Criteria for evaluating tobacco control research funding programs and their application to models that include financial support from the tobacco industry

摘要

Much has been discussed and written about the purposes, outcomes and ethics related to tobacco industry funding of research.The issue is controversial because of tobacco industry funding mechanisms that have been used by the tobacco industry to gam credibility and to advance the industry's interests, which may come at the expense of public health;at the same time others have argued that, given the scarcity of funding from other sources, tobacco industry support may be defensible, at least under some circumstances. These concerns raise the question of whether there could be a model of tobacco company funding that would be acceptable to the tobacco control research community.