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Editorial
. 2010 Feb 23;7(2):e1000237.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000237.

A new policy on tobacco papers

PLoS Medicine Editors
Editorial

A new policy on tobacco papers

PLoS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

In this month's editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors announce that they will no longer consider papers for which support - in whole or in part - for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

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