Friday, April 06, 2018TOBACCO

250+ New Tobacco Industry Documents Posted

257 tobacco documents were posted to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library today.

• 22 American Tobacco Company records
• 23 Brown & Williamson records
• 4 Philip Morris records
• 205 RJ Reynolds records
• 3 Canadian Tobacco Industry collection records

Thursday, March 08, 2018TOBACCO

New Tobacco Industry Documents Posted

Document Additions:
38 new tobacco documents were added to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library today - the breakdown is:

• 9 Lorillard records
• 19 Philip Morris records - a majority are depositions by corporate representatives
• 10 RJ Reynolds records

New Papers and Publications :
Two (2) new papers using the tobacco documents were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography-

• D'Silva, O'Gara & Villaluz (2018) Tobacco industry misappropriation of American Indian culture and traditional tobacco
  
• Jackler & Ayoub (2018) 'Addressed to you not as a smoker… but as a doctor’: doctor-targeted cigarette advertisements in JAMA

Wednesday, February 21, 2018TOBACCO

Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop - May 11, 2018

We are happy to announce our Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop, which will be held on Friday, May 11, 2018. Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Fellowship Director at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education will be our keynote speaker.

We are also pleased to be able to offer the Truth Initiative Travel Scholarship once again this year. The link for information about the Scholarship, including a link to the application can be found at https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/truth-initiative-travel-scholarship.

• To register for the workshop, go to http://bit.ly/TDWS2018 by Friday, April 13, 2018
• To submit a scholarship application, go to http://bit.ly/TruthScholarship2018 by Monday, March 26, 2018, 12:00pm PST

Thursday, February 08, 2018TOBACCO

More Confidential Documents Released

Document Additions
680 new tobacco industry documents were posted today! This includes:

• 168 Lorillard records (the majority were previously confidential or privileged)
• 421 RJ Reynolds records (previously confidential)
• 45 new depositions and trial transcripts from Engle Progeny Tobacco Cases
• 34 Philip Morris records
• 12 American Tobacco Company records

New Papers and Publications
2 new papers were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography -

• Iida & Proctor (2018). ‘The industry must be inconspicuous’: Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation
• Elias & Ling (2018). Origins of tobacco harm reduction in the UK: the 'Product Modification Programme' (1972-1991)

New Features
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Friday, January 12, 2018TOBACCO

6000 New Tobacco Documents Posted

6077 new tobacco industry documents were added to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library!
The breakdown is:

• 599 Brown & Williamson records - most were previously confidential
• 5230 Lorillard records - most were previously confidential
• 247 Philip Morris records
• 1 RJ Reynolds confidential record

Friday, December 15, 2017TOBACCO

Over 10,000 Formerly Confidential RJR Documents Posted...

The Library added a total of 10,537 new tobacco industry documents today. This is our final batch of postings for 2017 but we will resume with more documents next month!

• 3 B&W records
• 23 Lorillard records
• 4 Philip Morris records
• 10,451 RJ Reynolds records - a majority of these were formerly confidential but were downgraded and released last month
• 56 Depositions and Trial Transcripts from the current Engle Progeny suits

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Bibliography update:

2 new papers were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography bringing the total to 966 publications and papers written using the tobacco documents as a primary resource

Monday, December 04, 2017TOBACCO

Recent papers showing Tobacco Industry influence in peer-reviewed journals and the ADA

Two recently published journal articles made extensive use of the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents to shed light on the industry's influence in regulatory policy and scholarship:

• Velicer,C.;St Helen,G.;Glantz,S.A. Tobacco papers and tobacco industry ties in regulatory toxicology and pharmacology. Journal of Public Health Policy. 2017 November.
  
  The authors examined the relationship between the tobacco industry and the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (RTP) using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and internet sources. They determined the funding relationships, and categorized the conclusions of all 52 RTP papers on tobacco or nicotine between January 2013 and June 2015, as "positive", "negative" or "neutral" for the tobacco industry. RTP's editor, 57% (4/7) of associate editors and 37% (14/38) of editorial board members had worked or consulted for tobacco companies. Almost all (96%, 50/52) of the papers had authors with tobacco industry ties. Seventy-six percent (38/50) of these papers drew conclusions positive for industry; none drew negative conclusions. The two papers by authors not related to the tobacco industry reached conclusions negative to the industry (p < .001). These results call into question the confidence that members of the scientific community and tobacco product regulators worldwide can have in the conclusions of papers published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology.


• van der Eijk,Y.;Glantz,S.A. Tobacco industry attempts to frame smoking as a 'disability' under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. PLoS One 2017 Nov 27;12(11):e0188188
  
  Using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and Congressional records, the authors examined the tobacco industry's involvement with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). During legislative drafting of the ADA (1989-1990), the Tobacco Institute, the tobacco industry's lobbying and public relations arm at the time, worked with industry lawyers and civil rights groups to include smoking in the ADA's definition of "disability." Focus was on smoking as a perceived rather than actual disability so that tobacco companies could maintain that smoking is not addictive. Language that would have explicitly excluded smoking from ADA coverage was weakened or omitted. Tobacco Institute lawyers did not think the argument that smokers are "disabled" would convince the courts, so in the two years after the ADA was signed into law, the Tobacco Institute paid a lawyer to conduct media tours, seminars, and write articles to convince employers that hiring only non-smokers would violate the ADA. The ultimate goal of these activities was to deter employers from promoting a healthy, tobacco-free workforce and, more broadly, to promote the social acceptability of smoking.

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