Industry Documents Digital Library

Thursday, July 18, 2013TOBACCO

Thousands More Industry Documents Posted

Over 1500 new tobacco industry documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.

982 Brown & Williamson documents
65 Lorillard documents
45 Multimedia items - all viewable on our Internet Archive space
225 Philip Morris documents
193 RJ Reynolds documents

Also, we added additional indexing information (people, organizations, brands) to over 2,800 documents and revised over 2 million documents where the industry had added to the metadata.

Tuesday, July 02, 2013TOBACCO

New Research from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

The Tobacco Documents Bibliography has added 5 new papers/publications for May and June 2013! These additions include papers on the tobacco industry and manufacturing doubt, medical tourism, cigarette packaging and the FDA's Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report.

Bibliography Highlight:

Tan CE, Kyriss T, Glantz SA. Tobacco Company Efforts to Influence the Food and Drug Administration-Commissioned Institute of Medicine Report Clearing the Smoke: An Analysis of Documents Released through Litigation. PLoS Med. 2013;10(5):e1001450.

The authors used the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library among other resources, to examine the tobacco companies' strategies to influence the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that prepared the 2001 report "Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm and Reduction", which set the tone for the development and regulation of tobacco products in the US.

A few key documents from LTDL:

A 1999 internal presentation at Philip Morris (PM) titled 'Potential for Worldwide Product Regulation' - described the IOM committee and also tracked the progress of several other tobacco regulatory efforts in Canada, the European Union, and the World Health Organization (WHO). This presentation identified harm reduction as a 'critical regulatory issue'...
1999.

"To overcome the IOM's closely guarded decision-making process, Multinational Business Services (MBS) suggested two ways PM could approach the IOM..." 1999.

"Consistent with their desire to gain greater credibility in the scientific community, PM scientists shared information with or on behalf of committee members Henderson and Hatsukami at least once more after completion of the IOM report. Henderson invited the industry scientists to speak in a symposium she was organizing at a Society of Toxicology national meeting, on the “scientific basis of reducing harm from cigarette smoking”" 2001.

Ellen Merlo, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, wrote, “If this is it, this is very good. Obviously, we agree and that's why we are working with public health officials and encouraging FDA regulation of the product… Very good positioning for us” 2001.

Thursday, June 27, 2013TOBACCO

Over a thousand new documents on LTDL today

1,770 new industry documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

The breakdown is as follows:

1,719 depositions from Engle Progeny cases in Florida.
38 new Multimedia Collection videos uploaded to Internet Archive
34 new Brown & Williamson and American Tobacco documents

And there are 8,002 Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds records that either have additional indexing information (people, organizations or brands) or have an actual document instead of one of those annoying Archive Location Variance sheets.

And, if that weren't enough, we're throwing in 125 Philip Morris records that the company changed for one reason or another.

Happy searching!

Thursday, June 06, 2013TOBACCO

50,000+ New Documents and the Joop Bouma/Trouw Research Collection

59,405 new industry documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

The breakdown is as follows:

4,489 new PM documents
28 new Multimedia Collection videos uploaded to Internet Archive
2 new RJ Reynolds documents
1,375 new Lorillard documents
52,802 new Brown & Williamson documents

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Also, LTDL is excited to announce a new special collection within the Research Collections:

The Joop Bouma/Trouw Collection

Joop Bouma is a Dutch investigative journalist working for the daily newspaper Trouw. He authored The Smokescreen: The Power of the Dutch Tobacco Industry, which examines influence-peddling in the government and media by cigarette companies, as well as behind-the-scenes deals surrounding the tobacco industry in the Netherlands, the largest cigarette exporter in the European Union. This small collection is comprised of documents obtained from the Dutch Government through two large Freedom of Information Act requests in 2000 and in 2011. There are 709 documents and a majority are in Dutch.

Thursday, May 16, 2013TOBACCO

45,000+ New Documents, Datasets and Databases

Over 45,000 new documents have been posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today:

97 new Philip Morris videos uploaded and available for viewing on Internet Archive

3,683 new Philip Morris documents

3,432 new American Tobacco documents

37,791 new RJR documents

16 new sites captured for the California Tobacco Control collection

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Included in the new Philip Morris documents are 23 database and electronic file resources from Philip Morris that may be of particular interest to researchers:

22 large data files from an INBIFO hard-drive (includes MS Access 2.0 database files, raw data, and MS Excel spreadsheets) and 1 large SAS Dataset file. We have put the data into zip files and are serving them up for users through a downloadable link in the documents record.

Monday, May 06, 2013TOBACCO

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Monday, April 29, 2013TOBACCO

8 New Publications from the Documents

The Tobacco Documents Bibliography has added 8 new papers/publications for March and April 2013! These additions include papers on the tobacco industry and the use of "light" cigarette descriptors, the impact of pack design, and the alliance between the tobacco and alcohol industries, to name a few.

Publication Highlight:

A Historical Review of R. J. Reynolds' Strategies for Marketing Tobacco to Hispanics in the United States by L. Iglesias-Rios and M. Parascandola
American Journal of Public Health 2013 Mar 14. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301256

Hispanics are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, and smoking is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality among this population. The authors analyzed tobacco industry documents regarding R. J. Reynolds’ marketing strategies toward the Hispanic population using tobacco industry documents from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu). Analysis revealed that by 1980 the company had developed a sophisticated surveillance system to track the market behavior of Hispanic smokers and understand their psychographics, cultural values, and attitudes. This information was translated into targeted marketing campaigns for the Winston and Camel brands.

A few key documents from LTDL:

"Spanish-speaking consumers [are] extremely loyal to brands advertised to them but to win them takes more than simple translations of product labels from English to Spanish. It requires regular advertising in order to build up confidence in the product but once that confidence is gained, they can be expected to be loyal forever." 1969.

[Letter to Ricardo Gomez, Area Marketing Manager, RJR] "We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on being elected to the 1991 Board of Trustees of the Mexican and American Foundation...We are extremely proud to have you as a Board Member of the Foundation and would like to once again, compliment you and RJ Reynolds Tobacco for your support. You are a great asset to RJ Reynolds and to the community." 1991.

"the newly arrived are less competent in the English language, less knowledgeable about American brands, and less sophisticated in their reactions to advertising on behalf of those brands." 1991.