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Not a Cough in a Carload - Images from the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking (Stanford University)
A comprehensive gallery of images, primarily advertisements, that illustrate the tobacco companies' deceptive claims regarding the safety of their products.

Popular Documents - Marketing to Women (LTDL)
A selection of documents from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library that highlight the marketing and advertising strategies used by the tobacco companies to create cigarette brands specifically for women.

Richard Pollay - Papers on Cigarette Marketing and Advertising
Professor Pollay's last two decade of scholarship have focused heavily on tobacco marketing. Some of the most requested papers are available for download at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Colombia.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute - Tobacco Document & Advertising Collection
Contains the Pollay Tobacco Ad Collection, tobacco videos, and a Youth Marketing collection among others.

Trinkets & Trash - Artifacts of the Tobacco Epidemic
A downloadable image archive of tobacco advertising and promotion.
Tobacco Industry Tactics: A Look in Company Files podcast
Presentations based on research in LTDL about the tobacco industry's marketing, advertising, manufacturing, scientific research and sales of tobacco products as well as their political activities.

UCSF Tobacco Industry Video Collection (Internet Archive)
Watch videos related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products including compilations of older cigarette commercials. This collection of videos comes from the larger Legacy Tobacco Documents Library's Multimedia Collection.

 
Advocacy & Education   Back to Top
 
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH)

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation (ANRF)

American Legacy Foundation

American Lung Association

The Centers for Disease Control: Smoking and Tobacco Use (CDC)
Contains Surgeon General reports, facts regarding tobacco use, smokeless tobacco, tobacco ingredients and additives, and tips for quitting.

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF (CTCRE)
The work of CTCRE spans policy and historical research, economics, and science, and is designed to inform and improve the effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce tobacco use.

GLOBALink

Nightingales
A project of Ruth Malone, RN, PhD, Associate Professor of Nursing & Health Policy at the University of California, San Francisco. The Nightingales is a group of nurse activists who work to focus public attention on the behavior of the tobacco industry.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Research on Tobacco Use
Presents research on tobacco use by children and adolescents, evaluations of efforts by managed care organizations to promote smoking cessation among members, the effects of tobacco advertising, clean indoor air initiatives, and policy research and analysis.

Smoke Free Movies
A project of Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, aimed "to sharply reduce the U.S. film industry's usefulness to Big Tobacco's domestic & global marketing.

Tobacco Control Archives at UCSF
Includes paper and media collections dealing with the tobacco control movement. The site includes a broad list of tobacco control resources.

World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative (WHO)
Provides links to a variety of other tobacco-related websites in the belief that the informed individual is better able to make health and lifestyle decisions.

World Health Organization's Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package (WHO)
This report presents the first comprehensive worldwide analysis of tobacco use and control efforts and outlines the MPOWER package, a set of six key tobacco control measures that reflect and build on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

 
Economics   Back to Top
 
The Economics of Tobacco Policy
 
 
History of Tobacco   Back to Top
 
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Tobacco Chronology
Focuses on "what the Tobacco companies were saying and when."

"The Cigarette Papers" Online Wall of History
An online version of the "The Cigarette Papers" exhibit at UCSF, which includes a timeline of historically significant events and spotlights crucially important documents in the history of Tobacco Control.

Tobacco Timeline at Tobacco.org

UC Berkeley's History of Tobacco Links

UC San Francisco's Bibliography on the History of Cigarette Smoking
 
 
Laws & Litigation   Back to Top
 
Federal Laws Governing Tobacco and its Use
Created by the Oregon Department of Human Services, this site has many links to federal actions and regulations regarding tobacco and secondhand smoke.

Individual State Smoking Laws and Tobacco Control Efforts (SLATI)
The American Lung Association's comprehensive, up-to-date guide to all tobacco control laws in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Includes summary reports and a searchable database.

The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
A national network supporting tobacco control policy change by giving advocates better access to legal expertise.

Tobacco Litigation Documents
A collection of US court documents from federal, state and regional tobacco industry lawsuits - Includes the 1999 U.S. Department of Justice's civil racketeering (RICO) lawsuit against the major tobacco companies, the B&W suit against the UC Regents, and key litigation documents from cases brought by the Attorneys General of 44 states.

Tobacco Litigation and Enforcement
Maintained by the California Attorney General's office, this site contains the master settlement agreement (MSA) between the Tobacco Industry and the United States in PDF format. Under "Contact Us" there is a complaint hotline (& email address) for any violation of the agreement.

Tobacco Products Liability Project
Sponsored by the Tobacco Control Resource Center (TCRC).

Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles

What Will It Mean for California? The Tobacco Settlement
This site illustrates the distribution of the settlement money among different California counties.
 
 
Politics   Back to Top
 
Open Secrets A Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections
 
 
Specific Populations   Back to Top
 
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

No Tobacco

National Networks for Tobacco Control and Prevention
A portal for tobacco control advocates working with priority populations.

Tobacco Industry Documents and the African American Community
A subset of tobacco industry documents about the African American community from the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network and the University of Dayton School of Law.

The Truth Campaign

Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups
Report from the Surgeon General's office. Provides information about the use of tobacco in the African-American, Asian, and Hispanic communities.

Women & Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General
This site covers tobacco use by women and girls, how they are targeted by tobacco marketing campaigns, and the long-term health effects of tobacco use.

 
Secondhand Smoke   Back to Top
 
Fact Sheet on Secondhand Smoke from Repace Associates, Inc.

Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (National Cancer Institute)

11th Report on Carcinogens (ROC)- ETS (National Institutes of Health)

Tobacco Industry Opposition to Smoking Restrictions - Multimedia Power Point presentation given by Roswell Park Cancer Institute at the 2007 FAMRI Conference

Popular Documents - Secondhand Smoke (LTDL)

 
Tobacco Use & Health   Back to Top
 
American Cancer Society - Tobacco and Cancer

American Heart Association - Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease

MedLine Plus Medical Encyclopedia - Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco

 
Industry Documents - Tools & Resources   Back to Top
 
The Cigarette Papers
An analysis of the first set of industry documents to be released publicly.

Glossaries of Names (LTDL)
Glossaries of names provided by Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, and Lorillard to give information about individuals mentioned in the privileged documents.

Guide to Citing Tobacco Industry Documents
Provides a standard for citing documents in papers & monographs.

Guide to Deciphering the Internal Codes Used by the Tobacco Industry - [PDF - 227 KB]
Created by Harvard School of Public Health's Tobacco Research Program, this extensive guide investigates and details the tobacco industry's lists of codes and their definitions as well as specific codes related to product research.

Privileged Document Codes (LTDL)
Provides keys to the privilege codes found in Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, and Lorillard documents withheld from production due to claims of attorney-client privilege, work product protection and/or joint defense/common legal interest privilege.

Tobacco Documents Bibliography
Frequently updated comprehensive bibliography of publications and resources that utilize and analyze tobacco industry documents from 1994 to present. Created by Norbert Hirschhorn, MD, and currently maintained by the UCSF Library.
Access the Tobacco Documents Bibliography through RefShare, a feature of RefWorks which allows online sharing, sorting, and downloading of references.

The Tobacco Industry Documents. What They Are, What They Tell Us and How to Search Them. A Practical Manual (2nd edition) - [PDF - 1.61 MB]
This revised and updated edition outlines how to search the tobacco industry documents and aims to provide key information for future tobacco control strategies.

Tobacco Industry Documents: an Introductory Handbook & Resource Guide for Researchers
An excellent guide to searching tobacco industry documents by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

TobaccoWiki
The online research project dedicated to the collaborative mining of millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents. Anyone may contribute.

 
Industry Documents - Websites   Back to Top
 
British American Tobacco Documents Archive
In 2008, the millions of internal documents from the British American Tobacco Company were imported into LTDL to provide a more comprehensive documents search across multiple companies. The BATDA site is still online but users conducting a search within BATDA will be redirected to LTDL where their search results will display.

Brown & Williamson and American Tobacco Company Documents
Brown & Williamson and American Tobacco are now part of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Council for Tobacco Research Documents

Lorillard Tobacco Company Documents

Philip Morris Tobacco Documents

RJ Reynolds Company Documents

Tobacco Institute Documents

Tobacco Documents Online
Allows users to search and display over 4 million tobacco industry documents and hosts many specialized research collections (e.g. Youth & Marketing, Product Design, etc.)

 
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