Liggett & Myers Collection and RPCI Records Added
- Approximately 400,000 pages of Liggett & Myers internal documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. In 1997, Liggett & Myers, the smallest of the five major tobacco companies, became the first to settle lawsuits in 22 states and to help state prosecutors litigate against the nation’s biggest cigarette manufacturers by providing evidence of industry strategies and tactics. Because of their early compliance with prosecutors, L&M was not included in the Master Settlement Agreement stipulation for creation of company document websites, meaning these documents exist nowhere else in electronic format.The new Liggett & Myers collection can be searched in conjunction with the other tobacco company collections or as a single collection.
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has scanned the document collections of the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research whose collections also contain several thousand audiovisual tapes which focus primarily on tobacco industry public relations efforts. The records of these new resources have been integrated into the LTDL Multimedia Collection and are available for viewing through RPCI.
Basic Search Tutorial Available
Those new to the LTDL site can now view a tutorial that provides a quick overview of how to conduct a basic search on the documents. The tutorial can be found on the home page as well as on the Search Help page.
