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: Philip Morris (Altria), Reynolds American (RJR) and Lorillard. The phrase is often used in TheTruth.com, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and other anti-smoking ad campaigns funded by the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 which involved the four largest original participating manufacturers (OPMs) of United States tobacco companies (Philip Morris Inc., R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard).
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or tobacco:
“Holly: Oh, Brad, I’d do my act in clown alley or the horse stop for you. I’d do anything if it was just for you.
Brad: Pigeon, look. Out under the sky you know how I feel about you. But under the Big Top one performer’s just like another to me.”
—Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)
“when her husband came,
complaining about the tobacco spit on him,
they decided to run North
for a free evening.”
—Carole Gregory Clemmons (b. 1945)