Friday, November 22, 2013
TOBACCOHelp us preserve the history of California tobacco control efforts!
We have captured, preserved and added
10 new sites and video to our California Tobacco Control Web Archive collection. This collection of preserved web resources now has 90 sites and is growing every quarter but slowly and we need your help!
Many tobacco control efforts play out online and we can always use extra hands (or fingers?) to help us preserve these websites that give context to the issues! If you know of a site that should be included in our web archive (currently only sites about tobacco issues in California),
please send us the URL -
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/contactWe are in the process of building a site nomination tool that will make it very easy to add a URL to our project and other future web archive projects but right now, it's the good old email...
A little background:
The focus of the CA Tobacco Control collection is to preserve websites and web resources created by local government, advocacy groups, tobacco control organizations, bloggers, news agencies and tobacco-industry front groups surrounding contemporary California tobacco control public policy efforts. This includes ordinances and bills regarding smoke-free areas, video focusing on ballot measures and public reactions to specific regulations, and web sites aimed at urging voter actions on bans or excise taxes. For more information on this collection including how to access and browse the sites, see
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/about/about_tobaccocontrol_collection.jsp Monday, November 04, 2013
TOBACCONew Research on Smokeless Tobacco Products in Europe...and more!
The
Tobacco Documents Bibliography has added 5 new papers/publications for September and October 2013! These additions include papers on cigarette brand loyalty in Australia, corporate social responsibility, and consumer response to plain tobacco packaging to name a few.
Bibliography Highlight:
Peeters S, Gilmore AB. Transnational Tobacco Company Interests in Smokeless Tobacco in Europe: Analysis of Internal Industry Documents and Contemporary Industry Materials. PLoS Med 2013 09/10;10(9):e1001506.In light of lobbying by transnational tobacco companies to remove the European Union ban on the sale of snus (a smokeless tobacco product), Silvy Peeters and Anna Gilmore explore the motivation behind tobacco companies' interests in smokeless tobacco products in Europe.
A few key documents from LTDL:
"BAT's initial interest in diversifying into smokeless tobacco (SLT) in Western Europe arose from an awareness that health concerns about smoking would increase as would regulation, both threatening cigarette sales, and that SLT provided opportunities where smoking was prohibited."
(BAT, 1972)
Report regarding smokeless tobacco's ability to “provide a line of aggressive defense to the image and acceptability of tobacco and nicotine in general (and perhaps smoking indirectly)” (BAT, 1981)
"We have no wish to aid or hasten any decline in cigarette smoking. Deeper involvement in smokeless is strategically defensible. There are fewer people in sophisticated markets starting to smoke. There are increasing numbers of people giving up. There are increasing restrictions on smoking, particularly in public, whether by law or by society." (BAT, 1981).
An internal US Tobacco/BAT report on the UK test market for Skoal Bandits includes “working the Universities” and paying students to promote Skoal Bandits to peers. (BAT, 1985)
Monday, October 21, 2013
TOBACCOPostdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF
Applications are due January 22, 2014 for fellowships beginning July 1, 2014. Visit
http://www.tobacco.ucsf.edu/fellowship to apply.
The purpose of the fellowship is to prepare individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to join the next generation of academic leaders in tobacco control. Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control interventions.
The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in all aspects of tobacco control research. Our program stresses the skills needed to conduct research in diverse, collaborative transdisciplinary settings. We emphasize leadership in catalyzing the integration of multiple disciplines and translating science to policy and clinical practice. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from medicine, public health, nursing, economics, anthropology, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology. Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance.
We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics. UCSF is a global leader in tobacco science, a World Health Organization collaborating center, and home of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. We place a high priority on developing a fellowship program that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $41,264 - $51,884, $2000 above the current NIH stipend scale.
Learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, current fellows, and faculty and their research interests at
www.tobacco.ucsf.edu.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
TOBACCONew Documents Added to LTDL
353 new documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today. The breakdown is as follows:
In addition, we have added to the metadata of
over 1800 documents that were modified/revised by the industry in August.
Thursday, October 03, 2013
DRUGSymposium on Institutional Corruption and Big Pharma
The Fall 2013 issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is devoted to a special topic: Institutional Corruption and the Pharmaceutical Industry.
In this symposium issue, 16 articles investigate the corruption of pharmaceutical policy, each taking a different look at the sources of corruption, how it occurs, and what is corrupted. The authors show that Big Pharma's funding of election campaigns and lobbying skews the legislative process that sets pharmaceutical policy and that certain practices have corrupted medical research, the production of medical knowledge, the practice of medicine, drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of the pharmaceutical market, and the trustworthiness of patient advocacy organizations.
Special issue: SYMPOSIUM: Institutional corruption and the pharmaceutical industry.(2013). The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41(3).
Thursday, September 19, 2013
TOBACCOProp 65 Trial Transcripts Posted to LTDL
California’s Proposition 65, also known as California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires the state to keep a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. When hazardous doses of those chemicals are present, companies are required to notify the public, usually in the form of warning labels and signs. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit. 2,523 documents from California Prop 65 secondhand smoke litigation have been posted to
LTDL today. This special collection is a part of our larger Tobacco DATTA collection and contains trial transcripts, depositions and exhibits pertaining to Prop 65 secondhand smoke court actions.
To access all documents for this special collection, search for
speccoll:"Proposition 65" in the LTDL
search box.
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