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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Roy Marden was a Corporate Affairs Policy Analyst and Manager of Industry Affairs at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a></b> Companies in New York City, a position he left on May 15, 2003. He started working for Philip Morris circa 1985. Until 2008, he served on the board of directors<a href="http://www.heartland.org/full/23630/Heartland_Institute_Announces_Board_Changes.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.heartland.org/full/23630/Heartland_Institute_Announces_Board_Changes.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> at Th<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">e <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a>,</span> a conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think-tank</a> based in Chicago that has been funded by the tobacco company.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Marden profile on the Heartland Institute site stated that his responsibilities with Philip Morris "include managing company responses to key public policy issues; directing corporate involvement with industry, business, trade, and public policy organizations and determining philanthropic support thereto; lobbying; developing economic and public policy position papers for senior management; and representing the Philip Morris Chairman and CEO in external coalitions and business associations".</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Before joining Philip Morris, Mr. Marden was a senior consultant at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernst_%26_Whinney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernst & Whinney (page does not exist)">Ernst & Whinney</a> in New York, where he provided economic consulting services to litigation attorneys in antitrust, products liability, and labor arbitration cases and presented testimony as an expert economic witness. He earlier served as a senior research associate at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_River_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles River Associates (page does not exist)">Charles River Associates</a> in Boston, where he provided economic research and consulting services to business and government clients, specializing in antitrust and regulatory economics and policy impact evaluation. Among his primary activities were consulting to the counsel for the defendant in U.S. v. IBM."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Mr. Marden serves on numerous cultural and policy group Boards, including The Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, Instituto Cultural Ludwig von Mises,<b> Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy </b>(where he serves as Vice Chairman), and <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Women for Tax Reform</span>. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Culture and Community."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Mr. Marden received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in <b>economics from Northwestern University."</b></font></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liaison to "Nonprofit" Advocacy Groups</font></span></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An internal list compiled by Philip Morris of its "public policy grants" for 1995 lists some 47 organizations for which Marden was listed as a contact. <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/doy57d00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/doy57d00" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> Most of the listed organizations were also recipients of funding from the company. Listed organizations included:</font></p>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Cato Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Research_Foundation,_University_of_Southern_California&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Citizens' Research Foundation, University of Southern California (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Citizens' Research Foundation, University of Southern California</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Countdown Foundation/<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EPA_Watch" title="EPA Watch">EPA Watch</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Acton_Institute_for_the_Study_of_Religion_and_Liberty" title="Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institute" title="Alexis de Tocqueville Institute" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alexis de Tocqueville Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Enterprise Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Americans for Tax Reform</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barry_Goldwater_Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Business_Leadership_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Business Leadership Council (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Business Leadership Council</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Business_Roundtable" title="Business Roundtable"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Business Roundtable</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Capital Research Center</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Peace_and_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Peace and Freedom (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Center for Peace and Freedom</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Study_of_Popular_Culture" title="Center for the Study of Popular Culture" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Center for the Study of Popular Culture</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy_Foundation" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Claremont Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conference_Board" title="Conference Board"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Conference Board</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert" title="Consumer Alert"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Consumer Alert</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Education_and_Research_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Education and Research Institute (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Education and Research Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Congress_Foundation" title="Free Congress Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Free Congress Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom" title="Frontiers of Freedom"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Frontiers of Freedom</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University">George Mason University</a> School of Law</font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grand_Central_Partnership&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grand Central Partnership (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Grand Central Partnership</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grocery_Manufacturers_of_America" title="Grocery Manufacturers of America" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Grocery Manufacturers of America</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Heartland Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Heritage Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hudson Institute</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Individual_Rights_Foundation" title="Individual Rights Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Individual Rights Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Contemporary_Studies" title="Institute for Contemporary Studies"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Institute for Contemporary Studies</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Justice" title="Institute for Justice"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Institute for Justice</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Research_on_the_Economics_of_Taxation" title="Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_on_Taxation_and_Economics_Policy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute on Taxation and Economics Policy (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Institute on Taxation and Economics Policy</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Instituto_Cultural_Ludwig_von_Mises&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Instituto Cultural Ludwig von Mises (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Instituto Cultural Ludwig von Mises</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy" title="Mackinac Center for Public Policy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Institute" title="Media Institute" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Media Institute</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michigan_State_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michigan State University (page does not exist)">Michigan State University</a>/<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Madison_College&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Madison College (page does not exist)">James Madison College</a></font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Association_of_Manufacturers" title="National Association of Manufacturers"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Association of Manufacturers</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Bureau_of_Economic_Research,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis" title="National Center for Policy Analysis"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Center for Policy Analysis</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Policy_Forum" title="National Policy Forum"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Policy Forum</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Chamber_of_Commerce_and_Industry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_City_Partnership" title="New York City Partnership" class="mw-redirect"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">New York City Partnership</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Legal_Foundation" title="Pacific Legal Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pacific Legal Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Research_Center_for_Public_Policy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pacific Research Center for Public Policy (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pacific Research Center for Public Policy</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pioneer_Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation" title="Progress and Freedom Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Progress and Freedom Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Reason Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">State Policy Network</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tax_Foundation" title="Tax Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tax Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Legal_Foundation" title="Washington Legal Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Washington Legal Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_University_Center_for_the_Study_of_American_Business&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Washington University Center for the Study of American Business (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Washington University Center for the Study of American Business</font></a></li>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 1995-96 performance review summary by Roy Marden, then of Philip Morris' Corporate Affairs Department, links PM to the emergence of arguments equating smoking with property rights. Marden states (in the 2nd paragraph from the bottom on the second page),</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"...the rightward shift in the U.S. political climate has resulted in the reemergence of property rights as an issue under current scrutiny. As part of an intra-company task force, we are developing a strategy to apply the concept of 'takings' to the smoking ban issue in a legislative/regulatory context."</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PM's application of the<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "property rights" strategy was to argue that smoking restrictions constitute a government "taking"</span> of private property.</font>

<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other SourceWatch resources</font></span></h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tobacco industry</font></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External links</font></span></h2>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/doy57d00" class="external text" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/doy57d00" rel="nofollow">1995 Public Policy Grants</a> (chart), Philip Morris, May 22, 1996; Bates number 2041273353/3356.</font></li>

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<p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article may include <a href="http://tobaccodocuments.org/profiles/people/marden_e_roy.html" class="external text" title="http://tobaccodocuments.org/profiles/people/marden_e_roy.html" rel="nofollow">information from Tobacco Documents Online</a>.</font></b></p>

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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“Dear Phillip Morris” – Heartland’s Love Letter to Big Tobacco</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">February 21, 2012</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ace researcher John Mashey, whose indispensable investigation into the anti science movement’s leading players and finances has now been posted online, concurrent with release of internal documents from the anti-science “think” tank, Heartland Institute.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among the gems John has rediscovered, a 1999 love letter (and boot licking appeal for funding) from Heartland chairman Joe Bast to the Phillip Morris Tobacco company. This document is among the trove of materials released thru the tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, and is available in the Tobacco Legacy Library online – so there’s no way for Heartland to run from this further evidence of their dark history. It’s another key bit of evidence showing the tobacco funded roots of the climate denial industry.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The letter is from Bast to </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Roy Marden, a Phillip Morris executive, and member of the Heartland board.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Marden had apparently invited Bast to solicit further funds from the tobacco giant.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Roy:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thank you for inviting me to request renewed general operating support for The Heartland Institute for 1999.1 note that Philip Morris contributed $5,000 last August (for a Gold Table at our annual benefit) and $25,000 in October (general operating support). It also has allowed you to serve on our Board of Directors, which has produced many positive results for the entire organization.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The letter goes on to extoll Heartland’s tireless efforts to assist the tobacco industry in their sale of death dealing, addictive substances to children and adults around the planet.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris’ bottom line, things that no other organization does, I hope you will consider boosting your general operating support this year to $30,000 and once again reserve a Gold Table for an additional $5,000.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We genuinely need your financial support. Maybe by the end of this letter you’ll agree that we merit even greater support; I certainly hope so!</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bast continues, enumerating various components of their disinformation campaign on behalf of tobacco.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Heartland has devoted considerable attention to defending tobacco (and other industries) from what I view as being an unjust campaign of public demonization and legal harassment. We’re an important voice defending smokers and their freedom to use a still-legal product.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Heartlander, our monthly newsletter for members, has called attention to the dangerous legal precedents and discriminatory taxes that are part of the campaign against tobacco in cover essays appearing in the October, November, and June issues.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Recent and past Heartland publications on tobacco, including a Heartland Policy Study and several Perspectives, and the 21 documents on the subject available from PoIicyFax, are all available on Heartland’s Web site. Particularly popular are two of my essays, titled “Five Lies About Tobacco” and “Joe Camel is Innocent.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finishing up, Bast waxes on about plans for an online “Smoker’s Lounge”, as a clearinghouse for anti-science disinformation promoting tobacco.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are also revamping our Web site to bring together into one place all the material on tobacco — the policy study, op-eds, PoIicyFax documents, and Heartlander essays — and identify it as the “Smoker’s Lounge” on the homepage. And we have discussed producing an Instant Expert Guide to Tobacco Litigation and reproducing an analysis done of the effect of a federal lawsuit against the tobacco industry on the level of payments states can expect to receive. Both of these projects are likely to come about in the coming months (though the latter only if it is still timely).</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_6_1481517272899_309715" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; height: auto; padding: 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_6_1481517272899_309715" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; height: auto; padding: 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mASHEY 2102</font></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_6_1481517272899_309715" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; height: auto; padding: 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">§B.1 mentioned Singer’s involvement with tobacco, AdTI, TII and

TASSC 225, but focus now shifts to Heartland, for which tobacco has been

far more consistently lucrative. Heartland cooperated often with<b> Philip

Morris people, especially Roy Marden</b>. Tina Wall wrote to Joe Bast,

03/06/96: 226

“Thank you for the news on the ALEC model legislation program.

Roy mentioned this project to me too and his participation on the board.”

Marden sent PM-internal email 04/22/97:227

“Mike DeBow of the Alabama AGs office and co-author of the Task Force

report presented the results of that report in a paper to the Association for

Private Enterprise Education (APEE) weekend before last. He has agreed to

have The Heartland Institute, an Illinois-based policy group with which we

work, publish a 24-page summary of the report/paper as a policy study. This will

be released late next week, with a distribution of at least 3000 (half journalists,

the remainder state Constitutional officers and business types) . Heartland

would be willing to do a full run of 10,000 (which would include every state

legislator and Member of Congress) if they can get the funding for the 7000

differential . I am getting faxed later what this will cost ... . and I think we

should consider this.” IRS-5L

The reader might compare that with Heartland claims from 2000:228

“Heartland does not conduct contract research. This means we do not agree to

conduct research or write commentaries in return for payment by an interested

party.”

There may have never been a specific contract to write that report, but a

think tank might remind a funder of past efforts when asking for money

next year. PM certainly reviewed funding every year.

Most such requests were likely done verbally or via non-public letters or

emails. §G.1 gives a rare public example of a begging letter, from Bast to

Marden. Of course, it helps to have an actively-engaged Board member

who has corporate money to spend. Much information need not ever be

written where it might become public.

225 MAS2010 p.76, www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=TASSC

Singer’s book “Hot Talk, Cold Science” was published by TII, also in list.

226

legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/kll57d00/pdf

227

legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ayq76c00/pdf

228 web.archive.org/web/20000304223313/ heartland.org/about/funding.htm</font></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_6_1481517272899_309715" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; height: auto; padding: 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_6_1481517272899_309715" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; height: auto; padding: 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marden sent email 07/16/99:229

“From: Harden, Roy- Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 4:05 PM

To: Scruggs, John; Cc: Gomez, Frank; Walls, Tina’ Subject: Conference call…

I've contacted Larry Reed, president of the Mackinac Center in Midland, MI,

who perviously wrote a backgrounder on the issue & contacted fed & st

legislators in MI. He knows Abraham230 well, & before cob today is sending him

a note to "encourage him to do the right thing". He will also follow up w/a call

@ the beginning of the wk. Reed also appeared on radio station WBCK-Battle

Creek for an hr this am to talk about the issue.* I serve on the Heartland Institute

(IL) Board w/Jim Fitzgerald, Peter's231 brother. I &/or the Heartland president

are following up w/Jim; the president knows Peter well & will be calling

him this afternoon. IRS-5L

I have a call in to NAM232 to ask them to follow up w/House Apps.”

Roy Marden started on Heartland’s Board no later than 1996 and remained

through September 2008 (E&CN).

233 He certainly was “actively engaged.”

Post-2001 Tobacco funding is unknown.

Would the reader guess that it continued for years or not?

Even ignoring plausible off-record lobbying, Heartland’s

E&CN offered frequent tobacco-supportive articles and

advertisements, §W4.1. The first lines list 13 smokingrelated articles and 8 advertisements, “Smokers Lounge” or

“Do you smoke?” See Z.2006.05-6 for example.

Z.2008.07-8 shows “Best Available Scientific Evidence

Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger”

Why exactly do such appear in E&CN?

They might reflect tobacco funding or perhaps gain smoker sympathy for

other issues. “The EPA is unfair to smokers.” might be generalized, as

Joseph Bast did in “Joe Camel is Innocent!” excerpted later.

229

legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mdf89h00/pdf

230 I do not yet know who this is.

231 That seems to be Peter Fitzgerald, a US Senator at the time:

bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=f000442

232 legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zqs75c00/pdf PM considered NAM an ally and

usually had a senior executive on its Board.

233heartland.org/sites/default/files/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/fil

es/pdfs/23410.pdf Marden does not appear on the 2008 990, so he plausibly

departed by YE2008.</font></div></div><div id="bodyContent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div>