'To prove this is the industry's best hope': Big tobacco's support of research on the genetics of nicotine addiction

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 974-983

  Gundle, Kenneth R ^a   Dingel, Molly J ^b   Koenig, Barbara A ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Legacy tobacco documents; Tobacco industry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DECEPTION; DOCUMENTATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DECEPTION; DOCUMENTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 77951982812     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02940.x     Document Type: Article

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