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Thursday, October 06, 2011TOBACCO

Today is the "Day of Digital Archives"

This month is Archives Month! In honor of the first annual Day of Digital Archives, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library's manager extraordinaire has written up a post detailing just what LTDL is all about:  http://t.co/5wu1LohE

Follow the many and varied archives that will be tweeting today - #digitalArchivesDay
Wednesday, September 21, 2011TOBACCO

Postdoc Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research starting July 2012

Applications are due January 25, 2012 for fellowships beginning July 2, 2012.

Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree
The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. The program stresses the skills needed to conduct research in diverse, collaborative transdisciplinary settings, emphasizing leadership in catalyzing the integration of multiple disciplines and translating science to policy and clinical practice.  Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program.  Fellows have come from medicine, public health, nursing, economics, anthropology, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.  Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance.

The Center offers individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics.  UCSF is a global leader in tobacco science, a World Health Organization collaborating center, and home of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Qualified applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $38,496-$53,112, according to the NIH stipend scale.  Learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, current fellows, and faculty and their research interests at  www.tobacco.ucsf.edu.




Thursday, September 15, 2011TOBACCO

28,000+ New Documents Posted to LTDL

New documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today - the breakdown is:

  •  Brown and Williamson - 102 documents
  •  Lorillard - 24,203 confidential document records and 4,024 public documents
  •  RJ Reynolds - 116 "Court Action" documents - these are the court orders that made certain privileged documents publicly accessible
New features:
  • We now have links to the RJR Court Action documents in the "Express Waiver" fields of certain BW, RJR and ATCo privileged documents.  These Court Action documents are the court orders that made the privileged documents publicly accessible.  In conjunction with this new "Express Waiver" field, we have the "Related" field which links to the publicly accessible document that has the exact same bates number as the document designated as privileged or confidential. Clicking on "Related" will take you to this duplicate document which may contain the PDF.


Wednesday, September 14, 2011TOBACCO

Child labour: the tobacco industry's smoking gun

"Financial reports for 2008 by the five big tobacco companies - BAT, Philip Morris, China National Tobacco Company, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco - show that they collectively earned $300bn. This is more money than the GDP of all but 40 countries worldwide. Part of the reason for those huge profits is that tobacco giants benefit from $1.2bn in unpaid child labour costs, according to Otañez's colleague Prof Stanton Glantz."

Read the entire article at the Guardian.

Related resources:
Read the 2006 Otanez, Muggli, Hurt and Glantz article "Eliminating child labour in Malawi: a British American Tobacco corporate responsibility project to sidestep tobacco labour exploitation" at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2005.014993

A quick search for documents in the BAT collection on LTDL where country = Malawi.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011TOBACCO

Additions to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

Need some good reading material over the long weekend? Want to brush up on tobacco industry marketing tactics? Have you been hearing the outcry regarding "ALEC" and want to know how they tie into the tobacco industry?

12 new papers and reports have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Check out articles about
corporate social responsibility, ALEC and the tobacco industry, tobacco marketing strategies linked with alcohol, and tobacco companies and the Black Press to name just a few.

The entire bibliography can also be viewed, sorted, searched, and downloaded on RefShare


Thursday, August 18, 2011TOBACCO

150,000+ Documents Posted to LTDL

Over 150,000 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Here's the breakdown by collection:

Philip Morris - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 6,911
Philip Morris - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 6,065

RJ Reynolds - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 8,239
RJ Reynolds - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 355

American Tobacco - Public docs - 11,283
American Tobacco - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 14,848
American Tobacco - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 3,465

B&W - Public docs - 7,003
B&W - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 34,047
B&W - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 65,137

Lorillard - Public docs - 3
Lorillard - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 2

Multimedia - 2


New Feature:

With the addition of tens of thousands of new documents from the tobacco companies' "Privilege Logs" and "Confidential Indexes," we find we may actually have a copy of a document designated as privileged or confidential. There are multiple reasons for this. In some lawsuits, plaintiffs have challenged tobacco companies' assertions of privilege and courts ordered the documents to be produced such as with the Bliley documents. If the tobacco companies previously put Bliley Documents on their privilege logs, their privilege assertion generates one entry for a document record in LTDL and a copy from the Bliley Collection or elsewhere generates another record entry in LTDL. Similar processes have occurred as a result of privilege challenges in other lawsuits, including United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.

Another way that we may acquire images of such documents occurs when companies voluntarily withdraw their previous privilege claims. This can happen when companies review documents previously withheld on privilege grounds, redact portions that they consider privileged, and post the rest. When these various scenarios occur, there will be more than one record for the document in question, a "privileged" or "confidential" record and a "public" record.

When we find such matches during our ingest of new documents, we will provide a link to the viewable document in a new metadata field called "Related":


Thursday, August 11, 2011TOBACCO

Revisit the "Mangini Collection"

For a comprehensive look at how an industry targets minors, check out the Mangini Collection on LTDL.

Take a look at the 81 documents that were used as supporting documentation for the 1998 Coughlin and Janacek report, "A Review of RJ Reynolds' Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Civil Number 939359: The Case that Rid California and the American Landscape of 'Joe Camel'."

Magnini vs. RJ Reynolds challenged the company for targeting minors with its "Joe Camel" advertising campaign and the highlighted documents provide an amazing glimpse into how far an industry will go to sell their product.