Thursday, January 23, 2014
"It's About a Billion Lives" Symposium at UCSF - January 31, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
2900+ new documents on LTDL!
2914 new documents posted to LTDL today as well as 15 new court filings in the 2006 RICO litigation.
The breakdown is as follows:
New Litigation Documents for the TCAOn August 17, 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a final judgment in the U.S. government's landmark lawsuit against the major tobacco companies that found the companies have violated civil racketeering laws and defrauded the American people by lying for decades about the health risks of smoking and their marketing to children. In her final opinion, Judge Kessler imposed certain remedies including the requirement that tobacco companies make corrective statements concerning the health risks of smoking and secondhand smoke and their deceptive practices through newspaper and television advertising, their web sites and as part of cigarette packaging.
The 15 new January 2014 court filings added to the
Litigation Section of the Tobacco Control Archives at UCSF detail the specifics for implementing corrective statements and include mockups of the TV and newspaper ads, cigarette packs and web site statements
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
New and Diverse Publications on Tobacco Industry Tactics
The
Tobacco Documents Bibliography has capped off 2013 with the addition of 8 new papers/publications for November and December! These additions include articles on corporate philanthropy, marketing to young smokers and an historical view of personal vs governmental responsibility in the tobacco control arena, to name a few.
Bibliography Highlight:
Kashiwabara M, Armada F. Mind Your "Smoking Manners": The Tobacco Industry Tactics to Normalize Smoking in Japan. Kobe J. Med. Sci 2013;59(4):E132-E140. Kashiwabara and Armada illustrate how the tobacco industry has taken advantage of the cultural value placed on manners in Japan to increase the social acceptability of smoking, eventually aiming to diminish public support for smoke-free policies.
A few key documents from LTDL:The Smokin’ Clean campaign aimed to encourage smokers to be considerate towards nonsmokers and to prevent litter and fires. It included activities such as establishing and maintaining smoking areas in stations in cooperation with Japan National Railways and designating a Smoking Manners month.
(TI 1983, PM 1993)
The National Federation of Tobacco Retailers of Japan launched the Smoking Courtesy campaign targeting adult smokers in Tokyo. The 1987 campaign's TV and radio ads, posters and billboards focused more on ETS than previous years, with a budget of 1.1 billion yen (US $8.5 million). (BAT, 1987)
Like the manners campaigns carried out by Japan Tobacco, the PMJ campaign included activities such as trash collection on the streets, the distribution of portable ashtrays and booklets on manners, and magazine advertisements.
(PM, 1999)
Thursday, December 12, 2013
1500 New Documents Added to LTDL
1506 new documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today including new deposition and/or trial transcripts from the Engle Progeny cases and
3 video depositions in our Multimedia Collection.
In addition,
363 documents had their records enhanced with added metadata in the "persons mentioned", "organizations mentioned" and "tobacco brands" fields.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Help us preserve the history of California tobacco control efforts!
We have captured, preserved and added
10 new sites and video to our California Tobacco Control Web Archive collection. This collection of preserved web resources now has 90 sites and is growing every quarter but slowly and we need your help!
Many tobacco control efforts play out online and we can always use extra hands (or fingers?) to help us preserve these websites that give context to the issues! If you know of a site that should be included in our web archive (currently only sites about tobacco issues in California),
please send us the URL -
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/contactWe are in the process of building a site nomination tool that will make it very easy to add a URL to our project and other future web archive projects but right now, it's the good old email...
A little background:
The focus of the CA Tobacco Control collection is to preserve websites and web resources created by local government, advocacy groups, tobacco control organizations, bloggers, news agencies and tobacco-industry front groups surrounding contemporary California tobacco control public policy efforts. This includes ordinances and bills regarding smoke-free areas, video focusing on ballot measures and public reactions to specific regulations, and web sites aimed at urging voter actions on bans or excise taxes. For more information on this collection including how to access and browse the sites, see
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/about/about_tobaccocontrol_collection.jsp Monday, November 04, 2013
New Research on Smokeless Tobacco Products in Europe...and more!
The
Tobacco Documents Bibliography has added 5 new papers/publications for September and October 2013! These additions include papers on cigarette brand loyalty in Australia, corporate social responsibility, and consumer response to plain tobacco packaging to name a few.
Bibliography Highlight:
Peeters S, Gilmore AB. Transnational Tobacco Company Interests in Smokeless Tobacco in Europe: Analysis of Internal Industry Documents and Contemporary Industry Materials. PLoS Med 2013 09/10;10(9):e1001506.In light of lobbying by transnational tobacco companies to remove the European Union ban on the sale of snus (a smokeless tobacco product), Silvy Peeters and Anna Gilmore explore the motivation behind tobacco companies' interests in smokeless tobacco products in Europe.
A few key documents from LTDL:
"BAT's initial interest in diversifying into smokeless tobacco (SLT) in Western Europe arose from an awareness that health concerns about smoking would increase as would regulation, both threatening cigarette sales, and that SLT provided opportunities where smoking was prohibited."
(BAT, 1972)
Report regarding smokeless tobacco's ability to “provide a line of aggressive defense to the image and acceptability of tobacco and nicotine in general (and perhaps smoking indirectly)” (BAT, 1981)
"We have no wish to aid or hasten any decline in cigarette smoking. Deeper involvement in smokeless is strategically defensible. There are fewer people in sophisticated markets starting to smoke. There are increasing numbers of people giving up. There are increasing restrictions on smoking, particularly in public, whether by law or by society." (BAT, 1981).
An internal US Tobacco/BAT report on the UK test market for Skoal Bandits includes “working the Universities” and paying students to promote Skoal Bandits to peers. (BAT, 1985)
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