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Web Jump Icon Lorillard Tobacco Company Document Site

This Web site contains images of tobacco documents released by Lorillard Tobacco Company in Minnesota tobacco litigation. Abstracts are not provided on this site. You may view the documents page by page, with full image zoom and rotate functions, or you may click the view all pages button, which allows you to scroll and print the entire document.

Background on the Documents that Appear on this Web Site

Lorillard Tobacco Company designed this site to provide the public with access to documents released by Lorillard in Attorney General reimbursement lawsuits, as well as in certain other specified civil action. This site states that it contains documents released after October 23, 1998, and will contain updates of documents in smoking and health actions produced through June 30, 2010.

Searching for Documents

The search engine used by Lorillard allows you to perform searches with the basic operators (+, -) or more advanced searches with Boolean logic operators (AND, OR).

To search for documents:

  • Type a term, such as addiction, in the search box at the top of the Welcome screen and click Search.

A screen with explanations/warnings is displayed and you are asked to read this screen. At the bottom of the text, click Proceed with Search to see the results.

  • Click a Document ID number on the search results screen to view a document.
  • Click the back button to return to the search results.

You may also search on specific fields, such as title, author, date, etc., by typing the field abbreviation followed by the word or phrase related to your interest. Each field has an abbreviation.

Search Examples

To search for the term addiction in document titles, type title:addiction in the search field.

To search for documents dated November 12, 1996, type Ddate:19961112 (using the yyyymmdd format).

Difficulties with this Web Site

To search on a specific field, you must type the abbreviation followed by the appropriate term or number. You cannot search the text of the document.

Field Names and Search Term Abbreviations

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Document Id

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Other Number

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Primary Type

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Person Author

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Person Recipient

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Person copied

Pcopied:

Person Mentioed

Pmentioned:

Person Attending

Pattending:

Person Noted

Pnoted:

Organization Author

Oauthor:

Organization Recipient

Orecipient:

Organization Copied

Ocopied:

Organization Mentioned

Omentioned:

Organization Attending

Oattending:

organization Noted

Onoted:

Characteristics

Characteristics:

File Name

Fname:

Site

Site:

Area

Area:

title

Title:

Old brand

Obrand:

Primary Brand

Pbrand:

Mentioned Brand

Mentioned Brand:

Request Number

Rnumber:

Date Loaded

Dloaded:

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