Mapping the Conspiracy
The tobacco documents are filled with geographical identifiers: Countries to expand into, universities to secretly support, local anti-smoking ordinances to squash. On this page, you can find geospatial visualizations that use this data to track the industry's expanding influence across the globe.
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Globalizing Death
Mapping Big Tobacco's Worldwide Expansion
Big Tobacco’s success over the last half century has depended more and more on exporting cigarettes all over the world. This visualization allows you to trace the expansion of tobacco companies into ever new countries from the 1950s onward.
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A "Shield" and "Front" for the Industry
Visualizing the Council for Tobacco Research's Distraction and Subversion Research
The Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) was at the center of the industry's efforts to produce doubts about smoking's health harms. Here, you can explore more than 10,000 CTR grant applications that document the industry's support for irrelevant "distraction science."