About the Authors
- Stanton A. Glantz
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* E-mail: glantz@medicine.ucsf.edu
Affiliation Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Richard Barnes
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Affiliation Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Sharon Y. Eubanks
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Affiliation Attorney in private practice, McLean, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors do not consider these competing interests, but in the interest of full transparency declare the following: Dr. Glantz holds two research grants related to tobacco from the National Cancer Institute, an endowed chair as American Legacy Distinguished Professor in Tobacco Control, and a grant from the Robert Wood Johns Foundation to assist Ms. Eubanks, who led the US Department of Justice in its successful RICO case against the tobacco industry (United States v. Philip Morris USA, et al.) in writing a book about the case. Dr. Glantz also administers an endowment from the American Legacy Foundation, which supports the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, which Dr. Glantz directs, and the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. He also has the William Cahan Endowment provided by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute. Mr. Barnes is an attorney in Dr. Glantz' research group, who is supported in part by Dr. Glantz' National Cancer Institute grants. Ms. Eubanks retired from the Department of Justice on December 1, 2005 and is now a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D. C. None of these organizations played any role in the preparation of this paper or the decision to submit it for publication.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SAG RB SYE. Wrote the first draft of the paper: SAG. Contributed to the writing of the paper: RB SYE. Conducted much of the statutory, legislative, and other legal research: RB.