UCSF makes 299k Juul documents public on the internet; more to come

On June 27. 20-24 the UCSF Industry Documents Library added of 289,868 new JUUL Labs documents to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library, bringing the total number of publicly available previously secret Juul documents to 1,870,542.

There are about 2 million Juul documents from the North Carolina settlement to be loaded plus another about 2 million documents from other state cases.

 These documents have already lead to several publications, including two recent important news stories:

• Florko, NIcholas. NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show. May 6, 2024. STAT News.
  • This story exposed undisclosed ties between NYU professors David Abrams and Ray Niaura, who are major e-cigarette scientific advocates.
  • STAT subsequently reported that this story led several journals to issue clarifications about their undisclosed ties, while others are still considering how to deal with these undisclosed conflicts.
• Nirappil, Fenit. How Black activists became defenders of Big Tobacco. 21 June, 2024. The Washington Post.
  • This story includes the smoking gun document linking Al Sharpton the African American leader who played a key role in convincing Biden to pull FDA regulations ending menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as well as other African American and LGBTQ leaders who are supporting the industry.

These new documents bring the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library to 99,720,199 pages in 16,893,159 documents.

The overall Industry Documents Library now contains 114,951,995 pages in 20,257,401 documents. The other collections are:

• UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive contains 13,661,640 pages in 3,171,240 documents.
• Chemical Industry Documents Archive: 353,995 pages in 13,065 documents
• Drug Industry Documents Archive: 346,543 pages in 5,755 documents
• Food Industry Documents Archive: 855,105 pages in 173,021 documents
• Fossil Fuel Industry Documents Archive: 14,513 pages in 1,161 documents

These collections can all be searched at once, which often reveals common strategies and often the same scientists, third parties and front groups, PR agencies, lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians supporting industry positions.

Check them out!

Making the Juul documents available through the UCSF Industry Documents Library is a joint project between UCSF and the University of North Carolina.