Bliley RJReynolds
Correspondence Concerning Hearing Testimony Prepared by RJR in-House Legal Counsel in Anticipation of Litigation Transmitted to RJR Managerial Employee and Copied to RJR in-House Legal Counsel and RJR Managerial Employee.
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- Author
- Roemer, Henry C. (Jack) (RJR VP; CTR Director)RJR in 1958. He served as Vice President & General Counsel of RJR Legal Dept. in 1970, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of their Legal Dept. 1972-1983, and retired in 1986. Board of Directors 1972-1983; as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary from 1982 to the present, as RJR Tobacco Secretary & Director 1958-1970; and as Vice President and General Counsel in 1970.
- Recipient
- Smith, W.S. Jr
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May 21, 1973
Memo to Mr. William S. Smith:
Since my earl~er memo there have been no changes in
the scheduled witnesses at the lJ.ttle cigar hearings to
beg~n to1~.orrow.
From the ~tate~ents so far filed and reviewed it
appears that Consolidated's approach will be that little
cigars are less hazardous than cigarettes; that it 18 In
the public interest therefore to advertise llttle cigars;
that restrictions on little cigars not founded on sound
sclenti±ic bases ~,,ould be harmful not only to the cigar
industry but to the cigarette smoker ~,;ho might be tempted
to switch to the safer alternative of little cigars; and
that the net effect of a ban on TV advertising of l~ttle
cigars would be to reward ~,,~INC~IESTER for violating, according
to its critics, the 1969 statute in view of the fact that
WINCHESTER has had seven ~onths or r:~ore of natlonsl TV
exposure.
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Dr. DeP~Is ~s apparently oolno to testify on behalf of
Consol~dated that nue,erous ~cientlflc studies sh~ that
cigars ~anufactured, iron, fermented cigar tobaccos are less
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hazardous than cigarettes containing flue-cured tobaccos.
l{e will also state that the chemical differences furnish
a logical explanation for the difference in health effect.
Dr: DePuls formerly was employed by Philip
H. C. R.
cc: Messrs. J. S. Dc~dell
James V.,cGra th
