"I deleted the unsubstantiated section about TII having taken money from tobacco companies. That section had two sources, the book Merchants of Doubt, and a pdf of an article titled ""Smoke and Mirrors: The Tobacco Industry's Influence on the Phony ""Grassroots"" Campaign for Liability Limits"".  I have read and searched through Merchants of Doubt and there is zero mention in it about tobacco donations to TII.  The ″Smoke and Mirrors″ article says “[The] Independent Institute published a study opposing cigarette taxes while taking money from several major tobacco firms.” Their source for this is “Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, Tobacco Industry Front Groups, October 11, 1995”.  However, there is no link to this source or way to find it online, so there is no way of verifying it or finding out what it is based on, so it is heresay.  Wikipedia should certainly not post that TII took tobacco donations until a verifiable primary source can be found to back it up.  Even if such a source does exist, the relevance of posting about tobacco donations is dubious.  Even if TII had taken donations from the tobacco industry in the '90s, that is hardly notable in the context of a multi-million dollar organization that has taken donations from thousands of sources over the years.     

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