It was the first paper to address methods for accessing the millions of pages of internal tobacco industry documents released as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement between the states Attorneys General and the major tobacco companies in the U.S. These documents offer a wealth of information not previously available to researchers and the public, including industry scientific efforts and use of lawyer-influenced science to obstruct public health policies, attempts to obstruct tobacco control advocates, marketing information (including the ways the industry targets and segments various markets), policy and public relations strategies used, and much, much more. Because these data were not available in the past, many researchers across multiple disciplines are now involved in studying the documents.