The site for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, hosted by the University of California San Francisco, has just added over 3700 documents from the  Canadian Tobacco Trials:  “The Canadian Tobacco Trials collection consists of court records (transcripts, depositions, exhibits) from two major national Canadian trials – the 1989 Tobacco Products Control Act (TPCA) Trial and the 1997 Tobacco Act Trial.”

• Click here to read about the collection
• Click here to start searching the collection

Here’s  more information about the Legacy Documents Library:

“The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 11 million documents (60+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities….(and also) offers integrated searching of tobacco industry documents from a variety of companies…. These collections are comprised of tobacco industry documents from the late nineteenth century up through the present with the bulk of the collections dated 1950 through 2002”

Other collections besides the newly added Canadian Tobacco Trials include:

• British American Tobacco
• Mangini (“Joe Camel”)
• Pollay Advertising Collection
• Research Collections
• US Department of Justice
• US Smokeless Tobacco

Huge thanks to the folks at the Resource Shelf for alerting us to this new content!

Posted: 04|12|10 at 9:09 am. Filed under: Online Resource (Free).
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