Wednesday, May 04, 2011

New papers added to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

Interested in the transnational tobacco industry's promotion of the cigarette gifting custom in China? How about British American Tobacco's partnership with Earthwatch Europe or the tobacco industry's past role in weight control related to smoking? These are just a few of the topics found in the March/April update of the Tobacco Documents Bibliography.

Monday, May 02, 2011

LTDL Outage Update

As many of you know, we experienced some technical difficulties with LTDL over the weekend after our newest document release. As of right now, LTDL is running with the complete and full index, meaning that all of the document records are available and retrievable. What is currently unavailable are the document PDFs/page-by-page views for documents added after October 2010. So all of the metadata is available, just not images. We are working diligently to restore all document images as quickly as possible and should have everything restored by Friday, May 6th. We are very sorry for this inconvenience and will keep you posted.

Friday, April 29, 2011

18,348 New Documents Posted on LTDL

4124 DATTA documents (Depositions and Trial Transcripts)

27 videos for the Multimedia Collection. 24 of these new videos come from the Pollay Collection and are wonderful compilations of TV cigarette commercials from the 1950s-1970s.

14,197 RJ Reynolds documents.

To see all of the documents posted to LTDL today (April 28, 2011), search for today's date (yyyymmdd format) in the "date added to UCSF" field like:
ddu:20110428

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Big Tobacco is a player's playa...

April 2011 article on Big Tobacco as "corporate pimp" in SFBayview.com - http://sfbayview.com/2011/big-pimping/. Discusses Big Tobacco's predatory practices, menthol cigarettes, and African-American community leaders. Both LTDL and Dr. Valerie Yerger of UCSF are cited.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Video Highlight - RJR execs on smoking...

"We don't smoke the s**t, we just sell it..." - http://www.archive.org/details/tobacco_uzj52b00

Accompanying document:
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pvt37b00
Statement to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by Dave Goerlitz, former Winston model, regarding RJR marketing practices. 1989

Monday, March 21, 2011

Find BAT Documents in Other Languages

Search Tip:

To find documents in the British American Tobacco (BAT) collection that were written in a language other than English, use the Expert Search page to search for languages by their two-letter code in the Language field (lg:) -

Arabic - ar
Chinese - ch
French - fr
German - de
Greek - el
Hindu - hi
Italian - it
Russian - ru
Spanish - es


Examples:
lg:de
lg:ru

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To search for documents in languages not listed above, search the Language field (lg:) for "unkn" in combination with the name of the country in the Country field (ct:)...

Examples:
lg:unkn ct:Japan
lg:unkn ct:Denmark

Friday, March 11, 2011

Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop at UCSF

PUTTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S WORDS TO WORK FOR YOU
Tobacco Control Advocacy and Corporate Accountability Event: Register Now!

Date: Friday, May 20, 2011
Time: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Place: University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 366 - San Francisco, California 94143

Applications for a 2011 Legacy Travel Scholarship to Increase Diversity may be requested. The deadline for the scholarships application is April 20, 2011.

For more information and to register for the workshop, please contact:
Jennifer Lau - Jennifer(dot)Lau(at)ucsf(dot)edu

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