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Table 5 Summary of searches

From: “Using information to shape perception”: tobacco industry documents study of the evolution of Corporate Affairs in the Miller Brewing Company

Searches run in the Truth Tobacco Documents Library used various search terms in the basic search facility, generally with no restrictions on time, document type or other parameters. First, there was a preliminary scoping stage in which we established appropriate search strategies, and identified material of substantive interest. After preliminary searches were completed we used organisational charts to identify key roles of interest, and the names of the individuals occupying these roles at different points in time. Where ‘Organizational chart’ filter search was applied, it was as follows: documentdate:[19700101 TO 20091231] AND “miller brewing company”

The main block of searches were run as they are presented below, with the boolean operator ‘AND’ used to link to Miller OR Miller Brewing Company where appropriate. This stage involved screening 1999 records and retaining 269 full text papers, all of which were downloaded and examined by JG and JM.

The final stage involved snowballing from this dataset, following up on the most promising lines of investigation. As the screening of documents was done purposively in this final stage, we do not report the additional numbers screened or retained for further analyses.

Individual named actor searches

Search term

Hits

Screened

Retained

(“John A Murphy” OR “John Murphy”) AND “Miller brewing company”

1054

200

33

(“William K Howell” OR “William Howell” OR “Bill K Howell” OR “Bill Howell”) AND Miller

606

200

9

“Warren H. Dunn” OR “Warren Dunn”

352

200

11

“Lauren S Williams” OR “Lauren Williams”

335

200

5

“Leonard J Goldstein” OR “Leonard Goldstein”

359

200

6

“Alan G Easton” OR “Alan Easton”

181

181

52

“Clifford R Williams” OR “Clifford Williams”

160

160

3

“John J McGrath” OR “John McGrath”

239

239

3

“Obrie Smith”

63

63

4

(“jack n macdonough” OR “john n macdonough” OR “jack macdonough” OR “john macdonough” OR “jack n mcdonough” OR “john n mcdonough” OR “jack mcdonough” OR “john mcdonough”) AND “miller brewing company”

558

200

16

(“John D Bowlin” OR “Jack D Bowlin” OR “John Bowlin” OR “Jack Bowlin”) AND “miller brewing company”

470

200

34

“Patricia McKeithan” OR “Patti McKeithan”

239

239

29

(“Timothy Scully” OR “Tim Scully”) AND Miller

206

206

14

“William Schmus” OR “Bill Schmus”

173

173

17

“Marc S Firestone” OR “Marc Firestone”

477

200

5

“Tina Walls” AND “miller brewing company”

146

146

6

“Kathleen D Ryan” OR “Kathleen Ryan” OR “Kath Ryan” OR “Kath d Ryan”

189

189

13

“Yvonne Lumsden-Dill”

203

203

9