Report: “Tobacco Money, Tobacco People Tobacco Policies. How Millions of Tobacco Dollars and Tobacco People in High Places Drive White House Pro-Tobacco Industry Policies”
In a report, Public Citizen discussed how soft-money contributions to the two major political parties by the tobacco industry increased dramatically between 1988 and 1992. In 1988, the Democrats received only $38,000 from the tobacco industry; in the first six months of 1992 they received $731,000. In 1988, the Republicans received $448,000 from the tobacco industry; in the first six months of 1992 they received $1.34 million.