27th - COLLEGIUM RAMAZZINI STATEMENT - AN ILL-CONSIDERED PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY THREATENS THE SCIENTIFIC CREDIBILITY OF THE JOURNAL AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
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collegium ramazzini, tobacco, American Public Health Association
Abstract
Foundation for a Smoke-free World to publish their scientifically unfounded views in The American Journal of Public Health.
By giving Dr. Yach and his colleagues space and a platform in the official journal of the American Public Health Association, the editors have assisted the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World in its ongoing efforts to convey the mistaken impression that Dr. Yach’s opinions represent a legitimate scientific opinion, when in fact Dr. Yach’s expressed views and those of his Foundation are anything but representative of the current scientific consensus. ...