title: The smoke you don't see: uncovering tobacco industry scientific strategies aimed against environmental tobacco smoke policies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review details the tobacco industry's scientific campaign aimed against policies addressing environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and efforts to undermine US regulatory agencies from approximately 1988 to 1993.
  
  
  METHODS
  The public availability of more than 40 million internal, once-secret tobacco company documents allowed an unedited and historical look at tobacco industry strategies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis showed that the tobacco industry went to great lengths to battle the ETS issue worldwide by camouflaging its involvement and creating an impression of legitimate, unbiased scientific research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need for further international monitoring of industry-produced science and for significant improvements in tobacco document accessibility.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Muggli
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Hurt
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Repace
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D015982:Bias; D004282:Documentation; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012586:Science; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution