Bliley PM
Re: A. Judson Wells
Abstract
Excerpts from publications and presentations, and assesses interviews statements by Wells "suggestive of bias, pre-established opinions and inconsistency" regarding Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and human health and disease. Includes headings: "Relevant background information; Research/Publications/Presentations; [and] Lexis/Nexis".
Fields
- Company
- Philip Morris Cos., Inc.
- Type
- Fax
- Memorandum
- Named Person
- Glantz, S. Prof.
- Katzenstein
- Lee
- Repace, James L., M.Sc. (Biophysicist; former EPA employee; ETS Expert)
Studies dynamics of secondhand tobacco smoke in public places- Wells, A.J.
- Katzenstein
- Named Organization
- American Lung AssociationVoluntary health organization concerned with fighting lung disease, promoting lung health and advocating clean air, indoors and out.
- American Lung Association
- Associated Press
- E.I. du Pont
- Environment International journal
- Lancet journal
- Lexis/Nexis
- National Council for Clean Indoor Air
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Philip Morris Patent Department
- PM Patent Department
- TI
- Tobacco Institute
- Toxicology Forum
- American Lung Association
- Region
- New Zealand
- United States
- Japan
- United States
- Keyword
- 10732201
- 79th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association
- An estimate of adult mortality in the United States from passive smoking: A response to criticism
- Cancer
- Carcinogens
- Deadly smoke: New evidence indicts passive cigarette smoke as a cause of heart disease and cancer
- Environmental tobacco smoke
- ETS
- Heart disease
- Misclassification as a risk factor in passive smoking risk
- New debate looms over the lethal effect of other people's smoke
- Parental smoking may damage sperm, raise infection risk for children
- Passive smoking and adult mortality
- Passive smoking mortality: A review and preliminary assessment
- Risk factors
- Sixth World Conference on Smoking and Health
- Smoking and Health 1987: Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Smoking and Health
- The influence of business leadership on smoking cessation in the United States
- UBHI
- Workers compensation
- 79th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association
- Subject
- Cessation
- Children
- Diseases
- epidemiology
- Health advocacy groups
- Human subjects
- Industry front groups
- International level
- mass media
- Nonsmokers
- secondhand smoke
- tar
- tobacco industry structure
- Adults
- Children
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M E:N O'R A~, D:I~ M
DATE: MAY 20~: ~Pg'~
Reley.a:nt. ~a~k:_~round~ ~nformstlc__n,
We1.1.S ~Sl a p~y.s~ca:l ch.em~st who: worked! for E.I.= du: POnt
in research and deve:lopment for 40 ye~ars' p~io~ to hi:s retirement
in, 19.80. H,e ~ag gerv.ei4 a~ a oo:nsultan% ~o: th~ Amerlc~
In ~ev.era~l p~b~icatlons,. W~l!s aGk:nowle~es support f:rom
the, Am~r'ican Lung Association. A. spokespersD~ ~ro~ ~e Amer~.can,
Lun~ A.seociat:ion~ noted! th~t h:sr orga~za~ion had been ca~l!!ed "%he,
n'umb~r one enemy of :~e Tob:aCCO Inst~te," and said her:
i~ won't happen."
In~ other news:stcr'~es, W.e~is.is identified a,s "'a
who has wor~ed: two ~ays. a: w.eek a~ a vo:lunt~r forthe American Lung
w.e~l.s presen'tedl ~wo papers at the sixth World Co:nfe~enc8
on Smckingi and H~a~itb, ~vim~ ~he.~.e~'io~n L~ng. ass,ociati~:n a~ his:
affilliation in one, and as%he vice Chalrman of the Nationa~ Council
for clean Indoor Aiz': in the o:h=r, but. hls! hum~ address, was: g~iven
in~ both.
In the 1990~ Toxicology Fo:_~um, W~l.ls. gave his titl~: as.
'"Special Assist.s~nt, SmoRi~ an~!Health,: American Lung AssOc~laticn,,
{'and! bile! home addres:s).
A. New Z'ealand! newspaper
G!antz ~as Dee~ i~vo~ive~[ in w~rk ~y an American re~ea~¢h~r.~ Judscn
w'ith
R~s,earch/publ:ica'tio:~/Pres~n'tat:ions
Thee following puDl1,ca~ons contain quotes! by. ~e!~s ~h~a~
ar~ su:qges'tlve of bias., pre-establ.ished cpinioas~and inconsls~ency..
May 20, 1993
Each ci;ta%ion i;~ foliow~d By a list o£ the rel~v.ant quo~at/on(s~)i
from ~ha~ article.
"An Estimate cf Adul~ Mortal~ity in the. United st:ates
Pass:ii~smeki~i: ~,mp~n~etoc.ri;ti~i:sm," Environ
l~7"l:g~l,~ 19901.
the und~rly~!nglstudi!es that I used,:partIoular~y
the heart: studies:. (p~ge. l.B!7)~ [emphasis
~ublfcati~n b~as in smok~ng:s~'udle:$ lie an is:sue
~ten raised bv tobacco ~:ndu!strv c:onsulta~T$i,
but so. far no. one ~as fe'un~ a llve passive
smoking case
[emp~as!Is added]
No~inq l.n Lee's co.~ment:s,, with his botcb:ed:
b~as analysis a,nd. hi~ fl~m~y dose mode~, does~
anythinq tD "justify a thresholdl" for this
known_hu~n ~.a~oi~c~n.. (page 189)i [~mpSasis.
Katzenst~n's attack on theunder.lying s~udies
is a typica~ robs,coo industry. ~DDroa~h.
190:) {emphasis added]
W;acan e~:nect vlnn:rous(.but mlslsadin~' attacks
firom_ the:.tobazc9 el!de, a,s t~ese t~rie letters
Show, but it is still hes~ t~ lean toward slafe~y
when the~ health, of the public is. at s~ake.
"Mi.sc~assifi~at~on as: a ~iskFaotor in Pae~si!ve Smokilng Risk.,"
The ~a~9@~, ~eptembe~ 13, 198:6..
'Mliscl~ssificatio:n' ~s:no~ ~ ju,s:tif;i~ble refug=
f~:r :home who f~el uncomfortable wi~h the
w.ith~ appreciably h&gh,~r death, razes from lung
ca:~cer: and heart disease:. (page 63;8)
"~a:sslv.e smoking Mortality: A. Review' and. Prelim~na:ry
Assessment,,, ~ozr Presen~atlo~ at t~e 79t11An'nua~i Meetfng: of
Air P.ollu,tlon C~n~rol As~:oc~a~on in Ml.nn8apc~is,.
~ung cancer is becoming iincr:eas~ngly ev.ii~8:nt,
May 210, i,993,
A. Ju'dsDn Wells
and! there are eg~.nnings, at isas~ oF evidence
t~at oth=~ ~an~e:re snd heart disease are az,so
will b.e~ome ~nl7 ~he tip of th~ liceberq w~th
deaths from t~,ese lat~er disea~ses am~u,n£1ng to
te~ to~ twenty times those frmm l~q cancer.
Tobacco snok:e is known t~ he carcinogenic., and
~o D~odu'ce.: heart dlseasm~. M~ll.ion= of non-
smokers;, ceil.matted in this =~udy at 3~ mil~io:~,
~re exposed. ~a'~ we: ~ave~ ~n other ~ords,:
are the slowly emsrqing shapes and dimensions
i~ i~~ an indoor probl~m. That mean~ k:h~ it
is a home-oriented and workpl!ace
from the ~m~kers, T~e: ~ext t£~ng
"The Influence: ~f ~u:sines:s Lea.dership on Smoking Cessation in
th~ United Sta~@s:, " In: Snaking' and Hea~ 1987: Proceed~ng~e
of ~ .~h ~rld Conference: 0n, S~okln~ and Health,
NovemDer 9-12, 3.9:8~. M. A,oki, S~. H~samichi, and ~,
a ~rd approac~: ~s s~mply ~0: bo~ar~
m~nagsm~nt ,~,ith scientific, evidence on, the
h~zard,s of tobacco smoke both to the smoMers
and the non~sm~oker s. ~no!~ude data ~n
ab~:enteels~, of smokers, versus, nonsmokers and
the d~struptlve cf:Zect;s of premature death o~
key employees. I~n any even£ d~ mot .~q~re
'"?:asslve sy~ckin~ and Adult M~rtal~ty, ''~ In.: Smo.k~n~ and! Heal!th
~9.~7 : Prr~'ce@df~g~s of the 6th WOrld Confere;~ce on Smokfnq and
and S. Tominaga (ed~.).
conc~u,s~on, th~ new ep:idemi~loglqal studies
than ~ung' are more impo~ant than,
GC[~TT
May 20, !993
1~ .a~e 4
A. Judso~: Wells
'
r'Deadly Smoka: New Evidence Indicts ~assive Cl~.arette. smoM~
a,= a Cau~e, ofi ~ea:rt D~s,eas~ and Can=~;r,."Q~cupa,E~ionlal ~ea~ith
~n'~ SaEe~y~ Septe:mbe:r 19189.
h!~s helen p~id to clg,ar~tte smoke as a cancer-
cau,sin~ a~e~ a~o~ n'on-~ms~ers, and
BSa cau..se. Ofh~ar~ disease@. (:~a~':~ 2.0)[~mp'hasis
So &tlis apparen~ that ~T$: i~ the context
u~ua~ly us~ i~, ~nwlronmen~a~l stUdi~s is a
ma,3cr envi.rc~ment:al! he~!Ith haza'r~. ~page 22:)
[~mphasis. added]!
smoking: in producing ~iisea,se per mi=r:ogram, of:
tar dose~. (pa.~e 22)i
Th~s means ~hat' for a g~ven small
greater am~un~ of d~se~se is produced than,
c:ne wcul~ exDec~, con.a£~erin~i the, amount! of
~iisease that d~:ect smoke'rm~ ~et from the tar
AS mor~ data, c~:m~, in from s!tu~ies~ stil~ in
ca~l~u~ati~ns, andireach mo:r~d~fln~:iv,enumbers:.
Meanwhile. the~ e~da~ce indicates that
~p E.TS!, .i~h~r ip.a home: or wor.kpla,oe: sett:in=.o
~xls/~oxls
~e: fol!~owiing e×ce~:pts! f!r~m, LexSs/Nexls news articles
ccntaiin information r~!ev~n~ to %ha pu:rpo~ of this m~mora.ndu~..
"Parental Smoking May Damage Sperm~ Raise Infection Risk for
chi!dren"~
A. Judson Wells.,. a volunteer w~th thm Am~r~oun
Lung Associia~ion and an authority on pa,ssSv.e
smoking, said tha~ pos:s~h:ility kha~ smoking
A. Judson Wells.
concerned about for some time,' 'One thing
nobody~,~ s~arte:d, t:o look. a~ is w~e~er a~.l
th,18 smoking ove~ the past 80: years or so has
af:f:eoted the whole gentile pool,.' Wells. sai~.
~T~er8 are worri~es about this..'
The Associated. Pres~, July i0, 1986, ~hursd~y,. PM: Cy.c~
"N,ew D~b~te L~oms over ~e~ Lethal Effect o:f Other
Smoke"
But ev.8n Wells, ~ho w~rks a¢! a volunteer ~wice:
a we~M. wi~h ~h~: Amer~ca~ Lun~
ack:ncwiedges~ his s~stimates are u'n~e:~aln and
p~l~minary'. [em~haels
