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Friday, August 17, 2012TOBACCO

36,000+ Documents Added to the Library

Over 36,000 new documents were posted to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library this week!
Wednesday, August 01, 2012TOBACCO

New Research Using the Documents

The UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography has 8 new publications and 1 new video.  Read about tobacco industry influence in the Czech Republic, China and Thailand; industry "science" and "fakexperts;" and the industry's adolescent market strategies concerning the internet and video games.  Also, watch New Zealand's 60 Minutes program "Smoke Screen" showcasing industry documents and interviews concerning New Zealand's goal of becoming a smoke free country.
Thursday, July 26, 2012DRUG

Documents Related to the Recently Settled $3B GSK Suit

In July, 2012, GlaxoSmithKline pled guilty to off-label marketing of Paxil and Wellbutrin as well as failing to report on studies of the safety of the diabetes drug, Avandia.  They were fined a record $3 billion.
(http://www.npr.org/2012/07/02/156118688/drug-maker-glaxosmithkline-fined-record-3-billion)

Interested in learning more about this case?


The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) Collection on DIDA contains hundreds of internal documents related to the investigation of ghostwriting which involved GSK - http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/investigations.jsp

Within that collection, check out the documents related to Study "329" (the GSK study on Paxil and Adolescent Depression) which figures prominently in the Justice Department's complaint against GSK.
Friday, June 22, 2012TOBACCO

Tobacco Industry Document Resources

You know about the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, our digital archive of 13+ million tobacco industry documents, but did you know about the other amazing document resources out there, especially for advertising/marketing studies?

Friday, June 08, 2012TOBACCO

The CA Tobacco Control Collection

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library has added a new collection – the California Tobacco Control collection.

The California Tobacco Control collection is a small but growing collection of materials highlighting tobacco control public policy efforts in California including tobacco tax measures, smoke-free ordinances, education and outreach. 
In September 2011, the LTDL began a website archiving project, funded by a TRDRP grant, using the Web Archiving Service (WAS) developed by the California Digital Library. This project, the California Tobacco Control Web Archive, consists of a selection of web resources that have been curated and "captured" on specific dates. The records from the web archive have been integrated into LTDL and are a part of this California Tobacco Control collection.
The focus of this new web archive is to preserve websites and 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.  Records from the web archive will be added to LTDL on a regular basis but a user may always go directly to the California Tobacco Control Web Archive  on the CDL site to browse the preserved web resources.
Browse the CA Tobacco Control collection 
Wednesday, June 06, 2012TOBACCO

New Papers Added to the Bibliography

New papers and articles have been added to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography.  Learn more about  FCTC implementation in Uruguay, tobacco industry efforts to influence the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive and the tobacco "money trail" through Prop 29:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docsbiblio
Thursday, May 24, 2012TOBACCO

Global Tobacco Control on FaceBook

There's a good resource for US and international news from, and for, the tobacco control community on FaceBook.  Go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/GlobalTobacco/ to join.  While it won't quite replace the fantastic GlobaLink edited by Stan Shatenstein, it is a good way to keep up with news.