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A new policy on tobacco papers.
In this month's Editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors announce that they will no longer consider papers for which support in whole or in part for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company. As a medical journal, this policy is important for two reasons, say the editors: First, tobacco is indisputably bad for health. And second, the editors remain concerned about the tobacco industry's long-standing and well-documented attempts to distort the science of and deflect attention away from the harmful effects of smoking.
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Citation: (2010) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 7(2) February 2010. PLoS Med 7(2): ev07.i02. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v07.i02
Published: February 23, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Scott Chang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In this month's Editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors announce that they will no longer consider papers for which support in whole or in part for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company. As a medical journal, this policy is important for two reasons, say the editors: First, tobacco is indisputably bad for health. And second, the editors remain concerned about the tobacco industry's long-standing and well-documented attempts to distort the science of and deflect attention away from the harmful effects of smoking.
Image Credit: myuibe at flickr.com