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Eight (8) new papers/publications have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography - a growing list of resources written using the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
Campbell RB, Balbach ED. Cigarette Excise Taxes in Context: Cautionary Lessons from the U.S. Experience. International Journal of Health Services 2015 July 01;45(3):564-577.
This article reviews collaboration between progressive organizations in the United States and the tobacco industry in the 1980s and 1990s, documenting potential sources of unanticipated resistance to excise taxes and highlighting the tobacco industry’s capacity to engage in policy issues through third-party surrogates.
Key documents from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library:"To implement the excise tax strategy, the Tobacco Institute needed assistance from groups with credibility on tax policy that could promote opposition to cigarette excise taxes as an important issue for progressives."
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/zxbv0136
Tobacco Institute budgets included a payment to Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) of $10,000 in 1984 - The Tobacco Institute also provided funding for conferences and publications, public relations assistance, and other support for CTJ projects:
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/kqpv0085
In 1984, the TI established the Tobacco Industry Labor Management Committee (LMC), consisting of the Tobacco Institute and 4 additional trade unions besides the Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco: the International Association of Machinists, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers:
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/pmyw0101
The LMC became the principal vehicle for organizing the Tobacco Institute’s efforts to generate trade union and progressive opposition to cigarette excise tax increases.
"The Tobacco Institute, through the LMC, established relationships with additional progressive groups to expand its roster of excise tax allies. These groups complemented CTJ and lent additional weight to the Institute’s effort to establish a sense of robust and independent opposition to cigarette excise taxes. Key additions included the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN), the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and Citizen Action."
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/yqfc0002
"Citizen Action’s national office received $120,000 in 1992, with funding also continuing to state affiliates. Its work included preparing a briefing book, Single Payer National Health Insurance, which was distributed to “members of Congress, state legislators, the media, and other key opinion leaders."
https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/tzdh0026
16,949 previously confidential documents from RJ Reynolds were released onto the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library last week!
In addition, the Industry Documents Digital Library (IDDL) site, a portal to our industry archives such as LTDL and DIDA, has moved out of beta and you will note the change in the URL - https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/
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**IDDL will replace the old LTDL and DIDA sites after June 2015 so if you have any issues, speak now so we can address them.Twelve (12) new publications have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Subjects include the marketing of Virginia Slims cigarettes overseas, the food industry's ties to Big Tobacco, US Military tobacco control policy, and smoking and mental illness.
Article HighlightPetticrew M, Lee K, Ali H, Nakkash R. 'Fighting a Hurricane': Tobacco Industry Efforts to Counter the Perceived Threat of Islam. American Journal of Public Health 2015 04/16; 2015/04:e1-e7.
The documents reviewed by the authors suggest that the tobacco industry perceived Islamic opposition to smoking as a threat to its business from the 1970s onward. Among the tactics used to counter this perceived threat was the framing of Islamic objections to tobacco use as extremism and of tobacco control advocates more generally as extremists. The industry monitored debates on Islam and tobacco and recruited Islamic scholars and leaders as consultants to help try to portray smoking as acceptable. Tobacco companies also sought to market tobacco use as an expression of freedom, especially among women.
Key Documents from LTDL:1979 speech by Horace Kornegay, president of the Tobacco Institute to the American Jewish Committee states: "In 1906, an Iranian Ayatollah decreed that smoking was against Islamic purity. Overnight, cigarettes disappeared from the entire country. In 1977, Ayatollah Califano declared a holy war against tobacco: He is gone, but his mullahs remain and so does much of his battle plan of segregation and prohibition. (PM, 1979)
http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/rzdm0116
"[t]he possibility that religious fundamentalism will have an impact on our profitable Gulf markets. Fundamentalism could have a wider significance than just the Gulf since anti-smoking zeal is not just limited to Islam. . . Mormons, Catholics, Jews and other sects have expressed strong anti-smoking feelings in the U.S. and a Corporate response to religion and smoking may be worth pursuing" (PM 1985)
http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/kxwg0131
"work to develop a system . . . [to] measure trends on the issue of Smoking and Islam. Identify Islamic religious leaders who oppose interpretations of the Qur’an which would ban the use of tobacco and encourage support for these leaders" (B&W, 1983)
http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/hghm0078
BAT consultant Bedros Kazandjian states, "I have, on several occasions, stopped official Government booklets being published as a means of informing the people about the relationship between smoking and certain verses of the Koran. . . [O]nce the religious aspect is conveyed to the public at large it will be very difficult to reverse the situation with any means." (BAT, 1987)
http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/fnpk0214
A presentation from 2000 prepared by the industry law firm Shook, Hardy, and Bacon gave an overview of the background to Islam and smoking with slides stating there is no prohibition on smoking in the Qur-an and that “making rules beyond what Allah has allowed is a sin in itself.” (BAT, 2000)
http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/qhkl0197
In addition, we have been busy adding more content to the site including a 'Popular Documents' section that highlights sets of documents in certain subject areas such as targeted marketing and smoking in movies. Users can now view the slideshow right from the page or download it as a PowerPoint presentation for future use/reference.
Our Popular Video and Popular Audio pages showcase selected multimedia from our collections and our Popular Presentations area is home to some wonderful webinars and podcasts created by researchers using the tobacco documents.
