INFACT's Hall of Shame Index:

The Corporate Imbalance Sheet

Some Data RJR Nabisco WON'T Be Boasting About

86%

U.S. adults wanting their member of Congress to support proposed FDA action to stop tobacco marketing to children, July 1995

$823,000

RJR Nabisco "soft money" contributions to U.S. political parties in 1995

6

Bills introduced in the 104th Congress to block FDA regulation of tobacco

$77,000

1986-1995 PAC contributions by RJR Nabisco and other tobacco corporations to Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, sponsor of a bill that would block FDA's attempt to end tobacco brand sponsorship of stock car racing

$76,000

1986-1995 PAC contributions by RJR Nabisco and other tobacco corporations to Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford, sponsor of a bill that would prohibit FDA regulation of tobacco

$18,000

Six months' worth of 1995 PAC contributions from RJR Nabisco and other tobacco corporations to Representative Lewis Payne of Virginia, sponsor of a bill that would prohibit FDA regulation of tobacco

$3,279,696

Value of advertising space purchased by RJR Nabisco in just six major U.S. newspapers for a series of full-page ads attacking the FDA proposals over one month last fall

42,000

Pages submitted to the FDA by RJR Nabisco and other tobacco corporations as public comment on the proposed regulation of tobacco marketing to children

81%

Americans who don't trust tobacco corporations' voluntary restrictions on tobacco marketing to children -- such as RJR Nabisco's "Right Decisions, Right Now" and "It's the Law" programs

88%

U.S. adults wanting their member of Congress to support proposed FDA action to stop tobacco marketing to children, February 1996

Camel Cash:

You Can't Buy Democracy!

Sources: Available upon request