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On 8 May 1998, the State of Minnesota reached a historic settlement with the tobacco industry. One of the many terms of the settlement which were favourable to public health was the agreement extracted from the tobacco industry to place nearly all the tobacco industry documents produced during the trial discovery proceedings on the public record. This resulted in some 40 million pages of documents becoming public: 33 million at a document depository in Minnesota and another 7 million at a depository in Guildford, England. The Guildford depository is in the offices of BritishAmerican Tobacco BAT and is exclusively documents from the operations of BAT and its affiliates. The flow of previously secret tobacco industry documents into the public domain started as a trickle in 1989 and 1990 at a trial in Montreal. It grew into a river during the 1990s as a result of both tobacco industry leaked documents and documents disclosed through a series of liability actions in the United States during the 1990s. With the Minnesota settlement, the flow of documents has turned into a flood. The documents cited in this paper are but a teaspoonful of this flood, drawn from the teacup’s worth of material accessed to date.

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