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Tobacco Related Disease Research Program
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While
the most visible battles about tobacco are political, the politics is
driven by science and the tobacco industry has always fought scientific
work that would elucidate the dangers of smoking and, in recent
decades, passive smoking.1 From the beginning the tobacco
industry understood the potential importance of the research program
that Proposition 99 created
the Tobacco Related Disease Research
Program (TRDRP)and carefully monitored it using standard industry
tactics, such as periodic public records act requests.2
Just a month after the voters enacted Proposition 99, the tobacco
industry's primary "political" law firm in California, Nielsen-Merksamer, had already prepared recommendations for how to
minimise the impact of the research program that Proposition 99 required.3 Since most of the public controversy around the tobacco control efforts created by California's voters when they passed Proposition 99 centred on the high profile anti-tobacco education program, particularly the anti-smoking advertising
campaign,4 5 TRDRP was established with minimum
interference from
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