Quid pro quo: tobacco companies and the black press.

Objectives: We explored the relationship between tobacco companies and the Black press, which plays an important role in conveying information and opinions to Black communities.

Methods: In this archival case study, we analyzed data from internal tobacco industry documents and archives of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade association of the Black press.

Results: In exchange for advertising dollars and other support, the tobacco industry expected and received support from Black newspapers for tobacco industry policy positions.

Tobacco documents research methodology.

Tobacco documents research has developed into a thriving academic enterprise since its inception in 1995. The technology supporting tobacco documents archiving, searching and retrieval has improved greatly since that time, and consequently tobacco documents researchers have considerably more access to resources than was the case when researchers had to travel to physical archives and/or electronically search poorly and incompletely indexed documents. The authors of the papers presented in this supplement all followed the same basic research methodology.

Menthol sensory qualities and smoking topography: a review of tobacco industry documents.

Objective: To determine what the tobacco industry knew about the potential effects of menthol on smoking topography-how a person smokes a cigarette.

Methods: A snowball strategy was used to systematically search the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (http://legacy.library.