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New Documents Loaded on Monday, March 15, 2010
This Website is designed to provide the public
with access to documents produced by Philip Morris USA in
Attorney General reimbursement lawsuits and certain other specified civil
actions, and to documents produced after October 23, 1998 through June 30,
2010 in smoking and health actions, and includes certain enhancements, all
as provided for by paragraph IV of the Attorneys General Master Settlement
Agreement (MSA).
The enhancements include an expanded index
to documents, with up to thirty-two searchable fields of information. The
viewing and navigational tools have also been enhanced to include full
image viewing and enhancement functions as well as a larger viewable area.
In addition, a return to search results button has been added to allow
efficient previewing and searching of documents. The Philip
Morris USA Inc. Privilege Log
has been added to this site.
Extensive help
instructions have also been provided which further describe these
enhancements.
This Website is intended for informational,
educational, and non-commercial use only.
This Website
includes the following information: (1) the specific provisions of the MSA
concerning the posting of documents on this Website; (2) a description of documents on
this Website; (3) extensive instructions on how to use this Website;
(4) a link to the Philip
Morris USA Inc. Advertising Archive, which contains
color images of print ads, outdoor ads, point of sale and direct marketing
materials dating back to the early 1900s; (5) The Philip Morris USA Privilege Log; and (6) a link to the
Tobacco Industry website
(www.tobaccoarchives.com).
Search
Tips
To search the Index to documents, simply type in your
search term(s) in the box set out above, and click on the "Search" button.
You can perform simple searches by using
the basic operators "+" and "-" which indicate words or phrases that are required or
omitted in the search results. You may also perform advanced searches
by using Boolean logic operators AND, OR, NOT and NEAR.
The documents are indexed by up to thirty-two searchable
fields, which are fully described in the attached Index page. In addition, the documents are also indexed by " compound fields" whereby
the user can search across a range of fields (e.g., the Person field will
search the Person Author, Person Recipient, Person Copied, Person
Mentioned and Person Attending
fields).
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