Tobacco Industry

For an introduction to information about the tobacco industry in Scotland we recommend the following resources: 

• The unwelcome guest: how Scotland invited the tobacco industry to smoke outside 
• and its sequal Smoke-free success;
• and for an international perspective the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
• recent research into the tobacco industry (updated weekly)

Below is a wider collection of materials relating to the tobacco industry, including documents on the tobacco trade and economic statistics, which are arranged alphabetically.

	Big tobacco's guinea pigs: how an unregulated industry experiments on America's kids and consumers This report details how tobacco companies take advantage of the lack of government regulation to design and market products that recruit new youth users, create and sustain addiction to nicotine, and discourage users from quitting; describes the new generation of products tobacco companies have unleashed to counter declining smoking rates and growing restrictions on smoking.
	British American Tobacco Documents Archive Provides access to more than 1 million pages of internal corporate documents relating to BAT.
	Centre for Tobacco Control Research publications Provides access to publications by CTCR staff.
	Chronology of deception and quick factsheet of tobacco products Published by the World Health Organization to mark World No Tobacco Day 2006 this document includes a 'chronology of deception' along with facts about tobacco products.
	Denial and delay: the political history of smoking and health, 1951-1964- scientists, government and industry as seen in the papers at the public records office Provides access to the full-text of a book which examines the political history of smoking and health between 1951 and 1964.
	Doctors and tobacco: medicine's big challenge Tobacco Control Resource Centre's action manual for national medical associations, their members and other health professionals. Contains information on health effects of tobacco, vulnerable groups, action for individuals and professional associations, smoking cessation, effective public policies for tobacco control, working with politicians and media, tobacco industry tactics, and the role of litigation.
	Economic statistics: tobacco trade and subsidies This ASH Scotland webpage provides statistics on the tobacco trade in the EU and UK.
	Economic statistics: UK tobacco market Produced by ASH Scotland this webpage provides statistics on the UK tobacco market including tobacco sales and duty paid sales.
	Economic statistics: workplace/productivity Produced by ASH Scotland this webpage provides statistics on productivity and employment in the tobacco industry in the UK.
	Evolution of the Tobacco Industry Positions on Addiction to Nicotine This 2008 report, based on internal industry documents and the companies' public pronouncements, describes how the social, scientific and judicial climate forced changes to industry positions on addiction to nicotine.
	Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) Provides access to 7 million documents related to marketing, manufacturing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.
	Lifting the smokescreen: tobacco industry strategy to defeat smoke free policies and legislation This 2006 report discusses how the tobacco industry recruited scientists to undermine research which found that passive smoking causes harm.
	Protecting against tobacco industry interference : the 2008 global tobacco treaty action guide This 2008 report provides a snapshot of tobacco industry interference in a range of countries from Nigeria to Mexico and provides activists and policy makers with tools and tactics to counter industry interference.
	Scottish parliamentary motions: investment in tobacco industry Provide the full-text of Scottish Parliamentary motions on investment in the tobacco industry.
	Scottish parliamentary motions: tobacco industry Provides the full-text of Scottish Parliamentary motions on the tobacco industry.
	The tobacco industry documents: what they are, what they tell us and how to search them This is a manual about the tobacco industry documents released by US-based tobacco companies as a result of lawsuits filed against them in the USA.(full text 1.69MB)
	The unwelcome guest: how Scotland invited the tobacco industry to smoke outside This ASH Scotland report shows how the campaign to go smoke-free was won, and how the tobacco industry tried everything it could to stop smoke-free legislation being made.
	Tobacco documents online Provides access to hundreds of thousands of tobacco industry documents released through the Master Settlement Agreement.
	Tobacco Industry Interference with Tobacco Control This document describes the spectrum of tobacco industry practices that interfere with tobacco control. It provides the background and contextual information that may assist in implementing the WHO FCTC Article 5.3 guidelines against tobacco industry interference with tobacco control.
	Tobacco papers Produced by NHS Health Scotland and the Centre for Tobacco Control Research this resource offers access to documents from advertising agencies used by the UK tobacco industry between 1994 and 1999.
	Trust us, we're the tobacco industry This is a concise guide to the millions of pages of confidential tobacco industry documents released through litigation in the United States.