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Thursday, May 10, 2012TOBACCO

42,000+ New Documents Posted

42,504 documents added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

This includes:
  • 42,485 RJ Reynolds public and confidential documents
  • 19 documents in the new special collection, "Plain Packaging." This is a small Research Collection of internal documents, disseminated by an anonymous whistleblower in 2010, detailing communication between Philip Morris in Melbourne, Australia, and a PR/ad agency hired by PMI to work on a campaign against plain packaging.
Thursday, April 19, 2012TOBACCO

Opinion and Order in the RJR v FDA Warning Labels Lawsuit

Visit the UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives Litigation section for newly posted court documents from the RJR v. FDA lawsuit on graphic warning labels.  Judge Leon's Opinion and Order regarding plaintiffs' (RJ Reynolds, et al.) motion for summary judgment is now up - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation/fda

Leon upheld the earlier preliminary injunction and found the FDA's proposed textual and graphic warnings constituted compelled commercial speech and thereby violated the First Amendment.
Monday, April 16, 2012TOBACCO

Follow the Historic $27B Canadian Tobacco Lawsuit

A $27-billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of an estimated 1.8 million Quebec smokers against Canada’s three largest tobacco companies began on March 12, 2012.

Documents have already been entered as evidence and you can follow the trial on the following blogs:(updates are daily, Monday-Thursday, during the first three weeks of every month)

 
The companies, Imperial Tobacco Canada, JTI-Macdonald Corp and Rothmans Benson & Hedges, are named in the class-action suit by a group of current and former smokers in the province of Quebec.
It's the first time tobacco companies have gone to trial in a civil suit in Canada and the central question is whether the companies adequately warned smokers of the dangers of cigarettes.

The case will likely produce at least 1 million documents over the course of this year and next!

 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012TOBACCO

Formerly Confidential Documents Available!

RJ Reynolds released on its document website 12,000 formerly confidential documents. Judge Gladys Kessler, in her ruling in the Department of Justice's case against the major US tobacco companies, required the companies to review their claims of confidentiality (usually based on trade secrets) every three years.  And RJR has finally started to do just that.  Some of these documents may contain interesting information. 

We will add these documents to LTDL in the not-to-distant future but thought some of you might be interested in looking at them as soon as possible. To find these documents, go to the website and enter "20120312" without the quotes in the Date Loaded query box, and click the Search button.

Have fun! Let us know if you find any startling revelations.
Thursday, March 15, 2012TOBACCO

New PM Docs Added to LTDL

2420 Philip Morris documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.  The breakdown is as follows:
  • 1,973 Public documents
  • 207 designated Privileged
  • 240 designated Confidential
Wednesday, March 07, 2012TOBACCO

2012 Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

 

Legacy's Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

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Call for Nominations
Nominate a Deserving Colleague for Legacy’s Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

Legacy is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2012 Tobacco Industry Documents Awards. The awards include the Sybil G. Jacobs Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents and the Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents (for individuals 24 years of age or younger).
These awards recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to the health of the public in the recent past through use of tobacco documents. The awards honor innovation in the use and application of tobacco industry documents to further the goals of tobacco prevention and control in order to help build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Those nominated should be individuals who have made a notable impact through innovative use of tobacco industry documents as applied to research, policy, or advocacy.
These awards will be presented at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health to be held August 15-17, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.

To submit a nomination and for more information, please visit www.legacyforhealth.org/awards.

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS – Friday, March 30, 2012
Monday, March 05, 2012TOBACCO

New research added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography!

Eight (8) new papers were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography today.  Read about the history of the discovery of the cigarette-lung cancer link, tobacco industry strategies to attract young smokers in Spain, and a brief overview of the tobacco industry in the last 20 years, to name a few.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docsbiblio