Big Tobacco
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Big Tobacco is a pejorative term often applied to the tobacco industry in general, or more particularly to the "big three" tobacco corporations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The phrase is often used in TheTruth.com, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and other anti-smoking ad campaigns funded by the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The term usually refers to tobacco companies Philip Morris (Altria), Reynolds American (RJR) and Lorillard[1].
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One of the villains in the superhero movie Mystery Men, the cigar-chomping leader of a business-themed gang, uses the pseudonym "Big Tobacco". In the movie Thank You for Smoking, Aaron Eckhart plays a lobbyist for Big Tobacco. The tobacco industry is prominently featured in the 1999 film The Insider.
The ABC sitcom Boston Legal often uses the term Big Tobacco.
Big Tobacco is the pen name of an American soldier and milbloger.
A parody called "Big Ballet" is mentioned in the Simpsons episode Smoke on the Daughter.
[edit] See also
- Altria Group (Philip Morris)
- American Tobacco Company
- British American Tobacco
- Brown & Williamson
- Liggett Group
- Lorillard Tobacco Company
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
- Reynolds American Inc.
- Tobacco Institute
- Big Oil
- Big Chocolate
- Big Business
- Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
- Operation Berkshire
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- ^ Glantz, SA (August 2000). "The truth about big tobacco in its own words". British Medical Journal 321 (7257): 313–314. doi:. PMID 10926570. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/313.
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