Bliley Lorillard
[Notes from Meeting Regarding Publication about Health Effects by Brand and Advertising Restrictions]
Abstract
Consists of difficult-to-read handwritten meeting notes from 10/5/76 recounting discussions regarding public relations and strategies relating to advertising restrictions and "Fairness Doctrine". Indicates federal-level contacts and lobbying should be done by Tobacco Institute and not individual companies and notes "[s]tay away from Consumer Prod[uct] Safety [Commission]. Adds we "[w]e want to avoid appearance of association or collaboration w[ith] GG [Gio Gori]" and "get away from facts".
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- Peterson, A.
- AJS
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- Gori, Gio Batta, Ph.D. (Tobacco Consultant, formerly w/ NCI, Industry Expert)1993 Started career at NCI and then went to work for the industry. Believed a safer cigarette could be made, and that there were safe threshold levels for exposure to the chemicals in cigarette smoke.
- CES
- Moss, F.
- JRA
- FW
- AWK
- JRA
- Named Organization
- United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (Consumer Product Safety Commission)Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Commission on Public Broadcasting
- Tobacco Institute
- Congress
- Lorillard Tobacco Co. (American cigarette manufacturer)American cigarette manufacturer; makes Kent, MaxSatin, Newport, Old Gold, Style, and True cigarettes.
- American Cancer Society
- EnviroControl
- Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.
- Keyword
- Fairness Doctrine
- Thesaurus Term
- public relations
- advertising restriction
- government agency
- federal legislation
- lobbying
- advertising activity
- public awareness
- health advocacy group
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