Field Action Team (FAT)
(Allies PM mobilizes to oppose legislation) Field Action Teams are groups cultivated by the Philip Morris Tobacco Company at the state or local level, consisting of local business owners, business associations and concerned individuals. PM hires PR consultants or lobbying firms to cultivate, organize and mobilize FAT members and uses these relationships to generate third party "grassroots" opposition to proposed legislation and regulations that threaten PM's cigarette business. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/job18d00Philip Morris organized Field Action Teams in all 50 states and the groups were key to PM efforts to pass or protest legislation
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