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Socially Responsible Killers

by Sheldon Rampton [1] — May 15, 2003 - 10:00pm
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Our First Quarter 2003 issue of PR Watch [6] detailed the British American Tobacco company's effort to reposition itself as "socially responsible." Now the Center for Public Integrity has produced a detailed report, citing internal industry documents, showing how the tobacco industry is using "social responsibility" to "prevent the enactment of a tough worldwide treaty" regulating tobacco marketing.

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Source URL: http://dev.prwatch.org/spin/2003/05/1938/socially-responsible-killers

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[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/tobacco
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[6] http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q4/index.html
[7] http://www.publici.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=523&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0