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Tobacco Documents Research: A Bibliography

List of research reports and publications based on tobacco industry documents. The bibliography was originally prepared by Norbert Hirschhorn, however, in April 2006, the UCSF Library took over management of the listing. The bibliography includes important reports on tobacco industry documents relating to international issues, books discussing or using tobacco industry documents and peer reviewed publications based on tobacco industry document research from around the world. Click here to open up Norbert Hirschhorn's final listing issued in April 2006. The data below and on subsequent pages was extracted from the original list, consult the UCSF Library listing for the latest information.

Section A: Important reports on tobacco industry documents relating to the international issues

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) UK

Bates C, Connolly GN, Jarvis M. Tobacco additives: cigarette engineering and nicotine addiction. Published July 14, 1999.

BAT and tobacco smuggling. Reports on around 200 internal British American Tobacco (BAT) documents.

BAT in its Own Words a report jointly published by Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) using BAT internal documents to question whether shareholders should trust what the company says.

Danger! PR in the playground
Tobacco industry initiatives on youth smoking.

Jarvis M, Bates C. Why low tar cigarettes don't work and how the tobacco industry has fooled the smoking public. March 18, 1999.

Trust Us: We're the Tobacco Industry
This research paper covers fourteen topics including: addiction, advertising, tobacco farming, developing countries, taxation and international trade, environmental tobacco smoke, cigarette packaging and labelling, lobbying, research and development, smuggling, the World Health Organization and anti-smoking advocacy groups, women and youth smoking.

Tobacco Explained: Big tobacco and women ...what the tobacco industry's confidential documents reveal.
ASH examined documents that describe the tobacco industry's approach to women. November 22, 1998.

Tobacco explained: The truth about the tobacco industry... in its own words
ASH reviewed a selection of industry documents and extracted 1,200 relevant and revealing quotes classifying them under common themes.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Illegal Pathways to Illegal Profits: The Big Cigarette Companies and International Smuggling. February 28, 2003. (Reports on Industry Activity; paper TFK2)

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Cigarette Company Documents Outline Strategy to Derail Global Tobacco Treaty
May 16, 2003 report by Ben Coates on tobacco industry tactics to disrupt WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

Tobacco companies linked to criminal organizations in lucrative cigarette smuggling
March 3, 2001 report written by William Marsden documenting smuggling in China, North America, Italy, Latin America, Africa Cyprus and the United States. Reported by Maud S. Beelman, Bill Birnbauer, Duncan Campbell, William Marsden, Erik Schelzig and Leo Sisti.

World Health Organization reports

Bialous SA, Shatenstein S. Profits over people: tobacco industry activities to market cigarettes and undermine Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, 2002

Hammond, R and White, C. Voices of Truth, vol. 2: Multinational Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East: A review of Internal Industry Documents. Geneva: WHO, 2001. (Tobacco control - Reports on industry activity; Paper WHO6)

World Health Organization Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents. Tobacco company strategies to undermine tobacco control activities at the World Health Organization. Geneva: WHO, 2000. (Tobacco control - Reports on industry activity; Paper WHO7).

World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
The cigarette "transit road" to the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq: Illicit tobacco trade in the Middle East. Cairo: WHO, 2003 (WHO-EM/TFI/011/E/G/07.03/1000)

World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative. Towards health with justice: Litigation and public inquiries as tools for tobacco control. Geneva: WHO, 2002. Tobacco Control. (Tobacco control - Reports on industry activity; Paper WHO1).

Other UK Reports

Hastings G, MacFadyen L. Keep smiling: no one's going to die: an analysis of internal documents from the tobacco industry's main UK advertising agencies. . The Centre for Tobacco Control Research and the Tobacco Control Resource Centre. London: British Medical Association, 2000. The CTCR was established by The Cancer Research Campaign (now Cancer Research UK).

Joosens L, Raw M. Turning off the tap: An update on cigarette smuggling in the UK and Sweden, with recommendations to control smuggling. Cancer Research UK, June 2002.

Section B: Books discussing or using tobacco industry documents

ASPECT Consortium. Tobacco or Health in the European Union. Past, Present and Future. European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004. Chapters 3 (Joossens L, Raw M, Godfrey F. The development of European tobacco-control policy), 6 (Hastings G, Angus K. The influence of the tobacco industry on European tobacco-control policy).

Feldman EA, Bayer R (editors). Unfiltered: Conflicts Over Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Chapters 4 (Ballard J. The politics of tobacco control in Australia: International template?), 9 (Gilmore A, McKee M. Tobacco-control policy in the European Union), 10 (Brandt AM. Difference and Diffusion: Cross-cultural perspectives on the rise of anti-tobacco policies).

Glantz SA, Slade J, Bero LA, Hanauer P, Barnes DE. The Cigarette Papers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Glantz SA, Balbach ED. Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Hiilamo H. Manufacturing Lies: Tobacco Industry Research Funding In Finland. Helsinki: ASH Finland, 2004 [In Finnish].

Hilts PJ. Smokescreen. The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Coverup. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.

Kessler D. A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2001.

Kluger R. Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Parascandola M. "Safer" cigarettes." In: Scribner's Turning Points in History. Jordan Goodman, Marcia Norton, Mark Parascandola, editors. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Macmillan/Scribner, 2004, pp. 505-509.

Pertschuck M. Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001.

Pringle P. Cornered. Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.

Rabin RL. The Third Wave of Tobacco Tort Litigation. Ch. 7 in: Regulating Tobacco. RL Rabin, SD Sugarman, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Ryback DC, Phelps D. Smoked: The Inside Story of the Minnesota Tobacco Trial. Minneapolis: MSP Books, 1998.

Slade J. Marketing Policies. Ch. 4 in: Regulating Tobacco. RL Rabin, SD Sugarman, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Vateesatokit P. Tailoring Tobacco Control Efforts to the Country: The Example of Thailand. Ch. 7 in: Tobacco Control Policy: Strategies, Successes & Setbacks. J De Beyer and LW Brigden, eds. Washington DC: World Bank and RITC, 2003