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 inter
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/second.htm
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Secondhand Smoke - Setting the Record Straight
The EPA reviews the epidemiology, the attempts by the tobacco industry to confuse and water down the evidence, and comes to the same conclusion in 1998 that the evidence justified in 1992: secondhand smoke is a preventable health hazard.
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/strsfs.html
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The Philip Morris Scandal
ASH UK Paper on how Philip Morris and its lawyers invented and orchestrated "controversy" on secondhand smoke. Provides internal documents that document in the tobacco industry's own words how it spent "vast sums of money" to "ke
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/press/980414.html
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Ventilation
Examines tobacco industry strategy to fight effective clean indoor air measures: ventilation.
http://www.no-smoke.org/ventilation.html
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ASH Challenge to reporting on passive smoking
Includes coverage of industry actions affecting press coverage of secondhand smoke.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/passive/html/pcc.html
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Philip Morris and Passive Smoking
ASH UK paper reviews original documents (company memos) to survey the history of industry conduct on secondhands moke.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/pmorris1.html
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Tobacco Industry Efforts Subverting International Agency for Research on Cancer's Secondhand Smoke Study
Text of Lancet (2000) article documenting the tobacco industry's extensive efforts to subvert IARC research on the health effects of secondhand smoke.
http://www.electric-words.com/junk/glantz/glantz.html
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Timeline: Tobacco Industry Actions on Secondhand Smoke
Traces industry actions from 1977 to the present, including recruiting scientists, influencing media, and PR campaigns.
http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=36
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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
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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
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