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EDITORIAL |
| Tobacco industry research |
Correspondence to:
Professor Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Building A27, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; simonchapman@health.usyd.edu.au
Keywords: tobacco industry; research
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
This issue of the Tobacco Control contains an account by Professor Eiji Yano1 complementing an earlier report2 about the disturbing circumstances of his association in the early 1990s with tobacco industry lawyers Covington and Burlingspecifically, with the companys then employee Christopher Proctor, now head of science and regulation at British American Tobacco (BAT). Dr Proctor and Mr Peter Lee (whom Yano accuses of publishing his research without his consent and distorting its meaning) were given an opportunity to respond to Yanos allegations. Lee has done so,3 but Proctor offered no comment.
Proctor forwarded to Yanothe principal investigator on the studya succession of drafts of a paper that he hoped Yano would then agree to "author". Lee advised me via email that as statistical consultant to the project he made "considerable" contributions to these drafts which did not bear his name. When Yano refused to agree with the
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