Collections
Thursday, October 27, 2016

8000+ New Documents Posted - New BAT and Previously Confidential RJR

8,297 new documents were added to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents today:

  • 2511 RJ Reynolds documents - these were originally classified as confidential but have been de-classified and are now public

  • 6384 newly acquired British American Tobacco documents - When BAT announced they were closing their document depository in Guildford, England, last year, the IDL team made an attempt to acquire any documents that were missing from our BAT holdings. We identified approx. 45,000 documents that had not been previously ordered/acquired. This is the first batch.

  • 17 recently captured and preserved websites for our CA Tobacco Control web archives. These websites are related to the current California Proposition 56 tobacco tax ballot measure and include official "Yes on Prop 56" and "No on Prop 56" campaign websites and videos.

In addition, we have added 6 new papers and publications to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography.