Robert N. Proctor
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Prohibition no, abolition yes! Rethinking how we talk about ending the cigarette epidemic Open
As public health advocates struggle over how best to end the cigarette epidemic, one persistent obstacle to developing appropriate policies has been the lingering spectre of ‘prohibition’. A misunderstanding of the USA’s experience with th…
From Maverick to Mole: John C. Burnham, Tobacco Consultant Open
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Big tobacco focuses on the facts to hide the truth: an algorithmic exploration of courtroom tropes and taboos Open
Objective To use methods from computational linguistics to identify differences in the rhetorical strategies deployed by defence versus plaintiffs’ lawyers in cigarette litigation. Methods From 318 closing arguments in 159 Engle progeny tr…
‘The industry must be inconspicuous’: Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation Open
Objective To investigate how and why Japan Tobacco, Inc. (JT) in 1986 established the Smoking Research Foundation (SRF), a research-funding institution, and to explore the extent to which SRF has influenced science and health policy in Jap…
FDA’s new plan to reduce the nicotine in cigarettes to sub-addictive levels could be a game-changer Open
On 28 July 2017, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Chief Scott Gottlieb, MD, announced a bold new plan to limit the nicotine allowed in manufactured cigarettes.1 Gottlieb, a Trump appointee revealing C Everett Koop-like potential, poin…