The Data

Data Sources

• UCSF Truth Tobacco Industry Document Database

  • https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco

•  Duke University Archives

  • https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/uarchives

  • Marcus Hobbs Papers

    • https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uahobbsm/

  • Paul Gross Papers

    • https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uagross/

  • Board of Trustees lists

    • https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uabot/

•  Print materials

  • Merchants of Doubt, Oreskes & Conway

    • Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. M. (2012). Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. London: Bloomsbury.
    • https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org

  • Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, Proctor

    • Proctor, R. (2011). Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
    • https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520270169/golden-holocaust

Data Collection

• Notes were taken in notebooks on Evernote

• A Kumu project was created

  • https://docs.kumu.io/about/what-is-kumu.html

• Evernote notes were used to determine nodes (called Elements in Kumu) and ties (called Connections in Kumu) and a spreadsheet was made according to Kumu’s specifications (kumu can also create data points and export spreadsheets to excel, which was periodically done here).

  • https://docs.kumu.io/guides/import.html
  • Excel spreadsheet file: Smoke and Mirrors Map Data 2019.06.25 

• Kumu was then manipulated to create different maps and views to display the data. For a guide to the maps, click here.