Monday, February 06, 2012TOBACCO

Symposium Webcast Now Available

For those unable to attend the UCSF Tobacco Symposium "Its About a Billion Lives," the webcast is now available for viewing! 

Thursday, January 26, 2012TOBACCO

Tobacco Control Symposium at UCSF

Please join us for the annual "It’s About a Billion Lives" symposium on

Thursday, January 19, 2012TOBACCO

Tobacco Documents Webinar - February 2012

                  



Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in a meeting of tobacco industry advertising executives?  Or wondered how you could use their powerful words to give teens and adults reasons why not to smoke?  Well now here is your chance.  The purpose of the webinar is to provide a basic overview of the tobacco industry documents, how to access them, and how to incorporate the documents into your work.  Our speakers will provide examples of ways in which they have used the documents for research and advocacy purposes to promote tobacco-free communities.


The webinar is free.  Those who plan on participating will need both phone and computer/web access. 

Please click here to register. The deadline for registration is February 15. 


Please direct any questions to Rebecca Carle at rcarle@legacyforhealth.org or (202) 454-5748.   

Thursday, January 19, 2012TOBACCO

New Collection on Japan Tobacco and Smuggling

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added 100 new Philip Morris documents today and a new research collection, JTI Smuggling. 

The 42 documents in this new collection were obtained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and detail Japan Tobacco International's (JTI) smuggling activities throughout Russia, Moldova, the Balkans, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and their subsequent cover-up. See OCCRP's investigation, Big Trouble at Big Tobacco, for more in-depth information.

The JTI Smuggling collection can be found by searching for "jti" in the special collection (speccoll:) field on the Expert Search page, like - speccoll:jti

Wednesday, January 11, 2012TOBACCO

New FDA-Tobacco Litigation Page

The UCSF Tobacco Control Archives has a new FDA Lawsuits page in its Tobacco Litigation section.  This new page currently contains court documents and other resources surrounding the FDA's ruling regarding new cigarette warning labels and the appeal by the tobacco industry (RJ Reynolds et al., v. FDA).  This page will be updated as further litigation occurs and court documents are received.  

Wednesday, December 21, 2011TOBACCO

8 New Papers Added to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

The last 2 months of 2011 have brought us some fascinating research and analysis of tobacco industry documents and brings the total number of scholarly articles, reports and books/chapters using the documents to 758. 

The latest update adds Jackler and Samji's article "The price paid: Manipulation of otolaryngologists by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the emerging truth that smoking causes cancer" and Brandt's "Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics."  Wertz, et al's PloS article, "The Toxic Effects of Cigarette Additives. Philip Morris' Project Mix Reconsidered: An Analysis of Documents Released through Litigation" also has a bonus - a video featuring Prof. Stan Glantz explaining the paper and their findings: (http://www.scivee.tv/node/37778)


Find these papers and more at the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography and on RefShare

Monday, December 19, 2011TOBACCO

Document Disclosure Orders from the RICO case

We have posted the latest Consent Order to come out of the Tobacco Industry RICO case on the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive - this order involves document disclosure obligations and a $6.25M payment for document accessibility and indexing: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/sites/all/files/ucsf_assets/consentorder_USPM_20111215.pdf 

If you aren't familiar with the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive Litigation section, you should take a look - it contains pertinent court documents from not only the US vs. Philip Morris (RICO) case but the 1995 Brown and Williamson vs. UC Regents (re the secret documents that were to become LTDL) as well as other jurisdictions:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation/

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