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the tobacco papers
``` You may have read that the California Supreme Court is letting the University of California put a bunch of tobacco company research papers on the Web. These papers, which documented the tobacco industry's early awareness of their product's addictiveness and other health dangers, were swiped by a paralegal from the Brown and Williamson company in 1989 and were mailed to a UCSF professor by someone identifying him/herself only as "Mr. Butts". I searched the archive on the keyword "cancer" and spent an entertaining but basically unilluminating few minutes scrolling through brief summaries of stuff that mostly seemed to date from the mid 70's to early 80's, none of which constituted a, you know, smoking gun. But hey, check it out. The URL is http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco
Here is the top-level page...
http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
Tobacco Control Archives
Brown & Williamson Collection Index Select the above link to search and view the documents in the Brown & Williamson Collection. Information about the archives is available below.
Purpose
California has been and remains one of the world centers of tobacco control activity and thus is a natural laboratory for studying the development and impacts of tobacco control policies. Many researchers have sought to study these policies, but they have been hampered by the lack of a central, organized source of information. The Tobacco Control Archives (TCA), a project sponsored by UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management, Department of Archives & Special Collections, will be a central, organized source of information. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers and unpublished documents relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
Collection Overview
The TCA project places special emphasis on Proposition 99, the California anti-tobacco health education initiative approved in 1989. Proposition 99 was the successful outcome of the efforts of health and community groups to help reduce smoking by legislative means. The archival effort will document the emergence of the non-smokers' rights movement, the Proposition 99 campaign effort, implementation of the legislation by California country offices, and judicial challenges to the proposition.
The TCA will also collect materials relating to other nonsmoking legislative initiatives and local ordinances, including California propositions and the campaigns of "Proposition 99 Clones" in other states. In addition, the TCA will collect the following categories of materials: papers and records of individuals and organizations active in the nonsmoking movement, political campaigns or involved in scholarly research of health effects of tobacco use; tobacco control investigating issues in general; and the tobacco industry in specific.
Brown & Williamson Collection
Thousands of pages of the Brown & Willamson Tobacco Corporation documents were donated unsolicited to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives in 1994. These documents consist primarily of scientific studies on the addictive nature of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke. These materials have been the subject of a suit in San Francisco Superior Court in which Brown & Willamson sought to permanently remove the disputed material from the Library. The University of California contends all of the documents are in the public domain and should be available to scholars and other interested parties. On May 25th, 1995 the Superior Court ruled that these documents should be made available for public review.
A portion of the documents are now available in electronic versions through this Web page. Please consult the Brown & Williamson Collection Index for access to selected electronic documents.
All of the Brown & Williamson documents are accessible to the public in paper form at the Department of Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management.
In the future, the Brown & Williamson documents will be available to the public as a CD-ROM. Cost of the CD-ROM will $250.00 + $3.00 (shipping and handling) and $21.65 (sales tax applied if ordered within California). To place an order for the CD-ROM, send check or money order payable to UC Regents to the following address:
Tobacco Control Archives Archives & Special Collections UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management 530 Parnassus Ave San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
For information about the CD-ROM email: susan.storch@library.ucsf.edu
Send your comments or inquires about the Tobacco Control Archives to robin.chandler@library.ucsf.edu
UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management -- 30 June 1995 galen-help@library.ucsf.edu ```
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