Organizations: FOREST
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Description: Covers tobacco industry origins and purposes of FOREST.
Tobacco Documents | Profiles | Organizations | FOREST (European smokers' rights group) Started in 1979 with 12,000 British pounds of tobacco and allied industry funding, this group was used by the tobacco industry to make pro-tobacco views appear to emanate from an entirely "independent" group. Smokers' rights groups (SRGs) were usually operated through public relations companies, to help maintain the appearance of distance from the tobacco industry. FOREST coordinated on issues with the British tobacco industry, and attended meetings of the industry group ICOSI. FOREST gave the tobacco industry the clandestine ability to introduce pro-tobacco opinions and defenses to society without fear of backlash against their products, or the burdens caused by legal liability for manufacturing the product. The industry organized SRGs internationally to create the appearance of a worldwide grassroots uprising by smokers against smoking restrictions worldwide.
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| Page title: | Tobacco Documents | Profiles | Organizations | FOREST |
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| IP-address: | 66.240.205.92 |
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| Date | Creation Date: 1999-04-01T05:00:00Z Expiry Date: 2014-04-01T05:00:00Z |