Titre :
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Inventing Conflicts of Interest : A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics : consequences of industry relationships for public health and medicine. (2012)
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Auteurs :
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BRANDT (Allan-M) : USA. Department of the History of Science. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Harvard University. Cambridge. MA.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 102, n° 1, Janvier 2012)
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Pagination :
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63-71
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Historique
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Histoire
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Industrie tabac
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Commercialisation
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 8psR0xHq. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Confronted by compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry, beginning in the 1950s, used sophisticated public relations approaches to undermine and distort the emerging science. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry-academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public health efforts and regulatory interventions designed to reduce the harms of smoking. A number of industries have subsequently followed this approach to disrupting normative science. Claims of scientific uncertainty and lack of proof also lead to the assertion of individual responsibility for industrially produced health risks.
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