Bero Lisa
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0613, USA.
Annu Rev Public Health. 2003;24:267-88. doi: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.100901.140813. Epub 2001 Nov 6.
The release of previously secret internal tobacco industry documents has given the public health community unprecedented insight into the industry's motives, strategies, tactics, and data. The documents provide information that is not available from any other source and describe the history of industry activities over the past 50 years. The documents show that the tobacco industry has been engaged in deceiving policy makers and the public for decades. This paper begins with a brief history of the tobacco industry documents and describes the methodological challenges related to locating and analyzing an enormous number of poorly indexed documents. It provides an overview of selected important findings of document research conducted to date, including analyses of industry documents on nicotine and addiction, product design, marketing and promotion, passive smoke, and internal activities. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of tobacco document research for public health and the application of such research to fields other than tobacco control.
此前保密的烟草行业内部文件的公布，让公共卫生界前所未有地深入了解了该行业的动机、策略、手段和数据。这些文件提供了其他任何来源都无法获取的信息，并描述了过去50年行业活动的历史。文件显示，烟草行业几十年来一直在欺骗政策制定者和公众。本文首先简要介绍了烟草行业文件的历史，并描述了在查找和分析大量索引不佳的文件方面所面临的方法学挑战。它概述了迄今为止文件研究的一些重要选定发现，包括对行业文件中有关尼古丁与成瘾、产品设计、营销与推广、被动吸烟以及内部活动的分析。本文最后讨论了烟草文件研究对公共卫生的影响，以及此类研究在烟草控制以外领域的应用。
