altria Group, April 2007</ref> Covance is an international contract research organization (CRO) and laboratory animal breeding company. Firms hire CROs to conduct animal toxicity tests for agrochemicals, petrochemicals, household products, pharmaceutical drugs and toxins. Covance is the largest importer of primates in the United States and the world's largest breeder of laboratory dogs. Under its former name of [[Hazleton Laboratories]], Covance provided animal data favorable to the tobacco industry and contributed to the continued marketing of cigarettes. In the 1990s, Covance performed studies sponsored by the tobacco industry claiming that even extreme exposure to secondhand smoke was safe for humans. Covance internal documents from 2002 discuss a Philip Morris/Covance Project Team for studies. At a November 2005 tobacco trade-group conference in Manila, Philippines, Covance's presentation was entitled: '''How Can Covance Support Research and Development Needs of the Tobacco Industry?''' <ref>John J. Pippin, M.D. [[Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine]] [http://www.pcrm.org/news/082606.html Covance Gets an 'F' in Social Responsibility Test], Chandler Republic', August 2006</ref> Covance has amassed a history of gross animal welfare violations in the United States and Europe. See also [[Covance Laboratories]], sections 3, 4 & 5.
===Quotable===
==Political contributions==
The Altria [[political action committee]] (PAC) gave $986,500 to federal candidates in the 05/06 election cycle - 34% to Democrats, 66% to [[Republican Party (USA)|Republicans]].
<ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.asp?strID=C00089136 2006 PAC Summary Data], ''Open Secrets.''</ref>
==Lobbying==
The company spent $12,870,000 for [[lobbying]] in 2006. $4,010,000 of this total went to 24 outside [[lobbying firms]], some of which included [[Lesher & Russell]], [[Winston & Strawn]], and [[Arnold & Porter]].
<ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/clientsum.asp?txtname=Altria+Group&year=2006 Altria Group lobbying expenses], ''Open Secrets'', accessed September 2007.</ref>
In the same report, PM describes its vigorous fight against the Gulf Council Health Ministry's attempts to require bigger warning labels on cigarettes, as well as a proposal to restrict the nicotine content of cigarettes. The report also documents a huge increase in cigarette exports from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia by PM alone between 1975 and 1985. PM says that in 1975, the company exported three-quarters of one billion cigarettes to Saudi Arabia. By 1985 that number had jumped to fifteen billion "units" (cigarettes). <ref>Philip Morris [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pqe42e00 860000 ICS Presentation Williamsburg Saudi Arabia] Presentation/report. October 22, 1986. 10 pp. Bates No. 2500089972/9981</ref>
==PM Projects and Operations==
*[[Guest Choice Network]], now the [[Center for Consumer Freedom]]
* Philip Morris' [[Ninja Program]] (Recruiting "average joe" media spokespersons)
* Philip Morris' [[Operation Downunder]] (Strategy for dealing with secondhand smoke issue)
* Philip Morris'[[Accommodation Program]] (to compel the creation of smoking areas in public places)
* Philip Morris'[[Project Sunrise]] (Subverting tobacco control)
* Philip Morris'[[Project Rainbow]] (Bargaining strategy with government if faced with potentially stricter regulations)
* Philip Morris'[[Archetype Project]] (How to market to youth)
* [[Project Brass]] (Secondhand smoke strategy project)
* [[Places Program]] (Secondhand smoke strategy project)
* [[Philip Morris External Research Program]]
* Philip Morris' [[Whitecoat Project]] (Recruiting scientific consultants to spin secondhand smoke issues)
* Philip Morris' [[Latin Project]] (Scientific consultants program in Latin America)
* [[The Asian environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) consultants programme]]
==Personnel==
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===Other executives:===
*[[David Greenberg]], Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
===Former executives:===
*[[Craig L. Fuller]] was named Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs at Philip Morris Companies in 1992.
*[[Ellen Merlo]], Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs. Merlo oversaw programs such as the [[Accommodation Program]], [[Tort reform]] efforts, a program to enact preemptive legislation in all 50 U.S. States(PM-drafted legislation to eliminate the ability of voters to enact smoking bans at municipal and county levels)
*[[Michael A. Miles]], President and CEO
==PM Projects and OperationsContact information==*[[Guest Choice Network]], now the [[Center for Consumer Freedom]]* Philip Morris' [[Ninja Program]] (Recruiting "average joe" media spokespersons)* Philip Morris' [[Operation Downunder]] (Strategy for dealing with secondhand smoke issue)* Philip Morris'[[Accommodation Program]] (to compel the creation of smoking areas in public places)* Philip Morris'[[Project Sunrise]] (Subverting tobacco control)* Philip Morris'[[Project Rainbow]] (Bargaining strategy with government if faced with potentially stricter regulations)* Philip Morris'[[Archetype Project]] (How to market to youth)* [[Project Brass]] (Secondhand smoke strategy project)* [[Places Program]] (Secondhand smoke strategy project)* [[Philip Morris External Research Program]]* Philip Morris' [[Whitecoat Project]] (Recruiting scientific consultants to spin secondhand smoke issues)* Philip Morris' [[Latin Project]] (Scientific consultants program in Latin America)* [[The Asian environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) consultants programme]]
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===References===
===Internal PM documents ===* Information on how Philip Morris used disinformation is available from [http://www.pmdocs.com/ pmdocs.com], a webized collection of documents recovered during lawsuits against them. * [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/index.html Legacy Tobacco Documents Library], a user-friendly "meta site" from which users can search all the major tobacco industry document databases.
=== External links articles ===
*Patricia Reaney, "[http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=619519§ion=news Philip Morris hid passive smoke data]", ''Reuters'', November 11, 2004.
*Andrew Burrell, "[http://afr.com/premium/articles/2005/03/22/1111254018383.html Philip Morris deal sets investment scene alight]", ''Australian Financial Review'', March 23, 2005.
