[3]: 25 The Tobacco Institute was founded in 1958 as a trade association by cigarette manufacturers, who funded it proportionally to each company's sales.
[6] The Tobacco Institute collected intelligence on attitudes toward smoking, developed strategies, and lobbied legislators.
A 1985 meeting of the executive committee of the Tobacco Institute outlined plans to broaden the indoor air quality issue.
[1]: 293–294 In 1990 the Tobacco Institute opposed federal regulations banning smoking on domestic airline flights.
The ad encourages tolerance of smokers by depicting smoking as a "personal choice" and a "small ritual".
Another rebuttal[12] was issued to James Repace and Alfred Lowrey's report "A Quantitative Estimate of Nonsmokers' Lung Cancer Risk."
[1]: 306 In at least one case the Tobacco Institute paid for an article to be written and placed in a major national magazine while keeping their involvement secret.
The article, "To Smoke or Not to Smoke—That is still the Question"[16] by Stanley Frank was published in the January 1968 issue of True magazine.