Influence of Legal Context on Tobacco Industry Behavior

法律背景对烟草业行为的影响

• 批准号: 6625891
• 负责人: Richard A. Daynard
• 金额: $ 54.08万
• 依托单位: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-18 至 2006-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6625891
• 关键词: behavior; behavioral /social science research tag; cancer risk; data collection methodology /evaluation; decision making; ethics; health related legal; industry; mass information media; morals; psychological values; public health; smoking; social perception; tobacco

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The investigators propose to examine the evidence demonstrating how legal context has influenced tobacco industry conduct related to smoking and health. Data sources will include electronic and depository collections of internal tobacco industry documents including approximately 80 boxes of newly available deprivileged documents which have not been indexed. In addition, subjectively and objectively coded documents and substantial litigation-related resources are provided by a major tobacco litigation law firm. A publicly available database-driven document collection and related series of analyses focusing on how legal context determines tobacco industry action on smoking and health will be submitted to peer-reviewed public health or medical journals. The Research Aims that document research and analyses will focus on include: (1) How liability concerns led to the repression of "safer" tobacco products; (2) The interplay of lawyers, legal doctrine and the client in the tobacco context and the implications of these relationships as they relate to decades of tobacco industry concealment of information on smoking and health; (3) Lawyer control of internal and external research within each company and among companies acting in concert; (4) Legal ethics of attorneys representing the industry and use of aggressive litigation tactics to frustrate public health objectives, and (5) Describe what role industry lawyers may have played in creating laws that protect the companies (e.g., tobacco lawyers participation in drafting of the Restatement of Torts (2d)'s proclamation that "good tobacco is not defective" or the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, or the legislation to immunize tobacco companies from liability). The analyses and supporting documents will serve as a predictor of industry behavior in response to mounting legal pressures.

描述（由申请人提供）： 调查人员建议审查证明其合法性的证据 背景影响了烟草业与吸烟和健康相关的行为。 数据来源将包括内部数据的电子和存托收集。 烟草业文件包括约 80 盒新上市的 尚未编入索引的无特权文档。另外，主观上 客观编码的文件和大量诉讼相关资源 由一家大型烟草诉讼律师事务所提供。一个公开可用的 数据库驱动的文档收集和相关系列分析，重点关注 法律背景如何决定烟草业在吸烟与健康方面的行动 将提交给经过同行评审的公共卫生或医学期刊。 记录研究和分析的研究目标包括： (1) 责任担忧如何导致“更安全”烟草产品受到压制； (2) 律师、法律原则和委托人在烟草行业中的相互作用 这些关系与数十年相关的背景和影响 烟草业隐瞒有关吸烟和健康的信息； (3) 律师对每家公司内部和外部研究的控制 一致行动人的公司； （四）代理律师的法律职业道德 行业和使用激进的诉讼策略来挫败公共健康 目标，以及 (5) 描述行业律师在其中可能发挥的作用 制定保护公司的法律（例如烟草律师的参与 在起草《侵权法重述》（2d）时，声明“优质烟草 没有缺陷”或《联邦卷烟标签和广告法》，或 使烟草公司免受责任的立法）。 分析和支持文件将作为行业预测 应对日益增加的法律压力的行为。