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» ASHRAE Standard 62: Tobacco Industry's Influence over National Ventilation Standards
   Paper describes the history and role of the tobacco industry in the development of ventilation standards for indoor air quality by influencing the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/4/315

» American Cancer Society Condemns Tobacco Industry Study for Inaccurate Use of Data
   Expose of study funded by the tobacco industry.
   http://www.charitywire.com/charity6/03359.html

» Are Cigarette Makers Trying to Conceal Secondhand Smoke?
   Article in medical journal examines the evidence that the tobacco industry is putting chemical additives to cigarettes to make secondhand smoke more pleasant but not less lethal.
   http://www.pulmonaryreviews.com/dec00/pr_dec00_additives.html

» Blowing Smoke over Ventilation
   BusinessWeek commentary outlines the tobacco industry strategy of "ventilation" and explains why it doesn't protect health.
   http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_19/b3731089.htm

» Did Big Tobacco Deliberately Withhold Election Expenses in Boulder?
   From GASP of Colorado Education Center, summary of evidence that the tobacco industry was funding and organizing opposition to a Boulder smoke free ordinance.
   http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=75

» Disinfopedia: Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco
   Article on the pro-smoking group FOREST reveals that 96% of its funding comes from the tobacco industry.
   http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=FOREST

» Enstrom Study
   Short item examines tobacco industry role in a study that concluded secondhand smoke is harmless.
   http://www.aaphp.org/bottle/2003/may20.htm

» Global Conspiracy on Environmental Tobacco Smoke
   Presents a Philip Morris memo in which the company discusses its plans to "keep the controversy alive" on the health effects of secondhand smoke. The plans included a worldwide effort by the tobacco industry to recruit "friendly scientists".
   http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/landman/conspiracy/

» How the Tobaccco Industry Responded to an Influential Study of the Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
   Journal article documents how the tobacco industry generated a study and hid its involvement in an attempt to fight the emerging science on secondhand smoke.
   http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7377/1413

» It's All Disinformation
   Op-ed outlines history of tobacco industry attempts to influence public thinking about the science of secondhand smoke.
   http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/02-00/02-08-00/c04op082.htm

» National Toxicology Program, Board of Scientific Counselors
   National scientific organization concludes unanimously that secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen; the tobacco industry sends 10 witnesses to argue the other way.
   http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=06F3F9F7-0DEB-D47E-C4A683A074666360

» Organizations: FOREST
   Covers tobacco industry origins and purposes of FOREST.
   http://tobaccodocuments.org/profiles/forest.html

» Philip Morris Gave Secret Grants to Swedish Professor
   Article about Swedish professor R. Rylander, accused of having secretely worked for the tobacco industry, sheds light on tobacco industry funding of research intended to create doubt about health effects.
   http://www.nisus.se/archive/020610e.html

» Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue
   Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'keep the controversy alive,' according to a 1988 internal t
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/second.htm

» Philip Morris's Secondhand Smoke Media Strategy
   Internal document from Philip Morris executive describes its strategies for fighting the EPA's scientific report on secondhand smoke, including "concentrating all the EPA's enemies against it".
   http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/2023920090-0101.html

» Project Whitecoat
   Review of tobacco industry documents on Project Whitecoat, a tobacco industry campaign to recruit scientific experts sympathetic to the industry.
   http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/whitecoat.shtml

» R.J. Reynolds chief: Smoking isn't addicting
   CEO of tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds testifies that smoking isn't addictive and secondhand smoke doesn't cause cancer.
   http://www.cnn.com/US/9708/13/smoky.skies/

» Stanton Glantz: Post-OSHA Hearings Comments
   Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments; sections on credibility and causality, publication bias, confounding variables, and misclassification error.
   http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/osha/oshapost.html

» Tactics to Confuse The Science
   Tobacco industry documents that show industry efforts to confuse or obscure the scientific discussion about the effects of tobacco.
   http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/tobacco/pubs.shtml

» The Tobacco Industry and Ventilation
   Short history from GASP of Colorado Education Center.
   http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=94

» The Tobacco Industry's Response to the Passive Smoking Issue
   Report on tobacco industry activity analyzes industry interests in secondhand smoke, and shows the different strategies used by the industry to fight smokefree places.
   http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c14s20.htm

» Tobacco Industry Influence on Air Quality Standards
   Paper discusses how and why the tobacco industry influences the setting of standards for indoor air quality.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/paper_45347.htm

» Tobacco Industry Manipulation of the Hospitality Industry to Maintain Smoking in Public pLaces
   Research paper reviews internal industry documents, finds the tobacco industry created a myth of lost profits to fight smokefree public places.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/2/94

» Tobacco Industry Opposition to Local Clean Indoor Air Policies
   Report outlines tactics used by the industry to defeat local smokefree air ordinances.
   http://www.no-smoke.org/htmlpage.php?id=63

» Tobacco Industry Success in Preventing Regulation of Secondhand Smoke in Latin America
   Research examines the tobacco industry's strategy to avoid regulations on secondhand smoke exposure in Latin America.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/4/305

» Tobacco Science Wars
   Article in Science reports the tobacco industry has been bullying scientists, according to researchers who lead the campaign against secondhand smoke.
   http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/hkn14e00

» Tobacco's Secondhand Science of Smoke-Filled Rooms
   PR Watch report on tobacco industry PR push to get the public to doubt the health effects of secondhand smoke; analyses industry tactics.
   http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/secondhand.html

» Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Health
   Article in the American Journal of Public Health chronicles the efforts of the tobacco industry to attack the evidence that secondhand smoke causes disease.
   http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/11/1749

» Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Relations Firms
   Article in the American Journal of Public Health on Philip Morris's worldwide "sound science" program to set impossible standards of proof for the study of secondhand smoke.
   http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/91/11/1749

» UICC GLOBALink ETS Documents
   Several documents, primarily about tobacco industry actions attempting to discredit the effects of secondhand smoke.
   http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/ets/Welcome.shtml

» Ventilation
   Examines tobacco industry strategy to fight effective clean indoor air measures: ventilation.
   http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?dp=d20

» Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions
   Statistical analysis of the research literature on secondhand smoke finds "the only factor associated with concluding that passive smoking is not harmful was whether an author was affiliated with the tobacco industry".
   http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/19/1566?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Why+Review+Articles+on+the+Health+Effects+of+Passive+Smoking+Reach+Different+Conclusions&searchid=1067862394764_827&stored_

» eBMJ -- Tobacco company set up network of sympathetic scientists
   Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential doc
   http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/316/7144/1553/d