from foundation grants. In the 1980s, EPI took money from the Tobacco Institute, a now-defunct tobacco industry trade group, to oppose excise taxes on the tobacco industry's behalf. The Tobacco Institute worked with groups like EPI "to support the release of studies, editorials, press briefings, and testimony against regressive excise taxes" that would negatively impact the tobacco industry's bottom line if passed. References Political and economic think tanks in the United States Progressive organizations in the United States Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. Think tanks established in 1986 1986 establishments in Washington, D.C. 501(c)(3) organizations