Collections
Monday, January 04, 2010TOBACCO

New papers for the Tobacco Documents Bibliography

Read up! Nine new papers have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Topics include industry clinical trial methods, tobacco harm reduction marketing, and Philip Morris's corporate image, among others. In addition, there are 5 significant papers now available freely through eScholarship.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009TOBACCO

Unprivileged Philip Morris Documents and 786,158 Tobacco Institute Documents Added

The following documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library yesterday:

You can also search for these documents by entering "ddu:20091130" without the quotation marks in the query box.

LTDL now has 11 million documents with 59 million pages!


Enjoy your searches.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009TOBACCO

Putting the Tobacco Industry Words to Work Webinar

Legacy & the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
invite you to participate in a webinar
Thursday, December 10, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 pm (Eastern Time)

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.

Featured speakers:
Kim Klausner, Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager, UCSF Library
Dr. Elisa Tong, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Linda Early Brown, Project Director, Communities of Color Network

The webinar is FREE. Please tell colleagues who may be interested in participating.

Please register by sending your complete contact information to Kristen Tertzakian at Legacy at ktertzakian@legacyforhealth.org or 202-454-5930 by December 1st.

Upon registration, you will receive callinformation and other materials.
Thursday, November 05, 2009TOBACCO

More Videos Available for Viewing; New Documents Also Added

Over 175 videos, most from the British American Tobacco Company, were uploaded to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos Collection on the Internet Archive. A complete list can be found here. Many of them are interviews with smokers in Britain about smoking and stress and for a cross-cultural study of whether reading styles affect visual scanning behavior.

130 new documents were added to LTDL today. You can search for these documents by entering "ddu:20091105" without the quotation marks in the query box.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009TOBACCO

New Documents and Videos Added

New documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this batch are:
  • 553 BAT videos - These videos come from the Guildford depository and include TV news reports from UK, Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand, focus groups and personal interviews with smokers, internal presentations about new product development, as well as visual scanning behavior project tapes and films about BAT operations and philanthropic projects in Brazil, Panama, Kenya, Malaysia and Sri-Lanka. We have started to upload these videos for immediate viewing but if you find one that you want to see, please contact us and we can upload it for you.


  • 74,327 color advertisements from the Philip Morris advertising archive. These ads were previously displayed as black and white documents.


  • 2,967 Philip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm.


  • 1,638 documents from the Stakeholder Analysis special collection - these documents were acquired from the Tobacco Documents Online (TDO) Research Collection. The Research Collections are smaller collections of industry documents that were gathered by individuals and/or organizations during the course of specific research or litigation.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009TOBACCO

New Research using the Tobacco Documents

New papers and articles have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography for the month of September. Read up on "Wartime tobacco promotion in the US military," "Smoking uptake and prevalence in Ghana," and the "Relationship between tobacco advertising and promotion and adolescent smoking behavior" among other topics.
Thursday, September 17, 2009TOBACCO

New Research Collections Added

103,412 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Included in this batch are:

Research Collections:


Phillip Morris documents previously stored on microfilm - 1,564

The
Research Collections were assembled by investigators studying one aspect of tobacco industry practices and were originally posted on tobaccodocuments.org.