Thanks to an anonymous tipster for bringing to attention a string of documents describing the British tobacco industry's relationship to FOREST.
These minutes of a 1980 Public Relations Sub-Committee meeting of the Tobacco Advisory Council (TAC) in the United Kingdom discuss the industry's involvement in determining the direction of the smokers' rights group FOREST ("Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking). A passage indicates that the group only exists due to industry funding and to continue it will need to show "propaganda results":
"[Mr. Stuart Alexander, Director of Public Affairs at TAC] thought that the industry needed a comprehensive plan and clear ideas of what it expected of FOREST before any proposals could be made for changes in its directions. In particular industry needed to decide whether it was more desirable for it to be a high membership group or ao hard-hitting propaganda group. Mr. Moore thought that if FOREST was to survive it would do so only by means of industry financial support and that this would only be forthcoming if it was able to produce the propaganda results." (Page 2025016020).
The document also discusses "ensuring that no debate takes place" in the British Parliament about a bill to prohibit smoking in theatres and cinemas in the UK. (Page 2025016019)