Influence of Legal Context on Tobacco Industry Behavior

描述(由申请人提供)： 调查人员提议检查证明合法的证据 背景影响了烟草行业与吸烟和健康有关的行为。 数据来源将包括内部数据的电子和存管集合 烟草行业文件，包括大约80盒新提供的 未编制索引的取消权限的文档。此外，在主观上， 和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。可公开使用的 数据库驱动的文档收集和相关系列分析，重点是 法律背景如何决定烟草行业对吸烟和健康的行动 将提交给同行评议的公共卫生或医学杂志。 《研究》的文件研究和分析将侧重于以下内容： (1)对责任的担忧如何导致对“更安全”烟草产品的压制； (2)律师、法律原则和委托人在烟草诉讼中的相互作用 背景和这些关系的影响，因为它们涉及几十年 烟草行业隐瞒吸烟与健康信息的行为；(3) 律师控制每个公司内部和外部的研究 公司一致行动；(4)代表公司的律师的法律道德 工业和使用激进的诉讼策略来挫败公共健康 目标，以及(5)描述行业律师可能在 制定保护公司的法律(例如，烟草律师参与 在起草重述《侵权行为法(第二章)》时，S的公告是：“好烟叶 无瑕疵“或联邦卷烟标签和广告法，或 使烟草公司免于承担责任的立法)。 这些分析和支持文件将作为行业的预测指标 在不断增加的法律压力下的行为。

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.