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Thursday, March 10, 2011

60,000 Documents Posted to LTDL

60,089 documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.

23,495 Lorillard docs
9,389 British American Tobacco docs
15,511 American Tobacco docs
11,694 Brown & Williamson docs

To find these additions, go to the LTDL Search page and search on today's date (yyyymmdd) in the "date added to UCSF" field like = ddu:20110310
Monday, February 28, 2011

New Papers Added to the Bibliography!

12 new papers have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography

Read up on "The role of menthol in cigarettes as a reinforcer of smoking behavior", "Tobacco industry knowledge of the role of menthol in chemosensory perception of tobacco smoke" and "Forcing the Navy to sell cigarettes on ships: How the tobacco industry and politicians torpedoed Navy tobacco control" to name just a few.
Monday, February 28, 2011

Why is there no PDF for the document I found?

While searching on the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, you may come across documents that have no PDF image, only the index record. Most of these records are of documents that were either considered "privileged" or "confidential" by the tobacco companies and because of this, they are only required to provide the document record, not the image.

In a US court of law, "privilege" is the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship such as attorney/client communication.

"Confidential" documents are documents that supposedly contain trade secrets and information such as marketing plans and future research budgets that the companies feel should not be allowed into the public arena.

LTDL has had the records of privileged documents posted for a number of years now. Recently, the tobacco industry has started uploading their confidential document logs onto their own documents websites and we at LTDL have been grabbing up the documents records for our site. The companies are to provide quarterly updates to their confidential logs, listing new confidential document records and releasing documents that have been deemed no longer confidential. We will be tracking these updates and providing the actual documents once they have been cleared of the "confidential" status.

For anyone wishing to find these confidential document records and any "formerly confidential" documents now available for viewing:

To find "confidential" documents, search the Document Status field (st:) for the term "confidential" like:
st:confidential

Then add dates, names, specific company, etc. to narrow your search if you wish.

To find documents that were considered "confidential" but have since been released for viewing, search the Document Status field (st:) for the term "formerly" like:
st:formerly

For more information see: Search Tips and Tricks or the FAQs
Friday, February 18, 2011

Over 95,000 Formerly Confidential Documents Now Available

116,447 new Philip Morris documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library on February 17, 2011. Of these, 95,401 were formerly confidential but are now available for viewing.

To find these "formerly confidential" documents, go to the Expert Search page and search for the date posted to LTDL (in yyyymmdd format) and the term "formerly" in the document status field like = ddu:20110217 st:formerly
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Over 1 Million "Confidential" Document Records Added

1,291,916 "confidential" Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds document records were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today. To find the confidential document records, search the document status field (st:) for the term "confidential" = st:confidential

Confidential document logs are being posted to the industry sites as a result of the RICO case. As documents are taken off of the confidential logs on the industry sites, we will add the document image to the record and the status (st:) will change to "formerly confidential".

In addition, 8,815 privileged RJ Reynolds documents were also added. To find these newly added privileged document records, search the date added to UCSF (ddu:) for todays date (20110127) and the document status field (st:) for the term "priv" = ddu:20110127 st:priv*

LTDL holdings as of Thursday, January 27, 2011: 73,373,078 pages in 12,946,769 documents.
Thursday, January 06, 2011

Thousands of New Lorillard Documents

17,906 Lorillard documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Tobacco Documents Bibliography - New Papers!

The Tobacco Documents Bibliography has 12 new papers and publications bringing the total number of papers, publications, and online reports to 691. Read about the Chinese tobacco industry, the US tobacco industry's response to the problem of cigarette litter, and the risk perceptions of menthol cigarettes, to name just a few.

FYI - We also offer the Tobacco Documents Bibliography in RefWorks/RefShare to facilitate the sharing, exporting and sorting of these citations.