TobaccoWiki

Try out the new tobacco document research site TobaccoWiki (http://www.tobaccowiki.org/) - an online collaborative research project to which anyone can contribute. Tobaccowiki is a portal site on http://www.sourcewatch.org/ and it was created to encourage more people around the world to engage in tobacco document research. Some of the great features of TobaccoWiki include the Tobacco Documents Biographies database containing names and descriptions of thousands people involved with the industry, a database of Industry Projects and Operations, and a database of Industry-Related Organizations. There is a section for Consumer Letters, and links to information on additives, brands and brand information, and much more. Access TobaccoWiki now and join in this collaborative project to improve access to information contained in the tobacco industry's documents!

American Legacy Foundation honors Prof. Stan Glantz

The American Legacy Foundation has announced a gift to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to honor Dr. Stanton Glantz with a new Distinguished Professorship in Tobacco Control. Glantz, the first recipient of this distinguished chair for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, is a widely respected scientist and advocate for tobacco control. Among his many personal and professional achievements, Professor Glantz is the head of the national advocacy program, Smoke Free Movies, a member of a number of scientific peer review bodies, and co-author of The Cigarette Papers as well as over 20 other books and more than 200 scholarly articles.