Big Tobacco

Big Tobacco is a pejorative term often applied to the tobacco industry in general, or more particularly to the "big three" tobacco corporations in the United States. The phrase is often used in TheTruth.com, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and other anti-smoking ad campaigns funded by the Master Settlement Agreement. The term usually refers to tobacco companies Philip Morris (Altria),R. J. Reynolds (RJR) and British American Tobacco, but can also include other companies with a major stake in tobacco consumption, such as Lorillard or Brown & Williamson.

## Other uses[edit | edit source]

One of the villains in the comic movie Mystery Men, the cigar-chomping leader of a business-themed gang, uses the pseudonym 'Big Tobacco'.

In addition, Big Tobacco is featured in the movie Thank You for Smoking. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) plays a lobbyist for Big Tobacco.

"Big Tobacco didn't spend billions of dollars making it impossible to quit smoking so that anyone with a hammer, an ice pick, and good aim could make it any easier." Stephen Colbert

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Altria Group (Philip Morris)
* American Tobacco Company
* British American Tobacco
* Brown & Williamson
* Liggett Group
* Lorillard Tobacco Company
* R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
* Reynolds American Inc.
* Big Oil
* Big Chocolate
* Big business

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