The cigarette papers
By: Stanton A. Glantz ... [et al.] ; foreword by C. Everett Koop.
Contributors: Glantz, Stanton A.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Tobacco industry -- United States; Tobacco use -- Health aspects; Smoking -- Health aspects; Cigarettes -- Additives
Description: On May 12, 1994, a package containing 4,000 pages of secret internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these "cigarette papers" was identified in the return address only as "Mr. Butts" - presumably a reference to the Doonesbury cartoon character.

These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, and its multinational parent, British American Tobacco, over more than thirty years.

The Cigarette Papers provides the definitive examination of these striking documents, combined with other material subpoenaed by Congress and obtained by Professor Glantz. Quoting extensively from the papers and adding needed background and context, this book offers a keyhole view of the tobacco industry, promising to fundamentally change the public's perception of the industry, of tobacco litigation, and of public policy making.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-493) and indexes.

CONTENTS:

Looking through a keyhole at the tobacco industry. Introduction -- B&W's and BAT's corporate structure -- History of the B&W documents -- Limitations of the evidence -- Conclusion -- References -- Smoking and disease: the tobacco industry's earliest responses. Introduction -- Filter cigarettes and the "tar derby" -- Early advertising claims -- B&W's internal research program -- The Council for Tobacco Research -- Industry reaction to the 1964 Surgeon General's Report -- Reactions by BAT and B&W -- Conclusion -- References -- Addiction and cigarettes as nicotine delivery devices. Introduction -- Southampton Research Conference, 1962 -- Battelle’s nicotine research program -- BAT’s internal research on nicotine -- Views of nicotine in 1984 -- The search for nicotine analogues -- The industry's public statements on nicotine -- Conclusion -- References -- The search for a "safe" cigarette. Introduction -- "Zephyr" and its causes, 1957 -- Southampton Research Conference, 1962 -- Industry-wide research in the UK, 1965 -- Report on Southampton research, 1967 -- Montreal Research Conference, 1967 -- Hilton Head Research Conference, 1968 -- Kronberg Research Conference, 1969 -- Biological testing committee discussions, 1970 -- Health versus public relations, 1970-1982 -- BAT’s research projects, 1960s-1980s -- US "smoking and health" projects -- Tobacco substitutes -- Abandoning the search -- Conclusion -- References -- Public relations in the "safe" cigarette era. 

Introduction -- Getting out the "facts" -- Selling doubt -- Resisting government regulation : advertising, campaigns -- Keeping track of science and scientists -- Conclusion -- References -- Agricultural chemicals and cigarette additives -- Introduction -- Agricultural chemicals -- Additives -- Disclosure of additives -- Conclusion -- References -- 

Legal concerns facing the industry. Introduction -- Protecting documents from discovery and admission as evidence -- Specific strategies to avoid discovery -- Rising fear of government regulation -- Products liability concerns -- B&W participation in BAT research -- Antitrust concerns -- Conclusion -- References -- Lawyer management of scientific research. Introduction -- Projects run by lawyers : an overview -- CTR special projects -- Law firm accounts -- University special projects -- Involvement of lawyers in research design -- Smokeless Tobacco Council -- The Kentucky Tobacco And Health Research Institute -- Use of research from special projects -- Conclusion -- References -- 

Stonewalling: politics and public relations. Introduction -- Influence of attorneys over public relations -- Swaying public opinion -- Advertising -- Using modern marketing techniques to sell cigarettes -- Conclusion -- References -- Environmental tobacco smoke and the nonsmokers' rights movement. Introduction -- Early recognition of the passive smoking issue -- Research and product development response to the ETS issue -- Public attacks and private acceptance of ETS research -- State and local efforts to regulate public smoking -- Conclusion -- References -- Where do we go from here? -- References -- Statements by Brown and Williamson -- List of available documents.