Table 5.
Summary of searches
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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 |