What do tobacco industry documents reveal about marketing cigarettes in bars and nightclubs?
Edward Sepe, BS, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco, 3333 California St. Suite 265, Box 0936 Laurel Heights, San Francisco, CA 94143-0936, 415-476-8276, esepe@socrates.berkeley.edu, Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, and Stanton A Glantz, PhD, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 265, San Francisco, CA 94118. Objectives: This study examined tobacco industry documents to identify the origins and motivations of bar promotions, and to investigate how the industry organized these promotions. Methods: We searched tobacco document collections using key words, authors, and Bates (reference) numbers. These collections included the industry web sites of Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and document collections maintained by the University of California, San Francisco a
