Linwood Hines

Linwood Hines was an Associate Industrial Engineer with Philip Morris USA and was a founding member of the early Philip Morris smokers rights group American Smokers Alliance (ASA).

= Biography =

Linwood Hines worked at Philip Morris's Richmond Stockton St. plant as an associate industrial engineer in the Environmental Health & Safety Department. By 1989, he had been with the company for 11 years.

Hines was a founder of the PM-organized smokers' rights group the American Smokers Alliance (ASA), along with vocal smokers rights advocate Stephen Handman. ASA received funding from Philip Morris [Ref. 2025385639, 2046900655/0666, 2073816607] . Philip Morris worked through ASA to run attack advertising against public health advocates that the company could not run itself. In 1995 a group called the "130/10 Club" organized by Handman ran ads in the Washington Times attacking anti-tobacco researcher Stanton Glantz and urging Congress revoke his National Cancer Institute funding to study tobacco company funding of legislators.

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