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Study: Tea Party Organizations Have Ties To Tobacco Industry Dating Back To 1980s
The study, which appears on Feb. 8 in the journal Tobacco Control, shows that rhetoric and imagery evoking the 1773 Boston Tea Party were used by tobacco industry representatives as early as the 1980s as part of an industry-created “smokers’ rights’’ public relations campaign opposing increased cigarette taxes and other anti-smoking initiatives.

Well imagine that...
Tobacco Control Archives
February's edition isn't available online while Jan. and Mar. are!

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Found it, though only the abstract is available for free.

‘To quarterback behind the scenes, third-party efforts’: the tobacco industry and the Tea Party

Methods We used the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, the Wayback Machine, Google, LexisNexis, the Center for Media and Democracy and the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) to examine the tobacco companies’ connections to the Tea Party.