Tob Control 2001;10:297-298
( Winter )
Editorial
Ten years and (body) counting . . .
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With
this issue, Tobacco Control completes its
first decade. In this period, there has been a revolution in our field,
mostly arising from the implications flowing from the courage of US
tobacco industry whistleblowers and the work of scholarly activists
like Stan Glantz, John Slade, and Lisa Bero who first interpreted and publicised the materials initially provided by the
whistleblowers.1 The courtroom revelations that followed,
and the avalanche of internal industry documents released through the
Master Settlement Agreement, completely changed some of the key terms
on which tobacco control is now debated. Cornered by its own
private/public duplicity, the industry uttered the "c" word
(tobacco causes disease) for the first time
in 2000 and now says publicly that it agrees that nicotine is
addictive.2
This has produced an entirely different discourse at the heart of
tobacco control. Instead of denying that smoking causes untold harm,
the industry is now apparently pleased . . . [Full text of this article]
