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Excerpts from University posts tobacco documents on Internet

Reuters [03/31/99]

More than 2,000 pages of once-secret tobacco industry documents, some which describe efforts to counter anti-tobacco legislation, were published on the Internet on Wednesday.

The University of California San Francisco said it posted the documents at www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/calminnesota.

``The material released today ... is a fraction of some 33 million pages of tobacco industry documents now held at the State of Minnesota Depository, the result of a successful suit by Minnesota against seven American tobacco companies and several tobacco trade groups,'' the university said in a statement.

``These documents show just how much the tobacco industry has permeated the political scene in California, yet how well they have stayed out of sight by creating surrogate organizations to act for them,'' Stanton Glantz of UCSF, who studies tobacco industry tactics, said in the statement.

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