title: Legislating "sound science": the role of the tobacco industry.
abstract: In the late 1990s, in an effort to dispute the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, Philip Morris initiated a campaign to legislate "sound science." The campaign involved enacting data access and data quality laws to obtain previously confidential research data in order to re-analyze it based on industry-generated data quality standards. Philip Morris worked with other corporate interests to form coalitions and work-groups, develop a "data integrity" outreach program, sponsor symposia on "research integrity," and draft language for the new acts. The tobacco industry played a role in establishing laws that increase corporate influence on public health and regulatory policy decisions.
authors: Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 420, Box 0613, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors: Annamaria
authors: A
authors: Baba
authors: Daniel M
authors: DM
authors: Cook
authors: Thomas O
authors: TO
authors: McGarity
authors: Lisa A
authors: LA
authors: Bero
mesh_terms: D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011640:Public Policy; D011641:Public Relations; D012586:Science / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000379:methods; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States