Table 3.
Quality and relevance of transnational tobacco corporation (TTC) and systematic review evidence
| Relevance: subject matter |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standardised packaging |
Other (TTC evidence only) |
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| Quality | Systematic review evidence (n=37) | TTC evidence (n=17) | Tobacco packaging (n=9) | Tobacco, not packaging (n=45) | Unrelated to tobacco (n=6) |
| Independence | |||||
| Industry-funded | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Industry-linked | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Independent | 31 | 3 | 6 | 37 | 5 |
| No apparent connection to the tobacco industry | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Publication route | |||||
| Peer-reviewed journal | 21 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 4 |
| Academic press | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Conference paper | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Government-commission | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| University research | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Government internal research | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| Charity research | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Private company research | 0 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Unpublished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bold text highlights evidence relating to standardised packaging.