CTCRE Symposium in February

Mark your calendars!

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at UCSF is pleased to host the symposium and poster session:

It’s About a Billion Lives:
Advances in Tobacco Control
Celebrating Five Years of Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 8:00A - 12:00P
505 Parnassus Ave., UCSF, Health Sciences West, Room 303

Presentations include:

Social and Economic Determinants of Smoking in Rich and Poor Countries: Evidence for Reverse Health Disparities?
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
President, American Cancer Society and Director, Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center

Unselling Smokes: Reversing Tobacco Marketing Strategies
Pamela M. Ling, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Industry Efforts to Undermine the World Bank and WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Hadii M. Mamudu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow

The symposium will also have a poster session featuring work that is not included in the oral presentations.

For information or to present a poster, contact Jenni Alexander at 415-502-6341 or jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.

"Smoke this Book"

Paul Collins wrote a fascinating essay for the December 2nd issue of the New York Times Sunday Book Review which explores the 1970's practice of binding advertisements directly into the center of paperback books.

According to the author, "The bulk of paperback advertising came from tobacco companies, which were looking for new places to push their products after a federal ban on cigarette advertising on television and radio passed in 1969."

Collins used LTDL to follow the paper trail of who was behind this practice, how much money was involved in this type of marketing, and who reaped the benefits.

Read the full New York Times essay.

For further information and a timeline of the original marketing studies, print run orders, and customer complaints (with links to LTDL documents), access Paul Collins' blog, Weekend Stubble

We've Reached 8 Million Documents!

We released a new version of LTDL today which contains document additions and new features. The following additions bring the total to 8,006,384 documents!

Document Additions

-103,494 new Philip Morris documents
-18,040 new Tobacco Institute documents provided by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). Please note some of the document dates in the metadata may be inaccurate.
-593 new DATTA transcripts

New Features

Next/previous Bates:
Now, when you view a document's record (either from the pURL page or the search results), you will notice arrows before and after the document's bates number(s). Clicking on the arrows allows you to “page” to the previous or next Bates number in that collection.

For those already familiar with this feature in BATDA, this is useful for exploring the documents that surround a particular document or may have been attached at one time. Please note, Bates numbers are only valid within a collection - for instance, the very last bates number in the Philip Morris collection would not have a "next" bates.

E-mailing Bookbag:
Users are now able to email their bookbag to more than one email address.
To do this, Enter 2 or more email addresses in the "To" field, separated by commas.