Tobacco Industry Documents from Outside Sources: New Perspectives on Industry Strategies on Local Levels

Tobacco industry documents from outside sources: new perspectives on industry strategies on local levels.

The internal tobacco industry documents have also been used to study tobacco industry operations outside the United States. The scope of the documents on a country outside the US is decided mainly by the extent to which documents and reports were transmitted from the abroad offices of the US tobacco companies to headquarters. We explored whether the material from a private archive of a Finnish ...

Tobacco related bar promotions: insights from tobacco industry documents.

OBJECTIVES To examine the tobacco industry's use of bar promotions, including their target groups, objectives, strategies, techniques, and results. DESIGN Over 2000 tobacco industry documents available as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement were reviewed on the internet at several key web sites using keyword searches that included "bar", "night", "pub", "party", and "club". The majori...

The tobacco industry and underage youth smoking: tobacco industry documents from the Minnesota litigation.

OBJECTIVE To learn how underage youth have been regarded by the major tobacco companies, as revealed in industry documents during the Minnesota litigation. DATA SOURCES Documents from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp, Lorillard Tobacco Co, Philip Morris Inc, and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. STUDY SELECTION Documents available from the State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnes...

New Perspectives on Industry Clusters in Malaysia

Legal cannabis industry adopting strategies of the tobacco industry.

Recent actions and statements by the cannabis industry in the US should have public health advocates concerned as they mimic strategies adopted by the tobacco industry decades before them.Namely the cannabis industry is: (i) targeting regular daily users as ‘the backbone of the industry’; and (ii) pressuring regulators to weaken pesticide regulations. Several jurisdictions have shifted away fro...