Bliley Lorillard
[Requesting Renewal of Hickey's CTR Special Project]
Abstract
Provides background to and advocates bridge funding for continuation of Hickey's Council for Tobacco Research Special Project "critical of the cigarette hypothesis" and relating urban lung cancer mortality to air pollution. Overviews study and plans for publications and presentations and notes applicability of findings in industry litigation.
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- LETTER
- Author
- Shinn, William W. (TI Communications; Shook, Hardy, CTR Attorney)TI Communications Committee and was also a lawyer for CTR. William W. Shinn worked for Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
- Author (Organization)
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon (Tobacco Industry law firm)Tobacco Industry law firm based in Kansas City, KS.
- Recipient
- Ahrensfeld, Thomas F. (PM General Counsel & Sr. VP, TI Executive Committee)TI Executive committee
- Bryant, DeBaun (CTR Director, BW Attorney)DeBaun Bryant was employed by Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation and served as Director for the Council for Tobacco Research 1/31/75, 1/30/76, 1/28/77, 1/27/78 and 1/27/79. He was also a Board Member of the University of Kentucky Tobacco & Health Research Institute in 1979 and 1980.
- Haas, Frederick P. (Liggett, General Counsel)Frederick P. Haas was a member of the Board of Directors of Liggett & Meyers from 1966 through 1976. From 1975 and 76 he was Special Counsel. (N.M., L & M Liability Notebook, Section 3, Personnel List)
- Hetsko, Cyril F. (VP of ATC; CTR Director)Vice President and General Counsel for American Tobacco. Served on the Executive Committee as a CTR Director.
- Roemer, Henry C. (Jack) (RJR VP; CTR Director)RJR in 1958. He served as Vice President & General Counsel of RJR Legal Dept. in 1970, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of their Legal Dept. 1972-1983, and retired in 1986. Board of Directors 1972-1983; as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary from 1982 to the present, as RJR Tobacco Secretary & Director 1958-1970; and as Vice President and General Counsel in 1970.
- Stevens, Arthur Joseph (LOR Sr. VP '89-95 and TI Communications)Served on Lorillard Board of Directors 1985-92, was Senior Vice President from 1989 to 1995, served as General Counsel for Lorillard '93-95. Served on Tobacco Institute Communications Committee.
- Yeaman, Addison Y. (BW VP & General counsel; CTR Chairman of Board)General counsel for B&W. CTR Chairman/President 1975-1981
- Copied
- Holtzman, Alexander (PM Asst General Counsel. 1975-85.)
- Pollack, Lester (LOR Exec. VP, Secretary & Gen. Counsel)Employed by Loew's Corp. as Vice President, 1971. Senior Vice President 1972-74, Exec. VP 1975-78. Served on Board of Directors 1971-95, was employed by Loews Theater, Inc.
- Named Person
- Hickey, R.J.Univ. PA; Special Projects
- Kastenbaum, Marvin A., Ph.D. (TI Statistics Director)Kastenbaum has knowledge of the Tobacco Institute's and the tobacco industry's participation in the public disinformation regarding the health hazards of tobacco use, the manipulation of nicotine in tobacco products and the marketing of tobacco products to children.
- Holtzman, Alexander (PM Asst General Counsel. 1975-85.)
- *Fisher, Ronald, Sir (use Sir Ronald A. Fisher)
- Named Organization
- University of Pennsylvania
- Council for Tobacco Research - USA (CTR) (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))Originally organized as the Tobacco Industry Research Committe(TIRC) in 1954, and renamed Council for Tobacco Research - USA, Inc. (CTR) in 1964.
- *United States Public Health Service (use United States Public Health Service)
- Royal Statistical Society
- Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service (U.S. Federal government public health advocate)The U.S. Surgeon General's office has found since 1964 that tobacco use causes disease in humans.
- Health, Education and Welfare
- Thesaurus Term
- expenditure
- research activity
- tobacco industry sponsorship
- tobacco industry structure
- tobacco industry scientist
- pollution
- mortality
- statistical validity
- litigation
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SHOOK, HARDY. OTTMAN, MITCHELL ~ BACON
March 25, 1971
Thomas F. Ahrensfeld, Esq.
DeBaun Bryant, Esq.
Frederick P. Haas, Esq.
Cyril F. Hetsko, Esq.
Henry C. Roamer, Esq.
Arthur J. Stevens, Esq.
Addison Yeaman, Esq.
Dr. Richard J. Hickey of the Institute for Environ--
mental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania has been
funded for the past two years by special project grants in
the amount of $30,000 per year. He has requested support for
at least another year.
Unfortunately, while Hickey must have an answer by
the end of this month to keep his group together, we did not
receive his request for a grant in time to study it and make
a recommendation about substantial additional funding. Dave
and I are, however, able to state that Hickey's work is suf-
ficiently unique, interesting and important that we should not
allow it to terminate without further investigation, we pro-
pose, therefore, authorization in an amount of $i0,000 to con-
tinue Dr. Hickey's work as a special project for the next 90
tO 120 days. This will gi~e us sufficient time to get addition-
al information concerning his work to you so that further fund-
ing can be considered.
Of considerable interest to us is that Marvin Kasten--
baum, who visited with Dr. Hickey in Philadelphia recently, is
quite favorably impressed with Hickey and believes that he has
considerable material which would provide a basis for several
publications. You will- also recall that Alex Holtzman strongly
favors Dr. Hickey's work.
Essentially, Hickey has been applying multivariate
analysis to demonstrate that certain air pollutants "predict"
with cQnsiderable accuracy mortality rates from diseases which
SHOOK, HAR~)Y, OTTI~AN, ~'IITCHELL ~. E~ACON
Memo tO General Counsel
March 25, 1971
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have been associated with cigarette smoking. I talked with
Dr. Hickey yesterday concerning a chapter on air pollution
which he has written for a book t~o be called Environment. He
says that publication is expected next month. Included in the
chapter is a section on smoking and disease that is critical
of the cigarette hypothesis. Xt sets up an alternate hypothesis,
based on statistical evidence from 38 metropolitan areas of the
United States, that atmospheric chemicals seem to account for
much of the variance in mortality rates. The chapter also com-
mends to readers the R. A. Fisher genetic hypothesis and ques-
tions the failure by the Public Health Service to conunent on
Brownlee's review of the Surgeon General's 1964 report.
Dr. Hickey intends to submit a manuscript dedicated
to Sir Ronald Fisher to the Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society and it is anticipated that this will re-emphasize
Fisher's concern over the possible misuse of statistics in con-
nection with smoking and health.
The data available include specific information with
respect to the air pollution history of several cities such as
Chicago, Birmingham, etc. This material could be useful in
litigation pending in particular areas.
Hic~ey appears to be convinced that the Public Health
Service has backed the wrong horse, which may conceivably account.
for the fact that he presently receives no support from HEW. I
told him that i wouid call him-by Wednesday, March 31 concerning
temporary support.
William W. Shinn
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CC :
Lester Pollack, Esq.
Alexander Holtzman, Esq~
