Tob Control 2000;9:242-248 ( Summer )

Industry watch

Shameful science: four decades of the German tobacco industry's hidden research on smoking and health

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The following presents the "best of the best" of annotations of over 600 tobacco industry documents that tell a nearly 40 year story of the smoking and health research programme sponsored by the members of the Association of Cigarette Industries of Germany (the "Verband"). Its members include the German and Austrian cigarette manufacturers as well as the transnational firms of Philip Morris (PM), RJ Reynolds (RJR), and British American Tobacco (BAT).

The documents are part of some 33 million pages released as a result of legal agreements in the USA between state attorney generals and the American based tobacco companies. Virtually all are available on Internet websites. While nearly all the annotated documents come from PM and RJR and are in English, a large cache of BAT documents on the Verband are held at the BAT depository in Guildford, UK, including a group of German language documents. These are yet to be . . . [Full text of this article]

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