Tobacco Control Symposium at UCSF

Please join us for the annual "It’s About a Billion Lives" symposium on

Friday, February 3, 2012

UCSF - Cole Hall

513 Parnassus Avenue

San Francisco CA 94143

The symposium is open to all, including the public.

Tobacco Documents Webinar - February 2012

                  

Legacy and
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
The University of California, San Francisco
invite you to participate in a webinar on

PUTTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S WORDS TO WORK FOR YOU

Thursday, February 23, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)

Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in a meeting of tobacco industry advertising executives?  Or wondered how you could use their powerful words to give teens and adults reasons why not to smoke?  Well now here is your chance.  The purpose of the webinar is to provide a basic overview of the tobacco industry documents, how to access them, and how to incorporate the documents into your work.  Our speakers will provide examples of ways in which they have used the documents for research and advocacy purposes to promote tobacco-free communities.

Featured speakers:
Kim Klausner, Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager, University of California, San Francisco Library
Ruth E. Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing - University of California, San Fransico

The webinar is free.  Those who plan on participating will need both phone and computer/web access. 

Please click here to register. The deadline for registration is February 15. 


Please direct any questions to Rebecca Carle at rcarle@legacyforhealth.org or (202) 454-5748.   

New Collection on Japan Tobacco and Smuggling

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added 100 new Philip Morris documents today and a new research collection, JTI Smuggling. 

The 42 documents in this new collection were obtained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and detail Japan Tobacco International's (JTI) smuggling activities throughout Russia, Moldova, the Balkans, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and their subsequent cover-up. See OCCRP's investigation, Big Trouble at Big Tobacco, for more in-depth information.

The JTI Smuggling collection can be found by searching for "jti" in the special collection (speccoll:) field on the Expert Search page, like - speccoll:jti

New FDA-Tobacco Litigation Page

The UCSF Tobacco Control Archives has a new FDA Lawsuits page in its Tobacco Litigation section.  This new page currently contains court documents and other resources surrounding the FDA's ruling regarding new cigarette warning labels and the appeal by the tobacco industry (RJ Reynolds et al., v. FDA).  This page will be updated as further litigation occurs and court documents are received.  

8 New Papers Added to the Tobacco Docs Bibliography

The last 2 months of 2011 have brought us some fascinating research and analysis of tobacco industry documents and brings the total number of scholarly articles, reports and books/chapters using the documents to 758. 

The latest update adds Jackler and Samji's article "The price paid: Manipulation of otolaryngologists by the tobacco industry to obfuscate the emerging truth that smoking causes cancer" and Brandt's "Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics."  Wertz, et al's PloS article, "The Toxic Effects of Cigarette Additives. Philip Morris' Project Mix Reconsidered: An Analysis of Documents Released through Litigation" also has a bonus - a video featuring Prof. Stan Glantz explaining the paper and their findings: (http://www.scivee.tv/node/37778)


Find these papers and more at the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography and on RefShare

Document Disclosure Orders from the RICO case

We have posted the latest Consent Order to come out of the Tobacco Industry RICO case on the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive - this order involves document disclosure obligations and a $6.25M payment for document accessibility and indexing: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/sites/all/files/ucsf_assets/consentorder_USPM_20111215.pdf 

If you aren't familiar with the UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive Litigation section, you should take a look - it contains pertinent court documents from not only the US vs. Philip Morris (RICO) case but the 1995 Brown and Williamson vs. UC Regents (re the secret documents that were to become LTDL) as well as other jurisdictions:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/litigation/

LTDL to Receive $6.25M for Document Indexing and Access

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order on December 14, 2011 with a federal district court that finalized requirements for three major tobacco companies to make internal documents public in accordance with an earlier ruling that the companies violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The documents have been and will continue to be archived in UCSF’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL).

The order is part of the remedy phase of the largest civil racketeering (RICO) case in the history of the United States and specifies that the companies provide $6.25 million to the court to improve public access and indexing of the documents.  These funds will go to the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library for this purpose.

“These funds will allow us to substantially improve the way investigators, the media and the public are able to research how tobacco companies produce, price and market their products as well as protect their political interests globally,” said Kim Klausner, UCSF Industry Documents Digital Library Manager.

“Research based on the documents has provided a unique insight into how the tobacco industry manipulates scientific and political processes and engineers its products and marketing to maximize its sales,” said Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. “By revealing the industry’s behind-the-scenes strategies and involvement, this understanding has transformed public health from city councils to the United Nations.”

Read more at: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/12/11138/ucsf-receive-tobacco-papers-funding-improve-public-access-documents