Glantz, Stanton A.

These documents are photocopies of documents allegedly stolen by a paralegal working for a firm hired by the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company to index their records. Some were donated anonymously to Stanton Glantz, a professor at the University of California and an activist in the tobacco control movement. These materials have been the subject of a suit in San Francisco Superior Court in which Brown & Williamson sought to permanently remove the disputed material from the Library. The court denied the suit on May 25, 1995. On June 23, 1995, the Court of Appeal refused a temporary restraining order preventing release of the documents. On June 29, the California Supreme Court rejected the company's request to prohibit UCSF from releasing the documents.

Biographical Note

Stanton Arnold Glantz is a professor in the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco, and a well-known anti-tobacco activist and writer. In 1994, Glantz donated to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives his research files based on copies of internal tobacco industry documents, which are known as the Brown & Williamson Collection. He is the a co-author (with John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes) of The Cigarette Papers (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), and numerous articles based on the Brown & Williamson industry documents, as well as a series of reports on the tobacco industry and anti-tobacco activities around the country.

Glantz received a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics/Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1973 and stayed at Stanford as a Research Fellow in Cardiology. He came to UCSF in 1975 as a Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Research, eventually becoming an Assistant Professor in 1977 and a full Professor in 1987.

Glantz has served on the California State Tobacco Education Program Media Advisory Committee (1990-92). He was also a member of the California Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants (1986-96) and affiliated with the Statewide Air Pollution Resource Center (SAPRC) where he was concerned with the effects of ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke).