BP [3], now officially responsible for the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history, has hired former Vice President Dick Cheney [4]'s campaign press secretary, Anne Womack-Kolton, to head its American public relations efforts. Womack is a former employee of the PR firm APCO Worldwide [5], perhaps best known for its work on behalf of the tobacco industry [6]. In 1995, Philip Morris [7] hired APCO to orchestrate a massive national "tort reform [8]" movement, and in 1993, PM hired APCO to organize the front group [9] The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition [10] to attack the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [11] after it rated secondhand smoke [12] a Group A Human Carcinogen, the same rating the agency gives asbestos and radon gas. Womack also served as a White House spokesperson [13], defending Bush's White House Office Of Faith-Based Initiatives. In announcing Womack-Kolton's hiring, BP only mentioned that she had been director of public affairs for the Department of Energy (DOE) under George W. Bush, but a DOE press release [14] boasts about her links to Cheney.