Thursday, March 15, 2012

New PM Docs Added to LTDL

2420 Philip Morris documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.  The breakdown is as follows:

• 1,973 Public documents
• 207 designated Privileged
• 240 designated Confidential

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

2012 Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

Legacy's Tobacco Industry Documents Awards

Call for Nominations Nominate a Deserving Colleague for Legacy’s Tobacco Industry Documents Awards Legacy is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2012 Tobacco Industry Documents Awards. The awards include the Sybil G. Jacobs Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents and the Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents (for individuals 24 years of age or younger). These awards recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to the health of the public in the recent past through use of tobacco documents. The awards honor innovation in the use and application of tobacco industry documents to further the goals of tobacco prevention and control in order to help build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Those nominated should be individuals who have made a notable impact through innovative use of tobacco industry documents as applied to research, policy, or advocacy. These awards will be presented at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health to be held August 15-17, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri. To submit a nomination and for more information, please visit www.legacyforhealth.org/awards. DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS – Friday, March 30, 2012

Monday, March 05, 2012

New research added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography!

Eight (8) new papers were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography today.  Read about the history of the discovery of the cigarette-lung cancer link, tobacco industry strategies to attract young smokers in Spain, and a brief overview of the tobacco industry in the last 20 years, to name a few.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docsbiblio

Monday, February 06, 2012

Symposium Webcast Now Available

For those unable to attend the UCSF Tobacco Symposium "Its About a Billion Lives," the webcast is now available for viewing! 

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tobacco Control Symposium at UCSF

Please join us for the annual "It’s About a Billion Lives" symposium on

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Tobacco Documents Webinar - February 2012

                  



Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in a meeting of tobacco industry advertising executives?  Or wondered how you could use their powerful words to give teens and adults reasons why not to smoke?  Well now here is your chance.  The purpose of the webinar is to provide a basic overview of the tobacco industry documents, how to access them, and how to incorporate the documents into your work.  Our speakers will provide examples of ways in which they have used the documents for research and advocacy purposes to promote tobacco-free communities.


The webinar is free.  Those who plan on participating will need both phone and computer/web access. 

Please click here to register. The deadline for registration is February 15. 


Please direct any questions to Rebecca Carle at rcarle@legacyforhealth.org or (202) 454-5748.   

Thursday, January 19, 2012

New Collection on Japan Tobacco and Smuggling

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added 100 new Philip Morris documents today and a new research collection, JTI Smuggling. 

The 42 documents in this new collection were obtained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and detail Japan Tobacco International's (JTI) smuggling activities throughout Russia, Moldova, the Balkans, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and their subsequent cover-up. See OCCRP's investigation, Big Trouble at Big Tobacco, for more in-depth information.

The JTI Smuggling collection can be found by searching for "jti" in the special collection (speccoll:) field on the Expert Search page, like - speccoll:jti

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