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Doc of the Week

2012-05-11T11:42:00.000-07:00

Public Relations Strategy for the Tobacco Advisory Council - 1978

Read the entire doc at: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/msu40a99/pdf

42,000+ New Documents Posted

2012-05-10T14:51:00.000-07:00

42,504 documents added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

This includes:

42,485 RJ Reynolds public and confidential documents
19 documents in the new special collection, "Plain Packaging." This is a small Research Collection of internal documents, disseminated by an anonymous whistleblower in 2010, detailing communication between Philip Morris in Melbourne, Australia, and a PR/ad agency hired by PMI to work on a campaign against plain packaging.

Opinion and Order in the RJR v FDA Warning Labels Lawsuit

2012-04-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

Visit the UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives Litigation section for newly posted court documents from the RJR v. FDA lawsuit on graphic warning labels. Judge Leon's Opinion and Order regarding plaintiffs' (RJ Reynolds, et al.) motion for summary judgment is now up - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation/fda

Leon upheld the earlier preliminary injunction and found the FDA's proposed textual and graphic warnings constituted compelled commercial speech and thereby violated the First Amendment.

Follow the Historic $27B Canadian Tobacco Lawsuit

2012-04-16T09:10:00.001-07:00

A $27-billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of an estimated 1.8 million Quebec smokers against Canada’s three largest tobacco companies began on March 12, 2012.

Documents have already been entered as evidence and you can follow the trial on the following blogs:(updates are daily, Monday-Thursday, during the first three weeks of every month)

English blog (Blogger: Cynthia Callard): http://tobaccotrial.blogspot.ca/
French blog (Blogger: Pierre Croteau): http://procesdutabac.blogspot.ca/
Exhibits and other documents: https://tobacco.asp.visard.ca/Main.htm

The companies, Imperial Tobacco Canada, JTI-Macdonald Corp and Rothmans Benson & Hedges, are named in the class-action suit by a group of current and former smokers in the province of Quebec.
It's the first time tobacco companies have gone to trial in a civil suit in Canada and the central question is whether the companies adequately warned smokers of the dangers of cigarettes.

The case will likely produce at least 1 million documents over the course of this year and next!

Formerly Confidential Documents Available!

2012-03-21T12:12:00.004-07:00

RJ Reynolds released on its document website 12,000 formerly confidential documents. Judge Gladys Kessler, in her ruling in the Department of Justice's case against the major US tobacco companies, required the companies to review their claims of confidentiality (usually based on trade secrets) every three years. And RJR has finally started to do just that. Some of these documents may contain interesting information.

We will add these documents to LTDL in the not-to-distant future but thought some of you might be interested in looking at them as soon as possible. To find these documents, go to the website and enter "20120312" without the quotes in the Date Loaded query box, and click the Search button.

Have fun! Let us know if you find any startling revelations.

New PM Docs Added to LTDL

2012-03-15T16:03:00.001-07:00

2420 Philip Morris documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today. The breakdown is as follows:

1,973 Public documents
207 designated Privileged
240 designated Confidential

2012 Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

2012-03-07T08:41:00.000-08:00

Legacy's Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

Call for Nominations

Nominate a Deserving Colleague for Legacy’s Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

Legacy is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2012 Tobacco Industry Documents Awards. The awards include the Sybil G. Jacobs Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents and the Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents (for individuals 24 years of age or younger).

These awards recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to the health of the public in the recent past through use of tobacco documents. The awards honor innovation in the use and application of tobacco industry documents to further the goals of tobacco prevention and control in order to help build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Those nominated should be individuals who have made a notable impact through innovative use of tobacco industry documents as applied to research, policy, or advocacy.

These awards will be presented at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health to be held August 15-17, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.

To submit a nomination and for more information, please visit www.legacyforhealth.org/awards.

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS – Friday, March 30, 2012

New research added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography!

2012-03-05T12:10:00.003-08:00

Eight (8) new papers were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography today. Read about the history of the discovery of the cigarette-lung cancer link, tobacco industry strategies to attract young smokers in Spain, and a brief overview of the tobacco industry in the last 20 years, to name a few.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docsbiblio

Symposium Webcast Now Available

2012-02-06T12:58:00.000-08:00

For those unable to attend the UCSF Tobacco Symposium "Its About a Billion Lives," the webcast is now available for viewing!

Tobacco Control Symposium at UCSF

2012-01-26T14:07:00.000-08:00

Please join us for the annual "It’s About a Billion Lives" symposium on

Friday, February 3, 2012

UCSF - Cole Hall

513 Parnassus Avenue

San Francisco CA 94143

The symposium is open to all, including the public.

Tobacco Documents Webinar - February 2012

2012-01-19T14:49:00.000-08:00

Legacy and
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
The University of California, San Francisco
invite you to participate in a webinar on

PUTTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S WORDS TO WORK FOR YOU

Thursday, February 23, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:30 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, University of California, San Francisco Library
Ruth E. Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing - University of California, San Fransico

The webinar is free. Those who plan on participating will need both phone and computer/web access.

Please click here to register. The deadline for registration is February 15.

Please direct any questions to Rebecca Carle at rcarle@legacyforhealth.org or (202) 454-5748.

New Collection on Japan Tobacco and Smuggling

2012-01-19T13:38:00.000-08:00

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added 100 new Philip Morris documents today and a new research collection, JTI Smuggling.

The 42 documents in this new collection were obtained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and detail Japan Tobacco International's (JTI) smuggling activities throughout Russia, Moldova, the Balkans, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and their subsequent cover-up. See OCCRP's investigation, Big Trouble at Big Tobacco, for more in-depth information.

The JTI Smuggling collection can be found by searching for "jti" in the special collection (speccoll:) field on the Expert Search page, like - speccoll:jti

New FDA-Tobacco Litigation Page

2012-01-11T10:00:00.000-08:00

The UCSF Tobacco Control Archives has a new FDA Lawsuits page in its Tobacco Litigation section. This new page currently contains court documents and other resources surrounding the FDA's ruling regarding new cigarette warning labels and the appeal by the tobacco industry (RJ Reynolds et al., v. FDA). This page will be updated as further litigation occurs and court documents are received.

8 New Papers Added to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

2011-12-21T15:08:00.000-08:00

The last 2 months of 2011 have brought us some fascinating research and analysis of tobacco industry documents and brings the total number of scholarly articles, reports and books/chapters using the documents to 758.

The latest update adds Jackler and Samji's article "The price paid: Manipulation of otolaryngologists by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the emerging truth that smoking causes cancer" and Brandt's "Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics." Wertz, et al's PloS article, "The Toxic Effects of Cigarette Additives. Philip Morris' Project Mix Reconsidered: An Analysis of Documents Released through Litigation" also has a bonus - a video featuring Prof. Stan Glantz explaining the paper and their findings: (http://www.scivee.tv/node/37778)

Find these papers and more at the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography and on RefShare

Document Disclosure Orders from the RICO case

2011-12-19T09:11:00.000-08:00

We have posted the latest Consent Order to come out of the Tobacco Industry RICO case on the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive - this order involves document disclosure obligations and a $6.25M payment for document accessibility and indexing: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/sites/all/files/ucsf_assets/consentorder_USPM_20111215.pdf

If you aren't familiar with the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive Litigation section, you should take a look - it contains pertinent court documents from not only the US vs. Philip Morris (RICO) case but the 1995 Brown and Williamson vs. UC Regents (re the secret documents that were to become LTDL) as well as other jurisdictions:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation/

LTDL to Receive $6.25M for Document Indexing and Access

2011-12-15T14:18:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order on December 14, 2011 with a federal district court that finalized requirements for three major tobacco companies to make internal documents public in accordance with an earlier ruling that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The documents have been and will continue to be archived in UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL).

The order is part of the remedy phase of the largest civil racketeering (RICO) case in the history of the United States and specifies that the companies provide $6.25 million to the court to improve public access and indexing of the documents. These funds will go to the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library for this purpose.

“These funds will allow us to substantially improve the way investigators, the media and the public are able to research how tobacco companies produce, price and market their products as well as protect their political interests globally,” said Kim Klausner, UCSF Industry Documents Digital Library Manager.

“Research based on the documents has provided a unique insight into how the tobacco industry manipulates scientific and political processes and engineers its products and marketing to maximize its sales,” said Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. “By revealing the industry’s behind-the-scenes strategies and involvement, this understanding has transformed public health from city councils to the United Nations.”

New PM Documents Added

2011-12-15T13:57:00.000-08:00

6346 Philip Morris Documents and 2 BAT videos have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

UCSF Tobacco Center Fellowship - Still Taking Apps!

2011-12-01T11:25:00.001-08:00

Apply now for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF: Applications are due January 25, 2012 for fellowships beginning July 2, 2012.

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. 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 CTCRE 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.

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.

New PM and Multimedia Documents

2011-11-14T08:38:00.001-08:00

1364 documents posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents on Nov 10, 2011:

1236 Philip Morris documents
128 - Multimedia records

To retrieve all 1364 new documents, go to the Search page and search for the date the documents were added to LTDL (in a yyyymmdd format) in the "Date added to UCSF" field like - ddu:20111110

New Papers Added to the Tobacco Bibliography

2011-11-03T08:40:00.000-07:00

The UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography just added new papers and articles published in September and October. Read up on cigarette smoke radioactivity and lung cancer risk, businesses' voluntary pro-health tobacco policies, and consumer perceptions of cigarette pack design in France, to name a few.

Access the Tobacco Bibliography on the UCSF Library website -
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docsbiblio

or through RefShare - http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=044531177916400000/RWWS6A586201/TobaccoDocumentsBibliography

Herman Cain's Ties to Big Tobacco AND David Koch

2011-10-27T11:19:00.000-07:00

Cain's new campaign ad highlights not only his connections to the tobacco industry but also connections to David Koch through "Chief of Staff" Mark Block.

Read the article by Anne Landman, writing for PRWatch:
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/11097/herman-cains-new-internet-campaign-ad-promotes-smoking

LTDL Documents found searching "Herman Cain": http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/search/expert?p=1&q=%22Herman+Cain%22&asf=ddu&asd=&fd=1&_hd=&hd=on&sf=&_rs=&ps=10&_ef=&ef=on&sd=&ed=&c=at&c=ba&c=bw&c=ca&c=ct&c=da&c=ll&c=lm&c=mg&c=mm&c=pm&c=py&c=re&c=rj&c=ti&c=ub&c=us

64,000+ New Documents Posted Today

2011-10-13T15:40:00.000-07:00

64,107 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today - highlights include:

119 Multimedia items now available for immediate streaming on Internet Archive
63,979 new Philip Morris documents

New/Revised Feature:

Last month we rolled out a new field called "Related" which was to be populated with a link to a publicly accessible document if it had the exact same bates number as the document designated as privileged or confidential. Clicking on "Related" would have taken you to this duplicate document which may contain the PDF for viewing. We have rethought this feature and decided to make it more streamlined and comprehensive.

With this new release, we now have a "Public versions" link instead of a specific field in the record (see image below). If a privileged or confidential record has this link, click on it and a search is automatically generated showing all publicly accessible documents that have the same bates number.

Today is the "Day of Digital Archives"

2011-10-06T09:33:00.000-07:00

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

Postdoc Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research starting July 2012

2011-09-21T09:24:00.000-07:00

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.

28,000+ New Documents Posted to LTDL

2011-09-15T15:46:00.000-07:00

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.