On July 25, 2024 the UCSF Industry Documents Library added 350,00 new JUUL Labs documents to the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library, bringing the total number of publicly available previously secret Juul documents to over 2.2 million.
And, there is more to come.
These documents have already lead to six 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 100,922,458 pages in 17,240,661 documents.
The overall Industry Documents Library now contains 117,391,648 pages in 20,726,585 documents. The other collections are:
- UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive contains 14,899,034 pages in 3,292,922 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.
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