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1. Title: Doctor Whitby Writes...
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: October 1979
Rating:
Page: 2
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Dr. Whitby writes in to say that no one has accepted his challenge to prove that smoking is harmful to health.
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2. Title: Health
Author: Pritchard, C
Bates: 503096761/503096761
Date: 27 February 1984
Rating:
Source: R.J. Reynolds
Page Count: 1
Type: Published document
Summary: Article promoting Whitby (variously described in the article as "Australia's Mr Smoking" and "Australia's Malboro Man") and his ideas.

[Ed: This document forms part of the subset of industry documents analysed for: "Smoking, health and obdurate denial: the Australian tobacco industry in the 1980s" by Stacy M Carter and Simon Chapman. This paper contrasts the Australian tobacco industry's awareness of the health problems of smoking with their public statements about the same in the 1980s, a decade of aggressive industry denial on smoking and health.]
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3. Title: Carry on smoking!
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: March 1978
Rating:
Page: 11
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Dr. W. T. Whitby claims that smokers' rights are being jeopardised by anti-smoking campaigns.
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4. Title: Doctor Challenges Anti-Smoking Claims
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: November 1978
Rating:
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Dr. William Whitby has been nominated for the New South Wales Legislative Council and if elected will press for it to be an offense to make health claims regarding smoking, because it causes undue stress for the community.
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5. Title: Smoking is good for you
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: March 1979
Rating:
Page: 2
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Plugging Whitby's book. "You will not only be making a profit, but more importantly, protecting your livelihood by countering the brainwashing of the anti-smoking fanatics."
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6. Title: Moves for a Safe Smoke [and other news items]
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: July 1979
Rating:
Page: 3
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Firefighters support the development of a self-extinguishing cigarette.

There is also a small item entitled "Non smokers go for the doctor" reporting on Dr William Whitby's $10,000 challenge.
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7. Title: Smoking Debunked
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: October 1986
Rating:
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Promotion of the book "The Smoking Scare Debunked," by Dr. William Whitby.
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8. Title: The $10,000 smoking challenge
Author: Whitby, WT
Resource: The Sydney Morning Herald
Date: 23 October 1979
Rating:
Type: Newspaper article
Summary: In a letter to the editor, Dr. W. T. Whitby restates that he offered $10,000 for scientific proof that smoking causes lung cancer, something that no one has yet been able to establish scientific proof of.
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9. Title: [Letter to Dr. William T. Whitby]
Author: Judge, CH
Bates: 03543050/03543050
Date: 4 June 1982
Rating:
Source: Lorillard
Page Count: 1
Type: Letter
Summary: Lorillard's Curtis Judge replies to Whitby that he was unable to assist in promoting his book.
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10. Title: "Smoking Is Good for You"
Resource: The Australian Retail Tobacconist
Date: June 1979
Rating:
Page: 2
Type: Magazine article
Summary: Retailers are encouraged to order a supply of Dr. Whitby's book that allegedly exposes anti-smoking claims as a lie.

"You will be not only making a profit, but more importantly, protecting your livelihood by exposing the false claims of the anti-smoking campaigners."
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