Iida Kaori, Proctor Robert N
Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Japan.
Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Tob Control. 2018 Feb 4;27(e1):e3-e11. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053971.
To investigate how and why Japan Tobacco, Inc. (JT) in 1986 established the Smoking Research Foundation (SRF), a research-funding institution, and to explore the extent to which SRF has influenced science and health policy in Japan.
We analysed documents in the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archive, along with recent Japanese litigation documents and published documents.
JT's effort to combat effective tobacco control was strengthened in the mid-1980s, following privatisation of the company. While remaining under the protection of Japan's Ministry of Finance, the semiprivatised company lost its 'access to politicos', opening up a perceived need for collaboration with global cigarette makers. One solution, arrived at through clandestine planning with American companies, was to establish a third-party organisation, SRF, with the hope of capturing scientific and medical authority for the industry. Guarded by powerful people in government and academia, SRF was launched with the covert goal of influencing tobacco policy both inside and outside Japan. Scholars funded by SRF have participated in international conferences, national advisory committees and tobacco litigation, in most instances helping the industry to maintain a favourable climate for the continued sale of cigarettes.
Contrary to industry claims, SRF was never meant to be independent or neutral. With active support from foreign cigarette manufacturers, SRF represents the expansion into Asia of the denialist campaign that began in the USA in 1953.
调查日本烟草公司（JT）于1986年如何以及为何设立了一个研究资助机构——吸烟研究基金会（SRF），并探究SRF对日本科学和健康政策的影响程度。
我们分析了“烟草行业真相文件”档案中的文件，以及近期的日本诉讼文件和已发表的文件。
20世纪80年代中期，随着公司私有化，JT对抗有效控烟措施的力度加大。在仍受日本财务省保护的情况下，这家半私有化公司失去了“接触政界人士的机会”，由此产生了与全球卷烟制造商合作的明显需求。通过与美国公司秘密策划得出的一个解决方案是，成立一个第三方组织SRF，希望为该行业获取科学和医学权威。在政府和学术界有影响力的人士的庇护下，SRF成立，其隐秘目标是影响日本国内外的烟草政策。由SRF资助的学者参与了国际会议、国家咨询委员会和烟草诉讼，在大多数情况下帮助该行业维持了有利于香烟持续销售的环境。
与该行业的说法相反，SRF从未打算保持独立或中立。在外国卷烟制造商的积极支持下，SRF代表了始于1953年美国的否认主义运动在亚洲的扩张。
