General Correspondence

File consists of papers, correspondence, related to the seminar on "WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 26 February 2010. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 43 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , (London: Wellcome Trust, 2012). Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between Professor Tilli Tansey, editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include: Thank you letters and responses. Publishing permissions and copyright information. Programme and leaflet. Documents include but not limited to; Dr Judith Mackay:American Cancer Society (ACS) meeting in Washington, DC, the First International Summit of World Smoking Control Leaders, September 1985, Lees and Glantz (2001) UCSF; (iv) WHO, TFI. (2008) 'Tobacco industry interference with tobacco control', a 'synthesis of evidence' from a meeting of a group of experts, 29-30 October 2007 in Washington, DC.; Zeltner committee report (2000) [WHO, Committee of Experts on tobacco industry documents. (2000) Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the WHO Dr Doug Bettcher: World No Tobacco Day 2012: Tobacco industry interference brochure dated 1 May 2012; Knight and Chapman (2006) 'A phony way to show sincerity, as we all well know': Tobacco industry lobbying against tobacco control in Hong Kong.; Bialous and Yach paper, 'Whose standard is it anyway? How the tobacco industry determines the ISO standards for tobacco and tobacco products' Tobacco Control (2001) Taylor A, Chaloupka F J, Guindon E, Corbett M. (2000) The impact of trade liberalization on tobacco consumption. In Jha P, Chaloupka F C. (eds) Tobacco Control Policies in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 343-64, for FN 27; Ms Kathy Mulvey: Mulvey K. (?2003) Impact of INFACT's tobacco industry campaign and the Kraft boycott, 1993-2003; Mulvey K. (2007) Kraft's impending split from Philip Morris/Altria is a bittersweet victory for public health; 'spin-off backgrounder for internal use only': (c. Jan. 2008) Philip Morris/Altria breaks apart: 31 January 2008; Dr Derek Yach: Yach and Wipfli (2006) ; Summary of Chaloupka and Laizuthai (1996) 'US trade policy and cigarette smoking in Asia', NBER; Tobacco industry documents related to WHO, 1985-1995

Sensitive correspondence has been extracted from the file and catalogued separately as GC/253/A/43/1a.

2009 - 2012

1 file (in 3 parts)