Bob Burton replied on Permalink
The discovery of the PM edit
After posting this I discovered that the PM edit on the Marlboro page had been mentioned elsewhere previously. It seems the first person to spot the changes was Gene Borio who posted a note "[http://www.tobacco.org/resources/general/wikiscanner.html Tobacco Company Wikipedia Edits Revealed]" to <em>Tobacco.org</em> on August 16. When I was trawling through Wikiscanner on the names of various PR firms and companies last weekend and then subsequently writing the post, I forgot to search the web to see if it had been picked up anywhere else. A few had, though not on why the evidence indicated the original statement was accurate for the US.