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Send a note if your ESH organization would like to link to this page Note the following research/legal information contains opinions of the web master, and does not necessarily reflect an opinion of ASSE or any of it's affiliated Chapters. A year-long legal battle between the University of California at San Francisco and tobacco giant Brown & Williamson ended [June 1995] when the California Supreme Court ruled the university could post the papers documenting the tobacco industry's awareness of nicotine's addictive and [carcinogenic] nature 30 years ago on the Internet. The records, originally [obtained] by a paralegal in 1989, were FedEx'd to a UCSF professor last year by someone identifying himself as "Mr. Butts." (St. Petersburg Times 7/3/95 A3) What's REALLY interesting about the tobacco documents, is the Review of R.J. Reynolds' Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , Civil Number 939359 -- The Case that Rid California and the American Landscape of "Joe Camel." The industry still expends $$ to avoid the obvious (to those not yet addicted to this unhealthy and lethal product). Read the actual industry documents that they produced; they targeted the "young adult" ( ages 14-24 ) with ads in Sports Illustrated, Playboy, MS.magazines & Colleges and Universities, documented in a 1974 marketing campaign; intentional deception of the American people, with Legislative cooperation. The lobby efforts to deny that they they would target "children" was a clever marketing ruse (a "truth" as they define it) to really say that they consider "children" under the age of 14. They have targeted "young adults" (over 14, therefore, according to their definition) NOT children. This is probably one of the most serious, yet "LEGAL" health risks. Read it for yourself (see "papers" link above). A new link on the web site says that it is " the creation of a single portal into the working files of the major tobacco companies." Sure to be a best-seller! |
