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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2011

Manufacturing credibility: the National Energy Management Institute and the Tobacco Institute's strategy for indoor air quality.

Richard B Campbell, Edith D Balbach

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Article in American journal of public health, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Protecting the world from secondhand tobacco smoke exposure: where do we stand and where do we go from here?Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Richard B CampbellCommunity Health Program, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA. richard.campbell@tufts.edu
Edith D Balbach

Funding

Organized Labor and TobaccoR01CA095964 · NCI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI BALBACH, EDITH D · 2002 to 2009
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA095964NCI NIH HHS R01CA095964
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe studied tobacco industry efforts during the 1980s and 1990s to promote the National Energy Management Institute (NEMI), a nonprofit organization, as an authority on indoor air quality as part of the industry's strategy to oppose smoke-free worksite policies.

methodsWe analyzed tobacco industry documents, conducted literature searches in Lexis-Nexis for background and historical literature, and reviewed relevant public health and policy literature.

resultsThe tobacco industry provided more than US $6 million to NEMI to establish it as an authority on indoor air quality and to work with it to undermine support for smoke-free air policies by promoting ventilation as a solution to indoor air quality problems. Tobacco industry support for NEMI was not publicly disclosed.

conclusionsNEMI was a valuable ally for the tobacco industry through NEMI's ties to organized labor, its technical background, and its status as a third-party actor. NEMI also helped the industry to portray ventilation to improve overall indoor air quality and smoke-free worksites as an either-or choice; in fact, both can improve worker health.

Indexed as

VentilationAir Pollution, IndoorConflict of InterestConsultantsHumansOccupational ExposureTobacco IndustryTobacco Smoke PollutionUnited StatesTobacco Smoke Pollution

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PMID21233427
PMCPMC3036691

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