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Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Health - http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/11/1749
Article in the American Journal of Public Health chronicles the efforts of the tobacco industry to attack the evidence that secondhand smoke causes disease. |
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Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Relations Firms - http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/91/11/1749
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. |
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Tobacco Industry Underminded Report on Secondhand Smoke and Cancer - http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/releases/2004010299/
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. |
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Blowing Smoke over Ventilation - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_19/b3731089.htm
BusinessWeek commentary outlines the tobacco industry strategy of "ventilation" and explains why it doesn't protect health. |
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ASHRAE Standard 62: Tobacco Industry's Influence over National Ventilation Standards - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/4/315
Paper describes the history and role of the tobacco industry in the development of ventilation standards for indoor air quality by influencing the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). |
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Disinfopedia: Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco - http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=FOREST
Article on the pro-smoking group FOREST reveals that 96% of its funding comes from the tobacco industry. |
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Philip Morris's Secondhand Smoke Media Strategy - http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/2023920090-0101.html
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". |
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Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/second.htm
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." |
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Brown and Williamson Documents - http://texts.cdlib.org/dynaxml/servlet/dynaXML?docId=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e315&toc.id=d0e110&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=JD_Page_22#X
A review of internal tobacco industry documents compares what the industry said privately about secondhand smoke with what it said publicly. |
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Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/19/1566?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Why+Review+Articles+on+the+Health+Effects+of+Passive+Smoking+Reach+Different+Conclusions&searchid=1067862394764_827&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=jama
Statistical analysis of the research literature on secondhand smoke finds "the only factor associated with concluding that passive smoking is not harmful was whether an author was affiliated with the tobacco industry". |