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1. Tobacco firm sues library to turn over archive, user info.

Author

B.G.

Subjects
ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES, ACTIONS & defenses (Law)
Abstract

Reports on a lawsuit triggered by the donation of thousands of pages of photocopied Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W) documents to the University of California/San Franciso library archive in 1994. Details of the case.

Published
1995

2. 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