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TOBACCO INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB

On-Line Resources 
 by Tim Filler (CTFK) 
May 1999

  • TobaccoResolution.com
    TobaccoResolution.com is a tobacco industry-sponsored site that links to all of the other tobacco industry web sites. Users are not able to search, read or view documents from this site. 

  • Philip Morris 

    • Company-sponsored web site with access to millions of pages of company documents. 

  • RJ Reynolds  
    Company-sponsored web site with access to millions of pages of company documents. 

  • Brown & Williamson 
    Company-sponsored web site with access to millions of pages of company documents. 

  • Lorillard  
    Company-sponsored web site with access to millions of pages of company documents. 

  • Tobacco Institute  
    Industry-sponsored web site with access to millions of pages of company documents. 

  • Center for Tobacco Research  
    Industry-sponsored web site with access to millions of pages of company documents. 

  • Smokescreen.org 
    Search for "Smoking Howitzers" on this text searchable site of all of the documents available on the House Commerce Committee web site. Hosted by Michael Tacelosky ("Tac"). 

  • Tobacco Documents Online  
    This site, also hosted by Tac, is a different user database than Smokescreen.org. 

  • University of California at San Francisco—Galen Library collection  

    Tobacco Control Archives Collections 

    • Brown & Williamson Collection  
      The now-famous "Cigarette Papers" on-line. 
    • Joe Camel Campaign: Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection 
      Plaintiff's legal analysis of the case against Joe Camel and supporting internal industry documents.
    • California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository
      According to its web site, these documents "provide insight into industry plans to weaken enforcement of and support for California's 1995 smoke-free workplace legislation, AB 13; industry efforts to form a network of groups to present the tobacco industry position thereby creating the sense of a grass roots movement; and the documents also reveal how well the industry understood the political nature of the anti-tobacco challenge, and how quickly the industry moved to engage the American Medical Association, the Western Center for Law and Poverty and other groups to undermine the California tobacco control program, which was funded by the 1988 passage of Proposition 99."

  • Tobacco BBS   
    This tobacco bulletin board focuses on tobacco and smoking issues and includes free resources, other internet sites, tobacco documents and the history of tobacco usage. 

  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota  

  • United State House Commerce Committee  

    Chairman Bliley released 800 documents on December 18, 1997.

    The United States House of Representatives Committee on Commerce issued subpoenas on February 19, 1998 for approximately 39,000 because they may evidence crime or fraud. Documents were produced to the Committee on April 6, 1998.

    Chairman Bliley consulted with the Ranking Minority Member and ordered the public release of the subpoenaed documents on the Committee's internet site on April 22, 1998, with the exception of 424 documents that the committee decided should be withheld for more in-depth review.

    After further review, Committee released additional 400+ documents on June 8, 1998. Thirty-nine documents were withheld from public release by the committee.

  • Library of Congress, Thomas 
    U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, D-California introduced into the Congressional record of the 104th Congress internal industry documents relating to Philip Morris research into the effects of cigarettes on youth. 

  • Tobacco Industry Information
    This internet site, hosted by Jack Cannon, was one of the first few sites to put tobacco industry documents on the internet. A relatively limited number of documents are available on this site, but they are text files that can imported into a word processing document. 

  • tobaccopapers.org: The Guildford Collection 
    The Guildford depository is comprised exclusively of documents from British America Tobacco (BAT). BAT is the parent company of Imasco (which, in turn, owns Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd) and Brown and Williamson in the United States. Access to the Guildford depository can be made by contacting Mr. Martyn Gilbey at British America Tobacco (Globe House, 4 Temple Place, London, WC2R 2PG, Telephone 44 171 845 1466; Fax 44 171 845 2783). At the depository, access is provided to an electronic index of the files housed there. BAT does not make this index available off-site, but a similar version is found on this site. This index, called the "Guildford Index," is the solicitors' index of files in the Guildford collection in England. 
 
 
 
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