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Tobacco papers and tobacco industry ties in regulatory toxicology and pharmacology
- Source :
- Journal of public health policy. 39(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- We examined the relationship between the tobacco industry and the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (RTP) using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and internet sources. We determined the funding relationships, and categorised the conclusions of all 52 RTP papers on tobacco or nicotine between January 2013 and June 2015, as “positive”, “negative” or “neutral” for the tobacco industry. RTP’s editor, 57% (4/7) of associate editors and 37% (14/38) of editorial board members had worked or consulted for tobacco companies. Almost all (96%, 50/52) of the papers had authors with tobacco industry ties. Seventy-six percent (38/50) of these papers drew conclusions positive for industry; none drew negative conclusions. The two papers by authors not related to the tobacco industry reached conclusions negative to the industry (p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Public Policy
Tobacco Industry
Editorial board
010501 environmental sciences
Pharmacology
Toxicology
01 natural sciences
Tobacco industry
Article
Nicotine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Political science
Tobacco
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Social policy
Medical sociology
Conflict of Interest
Health Policy
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Conflict of interest
United States
Regulatory toxicology
Government Regulation
Periodicals as Topic
Publication Bias
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1745655X
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of public health policy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1d2fa5a8301a638726a0804b65c79646