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Mozingo, Roger L.; Marshall, H.
This document from the R.J. Reynolds site, Status and Campaign Plan for Tobacco Tax Initiative, is a detailed description of the tobacco industry's game-plan to scuttle citizen-led ballot initiatives. We see here that the tobacco industry and the firms it hires to defeat initiatives go far beyond simply lobbying for their own side. They work behind the scenes to undermine support already won for the initiative by the proponents. They threaten groups that support the initiative financially (for example, here they threatened the California Medical Association by telling them they would push 'anti-medicine' legislation if they backed the initiative), they intimidate legislators by letting them know that getting behind the initiative could damage their future political future. They tie up professional signature-gathering firms with other business to keep the proponents from retaining their services. They employ lawyers to seek out ways to legally harass nonprofit organizations, threaten their charitable status, and make them expend their resources on work that is unrelated to their missions, and more.
This document gives tremendous insight into how the tobacco industry and its operatives interfere with the democratic system.