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Research from tobacco industry affiliated authors: need for particular vigilance

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

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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 Burling—specifically, with the company’s 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 Yano’s allegations. Lee has done so,³ but Proctor offered no comment.

Proctor forwarded to Yano—the principal investigator on the study—a 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 . . . [Full text of this article]

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