Short item examines tobacco industry role in a study that concluded secondhand smoke is harmless.
Examines tobacco industry strategy to fight effective clean indoor air measures: ventilation.
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.
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."
ASH UK Paper on how Philip Morris and its lawyers invented and orchestrated "controversy" on secondhand smoke. Provides internal documents that document in the tobacco industry's own words how it spent "vast sums of money" to "keep the controversy alive" on secondhand smoke.
Includes coverage of industry actions affecting press coverage of secondhand smoke.
ASH UK paper. Covers what was known and when it was known, inside and outside the industry, and what the industry did to influence public opinion.
Traces industry actions from 1977 to the present, including recruiting scientists, influencing media, and PR campaigns.
Article in the American Journal of Public Health chronicles the efforts of the tobacco industry to attack the evidence that secondhand smoke causes disease.
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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