Influence of Legal Context on Tobacco Industry Behavior

描述（由申请人提供）： 调查人员建议审查证据，证明如何法律的 环境影响了烟草业与吸烟和健康有关的行为。 数据来源将包括电子和托存收集的内部 烟草业文件，包括大约80盒新提供的 未被索引的特权文件。此外，主观上 客观编码的文件和大量与诉讼有关的资源 是由一家大型烟草诉讼律师事务所提供的公开可用的 数据库驱动的文件收集和相关系列分析，重点是 法律的背景如何决定烟草业对吸烟与健康的行动 将提交给同行评审的公共卫生或医学期刊。 文件研究和分析的研究目标将侧重于以下方面： (1)责任问题如何导致压制“更安全”的烟草产品; (2)律师、法律的主义与烟草业委托人的互动 背景和这些关系的影响，因为它们涉及几十年 烟草业隐瞒有关吸烟与健康的资料;（3） 律师控制每个公司内部和外部的研究， （4）代表公司的律师的法律的道德 行业和使用积极的诉讼策略来阻挠公共卫生 目标，以及（5）描述行业律师可能在 制定保护公司的法律（例如，烟草律师参与 在起草《侵权行为重述》（2d）的声明时， 不存在缺陷”或《联邦卷烟标签和广告法》，或 使烟草公司免于责任的立法）。 分析和支持文件将作为行业预测 为应对日益增加的法律的压力而做出的行为。

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.