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[Draft Industry Position Statements]

Date: 29 Dec 1964
Length: 34 pages
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Abstract

Compiles draft industry position statements on a multitude of topics in sections entitled: "1. Introduction (to be supplied); 2. Why a state labeling law is unnecessary; 3. The industry has acted, through research and advertising code; 4. The industry's support of research; 5.A. Many doctors and scientists question the charges against smoking; 5.B. Quotations on smoking and heart disease; 5.C. Quotations on smoking and bronchitis and emphysema; 6. Gaps in the theory about smoking; 7. Economic data about the tobacco industry (to be supplied); 8. Comments for nicotine and tar labeling proposals; 9. Comments for skull and crossbones labeling proposals; 10. Comments on advertising restrictions, including prohibition; 11. Comments on Royal College of Physicians Report; 12. Comments on anti-smoking education bills, or bills to earmark funds for education; 13. Comments for use if questioned about animal experiments; 14. Excerpts from Surgeon General' Advisory Committee report dealing with the beneficial aspects of smoking; Appendix 1. Members of Scientific Advisory Board to the Council for Tobacco Research - U.S.A.; [and] Appendix 2. List of institutions where scientists have received research grants from the Council". Includes quotes from reports, journals, and media and indicates some sections "to be used only if the subject is raised". Notes in marginalia: "spoke to De Hart by phone 12/29/64 and 1/5/65. He's substituting summaries of our testimony at Cong[ressional] Hearings for Secs. 5 + 6. He'll confer with DRH 1/5/65 in Washington. AH [Alex Holtzman]". Omits Appendices.

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Type
Draft material
Position statement
Named Person
AH
Berkson, J. Dr.
Burford, T.H. Dr.
Cooper, J.S. Sen.
DeHart
Donnahoe, A.S.
DRH
Garland, L.H. Dr.
Greene, H.S. Dr.
Harris, O. Rep.
Hickam, J.B. Dr.
Holtzman, Alexander (PM Asst General Counsel. 1975-85.)
Langston, H. Dr.
Mayo, C.W. Dr.
Meyner, R.B.
Moran, T.J. Dr.
Page, I.H. Dr.
Passey, R.D. Dr.
Perrone, J.A. Dr.
Platt, R. Sir
Poche, R. Dr.
Rappaport, I. Dr.
Rigdon, R.H. Dr.
Rosenblatt, M.B. Dr.
Russek, H.I. Dr.
Soforenko, H. Dr.
Sterling, Theodor D., PhD (Industry Consultant, Statistician Applied Mathematics)
Theodor Sterling was a statistician with Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is listed as a consulting scientist for the tobacco industry in 1988 memo PM 2023034933/4946 from Andrew Whist to R. Murray. Sterling presented the industry's point of view at indoor air symposia in Tokyo, 1987 and in the U.K. in 1988.Industry Consultant and CTR Special Project recipient.
Stewart, H.L. Dr.
Terry, L.L. Dr.
Named Organization
89th Congress
American Cancer Society
American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation
American Public Health Association
Barnes and Allied Hospitals (St. Louis, Missouri)
Barrons Magazine
Bellvue Hospital Chest Service
British Medical Journal
Cancer Bulletin
Charlotte Observer
Chicago Daily News
Chicago State Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Congress
Council for Tobacco Research Scientific Advisory Board
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission (Enforcement agency for laws against deceptive advertising)
Enforces laws against false and deceptive advertising, including ads for tobacco products. Ensures proper display of health warnings in ads and on tobacco products;collects and reports to Congress information concerning cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertising, sales expenditures, and the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content of cigarettes.
General Practice
Geriatrics
Growth
Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
House of Representatives
International Statistical Institute
Journal of the Institute for Cancer Research
Life
Mayo Clinic
Medical Academy of Dusseldorf Pathological Institute
Medical Proceedings
Memorial Hospital (Danville, Virginia)
Mercy Hospital
Metropolitan Hospital (New York, New York)
National Cancer Institute
Nebraska State Medical Journal
New York Journal-American
Newsweek
Presbyterian-University Hospital
Public Health Service
Public Health Service Hospital
Royal Marsden Hospital (London, England)
San Fransisco General Hospital Department of Radiology
Skin and Cancer Foundation of Pittsburgh
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Sloan-Kettering Memorial Institute
Surgeon Generals Advisory Committee
Time
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
University of Indiana
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Texas Medical School
White House
Yale University Pathology Department
Zeitschrift fuer Krebsforschung
Operation/Project
Accommodation/preemption
Region
Holland
Switzerland
United States
United Kingdom
Finland
Keyword
White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse
Beneficial Effects of Tobacco
Benefits of smoking
Cancer of the Lung
Causality
Cigarette Advertising and Promotion Code
Constitutional hypothesis
Harris Committee
Personal choice
Royal College of Physicians Report
Second National Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases
Surgeon Generals Report
The Heart and Circulation
Trade Regulation Rule
Viruses and Cancer
Subject
Advertising regulations
Animal subjects
Celebrities
Cessation
cigarette design
Consumption rates
Diseases
epidemiology
Expenditures
Federal level
Government agencies
Health effects
Human subjects
industry response
industry sponsored research
Legislatures
mass media
Minimum age
nicotine
pipe tobacco
Sampling
Smoke
State level
tar
testimony
tobacco industry structure
Warning labels
youth
Additives

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• ..In view of these 6eve!oRments,"it Wo~a seem"~ecess=~ ~6 ~ ~aupli~tlon of eflo~ for ~hls le~isl=~ure. . ~o ~=ss %he ~ro~os~ in ques%fon. I~ see~ cle~' from ss~ H~ris' letter to the Feder~. ~ade Co~ission,that his ..:-%ends to investigate this matter ~ly and to t~e action. .:-If Congress shoed mot act,-'of course, "the ~Feder~ Trade Co~issio~ ~e re- e ~e belleve, ~% is co.on sense ~or %hfs le~isl=¢~e %o ~=f~ and see action is t~en on the feder~ level."~ ~e problem is nation~ in scope,: ~ ~the~ore ~e passage of such legislation by "individu~ states result.in:chaos for the m-nufact~ers ~d distributors ~d for the states ~gine what wo~d ~ppen if v~ious individual states ea~ adopted ~if- ferent' laws om labeling.. Conceivab~, m~ufact~ers could be required to print ~fferent of ~g~ette labels. ~is would be a ridic~ous, intolerable" sit~ This ~ght wen res~ti~ the~ootlegging ~f cigarettes to avoid such restrictive , with a res~ting loss in state t~ revenues from cig~ettes."~,~e cost of laws wo~d probably be in excess of.~y imagined benefits addition it is o~ ~ew that a w~ing label is not necess~. I ass~e the 3ose of such ?label is to ~e~ cons~ers to possible d~er..~If, so, it c~ hardly be said that the public is ~aw~e of the ch~ges against smnking. mor~ th~ I0 years, the.public has becn flooded ~th ch~ges that smoking ~ be h~ to, health., Last ye~'s report by the Surgeon Gener~'s Adviso~ Com- mittee was front page news throughout the country..
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be harmful
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will discuss some of these views -, through research, not through punitive
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~.... . " ..... made a $i0 million, five-year grant to the Education and Research Foundation of the American Medical Association. These funds are being used for research on tobacco and health -- again, with no strings. In fact, the five-man committee that has charge of the Foundation's program includes three members of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee.
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