[3] Tozzi initially worked as a consulting economist for a Washington law firm that provided lobbying services to the tobacco industry.
[4] However they joined forces in about 1990 to establish Federal Focus and a year or so later they set up Multinational Business Services which Auchter mainly fronted.
In 1992 Tozzi produced a study for the tobacco industry in opposition to the EPA's Risk Assessment of lung cancer and respiratory effects from second hand smoking (known as ETS).
[9] They were only one of a number of institutions (some famous university departments) who received tobacco grants, and also some well-known scientists paid to promote the idea that 'risks' could be measured outside the discipline of biomedical research and epidemiology.
[10] Tozzi and Auchter were quite blatant in their use of their so-called non-profit organisations to provide richly rewarding lobbying services to the tobacco industry [11] and Philip Morris (and probably other chemical companies) were willing to pay.