I just found a video of the first national TV story about the Brown and Williamson documents I received on May 12, 1994. This ABC Day One story produced by Walt Bogdanich, ran on May 19, 1994: While I appear in the story, ABC did not identify me as the source. I wanted enough timeContinue reading “ABC Day One story on tobacco industry documents available here”
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UCSF releases 350k more Juul documents, bringing total to over 2.2 million
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 importantContinue reading “UCSF releases 350k more Juul documents, bringing total to over 2.2 million”
Read the behind scenes story of the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health
The 1964 Report on Smoking and Health represented a turning point in the history of tobacco in the United States and the world. Now Don Shopland [photo above], who at the time was an eighteen year-old, “newly working at the National Library of Medicine,” who found himself moonlighting for the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee thatContinue reading “Read the behind scenes story of the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health”