Wednesday, January 11, 2012
New FDA-Tobacco Litigation Page
The UCSF Tobacco Control Archives has a new
FDA Lawsuits page in its Tobacco Litigation section. This new page currently contains court documents and other resources surrounding the FDA's ruling regarding new cigarette warning labels and the appeal by the tobacco industry (RJ Reynolds et al., v. FDA). This page will be updated as further litigation occurs and court documents are received.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
8 New Papers Added to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography
The last 2 months of 2011 have brought us some fascinating research and analysis of tobacco industry documents and brings the total number of scholarly articles, reports and books/chapters using the documents to 758.
The latest update adds Jackler and Samji's article "The price paid: Manipulation of otolaryngologists by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the emerging truth that smoking causes cancer" and Brandt's "Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics." Wertz, et al's PloS article, "The Toxic Effects of Cigarette Additives. Philip Morris' Project Mix Reconsidered: An Analysis of Documents Released through Litigation" also has a bonus - a video featuring Prof. Stan Glantz explaining the paper and their findings:
(http://www.scivee.tv/node/37778) Find these papers and more at the
UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography and on
RefShareMonday, December 19, 2011
Document Disclosure Orders from the RICO case
We have posted the latest Consent Order to come out of the Tobacco Industry RICO case on the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive - this order involves document disclosure obligations and a $6.25M payment for document accessibility and indexing:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/sites/all/files/ucsf_assets/consentorder_USPM_20111215.pdf If you aren't familiar with the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive Litigation section, you should take a look - it contains pertinent court documents from not only the US vs. Philip Morris (RICO) case but the 1995 Brown and Williamson vs. UC Regents (re the secret documents that were to become LTDL) as well as other jurisdictions:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation/Thursday, December 15, 2011
LTDL to Receive $6.25M for Document Indexing and Access
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order on December 14, 2011 with a federal district court that finalized requirements for three major tobacco companies to make internal documents public in accordance with an earlier ruling that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The documents have been and will continue to be archived in UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL).
The order is part of the remedy phase of the largest civil racketeering (RICO) case in the history of the United States and specifies that the companies provide $6.25 million to the court to improve public access and indexing of the documents. These funds will go to the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library for this purpose.
“These funds will allow us to substantially improve the way investigators, the media and the public are able to research how tobacco companies produce, price and market their products as well as protect their political interests globally,” said Kim Klausner, UCSF Industry Documents Digital Library Manager.
“Research based on the documents has provided a unique insight into how the tobacco industry manipulates scientific and political processes and engineers its products and marketing to maximize its sales,” said Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. “By revealing the industry’s behind-the-scenes strategies and involvement, this understanding has transformed public health from city councils to the United Nations.”
Read more at:
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/12/11138/ucsf-receive-tobacco-papers-funding-improve-public-access-documentsThursday, December 01, 2011
UCSF Tobacco Center Fellowship - Still Taking Apps!
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF: Applications are due January 25, 2012 for fellowships beginning July 2, 2012.
The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from medicine, public health, nursing, economics, anthropology, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology. Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance.
The CTCRE offers individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics. UCSF is a global leader in tobacco science, a World Health Organization collaborating center, and home of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $38,496 - $53,112, according to the NIH stipend scale. Learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, current fellows, and faculty and their research interests at www.tobacco.ucsf.edu. Monday, November 14, 2011
New PM and Multimedia Documents
1364 documents posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents on Nov 10, 2011:
1236
Philip Morris documents 128 -
Multimedia recordsTo retrieve all 1364 new documents, go to the
Search page and search for the date the documents were added to LTDL (in a yyyymmdd format) in the "Date added to UCSF" field like -
ddu:20111110
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