Background: In 1992, British American Tobacco had its Canadian affiliate, Imperial Tobacco
Canada, destroy internal research documents that could expose the company to liability or …

Background Spurred by the creation of potential modified risk tobacco products, the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to assess …

The release of over 27 million pages of internal tobacco industry documents as a result of
discovery processes in The State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of …

Research on previously secret tobacco industry documents has grown substantially during
the past decade, since these documents first became available as the result of private and …

By exposing, in tobacco executives' own words, the dishonest and starkly cynical nature of
their statements and actions, the documents deprive the industry credibility, undercut its …

Objective.—To introduce a series of papers discussing previously undocumented tobacco
industry activities regarding strategies to avoid products liability litigation, understand …

Objectives. This review details the tobacco industry's scientific campaign aimed against
policies addressing environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and efforts to undermine US …

▪ Abstract The release of previously secret internal tobacco industry documents has given
the public health community unprecedented insight into the industry's motives, strategies …

Objective: Despite their obligation to do so, tobacco companies often failed to conduct
product safety research or, when research was conducted, failed to disseminate the results …

Background: In January 1954, US tobacco manufacturers jointly sponsored an advocacy
advertisement entitled “A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers” which appeared in 448 …