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  • ...> Pfizer is a member of one of the most important global corporate lobby groups, the International Chamber of Commerce. <ref>"[http://www.iccwbo.org/id1969 ...or a long list of controversial corporations, including some from the oil, tobacco, pharma, fast food, and GM industry. It worked too for repressive regimes,
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  • It is often called the Godfather of Washington neoconservative lobby groups and is America's richest, largest and most influential think tank. It was r ...J. & Walt, S. (2006) [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html The Israel Lobby] <i>London Review of Books</i>. Accessed 8th July 2008</ref>.
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  • ...gressively targets groups seeking to promote controls relating to alcohol, tobacco, food safety, animal rights or the environment. ...] (aka [[NannyCulture.com]]) which was launched in 1995 with $600,000 from tobacco giant, [[Philip Morris]].
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  • ...ppears to have lost the account after February 2014, although continued to lobby on behalf of energy giant and Cuadrilla part-owner [[Centrica]], whose acco ...n in April 2017, where a group dressed in animal masks occupied the firm's lobby to 'expose' what they call the agency's "continual support for fracking" as
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  • ...ental safety regulations are based, and it was initially a creation of the tobacco industry, which promoted the idea of "junk science" and overregulation. ...L%20RISK.&bates=515952606/2609 Environmental Risk - Book Proposal], Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, University of California. Original proposal dated 8 Augu
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  • ...orrespondent. In May 2010 he became, and continues to be, a trustee of the lobby group [[Sense About Science]] having accepted an approach from [[Tracey Bro Since May 2010 he has been a Trustee of the controversial lobby group [[Sense About Science]].<ref>[http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/ind
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  • ...[Biotechnology Industry Organization]] (BIO) - the industry's major trade lobby which represents such corporate giants as Aventis, Bayer, DuPont, Monsanto ...never having farmed in his life. His '[[Indian Farmers Federation]]' is a lobby for big commercial farmers in Andhra Pradesh, where Reddy's family is a pro
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  • ...[Sourcewatch:Philip Morris|Philip Morris]]. He also solicited money of the tobacco industry for a book on risk and smoking, and [[Julian Morris]] was a witnes [[Category:GM Lobby Groups]]
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  • ...of these products to governments, industry, academia, and other interested groups around the world.<ref>ILSI 2008. [http://web.archive.org/web/20080106130251 ...Working Group, [[United Steelworkers of America]] and a coalition of other groups.<ref> John Heilprin, [http://www.medkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/nutrition/5496/Mo
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  • ...stitute/tobacco2.html press release] for the book it is claimed, 'The anti-tobacco crusade from the West, like the environmental one as manifested at the WTO [[Category:GM]][[Category:Far-Right Think-Tanks (GM)]][[Category:GM Lobby Groups]]
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  • ...i>, 22 August 2007.</ref>. Not surprisingly he is a strong defender of the tobacco industry.<ref>See for example Steven Milloy, "[http://www.foxnews.com/story ...PR firms in Washington DC willing to work with non-profit public interest groups and their relatively small PR budgets.<ref>Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
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  • ...tion of the industry, excise taxes and other government policies to reduce tobacco use.' [[Category:Third World Lobbyists (GM)]][[Category:GM]][[Category:GM Lobby Groups]]
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  • ...ost controversial corporations, including [[Shell]] and [[British American Tobacco]]. ...to form a single company, '''Fishburn'''. The new firm comprises four core groups:
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  • ...p them to form relationships with legislators, officials, special interest groups and sovereign governments to achieve their economic and political objective ...advocacy of &#8216;partnerships&#8217; between business and environmental groups more bluntly. &#8220;You've got an environmental disaster on your hands. Ha
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  • ...echnology, he was accompanied by members of the BioIndustry Association, a lobby group for companies involved in GM food (the DTI helped pay their costs). H ...ter. Diatech has registered a patent for a genetic sequence taken from the tobacco mosaic virus for use in genetically modified plants. This was developed at
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  • ===Front groups=== ...ing criticism of its role in establishing and de facto running three front groups: The [[Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis]] (on behalf of [[Aventis]
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  • ...er in the House of Lords. He also chairs [[Sense about Science]], a pro-GM lobby group which has been one of the [[Royal Society]]'s closest allies. [[Sense In April 1998, Taverne resigned from Prima, as a result of lobby-firm rules prohibiting employment of sitting MPs and peers, after its merge
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  • One of the main PR strategies of the nuclear lobby has been to use the issue of climate change to push for a resumption in nuc ...ick allegedly also spied on their green critics and infiltrated opposition groups.<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardiansociety/story/0,,2589
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  • #[[British American Tobacco: Third World Production]] (cleaned up by toR but possibly still needs some #[[Lobby Rules]] does this have a reference? (taken from http://www.lobster-magazine
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  • Much of the work is done by Working groups established by the Plenary Session. They are companies. Groups cover subjects such as education, employment, environment,
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  • ...est groups of coal, oil and utility companies which was set up in order to lobby against action on climate change. ...bil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science ], 3 January 2007.
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  • industry groups exist with more than 400 Governors. ...at the [[World Health Organization]] in Geneva on Public Hearings for Anti-Tobacco Project and World Health Day on Mental Health)| [[Irene Mia]] | [[Sushant P
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  • ...cord He is also a member of the [[CBI President's Committee]], an industry lobby group.<ref>GSK Profile, www.marketguide.com http://www.marketguide.com/>; H ...isis Management). Other clients have included Sara Lee Corp., R.J. Reynold Tobacco Co. and Time-Warner Cable<ref> [http://www.amme.com/clients.htm]</ref>. A f
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  • ...lobby against action on climate change, since it was sidelined other lobby groups have come to the fore which are more subtle in their tactics. ...l Motors, Ford, McDonalds, Mobil, Monsanto, Nestle USA, [[Philip Morris]] (tobacco), Shell (oil), Texaco (oil) and Unilever. The USCIB is the US affiliate of
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  • *[[British American Tobacco: Front Groups|Front Groups]] *[[British American Tobacco: Advertising|Advertising]]
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  • ...50px|To take a tour of some of the major lobbying firms, industry lobbying groups and think tanks that surround Parliament in central London, visit the [http ...the-government-on-tobacco-policy Lynton Crosby DID lobby the government on tobacco policy], ''Spinwatch'', 8 September 2014
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  • ...are in direct opposition to other medical studies into the consequences of tobacco use which have proven the negative impact on health. ARISE follows up their == Tobacco Industry ==
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  • :Sixty per cent of the donations come from individuals or groups giving more than £5,000. The [[Midlands Industrial Council]], which has do ...k/politics/2009/oct/11/prescott-says-tax-group-tory John Prescott says tax lobby group is Tory front], ''the Guardian'', 11-October-2009, Accessed 18-April-
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  • ...i_n_1406016.html American Legislative Exchange Council, Ultra-Conservative Lobby, Loses 2 Major Funders], 4 April 2012, accessed 11 April 2012.</ref> Its go Such is its power and influence, the two environmental groups [[Defenders of Wildlife]] and the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] pub
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  • <td>[[R.J Reynolds Tobacco Co.]]</td> ===Tobacco===
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  • ...ohn Stauber, [http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/junkman.html How Big Tobacco Helped Create "the Junkman"], Center for Media and Democracy website, acces ...tomobile emissions and other industrial products that had not yet achieved tobacco's pariah status”.<ref>http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/junkman.htm
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  • ...BP and Shell, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, Vodafone, British American Tobacco, Rio Tinto, HSBC and [[Unilever]]. ...entatives of Vodafone, Shell, Astra Zeneca, Rio Tinto and British American Tobacco. On the agenda is "international business and trade". These goliaths of the
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  • ===The Torturers’ Lobby=== ...port on lobbying and PR efforts by repressive regimes, “The Torturers’ Lobby”. Hill and Knowlton topped the list of earnings, making $14m in one year
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  • ...evenich copy.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Christoph Lövenich]] of pro-tobacco lobby group [[Netzwerk Rauchen]]]] ...eas]] website, which fails to mention his connections to pro-tobacco lobby groups. This fits a pattern of events organised by the [[Institute of Ideas]] of d
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  • ...atory, [http://archive.corporateeurope.org/docs/lobbycracy/lobbyplanet.pdf Lobby Planet: Brussels the EU Quarter] July 2005, accessed 1st November 2011 </re ...atory, [http://archive.corporateeurope.org/docs/lobbycracy/lobbyplanet.pdf Lobby Planet: Brussels the EU Quarter] July 2005, accessed 1st November 2011 </re
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  • ...e First Minister's official residence, numerous other businesses and lobby groups have offices within the vicinity. [[Image:S&N\'s_St_Andrew_Square_HQ.jpg| In terms of trade associations that lobby the government in an attempt to influence policy S&N are members of the [[P
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  • ...a. It was this 68 year old man who was behind the intensive anti-sanctions lobby of the Thatcher government. He lives at Cookley House, Cookley Green. Swync ...itute of Directors and the CBI, or by combinations of companies, as in the Tobacco Industry. Individual MPs represent the interests of particular companies an
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  • ...from months of bad publicity over prices and access to its medicines. Aid groups say the Trovan lawsuit highlights actions even more sinister. In the develo ...oaches to Downing Street, Pfizer retains GPC Access, Derek Draper's former lobby firm.) Pfizer has two reasons to cuddle up to New Labour: it wants the Nati
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  • ...obby against action on climate change, since it was sidelined, other lobby groups have come to the fore which are more subtle in their tactics. ...neral Motors, Ford, McDonalds, Mobil, Monsanto, Nestle USA, Philip Morris (tobacco), Texaco (oil) and Unilever. The USCIB is the US affiliate of the Internati
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  • ...Great Britain|CPGB]] was in a rapid decline, membership of the Trotskyist groups was growing rapidly. MI5's "F Branch" (Domestic Surveillance) had for decad ...rian Alliance but also Director of the tobacco industry funded pro-Smoking lobby, [[FOREST]].
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  • ...arch 1997<ref>It was not formally set up until the following year, but the groups initially came together under this title to organise the July 1997 Countrys The Countryside Alliance is, formally, an amalgamation of three groups: the [[British Field Sports Society]], the [[Countryside Movement]] and the
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  • ...sion to prosecute. Ailish Ford, director general of independent retailers' lobby group RGDATA, said: :'It is vital groups with such incredible market power are not allowed to abuse it at the expens
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  • ...tora Enso Oyj (part of the Wallenberg Group), Director of British American Tobacco Plc, Operating Partner in EQT, a private equity group in Sweden. ...erconnections. Directors often move seamlessly between companies and lobby groups – such as Michael Wemms, who left Tesco after nine years as their retail
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  • ...bit of a problem with national and European regulation, and through lobby groups and close links with government, has sought to loosen ‘restrictive’ reg Neville-Rolfe’s external appointments include business lobby groups, NGOs and government committees such as the CBI Europe Committee, [[UNICE]]
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  • ...quently have directors who sit on the Government's task forces or advisory groups. There are also companies in the list who appear to have received favourabl ...Ecclestone then donated £1million to Blair. At the time, proposals for a tobacco sponsorship ban were in the air and FIA President [[Max Mosely]] argued tha
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  • ...se scarred by bottles wielded by drunks. Now that the methods used by the tobacco industry have been exposed, few serious commentators believe what they say. [[Category:Alcohol Industry]][[category:Alcohol Lobby Groups]][[Category:Alcohol]][[Category:Alcohol Industry in the EU]]
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  • ==Influence & Lobbying Groups== Interestingly, Sodexho is not a member of any of the key European or US lobby groups, such as the European Roundtable of Industrialists, the European Services F
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  • Kraft Foods is a packaged food company formerly owned by tobacco giant [[Philip Morris]]/[[Altria]]<ref>Altria Group Inc 2007 [http://www.al ...prwatch.org/prwissues/2003Q3/cancer.html Cancer PR Firms Still Addicted to Tobacco] PR Watch, Third Quarter 2003, Volume 10, No. 3. Accessed 2007</ref>
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  • ...Shell]], and input in the US and Canada was ensured through business lobby groups the [[Corporate Council on Africa]] and the [[Canadian Council on Africa]], ...ng.pdf</ref> The chair of the Commonwealth Business Council, the business lobby group co-hosting the meeting, read out the concluding statement. Dr [[Mohan
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  • ...[European Court]]'s rejection of the implementation of a minimum price for tobacco in France, Austria and Ireland. <ref> Scotch Whisky Association 22nd Octobe ...directly targets the Chancellor, [[George Osborne]] and urges consumers to lobby MPs with a letter template to demand a freeze on alcohol duty and the end o
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