Just how many astroturf groups did tobacco fund?

Thanks to the Tobacco documents we've learned how tobacco companies have secretly funded astroturf organizations like junkscience.com, secretly paid for think tanks to run political campaigns for them, and even created their own astroturf scientific journal. The latest pile of astoturf to be uncovered is detailed in a new paper by Anne Landman, Daniel Cortese and Stanton Glantz:

NEJM -- A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat

A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat
David M. Dosa, M.D., M.P.H.

Jacqueline R. Salek

I will miss her.

Jackie R. Salek, 46, of San Marcos died Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001 in San Marcos. She was born in Rockne on Jan. 24, 1955, to Steve and Vondell Probst Salek.

She was a 1973 graduate of Bastrop High School and graduated from Texas A&M University in 1984 with a bachelor of science degree in agriculture. She was employed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Austin.

Every holiday season, she helped out a Fantasia Flowers in Lockhart. She will be remembered for her love of nature and her care of homeless animals. She was preceded in death by her parents; infant sister, Noel Salek; grandfather, Ernest Probst; and lifelong friend Tory Lehman.

Survivors include her grandmother, Nora Probst of Rockne; sister, Terry Salek of San Marcos; uncle, Gordon Probst of Hope, Idaho; uncle and aunt, Lorene and Cliff Redus of Rockne; Jadwiga Salek of Warsaw, Poland; and five cousins.

Father Josef Musiol conducted the graveside service on Friday morning, Oct. 19, in Sacred Heart Cemetery Rockne. Deacon Roger Muehr assisted as a deacon.

Found another article about Jackie.

Posted: Oct 29, 2001

Two more people came back to Rockne to stay this past week in October 2001. Jackie Salek (daughter of the late Steve and Vondell Prosbt Salek and niece of Lorene Probst Redus & Gordon Probst) and Emma (Lehman) Mayo, sister of Irene Bauer, Linda Nolte, Lee Lehman and Clarence Lehman. Jackie and Emma, both natives of the Rockne community, were buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Rockne.
Smoky Stover, a treasured friend of both families, was present at the graveside service for Emma Mayo. We went over to talk to him and tell him that we had come in early from Virginia a couple times, especially to see him at parties at Lee' Lehman's Retreat Ranch. Lee sponsored the annual October party for Smoky and their many friends.
Smoky Stover and his Band also performed for the Rockne Historical Association Fundraiser in October 1993 at the Rockne VFW Hall.
AnnaLee invited us to the Peter Goertz reunion. We went and saw a lot of good people. Ate a lot of good food. Talked to babies that are now close to 50 years old with grandbabies of their own.
Life in Rockne - very full and busy!!!!!!!
- Kay & Del Goertz -
* Italics are editor's additions.

Jackie gave Dee and I a plant as a wedding gift, we still have it; it has grown and been re potted many times. It is now is three seperate pots.

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