Manipulation:

"...smoking is a habit of addiction."  -Sir Charles Ellis, Chief Scientist British American Tobacco, 1062
"Nicotine is addictive.  We are, then, in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug." - Lawyers for Brown & Williamson Tobacco 1963
"It may be useful, therefore, to look at the tobacco industry as if for a large part its business is the administration of nictone (in the clinical sense.)"-Scientists for British American Tobacco 1967
"Smoking is an addictive habit attributable to nicotine and the form of nicotine affects the rate of absorption by the smoker." -Scientists for British American Tobacco 1967
"The primary motivation for smoking is to obtain the pharmacological effect of nicotine.  In the past, we at R&D have said that we're not in the cigarette business, we're in the smoke business.  It might be more pointed to observe that the cigarette is the vehicle of smoke, smoke is the vehicle of nicotine and nicotine is the agent of a pleasurable body response."  -Scientists for Philip Morris, makers of Marlboro 1969
"The cigarrette should be conceived not as a product but as a package.  The product is nicotine.  Think of the cigarette as a dispenser for a dose unit of nicotine.  Think of a puff of smoke as the vehicle of nicotine.  Smoke is beyond question the most optimised vehicle of nicotine and the cigarette the most optimised dispenser of smoke."  -Scientists for Phillip Morris, makers of Marlboro 1971
"Why do people smoke?  To relax, for the taste, to fill time, something to do with my hands.  But for the most part, people continue to smoke because they find it too uncomfortable to quit."  -Phillip Morris makers of Marlboro 1984
"Different people smoke for different reasons.  But the primary reason is to deliver nicotine into their bodies.  Nicotine is an alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant.  It is a physiologically active, nitrogen containing substance.  Similar organic chemicals include nicotine, quinene, cocaine, atropine and morphine."  -Philip Morris makers of Marlboro 1993
"Of course it's addictive.  That's why you smoke the stuff."  -Ross Johnson, RJ Reynolds Tobacco 1994 (Makers of Camel cigarettes)
"At a younger age, taste requirements and satisfaction in a cigarette are thought to play a secondary role to the social requirements.  Therefore, taste, until a certain nicotine dependence has been developed, is somewhat less important than other things."  Imperial Tobacco(Canada)
"Today's teenager is tomorrow's potential regular customer."  -Philip Morris, Inc. Internal Memo (makers of Marlboro, Merit and Virginia Slims cigarettes)
"If you are really and truly not going to sell to children, you are going to be out of business in 30 years."  -Benett Lebow, CEO of Brook Group Ltd. (makers of Lark and L&M cigarettes)
"The success of Newport has been fantastic during the last few years...The base of our business is the high school student."  0Lorillard, Inc. Internal Memo (makers of Newport cigarettes)
"The 14-18 year old group is an increasing segment of the smoking populatio.  RJR must soon establish a successful new brand in this market if our position in the industry is to be maintained over the long term."  -RJ Reynolds Tobacco (maker of Camel cigarettes)
"Realistically, if our company is to survive and prosper over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market.  In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market."  Claude Teague, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (makers of Camel)
"Project LF is a wider circumference, non-menthol cigarette targeted at younger adult male smokers (primarily 13-24 year old male Marlboro smokers)...Ultimately, this decision will be based on the relative profitability of these propositions."  - J.H. Miller, Internal Memo, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
"The fragile, developing self-image of the young person needs all of the support and enhancement it can get.  Smokng may appear to enhance that self-image in a variety of ways.  If one values, for example, adventurous sophisticated, adult images, smoking may enhance one's self-image."  -Claude Teague, R.J. Reynolds tobacco (makers of Camel cigarettes)
"...a cigarette for the beginner is a symbolic act.  I am no longer my mother's child, I'm tough, I am an adventurer, I'm not square...As the force from the psychological symbolism subsides, pharmacological effect takes over to sustain the habit."  -Philip Morris report to the Board of Directors
"Target audience for the sampling effort on KOOL King Size includes both Men and Women in the 15-24 age group."  -Brown & Williamson Internal Memo

Who is Who and what are they profiting from the deliberate poisoning of their consumers lives/health?  Find out below:

Name:  Geoffrey Bible
Company:  Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
Position:  chairman and CEO
Manufacturer of following brands:  Marlboro, Merit, Parliament, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Basic, Alpine, L&M, Bristol and Cambridge.
Annual Salary:  $5,000,000.00
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Name:  Steven Goldstone
Company:  RJR Nabisco
Position:  Chairman and CEO
Manufacturer of following brands:  Camel, Red Kamel, Winston, Salem, Doral, Eclipse, Magna and Vantage.
Annual Salary:  $1,054,667.00
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Name:  Andrew Schindler
Company:  R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc.
Position:  President and CEO
Manufacturer of following brands:  Camel, Red Kamel, Winston, Salem, Doral, Eclipse, Magna and Vantage.
Annual Salary:  $1,054,667.00
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Name:  Bennett S. LeBow
Company:  The Liggett Group/Brooke Group Ltd.
Position:  CEO (Brooke Group, Ltd.)
Manufacturer of following brands:  L&M, Lark, Chesterfield and Eve
Annual Salary:  $3,391,601.00
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Name:  Martin F. Broughton
Company:  British American Tobacco (Brown & Williamson)
Position:  Chairman (B.A.T.)
Manufacturer of following brands:  Kent, Benson & Hedges, Players to name a few.  British American Tobacco sells over 240 brands of cigarettes in 180 different countries.
Annual Salary:  $1,646,619.00
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Here is some more facts about the various tobacco product producing companies based on financial reports from 1998, just imagin in the last 4 years, the price of 1 pack of cigarrettes has almost doubled, yeah that's right almost doubled...( imagine what multiplying impact that has on these totals from 1998:)

Phillip Morris Companies, Inc.
		Principle Officer:
		Geoffrey C. Bible, Chairman and CEO
		Annual Salary (1998) $5,000,000.00  (yep five million)
		1998 total Tobacco Revenue:  $42,700,00,00.00 (that's right that's billions)

R.J. Reynolds Nabisco/R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc.
		Principle Officers:
		Steven Goldstone, Chairman and CEO (RJR Nabisco)yeah, as in Nabisco crackers!
		Andrew Schindler, President and CEO (RJR Tobacco)
		Annual Salary (1998):  $1,054,667.00 (yep that's million!)
		1998 total Tobacco Revenue:  $8,637,000,000.00 (yep there it is again, billion!)

British American Tobacco (Brown&Williamson)
		Principle Officers:
		Martin F. Broughton, Chairman (B.A.T.)
		Nick G. Brookes, Chairman and CEO (Brown & Williamson)
		Annual Salary (1998):  $1,646,619.00 (million not thousands!!)
		1998 total Tobacco Revenue:  $24,202,000,000.00 (yep there's the billions again!)

Lorillard Tobacco Company (a divison of Loews Corporation)
		Principle Officer:
		Dr. Alexander Spears, CEO Lorillard Tobacco (a doctor for crying out loud?!)
		Annual Salary (1998):  not disclosed
		1998 Total Tobacco Revenue:  $2,865,100,00.00  (not as much as some of the others, but sadly still in the 				billions!!!)

The Liggett Group/Brooke Group Ltd.
		Principle Officer:
		Bennett S. LeBow, CEO (Brooke Group, Ltd.)
		Annual Salary (1998):  $3,391,601.00 (this is almost one-tenth of the companies annual revenue...things that make 			you go Hmmm?
		1998 total Tobacco Revenue for Liggett:  $347,129,000.00 (not billion but still in the hundred millions!)

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How about some more interesting quotes:

"Since smokeless tobacco has always been associated with cowboys, and a lot of young people will want to emulate their hero, the opportunity to promote the use of Skoal through the tie-in promotion program is extremely positive, since more people who have seen the film will be receptive to the Skoal message. The first objective is therefore to get as many people as possible to see the film [Urban Cowboy] and assure that they know the product used by Travolta is Skoal. The second objective is getting the target audience to try dipping themselves." 
Marketing report for U.S. Tobacco. Landman, A. Skoal Urban Cowboy , Doc-Alert (Smokescreen.org), Monday, April 8, 2002 

"The leadership role [at Philip Morris] will be more like a traditional company, where the chief executive will make business decisions based on the interests of the company and the interests of the shareholders. . . Decisions were previously clouded by the views and the requirements of the [in-house] legal team."  -Unidentified analyst, on Philip Morris' new CEO, who will apparently be freed from legal concerns in his stewardship. Philip Morris has granted the indemnification of Geoffrey Bible and his "heirs, executors and administrators," against all costs should he be personally dragged into civil lawsuits, investigations or criminal proceedings relating to his time at the company. Jones, A. An era ends at Philip Morris, Financial Times (uk), Sunday, April 21, 2002 

Interesting, it seems like they are trying to change their tune all of a sudden:  R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., the second-biggest U.S. cigarette maker, denies targeting children with its advertising, which would put it in breach of a 1998 multistate tobacco agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing court documents. 
The State of California will argue in today's initial hearing that the company has ``continuously and systematically targeted youth'' by advertising in magazines including Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated, the paper said.

The following are some settlements paid out by tobacco companies world wide, the way I see it is it must just be pocket change considering the Annual Revenue figures from 1998 alone:

When Wisconsin goes to Wall Street in the next few weeks to securitize 100 percent of its tobacco settlement revenue stream, it won't be your average municipal paper hitting the street. . . 
If this deal goes off as advertised, at $1.7 billion, Wisconsin will hold the distinction of bringing the single largest state transaction to date. 

...last October when the $1.2 billion Louisiana deal was brought, ...

I have found and empowered myself with 10 times the information I have provided in this document.  There is so much "truth" about tobacco industry leaders, their principle officers and the deviousness of advertising, reporting and flat out disrespect for the lives of their customers.  Just check out some of the websites listed below:

www.tobacco.org
www.Buttoutnow.com
www.imperialtobacco.com
www.cancer.org/tobacco
www.infact.org
www.wholetruth.com
www.ash.org
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_274/no_3/5042t1a.htm

Here is the basis of the message that I am trying to share with my fellow Tobaco-holics and those who might ever consider smoking...:

_Tobacco related illness kills over 1,000 Americans a day.
_Tobacco related illness kills over 3,000,000 people a year, woldwide (yeah, three million.)
_Tobacco kills more people than homocide, AIDS, suicide, illicit drugs and alcohol - combined.
_1 out of 3 people who become regular smokers will eventually die from a tobacco related illness.
_89 percent of people who smoke started before they were 18 years old.
_There are 401 poisons and 43 carcinogenic compounds in tobacco smoke.
_Smoking is responsible for 87 percent of all cases of lung cancer.
_Tobacco companies spend $13.2 million a day to advertise and promote cigarettes.
_Only 1 in 16 people who try to quit smoking are able to do so, the rest die trying.
_Nicotine is an addictive drug.  Cigarette companies learned this as early as 1962 and began to develop other products to deliver nicotine doses to consumers.
_Doctors say that nicotine addiction is very similar to heroine addiction.  It is easier to kick a cocaine habit than a nicotine habit.