Wednesday, March 29, 2017
CHEMICALChemical Industry Documents Archive Goes Live
Welcome to the new Chemical Industry Documents Archive! We are pleased to add this subject area to our stable of archives at Industry Documents Library (IDL). Today is our "soft launch," with nearly 2,000 documents and more to come in May and beyond.
Our first collection of documents is the Benzene Collection. It currently consists of about 2,000 documents produced during litigation in Bishop v. Shell Oil et al., a civil case about benzene exposure in the workplace. You can find more details about it on Chemical Industry Documents Archive’s Benzene Collection page.
If you’re new to Industry Documents Library and want a quick orientation to navigating the site, click the “Take a Tour” button at the top.
Also, try searching IDL’s Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Archive for documents about chemicals. A search of "benzene" returns 87,539 results!
Finally, don’t forget to head over to Chemical Industry Documents Archive’s Recommended Links, where you’ll find a handful of topically-related sites and projects, including the new Toxic Docs website from Columbia University and the City University of New York.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
TOBACCOArticle Spotlight: The China National Tobacco Corporation - From domestic to global dragon?
The China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC) is the largest tobacco company in the world. It produces one-third of the world’s cigarettes and for the past 60 years, has been focused on supplying its huge domestic market. As the market in China has become increasingly saturated and competition from foreign tobacco companies becomes a reality, CNTC has begun to look at expansion abroad. This paper assesses the extent to which CNTC's strategy has been successful to date, the likely prospect that China will join the ranks of existing TTCs, and the implications for tobacco control worldwide.
Fang J, Lee K, Sejpal, N. The China National Tobacco Corporation: From domestic to global dragon?. Global Public Health 2017; 12(3):315-334.
Key Documents from the UCSF Truth Tobacco Industry Documents:
Friday, February 10, 2017
TOBACCONew PM and Trial Testimony Documents Added
The Industry Documents Library added
147 new documents including:
In addition, we have added 4 new papers and publications that were written using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents - See the
Bibliography for the newly added research.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
TOBACCOMore New RJ Reynolds Documents Added
245 new documents were posted to IDL today!
These include:
Also, as the new year gets underway and our work is enjoying a broader scope, please check out the new
donation page to learn more about ways to give to the Industry Documents Library.
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
TOBACCOArticle Spotlight: Tobacco industry use of flavourings to promote smokeless tobacco products
The 2009 US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act prohibited candy, fruit, alcohol and spice flavors in cigarettes, as flavors make cigarettes easier to smoke and increase youth appeal...but smokeless tobacco was not included in this regulation. The authors analyzed tobacco industry documents related to the development and marketing of flavored smokeless products (including moist snuff, snus, loose leaf and chewing tobacco) in the USA to investigate the use of additives in smokeless tobacco and who the target audiences were for these flavored products.
Kostygina G, Ling PM. Tobacco industry use of flavourings to promote smokeless tobacco products. Tobacco Control 2016 Nov;25 (Suppl 2):ii40-ii49.
Key Documents from the UCSF Truth Tobacco Industry Documents:
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Smokeless products with flavours such as peach, apple, honeydew, strawberry, pineapple, honeysuckle, champagne and prune date back to the 1870s
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/jrpf0146
- Louis F Bantle, then vice president for marketing at US Smokeless Tobacco Co, said in a 1968 marketing meeting: “We must sell the use of tobacco in the mouth and appeal to young people...we hope to start a fad”.
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/hgyh0037
- In 1966, FJ Triest, President of the Fries & Brother Flavour Specialists Company also recognized that sugar additives and flavorings could increase palatability to novices, and stated in tobacco trade press that flavorings such as vanilla, peach, apricot, licorice and cocoa, could act as blinding agents against 'objectionable off-flavours'
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/jmvn0046
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/ynhd0044
- A B&W focus group study demonstrated a linkage between flavors and initiation noting use of flavored brands or 'candy dips' was likened to sucking on a candy or a Lifesaver by experienced users; and was considered to be characteristic of beginners; such 'candy' flavors were 'okay for little kids' but inappropriate for those who wanted a 'full, strong taste' of tobacco
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/hjpw0146
- USST subsequently collaborated with Swedish Tobacco Company in the early 1970s to develop a new mildly flavored product for 'new users, mainly cigarette smokers, age group 15–35'
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/nhch0045
- In addition to controlling nicotine levels, USST used flavors in the graduation strategy, describing two parallel tracks: one using mint-flavored and wintergreen-flavored brands, and one with sweeter, 'fruity' and milder 'natural' brands. USST's starter products generally fit in one of the two flavor categories: mint/wintergreen and natural/sweet flavor (eg, Skoal Bandits Mint and Skoal Bandits Natural)
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/qhff0044
- RJR marketing research suggested that 'candy' brands were more highly flavored and milder than Skoal, and were 'generally designed for the new/novice category user'
https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/xsmx0096
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
TOBACCOArticle Spotlight: Soda and Tobacco Industry Corporate Social Responsibility Campaigns: How Do They Compare?
In light of the soda tax propositions that were on the ballot in California and elsewhere, we are revisiting an important and relevant paper from 2012 for our Article Spotlight:
Dorfman L, Cheyne A, Friedman L, Wadud A, Gottlieb M. Soda and Tobacco Industry Corporate Social Responsibility Campaigns: How Do They Compare? 2012 June. PLoS Med 9(6).
This 2012 paper, published in PLOS Med, compared the tobacco and beverage industries’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) tactics, and found striking similarities. The authors found that "soda CSR campaigns echo tobacco CSR in their focus on the consumer and in their likely intent to thwart regulation." Because sugary beverages are implicated in the global obesity crisis, major soda manufacturers have recently employed elaborate, expensive, multinational corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns. These campaigns are very similar to the tobacco industry's use of CSR as a means to focus responsibility on consumers rather than on the corporation, bolster the companies' and their products' popularity, and to prevent regulation.
Key Documents from the UCSF Truth Tobacco Industry Documents:
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