Tob Control 2000;9:334-338 ( Autumn )

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Tobacco industry documents: treasure trove or quagmire?

Ruth E Malone^a, Edith D Balbach^b

^a Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA, ^b Community Health Program, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Correspondence to: Ruth E Malone, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Health Policy, Institute for Health Policy Studies, Box 0936, Laurel Heights Campus, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; rmalone@itsa.ucsf.edu

Received 25 November 1999; Revision received 10 May 2000; Accepted 16 May 2000

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	Introduction

The release of over 27 million pages of internal tobacco industry documents as a result of discovery processes in The State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota versus Philip Morris et al and other legal cases has provided tobacco control researchers and advocates with unprecedented opportunities to understand more about the inner workings of the industry. Documents are available for public viewing at the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository, which opened in Minneapolis in 1998, at the Guildford Document Depository in Guildford, England, and on the world wide web, accessible through http://www.TobaccoArchives.com/ and other sites. In addition, through websites, users can get access to documents produced under the state litigation in Washington, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas, and selections from the British American Tobacco documents housed at Guildford, UK. (see "other tobacco documents resources", below).

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