The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/06/2019

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00:01:38 1 Goals and strategies
00:02:25 1.1 Philip Morris &amp; APCO
00:05:03 1.2 Astroturfing
00:06:37 1.3 Coopting the media
00:08:10 2 History
00:09:14 3 Science advisors and board members
00:10:12 4 In popular culture



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SUMMARY
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The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), formerly The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, was an industry-funded lobby group and crisis management vehicle, and was created in 1993 by Phillip Morris and APCO in response to a 1992 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report which identified secondhand smoke as a "confirmed" human carcinogen. TASSC's stated objectives were to: (1) discredit the EPA report; (2) fight anti-smoking legislation; and (3) pro-actively pass legislation favourable to the tobacco industry.
Philip Morris hired APCO Worldwide, a communications consultancy with expertise in crisis management, handling sensitive political issues, lobbying, media relations, coalition building, opinion research, market entry, corporate social responsibility, and online communication.   APCO's designed strategies for TASSC aimed at establishing TASSC as "a credible source for reporters when questioning the validity of scientific studies" and to "Encourage the public to question – from the grassroots up – the validity of scientific studies".