HHS Creates Website With 27 Million Pages of Tobacco Documents

WASHINGTON—The federal government has created an internet source
that allows access to more than 27 million pages of tobacco industry
papers, one that allows full-text searches of these key documents for
the first time. The website, http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco, has four
parts: citations from 4 million tobacco industry documents; a
database for the Minnesota Select Set, which holds about 350,000
pages of documents used by attorneys in the state’s successful
suit against the tobacco companies; a similar database containing
nearly 7,000 documents from the British American Tobacco Co.;