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Tobacco Control 2005;14:361-362; doi:10.1136/tc.2005.014449
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EDITORIAL

Researching tobacco documents

Beyond quagmires: the evolving quality of documents research

E D Balbach1, E M Barbeau2

1 Community Health Program, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
2 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Correspondence to:
Dr Edith D Balbach
Community Health Program, Tufts University, 112 Packard Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts, USA; edith.balbach@tufts.edu


A decade of tobacco document research has been completed

Keywords: tobacco document research

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With 10 years of tobacco documents research (TDR) completed, now is a reasonable time for those of us who conduct TDR to assess its legacy and its potential. In this issue of Tobacco Control, Stacy Carter thoughtfully depicts historical patterns in the conduct and reporting of TDR and how these patterns have evolved.1 She proposes "a process for planning and evaluating TDR that positions the researcher as constructor" rather than merely as a conduit of information contained in the documents, and encourages researchers to be more conscious of the analytic traditions they bring to their searching and analysis strategies. From this platform, we explore the following: What has been the added value of documents research? How can this added value be sustained? And, by what standards should future work be assessed?


WHAT HAS BEEN THE ADDED VALUE OF DOCUMENTS RESEARCH?
TDR has helped us to better understand tobacco industry political and marketing strategies and research . . . [Full text of this article]




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