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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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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'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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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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Blowing Smoke over Ventilation - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_19/b3731089.htm
BusinessWeek commentary outlines the tobacco industry strategy of "ventilation" and explains why it doesn't protect health. |
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Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/second.htm
Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'keep the controversy alive,' according to a 1988 internal tobacco company document." |
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Tobacco Industry Influence on Air Quality Standards - http://apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/paper_45347.htm
Paper discusses how and why the tobacco industry influences the setting of standards for indoor air quality. |
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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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Tobacco Science Wars - http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/hkn14e00
Article in Science reports the tobacco industry has been bullying scientists, according to researchers who lead the campaign against secondhand smoke. |
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Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/19/1566?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Why+Review+Articles+on+the+Health+Effects+of+Passive+Smoking+Reach+Different+Conclusions&searchid=1067862394764_827&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=jama
Statistical analysis of the research literature on secondhand smoke finds "the only factor associated with concluding that passive smoking is not harmful was whether an author was affiliated with the tobacco industry". |
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The Tobacco Industry and Ventilation - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=94
Short history from GASP of Colorado Education Center. |
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Organizations: FOREST - http://tobaccodocuments.org/profiles/forest.html
Covers tobacco industry origins and purposes of FOREST. |
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It's All Disinformation - http://www.s-t.com/daily/02-00/02-08-00/c04op082.htm
Op-ed outlines history of tobacco industry attempts to influence public thinking about the science of secondhand smoke. |
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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. |
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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. |