Thursday, February 08, 2018

More Confidential Documents Released

Document Additions
680 new tobacco industry documents were posted today! This includes:

• 168 Lorillard records (the majority were previously confidential or privileged)
• 421 RJ Reynolds records (previously confidential)
• 45 new depositions and trial transcripts from Engle Progeny Tobacco Cases
• 34 Philip Morris records
• 12 American Tobacco Company records

New Papers and Publications
2 new papers were added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography -

• Iida & Proctor (2018). ‘The industry must be inconspicuous’: Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation
• Elias & Ling (2018). Origins of tobacco harm reduction in the UK: the 'Product Modification Programme' (1972-1991)

New Features
We have "unboxed" the Actions drop down menu when viewing an individual document. Now instead of clicking on the Actions menu, there are clear icons indicating what you can do with a document (view/download/email/cite). Please let us know how this is working for you.