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Welcome to TobaccoWiki, the online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet. The purpose of Tobaccowiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been learned about the industry through its documents.
Like Wikipedia, the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, Tobaccowiki is also a collaborative project. We need you to help us search through the tobacco industry documents now available online and enter information here about what you find. We welcome participation from everyone: students, journalists, smokers and non-smokers, food service workers, public health workers, tobacco control advocates, musicians, scientists, researchers and just plain curious folks. Everyone is invited to join in this project to facilitate access to information in the tobacco industry documents.
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Additives | Animal testing | Brainstorming documents | Brand information | Cigarette contaminants | Cigarette design | Consumer letters | End-game strategies | Fire-safe cigarettes | Health claims/health reassurance | Hypotheses | In context of other drugs | Industry-related organizations | Tobacco industry responses to actions directed against it | Lawsuits | Legislation | Miscellaneous tobacco document information | Nicotine and nicotine addiction | People | PR strategies | Projects & operations | Promotions | Published papers about tobacco industry documents| Secondhand smoke workers compensation cases and deaths | Smokers | Smoking accessories and paraphernalia | Smoking initiation | Smoking in popular culture | Smuggling | Symbolism of smoking | Target marketing | Tobacco advertising | Tobacco document information by country | Tobacco industry glossary and acronyms | Tobacco industry activity by state | Tort reform | Youth
- United States Department of Justice Final Findings of Fact in U.S. v Philip Morris et al. Final conclusions of the judge in the 1999-2006 federal trial in which tobacco companies were found guilty of conspiracy, racketeering and defrauding the public. (1,682 pages in PDF format!)
- Bibliography of published tobacco document research articles List of all published journal articles that have studied, or that cite tobacco industry documents.
- British American Tobacco Documents Archive - Previously secret documents from the British American Tobacco Company, all searchable by keyword. (Contains approximately 7 million pages).
- UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos-Free, online archive of a wide range of videos produced for internal and external consumption by tobacco companies. Previously only available by traveling to the Minnesota Archive.
- UCSF Tobacco Industry Audio Recordings-Online archive of audio recordings produced by tobacco companies.
- Tobacco Documents Online-the first online database of tobacco industry documents to hit the Internet.
- Tobacco Videos-Roswell Park Cancer Institute's collection of tobacco videos, searchable by brand or keyword (find ads featuring pilots, dogs, cars, trains, doctors, etc.)
- Tobacco News- Gene Borio's incredible news archive.
- The Tobacco Timeline - A detailed history of tobacco, and efforts to minimize its damage to humanity, dating back to 6,000 B.C.
- Smoking statistics
- Images from the Campaign by the Tobacco Industry to Hide the Hazards of Smoking - Extensive Stanford University collection of advertisements from the 1920s - 1950s.
- UK Tobacco Industry Advertising Documents Database -Search, view and download over 650 documents from the United Kingdom tobacco industry's main advertising agencies ranging from 1994 to 1999.
- Searchable National SmokeFree Dining Guide- Add your favorite smoke free restaurant.
Cigarette Company Projects and Operations
We need help discovering and filling in information on the tobacco industry's internal projects and operations.
Tobacco companies have engaged in thousands of internal projects and operations over the decades designed to do everything from thwart public health authorities to sell more cigarettes. You can find documents about tobacco industry Projects and Operations by searching the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library using terms like "Project" or "Operation." The links in red on our tobacco industry projects & operations page represent projects whose names are known, but for which no information has yet been recorded in the Tobaccowiki. You searching for information on projects we already know the names of, or you can dig up and add the names of new projects and operations, so we know about them.
If this is your first time editing on SourceWatch, you can register here, and learn more about adding information to the site here, here and here. Have fun, and thanks for your help!
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The strategies, propaganda tactics and corporate behaviors employed by the tobacco industry can give insight into the behavior of other multinational industries and corporations. To that end,TobaccoWiki seeks to increase public understanding of tobacco industry strategies to deceive the public about the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke; delay regulation of cigarettes, influence regulation and standards in their favor;market their products more heavily in the third world, where there is less regulation; market to young people; form front groups, coalitions and fake "grassroots" groups to do the industry's bidding; leverage human emotional and psychological needs to make cigarette advertising more effective; target less-educated, low income and minority ethnic groups; alter the American judicial system to block lawsuits ("tort reform"); intimidate legislators, regulators, public health scientists and voluntary health organizations; draft and pass laws in their favor; preempt local efforts to limit indoor smoking; engineer cigarettes for addiction, and much, much more.
Like Wikipedia, the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, Tobaccowiki is also a collaborative project. We welcome participation from everyone: students young and old, journalists, smokers and non-smokers, food service workers, public health workers, tobacco control advocates, musicians, scientists, researchers and just plain curious folks.“Virtual Town Hall Meeting with Nick Brookes ”
In today's Selected Video Nick Brookes, Chairman and CEO of Brown and Williamson used the Internet to answer questions about tobacco related issues in an attempt to engage in "a serious and positive dialogue about the future of [tobacco] industry."
For additional videos, see the University of California, San Francisco Tobacco Industry Videos Collection which contains videotapes and DVDs related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.
How did we get access to millions of previously secret tobacco industry documents?
Where are the documents kept? Who put them on the Internet? How do I start searching through them? All of these questions and more are answered in The Tobacco Industry Documents: an introductory handbook and resource guide for researchers published in 2003 by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
NCI Says Tobacco Advertising & Smoking in Movies Contribute to Smoking Rates
Philip Morris and the tobacco industry in general have long insisted that cigarette advertising has no influence whatsoever in getting people to start smoking, claiming it only influences existing adult smokers to change brands. But this week the National Cancer Institute published an extensive, 684-page monograph that evaluates current evidence regarding the power of the media to both encourage and discourage tobacco use. NCI found that "The total weight of evidence -- from multiple studies, conducted by investigators from different disciplines, and using data from many countries -- demonstrates a causal relationship between tobacco advertising and promotion and increased tobacco use." NCI further concluded that smoking in the movies causes more children to start smoking, saying "the depiction of cigarette smoking in movies is pervasive" and "the total weight of evidence ... indicates a causal relationship between exposure to depictions of smoking in movies and youth initiation." Source: National Cancer Institute, August 21, 2008
A useful product as we go into the winter months?
Tobacco Companies Hid Information on Radioactive Polonium
Tobacco manufacturers discovered over 40 years ago that radioactive polonium-210 exists in cigarettes and tobacco smoke, and spent decades working to remove it, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. The companies tried to remove polonium -- a naturally-occurring, alpha particle-emitting constituent of the fertilizers and soil used to grow tobacco -- by creating special filters, washing the tobacco leaf and genetically altering tobacco plants, but ultimately failed. Instead of coming clean, the companies kept their internal research on polonium and information about their unsuccessful efforts to remove it secret. They didn't want to heighten public awareness of polonium in cigarettes. Polonium-210 is the lethal radioactive substance that was used to poison Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.
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