Thursday, February 27, 2014TOBACCO

Changes to Search Fields and a Call for Assistance!

We have added a few new documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today:

• 36 Brown and Williamson
• 1 American Tobacco
• 15 Philip Morris 

 Also, in anticipation of the new and improved LTDL coming out later this year, we have made some minor changes to a few field codes in order to consolidate and standardize across industry archives.  As of today, you will notice the following changes:

• the field "Trial Exhibit" (te:) is no longer in use and has been replaced by "Exhibit Number" (en:).  All values have been moved into the "Exhibit Number" field.  Although (te:) will still work in a search query, users will notice it brings back values in the (en:) field instead.
• the fields "Persons Noted", "Organizations Noted" and "Noted" are no longer in use and all values have been moved to the "Mentioned" fields.  Please use "Persons Mentioned" (menp:), "Organizations Mentioned" (meno:) and "Mentioned" (men:) from now on.
•  the field "Site" (site:) is no longer in use and has been replaced by "Area" (area:).  All values have been moved to the "Area" field and although (site:) will still work as part of a query, users will notice it brings back values in the (area:) field instead.

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We are currently in the thick of building LTDL3 and could use as much help as we can get!  If anyone would like to assist us with user testing of new pages and wire-frames, please contact our User Experience/User Interface Designer and let her know you are available!

Tuesday, February 25, 2014TOBACCO

New Searchable Tobacco Pack Database

• Search an online database of more than 3,000 cigarette packs.
•  Learn about which brands are compliant with health warning laws and which use pack design features that detract from the warnings.
• Compare cigarette packs across countries.

Thursday, February 06, 2014TOBACCO

Over 1200 videos uploaded to Internet Archive

We have uploaded 1,274 video and audio recordings to the Internet Archive making them available for immediate viewing and downloading.  The items are a mix of Tobacco Institute files and tobacco company files including commercials, trial depositions, and infomercials. This is the result of a large project to upload the remaining multimedia items in our possession and we are currently about 3/4 of the way there!  Stay tuned for more multimedia uploads in the near future.

In addition, 141 new tobacco industry documents were posted to LTDL today.

Thursday, January 23, 2014TOBACCO

"It's About a Billion Lives" Symposium at UCSF - January 31, 2014

Friday, January 17, 2014TOBACCO

2900+ new documents on LTDL!

2914 new documents posted to LTDL today as well as 15 new court filings in the 2006 RICO litigation.

The breakdown is as follows:

• 147 Brown & Williamson documents
• 113 American Tobacco documents
• 9 Philip Morris documents
• 2570 RJ Reynolds documents
• 67 Lorillard documents
• 8 California Tobacco Control web site captures

New Litigation Documents for the TCA
On August 17, 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a final judgment in the U.S. government's landmark lawsuit against the major tobacco companies that found the companies have violated civil racketeering laws and defrauded the American people by lying for decades about the health risks of smoking and their marketing to children. In her final opinion, Judge Kessler imposed certain remedies including the requirement that tobacco companies make corrective statements concerning the health risks of smoking and secondhand smoke and their deceptive practices through newspaper and television advertising, their web sites and as part of cigarette packaging.

The 15 new January 2014 court filings added to the Litigation Section of the Tobacco Control Archives at UCSF detail the specifics for implementing corrective statements and include mockups of the TV and newspaper ads, cigarette packs and web site statements

Wednesday, January 08, 2014TOBACCO

New and Diverse Publications on Tobacco Industry Tactics

The Tobacco Documents Bibliography has capped off 2013 with the addition of 8 new papers/publications for November and December!  These additions include articles on corporate philanthropy, marketing to young smokers and an historical view of personal vs governmental responsibility in the tobacco control arena, to name a few.

Bibliography Highlight:

Kashiwabara M, Armada F. Mind Your "Smoking Manners": The Tobacco Industry Tactics to Normalize Smoking in Japan. Kobe J. Med. Sci 2013;59(4):E132-E140.

Kashiwabara and Armada illustrate how the tobacco industry has taken advantage of the cultural value placed on manners in Japan to increase the social acceptability of smoking, eventually aiming to diminish public support for smoke-free policies.


A few key documents from LTDL:

The Smokin’ Clean campaign aimed to encourage smokers to be considerate towards nonsmokers and to prevent litter and fires. It included activities such as establishing and maintaining smoking areas in stations in cooperation with Japan National Railways and designating a Smoking Manners month.
(TI 1983, PM 1993)










The National Federation of Tobacco Retailers of Japan launched the Smoking Courtesy campaign targeting adult smokers in Tokyo. The 1987 campaign's TV and radio ads, posters and billboards focused more on ETS than previous years, with a budget of 1.1 billion yen (US $8.5 million).  (BAT, 1987)












Like the manners campaigns carried out by Japan Tobacco, the PMJ campaign included activities such as trash collection on the streets, the distribution of portable ashtrays and booklets on manners, and magazine advertisements.
(PM, 1999)

Thursday, December 12, 2013TOBACCO

1500 New Documents Added to LTDL

1506 new documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today including new deposition and/or trial transcripts from the Engle Progeny cases and 3 video depositions in our Multimedia Collection.

In addition, 363 documents had their records enhanced with added metadata in the "persons mentioned", "organizations mentioned" and "tobacco brands" fields.

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