Lawyers 'built tobacco smokescreen'

Lifting the smokescreen.

How the tobacco industry built its relationship with Hollywood.

OBJECTIVE To describe the development of the relationship between the tobacco industry and the entertainment industry. METHODS Review of previously secret tobacco industry documents available on the internet. RESULTS Both the entertainment and tobacco industries recognised the high value of promotion of tobacco through entertainment media. The 1980s saw undertakings by four tobacco companie...

Lawyers' Likelihoods

This paper explores whether lawyers can understand and apply the criminal burden of proof, and whether they are able to make the sort of likelihood estimates that the expert witness suggested would help the jurors in the case of R v Adams. The English Court of Appeal expressly rejected the use of mathematical formulae to determine guilt or innocence. With this kind of restraining judgment, it i...

Electronic cigarettes: peering through the smokescreen.

Health professionals and their patients have every reason to feel confused. One week the WHO issues a position paper calling for strict regulations on electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), more commonly referred to as electronic cigarettes, including restrictions on marketing and a ban on using them in enclosed public spaces. The next week, a group of scientists attracts widespread media...

The "bottom line": A smokescreen for the reality that anti-tobacco employment practices are hazardous to minority health and equality.