Campbell Richard, Balbach Edith
Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Project, Tufts University.
Public Health and Community Medicine, Community Health Program, Tufts University.
New Solut. 2013;23(3):467-83. doi: 10.2190/NS.23.3.c.
Following legal action in the 1990s, internal tobacco industry documents became public, allowing unprecedented insight into the industry's relationships with outside organizations. During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Energy Management Institute (NEMI), established by the Sheet Metal Workers International Association and the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association, (SMACNA) received tobacco industry funding to establish an indoor air quality services program. But the arrangement also required NEMI to serve as an advocate for industry efforts to defeat indoor smoking bans by arguing that ventilation was a more appropriate solution to environmental tobacco smoke. Drawing on tobacco industry documents, this paper describes a striking example of the ethical compromises that accompanied NEMI's collaboration with the tobacco industry, highlighting the solicitation of tobacco industry financial support for a SMACNA indoor air quality manual in exchange for sanitizing references to the health impact of environmental tobacco smoke prior to publication.
在20世纪90年代的法律行动之后，烟草行业的内部文件得以公开，使人们前所未有地深入了解该行业与外部组织的关系。在20世纪80年代和90年代，由国际钣金工人协会和全国钣金与空调承包商协会（SMACNA）成立的国家能源管理研究所（NEMI）获得了烟草行业的资金，用于设立一个室内空气质量服务项目。但该安排还要求NEMI作为行业努力的倡导者，通过辩称通风是解决环境烟草烟雾问题的更合适方案，来反对室内吸烟禁令。本文利用烟草行业文件，描述了NEMI与烟草行业合作所伴随的道德妥协的一个显著例子，突出了为SMACNA室内空气质量手册争取烟草行业资金支持，以换取在手册出版前对手册中关于环境烟草烟雾对健康影响的内容进行净化处理。
