) This project will analyze the depositions and trial testimony for tobacco lawsuits filed in the United States during the 1990s, to assess what they reveal in areas such as nicotine addiction and pharmacology, the health consequences of tobacco use, tobacco-product design and manufacturing, tobacco advertising and promotion, youth smoking initiation, and tobacco use cessation. The litigation documents to be studied will include those from the following lawsuits: 1) the state Attorney General (AG) cases (and similar cases filed by counties and cities); 2) the class actions (e.g., Castano cases, Broin, Engle), 3) the individual health-effects cases, 4) third-party reimbursement cases patterned after the AG cases (e.g., those filed by union-managed health and welfare funds and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans); and 5) other, miscellaneous cases (e.g., secondhand-smoke cases, Mangini case, cigarette fire damage suits, litigation involving federal agencies [e.g., the FDA and the U.S. EPA], and international/foreign claims filed in U.S. courts). Transcripts (and related exhibits) will be collected for the depositions and trials from law firms, courts, court reporters and their transcription firms, individual witnesses, and any other available sources. They will be formatted, coded, and made available on the World Wide Web in an easily searchable database called the Tobacco Deposition and Trial Testimony Archive (Tobacco DATTA). Eleven research teams will analyze the material in Tobacco DATTA in different topical areas, using qualitative and quantitative methods. The outcomes of the project will be: 1) the creation of a new, rich, accessible, user-friendly database pertaining to tobacco industry documents, research, knowledge, conduct, and strategies; and 2) research articles and reports, based on study of that database, concerning many important aspects of tobacco and health.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01CA087486-02
Application #
6378030
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1-SRRB-Y (M2))
Project Start
2000-09-19
Project End
2004-08-31
Budget Start
2001-09-01
Budget End
2002-08-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$720,420
Indirect Cost
Name
Michigan Public Health Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Okemos
State
MI
Country
United States
Zip Code
48864
Davis, R M (2008) British American Tobacco ghost-wrote reports on tobacco advertising bans by the International Advertising Association and J J Boddewyn. Tob Control 17:211-4
Balbach, Edith D; Smith, Elizabeth A; Malone, Ruth E (2006) How the health belief model helps the tobacco industry: individuals, choice, and ""information"". Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv37-43
Milberger, Sharon; Davis, Ronald M; Douglas, Clifford E et al. (2006) Tobacco manufacturers' defence against plaintiffs' claims of cancer causation: throwing mud at the wall and hoping some of it will stick. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv17-26
Davis, Ronald M; Douglas, Clifford E; Beasley, John K (2006) The Tobacco Deposition and Trial Testimony Archive (DATTA) project: origins, aims, and methods. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv4-8
Francis, John A; Shea, Amy K; Samet, Jonathan M (2006) Challenging the epidemiologic evidence on passive smoking: tactics of tobacco industry expert witnesses. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv68-76
Douglas, Clifford E; Davis, Ronald M; Beasley, John K (2006) Epidemiology of the third wave of tobacco litigation in the United States, 1994-2005. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv9-16
Chaiton, Michael; Ferrence, Roberta; LeGresley, Eric (2006) Perceptions of industry responsibility and tobacco control policy by US tobacco company executives in trial testimony. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv98-106
Henningfield, Jack E; Rose, Christine A; Zeller, Mitch (2006) Tobacco industry litigation position on addiction: continued dependence on past views. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv27-36
Wakefield, Melanie; McLeod, Kim; Perry, Cheryl L (2006) ""Stay away from them until you're old enough to make a decision"": tobacco company testimony about youth smoking initiation. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv44-53
Goldberg, Marvin E; Davis, Ronald M; O'Keefe, Anne Marie (2006) The role of tobacco advertising and promotion: themes employed in litigation by tobacco industry witnesses. Tob Control 15 Suppl 4:iv54-67

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