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British American Tobacco's erosion of health legislation in Uzbekistan -- Gilmore et al. [extra: Further Details] 

As part of a broad search for documents on the former Soviet Union detailed elsewhere,w35 and undertaken at the Guildford archive between July 2000 and 2002, over 35 specific terms were included for Uzbekistan. A search of tobacco industry journals dating from the start of 1990 to the end of 2000 was used to inform the search by providing information on key players, factories, regions of interest etc that could then be used as search terms. An iterative approach was used with initial broad search terms such as "Central Asia", "CAR" (central Asian Republics), "Uzbek*", "Tashkent", later narrowed to include the names of key individuals, places, projects, factories and so on identified. The documents ordered took up to two years to be delivered by BAT.

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