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PM Usa Corporate Affairs Presentation 931216
Abstract
This 119-page Philip Morris document is a gold mine of internal information about the company's strategies to defeat smoking bans and excise taxes. Strategies inlcude encouraging tighter restrictions on the operation of nonprofit (health) organizations (for example, restricting how much of these groups' income could go to administrative and lobbying costs and creating minimum percentages of funding that they would have to put towards research), to use of PM's "Accommodation Program" as a "tactical weapon" to support preemptive state legislation.
In the document, PM laments that "Recent Polling Says Californians Want Smoking Restrictions," and that the "Industry's Economic Impact Arguments Losing Credibility as Glanz Studies Have More Credibility with Media."
On page 80, PM recounts the company's reasons for opposing bans:
"If smokers can't smoke on the way to work, at work, in stores, banks, restaurants, malls and other public places, they are going to smoke less. A large percentage of them are going to quit. In short, cigarette purchases will be drastically reduced and volume declines will accelerate."
Other parts of the document outline exactly how PM works with R.J. Reynolds to interfere in efforts to enact smoking bans: organizing smokers in its database to call city council members and testify at public hearing, convincing restaurant associations to oppose bans, setting up phone banks to assist people in making calls to oppose bans, pressing employees of PM subsidiaries into helping oppose smoking ordinances (Miller, Kraft, etc.)
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[From Page 29, Bates No. 2044336028]:
1994 California Plan
Strategy
Regulate Charitable Organizations
-Reporting Requirements for Percent of Funds Used for Research vs. Salaries
• Cap Administrative Costs, Salaries, Lobbying Expenditures
• Establish Minimum Percent of Funds for Research
-Pass Joint Resolution Urging US-OSHA to Develop IAQ Standards
Seek Local Level Accommodation Laws in a Limited Number of Localities to Refocus Antis and Show Accommodation is Acceptable
- Anaheim - Rancho Mirage - Bell Gardens - El Cajon - Coronado - Stockton
[From Page 31 (Bates No. 2044336030)]:
1994 CALIFORNIA PLAN
Situation
FIVE MAJOR CITIES HAVE BANNED SMOKING
San Francisco Bans Smoking in all Workplaces Including Offices, Restaurants, etc.
Los Angeles Bans Smoking in Restaurants (referendum pending)
San Jose Bans Smoking in all Public Places Including Restaurants
-- San Diego Bans Smoking in the Workplace and Restricts Smoking to 30% of Seating Capacity in Restaurants
-- Sacramento Bans Smoking in Offices and Restaurants
Antis Continue to Seek Smoking Bans on the Local Level
Legislative Leadership will Negotiate Deal between Industry and Antis but Only if We Put Antis on Defensive Outside of Legislature
Recent Polling Says Californians Want Smoking Restrictions
Industry's Economic Impact Arguments Losing Credibility as Glanz Studies Have More Credibility with Media
[From Page 33, Bates No. 2044336032]:
SMOKING BAN ORDINANCE
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Resources Activated
• PM and RJR Smokers Call City Council Members Prior to the Hearing and Testify at the Hearing
• PM Hires Consultant to Organize Hospitality Industry
• PM's Consultant Convinces Austin Restaurant Association to Oppose the Ordinance and Join the Texas Restaurant Association's Activities
• TX Restaurant Association Phone Banks Restaurateurs and Hires Local Consults to Lobby Individual City Council Members
° PM and RJR Salesforces Circulate Flyers to Retailers, Restaurateurs, Entertainment Contacts and Consumers
° Miller Distributor Alerted and Has Agreed to Assist
[From Page 34, Bates No. 2044336033]:
SMOKING BAN ORDINANCE
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Strategy: --Create Coalition to Kill Ordinance in One Week. --Urge Coalition to seek Less Onerous Ordinance.
[From Page 37, Bates No. 2044336036]:
LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS - Examples
Recently ulitized The Accommodation Program to effectively advance Government Affairs' legislative agenda in a number of states.
In response to proposed statewide smoking ban in Pennsylvania last month:
• Identified restaurant owners to testify at hearings
• Maximized use of exhibit booth at PA Restaurant Association Trade Show to mobilize business owners to sign a petition, and write letters to elected officials.
• Produced timely VNR [video news release] which was widely aired across the state.
[From Page 80, Bates Page 2044336079, regardin smoking bans]:
If smokers can't smoke on the way to work, at work, in stores, banks, restaurants, malls and other public places, they are going to smoke less.
A large percentage of them are going to quit. In short, cigarette purchases will be drastically reduced and volume declines will accelerate.
[From Page 88, Bates No. 2044336087, regarding PM's use of its "Accommodation Program"]:
Ultimately, we will use the Accommodation Program as a tactical weapon to support the preemptive state accommodation/indoor air quality legislation that I mentioned earlier.
- Company
- Philip Morris
- Named Person
- Friedman
- Glantz
- Tucker
- Named Organization
- 21 Club
- Adamha
- Austin Restaurant Assn
- Austin Tx City Council
- Berkeley Ca City Council
- Brc
- Ca Legal Dept
- Debartolo
- Dnc
- Epa, Environmental Protection Agency
- Hhs, Dept of Health and Human Services
- Infact, Infact
- Israe
- Kgf
- Mbc
- Nraef
- Nsa, Natl Smokers Alliance
- OSHA, Occupational Safety & Health Administration
- Pa Restaurant Assn Trade Show
- Palm Restaurant
- Pump Room
- Research + Public Policy Group
- RJR, R.J.Reynolds
- Ruth Chris Steakhouse
- Stat
- Substance Abuse + Mental Health Services
- Tassc, the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
- Tavern League Wi
- Tavern on the Green
- TI, Tobacco Inst
- Tx Restaurant Assn
- Vnr
- 1996 Olympics
- Litigation
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- CHAR, CHART, GRAPH, TABLE, MAPS
- PHOT, PHOTOGRAPH
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