Wednesday, August 03, 2011TOBACCO

Murdoch's Ties to Big Tobacco

Murdoch's connection to Philip Morris Co. revealed through secret industry documents on Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and Tobaccodocuments.org.

"Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking problems have been all over the news in recent days, but it wasn't too long ago his media properties were providing a supportive environment for Big Tobacco that went largely unreported."

Read the rest of the story at rabble.ca - http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/donald-gutstein/2011/07/murdoch%E2%80%99s-ties-big-tobacco

Monday, August 01, 2011DRUG

Fake drug studies as marketing tools

A number of sources last month have exposed the pharmaceutical industry marketing tactic known as “seeding trials”. The purpose of a seeding trial is not to advance research but to make doctors familiar with a new drug by inviting them to take part in a research study and paying them for each subject they recruit. As the trial proceeds, the doctors gradually get to know the drug, making them more likely to prescribe it later.

• Study of Neurontin: Titrate to Effect, Profile of Safety (STEPS) Trial: Narrative Account of a Gabapentin Seeding Trial
  Samuel Drumholz; David Egilman; Joseph Ross
  Archives of Internal Medicine 2011;171(12):1100-1107. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2011.241
  


• Useless Studies, Real Harm
  Carl Elliott, NY Times. July 29, 2011, page A27

Monday, August 01, 2011TOBACCO

Expose Tobacco Industry Projects and Post Online!

TobaccoWiki is an online research project hosted and maintained by The Center for Media and Democracy, the creator of SourceWatch.org. The purpose of TobaccoWiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been learned about the industry through its documents on the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

Help us fill in gaps of knowledge surrounding Tobacco Industry Projects and Operations. Anyone can contribute to this amazing resource - all you need to do is sign up and start searching!

Friday, July 29, 2011TOBACCO

Vid of the Week - Testimony of PM scientists investigating nicotine in rats

Testimony of Victor DeNoble and Paul Mele, two research scientists formerly employed by Philip Morris to investigate the behavioral and physiological effects of nicotine on rats, measuring self-administration, tolerance, and dependency. PM prevented these scientists from publishing their findings, fired them, and closed the unit conducting the research.

Thursday, July 21, 2011TOBACCO

Over 150,000 PM and RJR Documents Added Today

Wednesday, July 20, 2011TOBACCO

Report Released - "Tobacco Money in California"

Tobacco interests spent a total of $9.3 million on campaign contributions and lobbying in California during the 2009-2010 election cycle and have spent nearly $100 million over the last decade, according to a new report by the Center for Tobacco Policy & Organizing, a project of the American Lung Association in California.

http://www.lungusa.org/associations/states/california/for-the-media/tobacco-interests-spent.html

Thursday, June 30, 2011TOBACCO

116,000+ Documents Added to LTDL

116,464 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today. The breakdown is as follows:

British American Tobacco - 65 documents

Philip Morris -

102,597 publicly available documents

6,060 privileged documents - only the metadata is currently available

7,662 confidential documents - only the metadata is currently available

This brings the total number of documents in LTDL to 13,347,978!

In addition to new documents, we have also updated the Philip Morris Glossary of Names taken from the Privilege Log, and added a new page under the Help tab listing the 4-letter Case Name codes found in the Litigation Usage field (usage:). We hope this will aid users in finding documents pertaining to specific cases in some of the collections.

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