Bliley Lorillard
[Problems Facing CTR According to Brown & Williamson]
Abstract
Analyzes and recommends "early attention" on "[p]roblems [that] face the tobacco industry in respect of CTR [Council for Tobacco Research]": "1) Successor to Mr. Hartnett; 2) Personnel - number and adequacy; 3) Re-evaluation of CTR's basic research concept; [and] 4) Closer liaison with AMA [American Medical Association] research that of other agencies, notably Federal, and re-orientation in the light thereof". Discusses various aspects of "enlightened self-interest" in terms of coordination of industry's basic research funding efforts in cancer and development of liaisons with Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
Fields
- Rank
- 1
- Company
- Council for Tobacco Research
- Type
- REPORT
- Author
- Yeaman, A.Y.
- Named Person
- Hartnett, Timothy V. (B&W exec)Defense
- Hoyt, Willson Thomas (W. Thomas) (CTR, President, Executive Director 1954-1984)Previously with Hill & Knowlton
- Hockett, Robert Casad, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Director)Scientific Director of the Council for Tobacco Research from 1972-1974 (WSJ 2/11/93; Allman complaint). Bio-Research Institute BRI conducted a study for the CTR. When Syrian hamsters were exposed to smoke twice a day for 59 to 80 weeks, 40% of those of a cancer-susceptible strain and 4% of a resistant strain developed malignant tumors (WSJ 2/11/93). Before publishing the study in 1974, BRI's founder, Frederic Homberger, sent a manuscript to Robert Hockett, then scientific director of the CTR. Dr. Homberger says he had to do so because halfway through his study, the CTR had changed it from a grant to a contract so they could control publication. They were quite open about that (WSJ 2/11/94. Soon thereafter, Hockett and CTR lawyer Edwin Jacob went to Dr. Homburger's summer house in Maine. Hockett and Jacob did not want BRI to call anything cancer, they wanted it to be "pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasis," a euphemism for lesions preceding cancer (WSJ 2/11/93). Dr. Homberger said no, this is not right, it is cancer. Jacob told Dr. Homberger that BRI would never get a penny more if the paper was published without the changes. At the last minute, Dr. Homberger changed the final proofs to read "microinvasive" cancer, a microscopic malignancy. Nevertheless, BRI was never funded by the CTR again (WSJ 2/11/96) Hochett made a statement, as scientific director of the CTR circa February 1972 that neither tobacco and health research in general, nor that of the Council for Tobacco Research has established that tobacco use or cigarette smoking in particular is a major health hazard (Allman complaint, pp. 41-42). Robert C. Hockett was Scientific Director, Vice President and Research Director of CTR. See Bio-Research Institute, TTLA Almanac - Names. (N.M.'s CTR Who's Who)
- Little, Arthur D. (Arthur Little died in the 1930s. References to Arthur D. Lit)Defense
- Named Organization
- *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))Created and funded by the tobacco industry to award grants to study of the link between smoking and disease. Part of a four decade effort to cast doubt on the links between smoking and disease.
- *Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) (Only use SAB with name of specific org.)
- American Medical Association (physicians group)Professional trade group representing American physicians.
- Health, Education and Welfare
- Keyword
- CTR Special Projects
- Cancer
- Thesaurus Term
- tobacco industry internal policy
- tobacco industry structure
- health advocacy group
- industry sponsored research
- expenditure
- government agency
- disease
- health effects
- economic cost
- industry influence
- Subject
- research activity
- government agency
- government organization
- expenditure
- policy
- employee
- tobacco industry policy
- tobacco industry sponsorship
- tobacco industry structure
- cancer
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