title: Political coalitions and working women: how the tobacco industry built a relationship with the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess how the tobacco industry established a political relationship with the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and to learn from this example how tobacco control advocates can work more effectively with organisations with which working class women are affiliated.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study reviewed tobacco industry documents to determine Tobacco Institute strategy, using the CLUW News and other published material to corroborate our findings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Tobacco Institute was effective at framing excise tax and smokefree worksite issues in a way that facilitated CLUW's support of industry positions on these issues. The Tobacco Institute was also willing to reciprocate by providing financial and other kinds of support to CLUW.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While tobacco control missed an opportunity to partner with CLUW on smokefree worksites and excise taxes in the 1980s and 1990s, tobacco control can also use issue framing and reciprocity to form coalitions with organisations representing the interests of working women.
authors: Community Health Program, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA. edith.balbach@tufts.edu
authors: Edith D
authors: ED
authors: Balbach
authors: Abby
authors: A
authors: Herzberg
authors: Elizabeth M
authors: EM
authors: Barbeau
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007750:Labor Unions / Q000458:organization & administration; D011057:Politics; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013660:Taxes; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States; D014931:Women, Working
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