Sullum, Jacob
(journalist)
Managing editor of "Reason" magazine. Also worked at "National Review." Sullum argued that news accounts of the Environmental Protection Agency's 1993 report on second-hand smoke were "one-sided, credulous and superficial," and that journalists "missed an important story about the corruption of science by the political crusade against smoking." The Reason Foundation, which employed Sullum when he wrote the article criticizing the EPA, received at least $10,000 from Philip Morris in 1993 (AP, 6/24/94), and got further funding from Philip Morris subsidiary Kraft General Foods (L.A. Times, 7/18/94). Sullum himself has received $5,000 from R.J. Reynolds, another major cigarette company (Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/30/94)--to reprint another article he wrote about secondhand smoke. Sullum's ties to the tobacco industry were exposed in a 1994 article by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) which can be seen at http://www.fair.org/extra/9409/smoke.html