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| Studies Describing Tobacco Industry Strategy |
| Studies and articles describe Big Tobacco's attempts to subvert research on the health effects of secondhand smoke. |
| Tobacco Industry Opposition to Local Clean Indoor Air Policies |
| Report outlines tactics used by the industry to defeat local smokefree air ordinances. |
| Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue |
| Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'keep the controversy alive,' according to a 1988 internal tobacco company document." |
| Secondhand Smoke - Setting the Record Straight |
| The EPA reviews the epidemiology, the attempts by the tobacco industry to confuse and water down the evidence, and comes to the same conclusion in 1998 that the evidence justified in 1992: secondhand smoke is a preventable health hazard. |
| Tobacco Industry Underminded Report on Secondhand Smoke and Cancer |
| A ten-year study conducted by the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC) examining the links between secondhand smoke and cancer was subverted by an unprecedented misinformation campaign coordinated by the tobacco industry, UCSF researchers find. |
| The Philip Morris Scandal |
| ASH UK Paper on how Philip Morris and its lawyers invented and orchestrated "controversy" on secondhand smoke. Provides internal documents that document in the tobacco industry's own words how it spent "vast sums of money" to "keep the controversy alive" on secondhand smoke. |
| Ventilation |
| Examines tobacco industry strategy to fight effective clean indoor air measures: ventilation. |
| ASH Challenge to reporting on passive smoking |
| Includes coverage of industry actions affecting press coverage of secondhand smoke. |
| Philip Morris and Passive Smoking |
| ASH UK paper reviews original documents (company memos) to survey the history of industry conduct on secondhands moke. |
| Tobacco Explained: 6. Passive smoking |
| ASH UK paper. Covers what was known and when it was known, inside and outside the industry, and what the industry did to influence public opinion. |
| Tobacco Industry Efforts Subverting International Agency for Research on Cancer's Secondhand Smoke Study |
| Text of Lancet (2000) article documenting the tobacco industry's extensive efforts to subvert IARC research on the health effects of secondhand smoke. |
| The Tobacco Industry's Latest Attack on the Science of Secondhand Smoke |
| ANR report on May 1999 industry campaign. |
| Timeline: Tobacco Industry Actions on Secondhand Smoke |
| Traces industry actions from 1977 to the present, including recruiting scientists, influencing media, and PR campaigns. |
| Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Health |
| Article in the American Journal of Public Health chronicles the efforts of the tobacco industry to attack the evidence that secondhand smoke causes disease. |
| Stanton Glantz: Post-OSHA Hearings Comments |
| Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments; sections on credibility and causality, publication bias, confounding variables, and misclassification error. |
| TobaccoScam |
| Covers the tobacco industry strategy of selling restaurants and bars the myth that smokefree laws will hurt them. |
| UICC GLOBALink ETS Documents |
| Several documents, primarily about tobacco industry actions attempting to discredit the effects of secondhand smoke. |
| Did Big Tobacco Deliberately Withold Election Expenses in Boulder? |
| From GASP of Colorado Education Center, summary of evidence that the tobacco industry was funding and organizing opposition to a Boulder smokefree ordinance. |
| Tobacco's Secondhand Science of Smoke-Filled Rooms |
| PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics. |
| Tobacco Industry Global Conspiracy on Secondhand Smoke Science |
| Presents a Philip Morris memo in which the company discusses its plans to "keep the controversy alive" on the health effects of secondhand smoke. The plans included a worlwide effort by the tobacco industry to recruit "friendly scientists". |
| It's All Disinformation |
| Op-ed outlines history of tobacco industry attempts to influence public thinking about the science of secondhand smoke. |
| Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Relations Firms |
| Article in the American Journal of Public Health on Philip Morris's worldwide "sound science" program to set impossible standards of proof for the study of secondhand smoke. |
| Don't Buy the Ventilation Lie |
| Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights reports on tobacco industry strategies "to create the appearance that the problems relating to secondhand smoke are addressed without actually creating smokefree places." |
| The Smoke You Don't See: Uncovering Tobacco Industry Scientific Strategies Aimed Against Environmental Tobacco Smoke Policies |
| Article in the American Journal of Public Health details tobacco industry efforts to derail smokefree policies, including disinformation, using facts gained from industry documents now available. |
| Junking Science to Promote Tobacco |
| Article from the American Journal of Public Health outlines tobacco industry strategies to buy science, distort risk, and influence public opinion on secondhand smoke. |
| The Tobacco Industry and Ventilation |
| Short history from GASP of Colorado Education Center. |
| Tobacco Industry Knew Dangers of Secondhand Smoke Since the Mid-1970's |
| GASP of Colorado Education Center report uses internal tobacco industry memos to show tobacco industry decisions to: coverup what it knew about secondhand smoke and its health effects; mislead the public on secondhand smoke; create the appearance of scientific controversy when there was none. |
| Passive Smoking Cancer Risk Downplayed By Industry |
| Internal documents from Phillip Morris and other tobacco companies provide evidence that the tobacco industry has closely monitored and tried to actively interfere with an international epidemiological study on lung cancer and passive smoking. |
| Blowing Smoke over Ventilation |
| BusinessWeek commentary outlines the tobacco industry strategy of "ventilation" and explains why it doesn't protect health. |
| Are Cigarette Makers Trying to Conceal Secondhand Smoke? |
| Article in medical journal examines the evidence that the tobacco industry is putting chemical additives to cigarettes to make secondhand smoke more pleasant but not less lethal. |
| Preemption: Taking the Local out of Tobacco Control |
| Presentation on tobacco industry strategy to get pre-emptive legislation passed by state or federal government that strips lower levels of government of their authority to act. |
| Tobacco-Industry Sponsored Research Misled Public on Secondhand Smoke |
| Mayo clinic research finds the tobacco industry went to great lengths to fight scientific findings on secondhand smoke, to create the appearance of scientific controversy on the subject, and to hide its involvement in all of this. |
| The Tobacco Industry's Response to the Passive Smoking Issue |
| Report on tobacco industry activity analyzes industry interests in secondhand smoke, and shows the different strategies used by the industry to fight smokefree places. |
| National Toxicology Program, Board of Scientific Counselors |
| National scientific organization concludes unanimously that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen; the tobacco industry sends 10 witnesses to argue the other way. |
| Philip Morris Gave Secret Grants to Swedish Professor |
| Article about Swedish professor R. Rylander, accused of having secretely worked for the tobacco industry, sheds light on tobacco industry funding of research intended to create doubt about health effects. |
| Philip Morris's Secondhand Smoke Media Strategy |
| Internal document from Philip Morris executive describes its strategies for fighting the EPA's scientific report on secondhand smoke, including "concentrating all the EPA's enemies against it". |
| Tobacco Industry Influence on Air Quality Standards |
| Paper discusses how and why the tobacco industry influences the setting of standards for indoor air quality. |
| Secondhand Smoke Myths: Economics and Ventilation |
| Dispels two myths promoted by the tobacco industry: smokefree restaurants lose money, and fans and filters are the solution to secondhand smoke. |
| Tobacco Industry Aware of Secondhand Smoke Risks |
| Internal documents show the tobacco industry knew about but consistently failed to warn people about the health risks from second-hand smoke. |
| Fighting Clean Indoor Air |
| Once secret industry memos and documents demonstrate the industry's opposition to public health protections from secondhand smoke. |
| Tactics to Confuse The Science |
| Tobacco industry documents that show industry efforts to confuse or obscure the scientific discussion about the effects of tobacco. |
| Project Whitecoat |
| Review of tobacco industry documents on Project Whitecoat, a tobacco industry campaign to recruit scientific experts sympathetic to the industry. |
| What to Expect from the Tobacco Industry |
| Brief outline of strategies the tobacco industry uses to fight clean indoor air and smokefree public places. |
| Tobacco Industry Quietly Funding Groups to Stop Smoking By-laws |
| Article reports on tobacco industry use of front groups to infiltrate unsuspecting communities and oppose smoking by-laws. |
| R.J. Reynolds chief: Smoking isn't addicting |
| CEO of tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds testifies that smoking isn't addictive and secondhand smoke doesn't cause cancer. |
| Enstrom Study |
| Short item examines tobacco industry role in a study that concluded secondhand smoke is harmless. |
| American Cancer Society Condemns Tobacco Industry Study for Inaccurate Use of Data |
| Expose of study funded by the tobacco industry. |
| Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions |
| Statistical analysis of the research literature on secondhand smoke finds "the only factor associated with concluding that passive smoking is not harmful was whether an author was affiliated with the tobacco industry". |
| How the Tobaccco Industry Responded to an Influential Study of the Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke |
| Journal article documents how the tobacco industry generated a study and hid its involvement in an attempt to fight the emerging science on secondhand smoke. |
| eBMJ -- Tobacco company set up network of sympathetic scientists |
| Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential documents from the company's law firm released on the Internet." |
| Environmental Tobacco Smoke and the Nonsmokers' Rights Movement |
| Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents B&W and the tobacco industry's approach to secondhand smoke. |
| ASHRAE Standard 62: Tobacco Industry's Influence over National Ventilation Standards |
| Paper describes the history and role of the tobacco industry in the development of ventilation standards for indoor air quality by influencing the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). |
| Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Brown and Williamson Documents |
| A review of internal tobacco industry documents compares what the industry said privately about secondhand smoke with what it said publicly. |
| Tobacco Industry Success in Preventing Regulation of Secondhand Smoke in Latin America |
| Research examines the tobacco industry's strategy to avoid regulations on secondhand smoke exposure in Latin America. |
| Tobacco Industry Manipulation of the Hospitality Industry to Maintain Smoking in Public pLaces |
| Research paper reviews internal industry documents, finds the tobacco industry created a myth of lost profits to fight smokefree public places. |