Playing hide-and-seek with the tobacco industry.

摘要: Despite many peer-reviewed works that draw on tobacco industry documents have now been made public, questions remain about how complete a picture has emerged. We present conceptual framework identifies and evaluates efforts to conceal information. Widespread document destruction like in recent litigation Australia is just one of more than dozen prevent access, or at least timely documents. Industry range from small, locally employed initiatives company-wide tactics. Some efforts, such as using "oral only" procedures, scrambling telephone lines, involving lawyers scientific projects, are preemptive. Others seek deal with already existing by invoking bogus claims legal privilege, stipulating "read then destroy" for memos, rewriting problematic memos. That evidence concealment has, fact, found company archives attests the futility attempting control flow millions pieces paper among tens tbousands employees. However, researchers yet reveal full story: know industry's failures concealing information, but not its successes. The objective information per se, prevention public disclosure Exposing approaches provides greater insight into companies' intentions potential means stripping away concealment.