Monday, June 27, 2011
TOBACCONew Research into Menthol, Excise Taxes, Cigarette Filters and the FCTC
16 new papers and publications have been added to the
Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Read all about British American Tobacco's efforts to influence tax rates in Central America; the cigarette filter problem; Germany and the FCTC; and social responsibility in tobacco production. Also included in the additions are 7 papers that originated from document research conducted by UCSF for the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee on Menthol.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
DRUGDIDA adds Paxil documents
We're pleased to announce the addition of 296 documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) from litigation about Paxil (paroxetine), an antidepressant manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. POGO investigators found that NIH continues to fund academic researchers who use ghostwriters to write journal articles and other scientific communications.
POGO asked NIH to "implement new policies that will require institutions to ban ghostwriting, and to make NIH funding contingent upon periodic certification from institutions that ghostwriting is strictly prohibited and that enforcement mechanisms such as disciplinary action and dismissal are in place."
The documents can be found
here. And more information about the POGO investigation can be found
here.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
TOBACCOTobacco Companies Take Political Support Underground
"The industry, which includes employees and political action committees associated with tobacco companies, has taken to channeling money through harder-to-track organizations connected to candidates. These include leadership PACs, which members of Congress may sponsor, and 527 groups, which are barred from donating to candidates but may campaign and advertise on their behalf."
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2011/06/10805/tobacco-companies-take-political-support-undergroundThursday, June 16, 2011
DRUGMedical Students Exposure to Drug Industry Marketing
PLoS Medicine article "
Medical Students' Exposure to and Attitudes about the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Systematic Review" delves into medical student exposure to the pharmaceutical industry during their schooling and how this affects their attitudes towards the drug industry's marketing practices. Finds "undergraduate medical education provides substantial contact with pharmaceutical marketing, and the extent of such contact is associated with positive attitudes about marketing and skepticism about negative implications of these interactions."
Thursday, June 09, 2011
TOBACCO193,527 New Documents Added Today
LTDL added almost 200,000 new documents today bringing the total to 74,966,105 pages in 13,231,594 documents!
Here's a breakdown of the new documents added today:
- Philip Morris - 193,316 documents. These new documents include approx 8,600 documents that were previously confidential or privileged and are now available!
View the 2,788 "formerly confidential" documents
View the 5,369 "formerly privileged" documents
- British American Tobacco - 168 documents
- Multimedia Collection - 43 videos. These include 24 discs of cigarette TV commercials from the 1940s-1970s taken from the History of Advertising Archives through the Pollay Collection. Compilations highlight the various ad campaigns of major brands over the years as well as television show sponsorship including "Your Hit Parade", "Gunsmoke" and the "I Love Lucy" show.
To view all of the documents added to the site today, go to LTDL's Expert Search page and search for today's date (yyyymmdd) in the "date added to UCSF" field like =
ddu:20110609Wednesday, May 18, 2011
TOBACCOSex, Lies & Cigarettes
Get a sneak peek at Current TV's Vanguard documentary,
"Sex, Lies & Cigarettes" - correspondent Christof Putzel goes undercover at the 2010 World Tobacco Conference to hear tobacco company employees speak honestly about their products and business.
"Sex, Lies & Cigarettes" premieres Monday, June 27 at 9/8c on Current TV. Check the site for the cable channel in your area.
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