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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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Expose of study funded by the tobacco industry.
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Article in medical journal examines the evidence that the tobacco industry is putting chemical additives to cigarettes to make secondhand smoke more pleasant but not less lethal.
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BusinessWeek commentary outlines the tobacco industry strategy of "ventilation" and explains why it doesn't protect health.
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From GASP of Colorado Education Center, summary of evidence that the tobacco industry was funding and organizing opposition to a Boulder smokefree ordinance.
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Article on the pro-smoking group FOREST reveals that 96% of its funding comes from the tobacco industry.
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Short item examines tobacco industry role in a study that concluded secondhand smoke is harmless.
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Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents B&W and the tobacco industry's approach to secondhand smoke.
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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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Presents a Philip Morris memo in which the company discusses its plans to "keep the controversy alive" on the health effects of secondhand smoke. The plans included a worldwide effort by the tobacco industry to recruit "friendly scientists".
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Journal article documents how the tobacco industry generated a study and hid its involvement in an attempt to fight the emerging science on secondhand smoke.
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Op-ed outlines history of tobacco industry attempts to influence public thinking about the science of secondhand smoke.
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National scientific organization concludes unanimously that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen; the tobacco industry sends 10 witnesses to argue the other way.
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Covers tobacco industry origins and purposes of FOREST.
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Article about Swedish professor R. Rylander, accused of having secretely worked for the tobacco industry, sheds light on tobacco industry funding of research intended to create doubt about health effects.
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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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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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Review of tobacco industry documents on Project Whitecoat, a tobacco industry campaign to recruit scientific experts sympathetic to the industry.
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CEO of tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds testifies that smoking isn't addictive and secondhand smoke doesn't cause cancer.
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Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments; sections on credibility and causality, publication bias, confounding variables, and misclassification error.
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Tobacco industry documents that show industry efforts to confuse or obscure the scientific discussion about the effects of tobacco.
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Short history from GASP of Colorado Education Center.
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Report on tobacco industry activity analyzes industry interests in secondhand smoke, and shows the different strategies used by the industry to fight smokefree places.
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Traces industry actions from 1977 to the present, including recruiting scientists, influencing media, and PR campaigns.
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Paper discusses how and why the tobacco industry influences the setting of standards for indoor air quality.
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Research paper reviews internal industry documents, finds the tobacco industry created a myth of lost profits to fight smokefree public places.
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Report outlines tactics used by the industry to defeat local smokefree air ordinances.
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Article reports on tobacco industry use of front groups to infiltrate unsuspecting communities and oppose smoking by-laws.
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Research examines the tobacco industry's strategy to avoid regulations on secondhand smoke exposure in Latin America.
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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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Article in Science reports the tobacco industry has been bullying scientists, according to researchers who lead the campaign against secondhand smoke.
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PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics.
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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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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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Explains and documents how the tobacco industry sells restaurants and bars the lie that smokefree laws will hurt them.
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Several documents, primarily about tobacco industry actions attempting to discredit the effects of secondhand smoke.
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Examines tobacco industry strategy to fight effective clean indoor air measures: ventilation.
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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".
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Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential documents from the company's law firm released on the Internet."