Bliley PM
Some Questions for Industry Research Review
Abstract
Formulates questions to assess if CTR and TI are meeting present goals. Questions whether TI should "support more research projects" and in what manner. Assesses whether or not committees should be formed "to coordinate industry health research with other industry activities." Queries how specific research problems, like "public smoking and claims that tobacco is addictive and a gateway to drug use," should "be met."
Fields
- Type
- Report
- Named Person
- Brown, Janet C. (CTR Director, Attorney, Chadbourne & Parke)CTR Director 1/31/81
- 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.
- Tobacco Institute (Industry Trade Association)The purpose of the Institute was to defeat legislation unfavorable to the industry, put a positive spin on the tobacco industry, bolster the industry's credibility with legislators and the public, and help maintain the controversy over "the primary issue" (the health issue).
- Washington University, St. Louis
- Harvard University
- Rockefeller University
- University of Washington Medical School
- Keyword
- ICOSI
- Industry research
- Smoking
- Tobacco
- Thesaurus Term
- research activity
- industry front group
- industry sponsored research
- industry strategy
- addiction
- drug use
- outdoor smoking
- tobacco industry structure
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."~'~:.~q~.(~). What ~s its present impact scientifically?
• .~}~%}~2}~'(it) Is the C:~ fulfilling appropriate goals~
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.... Should it be instrumental to support more research pro- -~~
~."~,~::jects along the lines of Washington University~ St. Louis?
What should the Institute's relationship to. industry research
Should ~he Institute d£rect1~ support any h~alth research?
(It receives requests, some o.~ wh£c~ are ~ot appropriate
~ow res~arc~ groups can support TI, e.g. (CTR ~n~o~t£on
Should there be any other research and, i~ so, what? ..
Should there be any industry-wide program of the sort .
Reynolds is undert~£ng at such places as Rockefeller
University and University of Washington Medical School? "
Should t~ere be any co~£ttee (such as ~he Research L~Riso.n
Co~£ttee) ~o coordinate i~dustry research? I~ so~ how
should £~ be organized and what should be its
~hould ~ere be any co~£ttee (aside ~rom any research '~:. .......
liaison group): to coordinate industry health research with
other industry Rct£v£t£esP I~ so, how should it be organized
and what should be its scope? .
How should specific research problems: that may arise such
as public smoking and claims that tobacco ~s add'ict~ve and a
What, ~f anything, should be done to coord£oate with
