High impact information on Tobacco Industry

• OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in smoking behavior before, during, and after the California Tobacco Control Program. DESIGN: Per capita cigarette consumption data (1983-1997) were derived from tobacco industry sales figures [1].
• Should our journals publish research sponsored by the tobacco industry? Introduction: the ethics of publishing research sponsored by the tobacco industry in ATS/ALA journals. ATS Bioethics Committee [2].
• Tobacco industry marketing at point of purchase after the 1998 MSA billboard advertising ban [3].
• FINDINGS: The tobacco industry investigated nicotine analogues extensively [4].
• METHODS: Data for this study come from tobacco industry documents contained in the Youth and Marketing database created by the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and available through http:// roswell.tobaccodocuments.org, supplemented with documents obtained from http://www.tobaccodocuments.org [5].

Associations of Tobacco Industry with chemical compounds

• This study is the first (independent of the tobacco industry) to report menthol for 48 popular commercially available mentholated cigarette sub-brands [6].
• DESIGN: A qualitative analysis of all tobacco industry documents regarding coumarin since the 1950s from the 1998 US Master Settlement Agreement and subsequent legal settlements [7].
• METHOD AND SAMPLE: After excluding value-neutral financial page reports, thematic analysis of all value-laden references to the tobacco industry in the Sydney Morning Herald, January 1993 to December 1997 [8].
• Tobacco industry must not dump its high nitrosamine tobacco on poor countries [9].
• Review of internal tobacco industry documents indicates that levulinic acid was used to increase nicotine yields while enhancing perceptions of smoothness and mildness [10].

Gene context of Tobacco Industry

• Should our journals publish research sponsored by the tobacco industry? Con: the smoking lamp should not be lit in ATS/ALA publications [11].
• Tobacco industry documents: treasure trove or quagmire [12]?
• The epidemic developed as a result of innovations in the tobacco industry and larger cultural changes over the 75 years prior to the introduction of Camel cigarettes in 1913 [13].
• An interview with Dr. Alan Blum. Tobacco industry nemesis. Interview by Adam Goldstein [14].
• Informal correspondence was carried out with scientists, lawyers, and tobacco control experts in the USA and Europe. We found that executives and scientists at the highest levels of the tobacco industry anticipated and carefully monitored p53 research [15].

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