TY - JOUR
T1 - Science for hire
T2 - A tobacco industry strategy to influence public opinion secondhand smoke
AU - Muggli, Monique E.
AU - Hurt, Richard D.
AU - Blanke, D. Douglas
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - A review of internal tobacco company documents reveals that members of the tobacco industry and its corporate attorneys created an international scientific consultants program to influence public opinion on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). This program was shaped as a "product" to protect the industry from international threats of smoking restrictions. Additionally, this program was used to promote a scientific backdrop supporting the industry's position on ETS that differed from regulatory agencies and published scientific research. In this report, we detail the pervasive nature of the so-called ETS Consultants Program, outline the wide range of activities undertaken by the consultants, and highlight the role of the industry's corporate attorneys in creating and managing this program. We suggest heightened monitoring of industry-created scientific organizations, further tobacco document research, and wide dissemination of such work.
AB - A review of internal tobacco company documents reveals that members of the tobacco industry and its corporate attorneys created an international scientific consultants program to influence public opinion on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). This program was shaped as a "product" to protect the industry from international threats of smoking restrictions. Additionally, this program was used to promote a scientific backdrop supporting the industry's position on ETS that differed from regulatory agencies and published scientific research. In this report, we detail the pervasive nature of the so-called ETS Consultants Program, outline the wide range of activities undertaken by the consultants, and highlight the role of the industry's corporate attorneys in creating and managing this program. We suggest heightened monitoring of industry-created scientific organizations, further tobacco document research, and wide dissemination of such work.
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U2 - 10.1080/1462220031000094169
DO - 10.1080/1462220031000094169
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12791525
AN - SCOPUS:0038819131
SN - 1462-2203
VL - 5
SP - 303
EP - 314
JO - Nicotine and Tobacco Research
JF - Nicotine and Tobacco Research
IS - 3
ER -