The Cigarette Papers

By: Stanton A. Glantz (Editor), John Slade (Editor), Lisa A. Bero (Editor), Peter Hanauer (Editor), Deborah E. Barnes (Editor)

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Paperback | 12 May 1998 | Edition Number 1

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In May 1994, a box containing 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these "cigarette papers" was identified in the return address only as "Mr. Butts" - presumably a reference to the Doonesbury cartoon character. These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company over more than 30 years. This book seeks to show that the tobacco industry's conduct has been more cynical and devious than even its harshest critics have suspected. For more than three decades, the industry has internally acknowledged that smoking is addictive and that use of tobacco products causes disease and death. Despite this acknowledgment, based on the industry's own internal and contract research, the industry has engaged in a variety of tactics to deny its own findings and to convince the public that there is still doubt about the harmful effects of tobacco or that the effects have been exaggerated. These campaigns of disinformation, the text argues, have been designed to maintain company profits, to block government regulation, and to defeat

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"A compendium and interpretation of several thousand pages of internal Brown and Williamson documents, congressional reports, and private papers. . . . "The Cigarette Papers should appeal to a wide audience, including physicians, public health workers, scientists, lawyers, policy makers, and the general public."--Mary Ann Pentz, "New England Journal of Medicine

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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Looking through a Keyhole at the Tobacco Industry	p. 1
Smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses	p. 25
Addiction and Cigarettes as Nicotine Delivery Devices	p. 58
The Search for a "Safe" Cigarette	p. 108
Public Relations in the "Safe" Cigarette Era	p. 171
Agricultural Chemicals and Cigarette Additives	p. 201
Legal Concerns Facing the Industry	p. 235
Lawyer Management of Scientific Research	p. 288
Stonewalling: Politics and Public Relations	p. 339
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and the Nonsmokers' Rights Movement	p. 391
Where Do We Go from Here?	p. 436
Statements by Brown and Williamson	p. 443
List of Available Documents	p. 447
About the Authors	p. 495
Document Index	p. 499
Name Index	p. 502
Subject Index	p. 512
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