American Lung Association of Colorado

Tobacco Industry Exposed

Anne Landman is a Colorado researcher and consultant who has spent thousands of hours on the Internet and in document depositories in Britain and the U.S., carefully sifting through the tobacco industry's secret papers.

Smoking document Landman's 2004 report, "Tobacco Industry Involvement in Colorado" has been one of our most popular downloads for more than three years straight. This 66-page document details how the tobacco industry spent millions of dollars to promote relationships with influential individuals and organizations in Colorado, as well as the industry's carefully calculated campaign stall or kill local smoke-free initiatives—even in small towns like Montrose and Telluride.

Currently, Landman publishes an e-mail newsletter that highlights a different tobacco industry document every day.

The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with the tobacco industry stipulated that tobacco companies must post millions of their formerly secret, internal corporate documents on the Internet. You can search through a database of these documents at www.tobaccodocuments.org.

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