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- The University of California at San Francisco and the American Legacy Foundation have posted more than 20 million (previously secret) internal tobacco industry documents online.
- The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library "offers integrated searching of tobacco industry documents previously released through disparate industry websites," according to its own site.
- Documents included in the library come from the following tobacco industry sources:
- American Tobacco
- Brown and Williamson
- Council for Tobacco Research
- Lorillard
- Philip Morris
- RJ Reynolds
- Tobacco Institute
- The "simple search" allows for keyword searching, while the "advanced search" allows for the addition of boolean connectors "AND," "OR" and "NOT." Additionally, an asterisk (*) may be used as a wildcard at the end of a word to search for plurals as well as singulars.
- While the searches return the full text documents (in either the .PDF or .TIFF file formats), the searches comb through ONLY META-DATA – the descriptive indexing information created for tracking/classifying the documents during litigation.
- A search for "smokeless AND cigarette" for example, yielded a total "over 1848 records" (although an exact number of matches was not noted). Down the left side of the results screen, the site features a breaks down of which of the seven tobacco industry sources where documents were found and the number of documents in each.
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