Background: In January 1954, US tobacco manufacturers jointly sponsored an advocacy
advertisement entitled “A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers” which appeared in 448 …

Many tobacco control researchers and advocates are now aware of the value of the internal
tobacco industry documents made public as a result of the state attorney generals' Master …

Background Spurred by the creation of potential modified risk tobacco products, the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to assess …

When, as a condition of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) in 1998, US tobacco
companies disbanded the Council for Tobacco Research and the Center for Indoor Air …

Objectives: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 granted the
US Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products via the …

The tobacco industry has developed an extensive array of strategies and arguments to
prevent or weaken government regulation. These strategies and arguments are well …

Background Standardised packaging (SP) of tobacco products is an innovative tobacco
control measure opposed by transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) whose responses to …

The tobacco industry has an ignoble history of putting its commercial interests before the
interests of humanity. Its values contrast with those of the ideal medical scientist who seeks …

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have
formed a partnership to support tobacco-related research that will inform the FDA in its …

Corporate deception in public health is nothing new. From the fossil fuel industry hiding the
environmental impact of fracking to the pharmaceutical industry misleading the medical …