Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Additions to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

Need some good reading material over the long weekend? Want to brush up on tobacco industry marketing tactics? Have you been hearing the outcry regarding "ALEC" and want to know how they tie into the tobacco industry?

12 new papers and reports have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Check out articles about
corporate social responsibility, ALEC and the tobacco industry, tobacco marketing strategies linked with alcohol, and tobacco companies and the Black Press to name just a few.

The entire bibliography can also be viewed, sorted, searched, and downloaded on RefShare

Thursday, August 18, 2011

150,000+ Documents Posted to LTDL

Over 150,000 documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!

Here's the breakdown by collection:

Philip Morris - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 6,911
Philip Morris - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 6,065

RJ Reynolds - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 8,239
RJ Reynolds - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 355

American Tobacco - Public docs - 11,283
American Tobacco - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 14,848
American Tobacco - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 3,465

B&W - Public docs - 7,003
B&W - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 34,047
B&W - Docs designated as "Confidential" - 65,137

Lorillard - Public docs - 3
Lorillard - Docs designated as "Privileged" - 2

Multimedia - 2

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New Feature:

With the addition of tens of thousands of new documents from the tobacco companies' "Privilege Logs" and "Confidential Indexes," we find we may actually have a copy of a document designated as privileged or confidential. There are multiple reasons for this. In some lawsuits, plaintiffs have challenged tobacco companies' assertions of privilege and courts ordered the documents to be produced such as with the Bliley documents. If the tobacco companies previously put Bliley Documents on their privilege logs, their privilege assertion generates one entry for a document record in LTDL and a copy from the Bliley Collection or elsewhere generates another record entry in LTDL. Similar processes have occurred as a result of privilege challenges in other lawsuits, including United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.

Another way that we may acquire images of such documents occurs when companies voluntarily withdraw their previous privilege claims. This can happen when companies review documents previously withheld on privilege grounds, redact portions that they consider privileged, and post the rest. When these various scenarios occur, there will be more than one record for the document in question, a "privileged" or "confidential" record and a "public" record.

When we find such matches during our ingest of new documents, we will provide a link to the viewable document in a new metadata field called "Related":

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Revisit the "Mangini Collection"

For a comprehensive look at how an industry targets minors, check out the Mangini Collection on LTDL.

Take a look at the 81 documents that were used as supporting documentation for the 1998 Coughlin and Janacek report, "A Review of RJ Reynolds' Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Civil Number 939359: The Case that Rid California and the American Landscape of 'Joe Camel'."

Magnini vs. RJ Reynolds challenged the company for targeting minors with its "Joe Camel" advertising campaign and the highlighted documents provide an amazing glimpse into how far an industry will go to sell their product.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Murdoch's Ties to Big Tobacco

Murdoch's connection to Philip Morris Co. revealed through secret industry documents on Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and Tobaccodocuments.org.

"Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking problems have been all over the news in recent days, but it wasn't too long ago his media properties were providing a supportive environment for Big Tobacco that went largely unreported."

Read the rest of the story at rabble.ca - http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/donald-gutstein/2011/07/murdoch%E2%80%99s-ties-big-tobacco

Monday, August 01, 2011

Expose Tobacco Industry Projects and Post Online!

TobaccoWiki is an online research project hosted and maintained by The Center for Media and Democracy, the creator of SourceWatch.org. The purpose of TobaccoWiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been learned about the industry through its documents on the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

Help us fill in gaps of knowledge surrounding Tobacco Industry Projects and Operations. Anyone can contribute to this amazing resource - all you need to do is sign up and start searching!

Friday, July 29, 2011

Vid of the Week - Testimony of PM scientists investigating nicotine in rats

Testimony of Victor DeNoble and Paul Mele, two research scientists formerly employed by Philip Morris to investigate the behavioral and physiological effects of nicotine on rats, measuring self-administration, tolerance, and dependency. PM prevented these scientists from publishing their findings, fired them, and closed the unit conducting the research.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Over 150,000 PM and RJR Documents Added Today

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