Morris, Ronald C.
Information on the length of this document varies. On TDO it appears within the first ten pages of a 500-page document. On the Legacy site it appears as a free-standing 12-page document.
This Tobacco Institute memo describes how the industry manipulates state legislatures. The memo discusses the Institute's plan to introduce a "non-discrimination bill" to protect smoking in Kentucky. The industry designed these bills to prevent employers from adopting policies that would require workers be non-smokers. By 1990 the industry had introduced non-discrimination bills in 27 states, and had gotten them passed in 9 of them. (http://tobaccodocuments.org/ti/TIOK0030546-0547.html)
The memo discusses the third-party group the industry will use to introduce the bill, and how the industry will get around the state's restrictions on corporate contributions and influence legislators nonetheless:
"We have just finished the 1988 session of the Kentuoky General Assembly. The next session will come in January 1990. In order to prepare for introduction and passage of legislation, which provides for non-discrimination in hiring, we must begin our program effort now.
...At this time, it is our feeling this legislation should be introduced by and with union members... Kentucky does not allow corporate contributions, therefore, we must use other methods to assist us in our efforts to influence legislation. To pass this type of legislation we need to set up an extensive travel and entertainment budget to be used throughout the balance of 1988, 1989 and the first half of 1990. This will allow us to spend more quality time with legislators while they are engaged in more personal activities..."