- Are Cigarette Makers Trying to Conceal Secondhand Smoke?
Article in medical journal examines the evidence that the tobacco industry is putting chemical additives to cigarettes to make secondhand smoke more pleasant but not less lethal.
http://www.pulmonaryreviews.com/dec00/pr_dec00_additives.html
- Blowing Smoke over Ventilation
BusinessWeek commentary outlines the tobacco industry strategy of "ventilation" and explains why it doesn't protect health.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_19/b3731089.htm
- eBMJ -- Tobacco company set up network of sympathetic scientists
Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential documents from the company's law firm released on the Internet."
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7144/1553/d
- Fighting Clean Indoor Air
Once secret industry memos and documents demonstrate the industry's opposition to public health protections from secondhand smoke.
http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/cia.cfm
- It's All Disinformation
Op-ed outlines history of tobacco industry attempts to influence public thinking about the science of secondhand smoke.
http://www.s-t.com/daily/02-00/02-08-00/c04op082.htm
- Junking Science to Promote Tobacco
Article from the American Journal of Public Health outlines tobacco industry strategies to buy science, distort risk, and influence public opinion on secondhand smoke.
http://www.smokefreeforhealth.org/studies/YachBialous.htm
- National Toxicology Program, Board of Scientific Counselors
National scientific organization concludes unanimously that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen; the tobacco industry sends 10 witnesses to argue the other way.
http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Liason/DecBRCBSCmin.html#smoke
- Philip Morris Gave Secret Grants to Swedish Professor
Article about Swedish professor R. Rylander, accused of having secretely worked for the tobacco industry, sheds light on tobacco industry funding of research intended to create doubt about health effects.
http://www.nisus.se/archive/020610e.html
- Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue
Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'keep the controversy alive,' according to a 1988 internal tobacco company document."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/second.htm
- Philip Morris's Secondhand Smoke Media Strategy
Internal document from Philip Morris executive describes its strategies for fighting the EPA's scientific report on secondhand smoke, including "concentrating all the EPA's enemies against it".
http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/2023920090-0101.html
- Project Whitecoat
Review of tobacco industry documents on Project Whitecoat, a tobacco industry campaign to recruit scientific experts sympathetic to the industry.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/whitecoat.shtml
- Stanton Glantz: Post-OSHA Hearings Comments
Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments; sections on credibility and causality, publication bias, confounding variables, and misclassification error.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/osha/oshapost.html
- Tactics to Confuse The Science
Tobacco industry documents that show industry efforts to confuse or obscure the scientific discussion about the effects of tobacco.
http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/confuse.cfm
- Tobacco Industry Global Conspiracy on Secondhand Smoke Science
Presents a Philip Morris memo in which the company discusses its plans to "keep the controversy alive" on the health effects of secondhand smoke. The plans included a worlwide effort by the tobacco industry to recruit "friendly scientists".
http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/landman/conspiracy/
- Tobacco Industry Underminded Report on Secondhand Smoke and Cancer
A ten-year study conducted by the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC) examining the links between secondhand smoke and cancer was subverted by an unprecedented misinformation campaign coordinated by the tobacco industry, UCSF researchers find.
http://cc.ucsf.edu/news/040700.html
- Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Health
Article in the American Journal of Public Health chronicles the efforts of the tobacco industry to attack the evidence that secondhand smoke causes disease.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/11/1749
- Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Relations Firms
Article in the American Journal of Public Health on Philip Morris's worldwide "sound science" program to set impossible standards of proof for the study of secondhand smoke.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/91/11/1749
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