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eBMJ -- Tobacco company set up network of sympathetic scientists - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/316/7144/1553/d
Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential documents from the company's law firm released on the Internet." |
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Philip Morris Gave Secret Grants to Swedish Professor - http://www.nisus.se/archive/020610e.html
Article about Swedish professor R. Rylander, accused of having secretely worked for the tobacco industry, sheds light on tobacco industry funding of research intended to create doubt about health effects. |
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ASHRAE Standard 62: Tobacco Industry's Influence over National Ventilation Standards - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/4/315
Paper describes the history and role of the tobacco industry in the development of ventilation standards for indoor air quality by influencing the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). |
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Tobacco Industry Success in Preventing Regulation of Secondhand Smoke in Latin America - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/4/305
Research examines the tobacco industry's strategy to avoid regulations on secondhand smoke exposure in Latin America. |
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Philip Morris's Secondhand Smoke Media Strategy - http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/2023920090-0101.html
Internal document from Philip Morris executive describes its strategies for fighting the EPA's scientific report on secondhand smoke, including "concentrating all the EPA's enemies against it". |
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The Tobacco Industry's Response to the Passive Smoking Issue - http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c14s20.htm
Report on tobacco industry activity analyzes industry interests in secondhand smoke, and shows the different strategies used by the industry to fight smokefree places. |
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Are Cigarette Makers Trying to Conceal Secondhand Smoke? - http://www.pulmonaryreviews.com/dec00/pr_dec00_additives.html
Article in medical journal examines the evidence that the tobacco industry is putting chemical additives to cigarettes to make secondhand smoke more pleasant but not less lethal. |
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Project Whitecoat - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/whitecoat.shtml
Review of tobacco industry documents on Project Whitecoat, a tobacco industry campaign to recruit scientific experts sympathetic to the industry. |
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Global Conspiracy on Environmental Tobacco Smoke - http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/landman/conspiracy/
Presents a Philip Morris memo in which the company discusses its plans to "keep the controversy alive" on the health effects of secondhand smoke. The plans included a worldwide effort by the tobacco industry to recruit "friendly scientists". |
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R.J. Reynolds chief: Smoking isn't addicting - http://www.cnn.com/US/9708/13/smoky.skies/
CEO of tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds testifies that smoking isn't addictive and secondhand smoke doesn't cause cancer. |
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Organizations: FOREST - http://tobaccodocuments.org/profiles/forest.html
Covers tobacco industry origins and purposes of FOREST. |
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UICC GLOBALink ETS Documents - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/ets/Welcome.shtml
Several documents, primarily about tobacco industry actions attempting to discredit the effects of secondhand smoke. |
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National Toxicology Program, Board of Scientific Counselors - http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=06F3F9F7-0DEB-D47E-C4A683A074666360
National scientific organization concludes unanimously that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen; the tobacco industry sends 10 witnesses to argue the other way. |
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Stanton Glantz: Post-OSHA Hearings Comments - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/osha/oshapost.html
Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments; sections on credibility and causality, publication bias, confounding variables, and misclassification error. |
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Timeline: Tobacco Industry Actions on Secondhand Smoke - http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=36
Traces industry actions from 1977 to the present, including recruiting scientists, influencing media, and PR campaigns. |