Call From Allender On 2/24/94

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Call From Allender On 2/24/94

Date: 24 Feb 1994
Length: 3 pages
2048925954-2048925956
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Abstract

List 10 categories of Brown & Williamson documents identified by Alinder for "the paralegal" including documents on internal joint research by B&W and British American Tobacco regarding reducing tar "while increasing nicotine deliveries...as a way to reduce the dangers of smoking"; "'loose' talk about nicotine and addiction similar to the Al Yeaman document you have"; and other significant topics ("Document Quotes" field includes a complete transcript of this highly legible handwritten "Hot Document"). Relates to Bates 2048925939.

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"Call from Allinder on 2[?]/24/94.

B&W Docs. [Brown and Williamson documents]

1. Has not identified PM [Philip Morris] only docs. 2. Plenty of docs. that went to all cos. [companies] [Council for Tobacco Research] Sp. [Special Project] 4 Sp. Projs. [Special Projects] CTR [Council for Tobacco Research] TI [Tobacco Institute] Industry positions on S+H [smoking and health]. 3. Substantial # from SH&B [Shook, Hardy & Bacon] meeting on Sp. Projs. [Special Projects]. Mainly funding requests, renewals. 4. Early to mid 1960s - B&W and BAT [British-American Tobacco] internal plans, mtgs. [meetings] relationship between B&W and BATCO in research. Assessing on where they are where they want to go. Alt. [alternative] design Additives Filter design Increasing nicotine delivery - reducing tar but inc. nic. [increasing nicotine] deliveries.

5. [Project] Hippo material - should results be submitted to S.G.'s [Surgeon General's] Committee? Similar research was already available to the Committee.

*6. Nicotine and addiction - 'loose talk' about addictive nature cigarettes. Problematic.

7. 1962 Southampton Conference - Discuss differences U.K. Cos. [United Kingdom companies] and U.S. Cos. {U.S. companies] on smoking and health. U.K. Coss. willing to accept, as a working hypothesis, that smoking is dangerous.

8. Addictive Research Foundation. - Palo Alto, Calif[ornia] 1977-78. Correspondence between the Foundation and the companies.

*9. Additives - 1983-84 dealing w/industry, providing list of ingredients to HHS [Department of Health and Human Services]. 'Northrup proposal' as reported by K. Wells on a Committee of Counsel Mtg. [meeting] - do research on additives in-house so you can hide the research and destroy the docs [documents]. (REN says no such statement was made by him).

*10. Internal B&W [Brown and Williamson] records management - should all the research be run through lawyers for better protection - should B&W return all documents to BAT [Britist-American Tobacco] so they cannot be discovered. (B&W says this never happened).

11. Smoking and Health Controversy - - Talk about using [Council for Tobacco Research] Special Proj[ects] researchers for T.I. [Tobacco Institute] PR [public relations] purposes. e.g. using Congressional testimony of Sp. Proj. [Special Projects] grantees for pamphlets put out by T.I. [Tobacco Institute] - Docs in this group draw attention to certain issues - e.g. industry sponsored research 1953-'85 - M. Assoc. [Microbiological Associates] - CNS [central nervous system] - LRD - H&K role - 1963 submission to SG [Surgeon General] - 1964 SG's rept. [Surgeon General's report] - 1978 Pepple's memo re CNS [central nervous system] review - Concerns about CTR [Council for Tobacco Research] research and direction - PR [public relations] aspects of CTR and H&K roles - Criticisms of CTR - Criticism that CTR was doing relevant research not carrying its p.r. [public relations] role.

12. Market research - Repts [reports] from market research firm w/recommendation to market a cig[arette] meeting Gio Gori's 'safer cig[arette] standards (rejected by B&W [Brown and Williamson]

13. CTR - Discussion of views of CTR to litigation and for p.r. [public relations] - Companies are fulfilling obligations to do research - Does CTR perform a benefit because it keeps smoking and health research out of companies' files

Rank

Company

Philip Morris Cos., Inc.

Type

Meeting minutes

Notes

Author

Wall, Charles R. (PM VP & Assoc. Gen. Counsel, c. 1994)

Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Philip Morris 1994-94 (may have been longer; this info was gleaned from documents); formerly worked for Shook, Hardy and Bacon.

Named Person

Gori, Gio Batta, Ph.D. (Tobacco Consultant, formerly w/ NCI, Industry Expert)

1993 Started career at NCI and then went to work for the industry. Believed a safer cigarette could be made, and that there were safe threshold levels for exposure to the chemicals in cigarette smoke.

Northrup

Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)

REN

Wells, K.

Named Organization