Bliley Lorillard
Re: Dr. R.J. Hickey
Abstract
Transmits and recommends approval of continuation of Hickey's Council for Tobacco Research research grant. Indicates research shows "a strong correlation between the concentrations of specific air pollutants and the mortality rates for certain categories of cancer, including lung cancer, as well as other chronic diseases in 38 metropolitan areas in the United States". Notes Hickey "believes there is no laboratory evidence connecting smoking with disease and, in particular, the smoking/lung cancer theory is of doubtful validity" (attachment missing).
Fields
- Company
- Philip Morris Incorporated
- Type
- LETTER
- Author (Organization)
- Philip Morris Companies Inc. (Parent company of Philip Morris USA, Kraft, Miller)America's seventh-largest industrial enterprise in 1993, owns Kraft, Miller Brewing, General Foods, and more.
- Author
- Holtzman, Alexander (PM Asst General Counsel. 1975-85.)
- Recipient
- Hardy, David Ross (Shook, Hardy and Bacon; father of David K. Hardy)TI Communications
Tobacco Industry law firm based in Kansas City, KS.
Defense
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)
Originally organized as the Tobacco Industry Research Committe(TIRC) in 1954, and renamed Council for Tobacco Research - USA, Inc. (CTR) in 1964.
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PHILIP MORRIS;--
1OO PARR AVIENI~I~. NEW YORRo N, Y. 10017
Ha), 5, 1970
David R. Hardy, Esq.
Shook, ilardy, Ott~an,
Mitchell & Bacon
91-5 Grand Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri
Dear Dave
re: Dr. R. 3. Rickey
~ enclose herewith the proposal submitte¢ re CTR by
Dr. R£chard J. Rickey of the University of Pennsylvanla
for a one-year continuation of his research Erant. The
~mount requested is $30,000.00.
Attached to the app1£catlon is a note from Dr. Hockett
rO me dated April 15, indicating that the scientific
staff of CTR feels that Dr. HIckey's work has mer£t.
I would like to add my-stron8 recon~u~ndation-for approval
of this 8rant. Dr. Hickey's work is producing data cn-
dlcatlng a stronE correlatlo~ between the concentrations
of specific air pollutants end ~he mortality rates for
certain categories of cancer, cncl~dinE lung cancer, as
well as o~her chronic diseases in 38 metropolitan a~eas
in ~he ~n~ted S~ates. He is also developing Eheorles
abou~ the mechanisms of action of these air pollutants
and both h~s data and theories are stlm~lating Interest
in ~hls £1eld wlthln the sclennlflc commuter),.
With respect to the smokinE questlon, his view is that
the epid~miolo~ical work to date consists o£ uttlvariate
rather than multivariate data and is therefore deficient.
H~ believes there is no laborntory evlde~ce con~ectlnE
smokln8 ~ith disease and, in particular, th~ smoklnE/lung
cancer theory IB of doubtful va~Idity.
@ sincerely hope that the renewal of this granu wl].l
be approved as of t~rch I, 1970.
AH:pc
Alexander Holczman
