About the Authors

Kelley Lee

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kelley.lee@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Jeff Collin

Affiliation Centre for International Public Health Policy, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

KL and JC collaborated with the University of California San Francisco and the Mayo Clinic in the Guildford Archiving Project, which created the BAT Document Archive. The authors have received funding for tobacco document research from the Rockefeller Foundation and Cancer Research UK. JC is an unpaid board member of the International Agency on Tobacco and Health.

Author Contributions

KL searched, reviewed, and indexed documents from the Guildford Depository and BATDA, and drafted the paper based on this analysis. JC revised the paper and corroborated the interpretation of documents.