Interesting link about tobacco money and the arts.  http://www.tompkins-co.org/wellness/tobaccofree/asp/whogets.htm.

Each of these NYC-based arts organizations received $100,000 or more from Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris Tobacco, in 2004:

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Romare Bearden Foundation, Inc., Whitney Museum of American Art, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc., Aaron Davis Hall, Museum of Modern Art, Dance Theater Workshop, The Studio Museum in Harlem 



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My site has a strict policy of not accepting any money from tobacco
companies or unethical companies in general. In fact, I would really
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