Surf these sites: Buying Science (or the appearance thereof) -- The tobacco industry paid thousands of dollars to scientists to write letters to influential publications, trying to cast doubt on the health effects of secondhand smoke. Lawyers for the tobacco industry edited the scientists'' letters, in some cases wrote the letters. From the St. Paul Pioneer Planet. Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Brown and Williamson Documents -- A review of internal tobacco industry documents compares what the industry said privately about secondhand smoke with what it said publicly. Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Industry''s Suit -- A look at EPA''s report on secondhand smoke. "It took nearly four years to complete, an extensive review and evaluation of several hundred scientific studies on ETS. EPA was neither alone nor the first to find exposure to ETS hazardous." Philip Morris Sought Experts to Cloud Issue -- Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and ''keep the controversy alive,'' according to a 1988 internal tobacco company document." Secondhand Smoke - Setting the Record Straight -- The EPA reviews the epidemiology, the attempts by the tobacco industry to confuse and water down the evidence, and comes to the same conclusion in 1998 that the evidence justified in 1992: secondhand smoke is a preventable health hazard. Stanton Glantz: Post-OSHA Hearings Comments -- Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments: Credibility, Causality, and Other Word Games; Publication Bias; Confounding Variables; Misclassification Error; etc. The Philip Morris Scandal -- ASH UK Paper on how Philip Morris and its lawyers invented and orchestrated "controversy" on secondhand smoke. Provides internal documents that document in the tobacco industry''s own words how it spent "vast sums of money" to "keep the controversy alive" on secondhand smoke. eBMJ -- Tobacco company set up network of sympathetic scientists -- Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential documents from the company''s law firm released on the Internet."
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