Editorial

The stench of tobacco industry dirty linen This issue of Tobacco Control contains four papers reporting revelations found in the 26 million page “haystack ” of tobacco industry internal documents open to researchers and the public on the world wide web.1 Anne Landman, who since August 1999 has daily posted document gems on the Smokescreen website,2 summarises evidence on how the tobacco industry intimidates and retaliates against companies which introduce smokefree policies or otherwise seek to advance public health in ways the indus-try does not like.3 Connolly and colleagues describe how the tobacco industry has used chemicals to mask the smell of environmental tobacco smoke, adding yet further ingre-dients to the chemical cocktail that is the modern cigarette.4 Belinda O’Sullivan and I provide a chronolog