Friday, September 07, 2012
14 Million Documents and Growing!
We have passed the 14 million mark!
We added
163,481 RJ Reynolds documents to LTDL yesterday, bringing the total count of documents to 81,253,444 pages in 14,008,922 documents.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Valerie Yerger honored at the 2012 Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents Awards
UCSF Professor, Valerie Yerger, was honored this year at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health for her innovative work using tobacco industry documents to demonstrate how the tobacco companies have targeted African American groups and inner-city neighborhoods. The Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents Awards recognize individuals for their use of tobacco industry documents to educate the public about industry tactics and disseminate this information to other educators and policy makers. Dr. Yerger's research also includes a focus on the relationship between melanin and nicotine, and the use of menthol as a cigarette additive. In 2010, Dr. Yerger and her team contributed reports to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), which concluded that the availability of menthol cigarettes increases initiation and reduces cessation.
For more information on this award, please access the
Legacy News Release Congratulations Valerie!
Friday, August 17, 2012
36,000+ Documents Added to the Library
Over 36,000 new documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library this week!
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
New Research Using the Documents
The UCSF
Tobacco Documents Bibliography has 8 new publications and 1 new video. Read about tobacco industry influence in the Czech Republic, China and Thailand; industry "science" and "fakexperts;" and the industry's adolescent market strategies concerning the internet and video games. Also, watch New Zealand's 60 Minutes program "Smoke Screen" showcasing industry documents and interviews concerning New Zealand's goal of becoming a smoke free country.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Tobacco Industry Document Resources
You know about the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, our digital archive of 13+ million tobacco industry documents, but did you know about the other amazing document resources out there, especially for advertising/marketing studies?
Friday, June 08, 2012
The CA Tobacco Control Collection
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added a new collection – the California Tobacco Control collection.The California Tobacco Control collection is a small but growing collection of materials highlighting tobacco control public policy efforts in California including tobacco tax measures, smoke-free ordinances, education and outreach. In September 2011, the LTDL began a website archiving project, funded by a TRDRP grant, using the Web Archiving Service (WAS) developed by the California Digital Library. This project, the California Tobacco Control Web Archive, consists of a selection of web resources that have been curated and "captured" on specific dates. The records from the web archive have been integrated into LTDL and are a part of this California Tobacco Control collection.
The focus of this new web archive is to preserve websites and 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. Records from the web archive will be added to LTDL on a regular basis but a user may always go directly to the California Tobacco Control Web Archive on the CDL site to browse the preserved web resources. Wednesday, June 06, 2012
New Papers Added to the Bibliography
New papers and articles have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Learn more about FCTC implementation in Uruguay, tobacco industry efforts to influence the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive and the tobacco "money trail" through Prop 29:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docsbiblio