ReviewTobacco control2007
Old ways, new means: tobacco industry funding of academic and private sector scientists since the Master Settlement Agreement.
Review in Tobacco control, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Defining the commercial tobacco industry in a changing nicotine landscape.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Influence of Disclosed and Undisclosed Funding Sources in Tobacco Harm Reduction Discourse: A Social Network Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Review
- Big tobacco's dirty tricks: Seven key tactics of the tobacco industry.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2023Article
- Tobacco Industry Efforts to Respond to Smoke-Free Policies in Multi-Unit Housing: An Evaluation of Tobacco Industry Documents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Food industry sponsorship of academic research: investigating commercial bias in the research agenda.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
- The Influence of Industry Sponsorship on the Research Agenda: A Scoping Review.American journal of public health · 2018Article
- Tobacco papers and tobacco industry ties in regulatory toxicology and pharmacology.Journal of public health policy · 2018Article
- Systematic Assessment of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Mercury Reveals Conflicts of Interest and the Need for Transparency in Autism Research.Science and engineering ethics · 2017Review
- Study sponsorship and the nutrition research agenda: analysis of randomized controlled trials included in systematic reviews of nutrition interventions to address obesity.Public health nutrition · 2017Review
- 'Manage and mitigate punitive regulatory measures, enhance the corporate image, influence public policy': industry efforts to shape understanding of tobacco-attributable deforestation.Globalization and health · 2016Article
- The tobacco industry, researchers, and ethical access to UK Biobank: using the public interest and public good.American journal of public health · 2014Article
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- 'To prove this is the industry's best hope': big tobacco's support of research on the genetics of nicotine addiction.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2010Article
- Criteria for evaluating tobacco control research funding programs and their application to models that include financial support from the tobacco industry.Tobacco control · 2009Article
- The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food?The Milbank quarterly · 2009Article
- "A good personal scientific relationship": Philip Morris scientists and the Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok.PLoS medicine · 2008Article
- Interfield dysbalances in research input and output benchmarking: visualisation by density equalizing procedures.International journal of health geographics · 2008Article
- Scientific integrity: critical issues in environmental health research.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2008Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
When, as a condition of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) in 1998, US tobacco companies disbanded the Council for Tobacco Research and the Center for Indoor Air Research, they lost a vital connection to scientists in academia and the private sector. The aim of this paper was to investigate two new research projects funded by US tobacco companies by analysis of internal tobacco industry documents now available at the University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, California, USA) Legacy tobacco documents library, other websites and the open scientific literature. Since the MSA, individual US tobacco companies have replaced their industry-wide collaborative granting organisations with new, individual research programmes. Philip Morris has funded a directed research project through the non-profit Life Sciences Research Office, and British American Tobacco and its US subsidiary Brown and Williamson have funded the non-profit Institute for Science and Health. Both of these organisations have downplayed or concealed their true level of involvement with the tobacco industry. Both organisations have key members with significant and long-standing financial relationships with the tobacco industry. Regulatory officials and policy makers need to be aware that the studies these groups publish may not be as independent as they seem.
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.