Bliley PM
Wash Tech Conference Call
Abstract
Contains handwritten notes of April 1994 conference call with Wash Tech regarding proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation of workplace smoking. Comments on epidemiologic studies supporting government regulations and suggests industry strategy: (1) "Line by line analysis [of regulation] raising scientific questions that OSHA would have to respond to...could take 2 to 3 years"; and (2) [Time] extension could be based on the fact OSHA has not made available the underlying documents (400 series documents)". Notes Wash Tech's interest in conducting publishable "'deductive meta-analysis' that reveals the confounders and identifies the real risk involved if any". Relates to Bates 2023896205 ("Document Quotes" field includes transcript).
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"Wash Tech Conference Call" Wash Tech - Kohorst, Lowe, Weinberg SHB [Shook, Hardy & Bacon] - Dreyer, Koska, Davis PM Purcell AJA
1. Wynder is quoted quite a bit - could he comment on his views of the ETS [environmental tobacco smoke] science 2. Major weakness is CVD [cardiovascular disease] epidemiology and failure to take into account other risk factors a. Comment that rule will eliminate all baseline cases of lung cancer + CVC which assume no other risk factors - this underlines their 'benefit' analysis of implementation of the rule 3. OSHA must respond to all comments 4. WashTech has experts in 'deductive meta-analysis' that reveals the confounders and identifies the real risk involved if any 5. Task 1 a. Line by line analysis raising scientific questions that OSHA would have to respond to 6. Task 2 a. Deductive meta-analysis - could do this and publish it!! 7. A line by line attack could take 2 to 3 years to respond to 8. Extension could be based on the fact OSHA has not made available the underlying documents (400 series documents) 9. Deductive meta-analysis"
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- Meeting minutes
- Notes
- Named Person
- Davis
- Dreyer
- Kohorst
- Koska
- Lowe
- Purcell
- Weinberg
- Wynder
- Named Organization
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Held hearings in 1994 to ban smoking in workplaces)OSHA opened hearings in September 1994 on a proposal that amounts to a virtual ban on smoking in every workplace in the nation
- Philip Morris Cos., Inc.
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon
- Wash Tech Inc.
- Keyword
- Cardiovascular disease
- Confounding factors
- Environmental tobacco smoke
- ETS
- Lung carcinoma
- Subject
- epidemiology
- Federal level
- Government agencies
- Health effects
- Human subjects
- industry sponsored research
- Regulations
- Research studies
- secondhand smoke
- tobacco industry structure
- Diseases
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