Tobacco industry efforts at discrediting scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke: a review of internal industry documents
Tobacco industry efforts at discrediting scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke: a review of internal industry documents
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DOI：
10.1136/jech.55.8.588
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发表时间：
2001-08-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Chapman, S
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作者：
Drope, J;Chapman, S
研究目标-使用烟草行业内部文件调查烟草行业咨询科学家使用来诋毁环境烟草烟雾(ETS)科学知识的情况。设计-在菲利普莫里斯烟草研究所、RJ Reynolds、Brown and Williamson、Lorillard和烟草研究委员会文件网站上进行基本和高级搜索，集中在1985-1995年。还搜索了位于加拿大烟草控制委员会网站上的吉尔福德保管文件。这些文件是在2000年3月1日至6月30日期间进行的搜索中发现的。主要结果--该行业建立了科学家网络，支持其关于ETS是微不足道的健康风险的立场。行业律师在决定将从事什么科学方面发挥了重要作用。该行业资助独立机构进行研究，这些研究似乎独立于该行业，并将提升其可信度。行业组织的研讨会被用来发表非同行评议的研究。由行业科学家进行或提出的不利研究被阻止公开。结论-行业文件表明了一种刻意的策略，即利用科学顾问在ETS上诋毁科学。
Study objective-Using tobacco industry internal documents to investigate the use of tobacco industry consulting scientists to discredit scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).Design-Basic and advanced searches were performed on the Philip Morris, Tobacco Institute, R J Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, Lorillard, and the Council for Tobacco Research document web sites, with a concentration on the years 1985-1995. Guildford depository files located on the Canadian Council on Tobacco Control website were also searched. The documents were found in searches undertaken between 1 March and 30 June 2000.Main results-The industry built up networks of scientists sympathetic to its position that ETS is an insignificant health risk. Industry lawyers had a large role in determining what science would be pursued. The industry funded independent organisations to produce research that appeared separate from the industry and would boost its credibility. Industry organised symposiums were used to publish non-peer reviewed research. Unfavourable research conducted or proposed by industry scientists was prevented from becoming public.Conclusions-Industry documents illustrate a deliberate strategy to use scientific consultants to discredit the science on ETS.