Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Free Webinar Featuring Legacy's Cheryl Healton
“The Good Fight: Legacy’s Impact on Tobacco,” on April 2, 2013 at 2pm Eastern Time (90 minutes).
Register now! Visit the SCLC website for registration instructions -
http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/Webinars.htmMonday, March 25, 2013
Then and Now...
February 2002 -
UCSF Library Launches LTDL
January 2007 - Getting ready for a change...
May 2007 - A new banner and new features to go with the full-text search capabilities
July 2010 - 2013. What will next year bring? Stay tuned...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
New Research from the Documents
The
Tobacco Documents Bibliography has added 7 new papers/publications for January and February 2013! These additions include papers on the tobacco industry and the Tea Party, PM's Project Sunrise, transnational tobacco companies in South Korea and smoking in veterans facilities.
Bibliography Highlight:
'To quarterback behind the scenes, third-party efforts': the tobacco industry and the Tea Party.
Amanda Fallin, Rachel Grana, & Stanton A Glantz
Tobacco Control 2013 Feb.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.
The authors used the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, the Wayback Machine, LexisNexis, and other databases and websites to examine the tobacco companies' connections to the Tea Party.
Fallin, Grana and Glantz's comprehensive research connects the dots between grassroots smokers' rights movements, third-party groups funded by the industry such as Citizens for a Sound Economy, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and the Tea Party. The study concludes,
"Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that spontaneously developed in 2009, the Tea Party has developed over time, in part through decades of work by the tobacco industry and other corporate interests."
A few key documents from LTDL:Philip Morris plan to create the National Smokers Alliance
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/lkp87e00/pdfMemo from Tim Hyde, RJR Director of National Field Operations - "thoughts on how we might build broad coalitions around the issue-cluster of freedom, choice, and privacy..."
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/oca24d00/pdf Philip Morris designated Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) as a 'Category A' organization for funding purposes, meaning they considered CSE to be in the 'largest and most important/sustained relationships' category. Founded in part by David Koch of Koch Industries, CSE started a US Tea Party project in 2002. The organization eventually split into 'Americans for Prosperity' and 'FreedomWorks' in 2004 - both playing a role in structuring the early stages of the Tea Party movement.
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/avj37c00/pdfTuesday, February 26, 2013
Global Bridges Webinar featuring Dr. Richard Hunt
**Register online at
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3047266038592232448Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12pm EST/9am PST
Secondhand Smoke: The Science and Big Tobacco's SmokescreenDr. Richard D. Hunt
Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center
The science behind the harmful effects of tobacco smoke will be reviewed in detail, including results from Dr. Hiryama’s landmark study of female Japanese lung cancer patients who are non-smoking wives of smoking husbands, as well as the most recent study showing that smoke-free workplace laws are associated with a reduction in the incidence of acute myocardial infarctions.
The presentation will also highlight Big Tobacco’s decade’s long public relations and media campaigns to deceive the public and create doubt and controversy about the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. These data will come from previously secret tobacco industry documents made public as a result of the Minnesota Tobacco Trial of 1998 and the Department of Justice case that resulted in the conviction of Big Tobacco for violating the U.S. racketeering laws.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Gallaher Collection Now Online
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library posted tens of thousands of new documents today including an important new collection of over 12,000 Gallaher documents.
From 2005 until 2008, Gallaher, a UK-based tobacco company which was later bought by Japan Tobacco International (JTI), spent three years in a bitter legal battle against its former Middle Eastern distributor. More than 20,000 internal documents were disclosed in the course of the litigation between Gallaher and the Cypriot company, Tlais Enterprises. This new collection is a subset of those documents. During the trial, Gallaher was accused of "complicity in facilitating worldwide smuggling, sanction-busting in Iraq, and the dumping of sub-standard cigarettes in Africa and Afghanistan," according to the British press.
Pertinent articles about Gallaher's activities can be found in The Sunday Times (UK)-
Court case smokes out GallaherTobacco giant accused of Hezbollah dealAccess the entire collection of
12,875 Gallaher documents-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In addition to the Gallaher Collection, LTDL has also added the following:
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tea Party's Ties to Tobacco Industry
Tea Party’s Ties to Tobacco Industry Date Back to 1980s: Nonprofit Tea Party Groups Promote Pro-Tobacco AgendaA new study, which appeared Feb. 8, 2013 in the journal
Tobacco Control, uses the tobacco industry documents available at the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library to trace a decades-long chain of personal, corporate and financial relationships between tobacco companies, tobacco industry lobbying and public relations firms and nonprofit organizations associated with the Tea Party.
More at:
http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/tea-party%E2%80%99s-ties-tobacco-industry-date-back-1980s-nonprofit-tea-party-groups-promote-pro-tobacco-ageWednesday, February 06, 2013
It’s About a Billion Lives: Celebrating Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
Please join us - Friday, February 8, 2013, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM Cole Hall 513 Parnassus Ave., University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143
The symposium will also be webcast at
http://lecture.ucsf.edu/special-events/billion-lives/Tobacco Control: Progress Made and Challenges Ahead Cheryl Healton, DrPH
President, American Legacy Foundation
Quarterbacking Behind the Scenes:The Tobacco Industry’s Role in Shaping the Tea PartyAmanda Fallin, PhD, RN
Postdoctoral Fellow
Even Brief Secondhand Smoke Exposure Disrupts Arterial Function Matthew Springer, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Nicotine Dependence and Carcinogen Exposure Among Black and White Smokers Gideon St. Helen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
More Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke Wendy Max, PhD
Co-Director, Institute for Health & Aging
Professor of Health Economics
Closing RemarksSusan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH
Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
The symposium will also include a poster session displaying the breadth of tobacco research at UCSF.
The public and entire UCSF Community are welcome.
For information, contact Jennifer Lau at 415-502-6341
or Jennifer.Lau@ucsf.edu
UCSF’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Acts as a focal point for tobacco research, education,
Cessation, and training at the University of California.
For more information, please visit:
tobacco.ucsf.edu
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