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UCSF Tobacco Control Archives Releases New Document Collection



UCSF Tobacco Control Archives Releases New Document Collection

The UCSF Tobacco Control Archives has released the British-American Tobacco
Document Collection, the fourth collection of tobacco documents to be made
available online by the Library and Center for Knowledge Management at the
University of California San Francisco. The full-text searchable collection
can be accessed at http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/batco/.

The British-American Tobacco Document Collection represents a small subset
of over 8 million pages produced by the British-American Tobacco Company
(BATCo) and now held at the Guildford Document Depository in Guildford,
England. The documents were obtained through the legal discovery process
for a successful suit against the major tobacco companies by the Attorney
General of Minnesota and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota. The suit was
settled in 1998.

Health Canada, Physicians for Smokefree Canada, the Ministry of the
Attorney General of British Columbia, the World Health Organization, and
individual researchers uncovered the documents through investigations at
the Guildford Document Depository. This new collection was funded by the
California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. More documents from
the depository will be added to the collection over the next eighteen months.

Ranging in date from the 1950s to the 1990s, the documents cover subject
matter such as marketing, research and development, cigarette analysis and
design, and establishing business in developing countries. The documents
reveal how BATCo's efforts to develop new, "safer" cigarettes (products
with fewer biological effects) evolve into efforts to convince consumers
that certain existing cigarettes, such as low-tar varieties, are safer.

Established in 1994, the Tobacco Control Archives (TCA) provides a
centralized source of information about the tobacco control movement and
resulting legislation. Sponsored by the UCSF Library and Center for
Knowledge Management, the TCA collects, preserves, and provides access to
papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources. Highlights include
the Brown & Williamson Collectionthe first tobacco industry documents to be
released on the Internetand documentation of the lawsuit challenging the
Joe Camel ad campaign.

For more information, email tobacco-info@library.ucsf.edu.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 2001

Contact:
Celia White, MLS
Director of Digital Library Content and Services
Tobacco Control Archives
(415) 514-0507
white@library.ucsf.edu
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Celia White, MLS
white@library.ucsf.edu
Digital Librarian Project Manager
Tobacco Control Archive
415/514-0507
FAX: 415/476-4653
Library and Center for Knowledge Management
University of California San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840

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