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1. Mr Butt tells tobacco tales.

Author

Mestel, Rosie

Subjects
*PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of tobacco, *ACTIONS & defenses (Law), *UNIVERSITIES & colleges
Abstract

Reports that the University of California has won the right to distribute on the World Wide Web the internal documents and memos from cigarette manufacturer Brown & Williamson suggesting that the company was aware of the addictive and cancer-causing nature of cigarettes at least 30 years ago. Brown & Williamson's legal action to get the papers back, claiming that they had been stolen; Web site address.

Published
1995

2. Judge dismisses lawsuit over tobacco research.

Subjects
*ACTIONS & defenses (Law), *UNIVERSITIES & colleges
Abstract

Reports that a judge has dismissed a suit against the University of California campus in San Francisco over the work of Dr. Stanton A. Glantz, a medical researcher who has been an outspoken critic of the tobacco industry. Details on the lawsuit filed by Californians for Scientific Integrity; Co-authorship of the book `The Cigarette Papers,' by Glantz; Reaction to the decision.

Published
1997