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. Extensive help instructions have also been provided which further describe these enhancements.
 
This website is intended for informational, educational and non-commercial use only. In order to provide efficient access to a large volume of documents, this website uses three main tools: (1) Document indexing; (2) Index searching; and, (3) Automatic linking of search results to images of the retrieved document index entries.
 
Philip Morris USA reserves all rights under any applicable laws or rules concerning use, authenticity or admissibility in any litigation or proceeding of documents on this website. This website is intended for informational, educational, and non-commercial use only.
 
Before reviewing these documents, please note the following:  

• The documents produced in the above litigation are a subset of a larger collection of documents.  Therefore, numbering gaps may appear between documents. 

 
• Certain oversized documents, videotapes, and other non-standard media are fully indexed, but are not available in image form. These materials are available at the State of Minnesota litigation document depository, located at 1021 - 10th Avenue, S.E., Hennepin Business Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, 1-612-379-1936 (local), 1-800-526-8886, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (excluding holidays).

 
• Certain documents subject to claims of attorney-client privilege, work product protection, common interest/joint defense privilege, trade secret protection, confidential or proprietary business information, and documents containing information which is not appropriate for disclosure because of personal privacy interests or contractual rights of third parties are not available to the public on this website.

 
• Plaintiffs' Requests for Production of Documents in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris USA, et al., No. C1-94-8565 (2nd Dist. MN) are included on this website, but have been subject to modification by agreement of the parties or by court-order. Requests for Production of Documents in other Attorneys' General or non-Attorneys' General civil actions are not included on this website.

 
• This website includes documents relating to research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes. For parents who wish to restrict access by their children to these materials, this website has been registered with the following website monitoring services: Net Nanny, CyberSitter, Cyber Patrol and SafeSurf

 
• Philip Morris USA does not collect domain names of visitors to this website, but does measure the number of visits, pages viewed, and similar statistical information to evaluate the use of the site, and to improve its function.

 
• This website may contain copyrighted material whose use, including reproduction, is governed by United States copyright law (Title 17, United States Code). The law may permit the "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including the making of a photocopy, "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship or research." 17 U.S.C. § 107.

 
• Each user of this website is responsible for ensuring the user's compliance with applicable copyright laws. Persons obtaining, or later using, a copy of copyrighted material in excess of "fair use" may become liable for copyright infringement. By accessing this website, the user agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Philip Morris USA, its affiliates and their directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of the use of this website by the user