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Memorandum Concerning A Scientific Symposium Prepared by RJR Scientist Working on Behalf of the Legal Department Transmitted to RJR in-House Legal Counsel and Copied to RJR in-House Legal Counsel, RJR Managerial Employees, RJR Outside Legal Counsel, and RJR Scientists Working on Behalf of the Legal Department for the Purpose of Providing Confidential Information in Order to Assist in the Rendering of Legal Advice, Containing Extensive Handwritten Comments of D Narr (RJR Employee).
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- Author
- Colby, Frank Gerhardt, Ph.D. (RJR R&D Research Director)R.J. Reynolds scientist. He was employed by RJR as head of then-to-be-founded Scientific Library and Information Division in 1951, Manager of Scientific Information Division 1965-1979, Associate Director of Scientific Information in 1980, and employed by Jacob Medinger & Finnegan as Chief Scientist in 1983.
- Recipient
- Witt, Samuel B., III (CTR and RJR Director & Gen. Counsel)Held various executive positions for RJR and Council for Tobacco Research
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4th. n Smoking a ,~.,u June 21,
1979
Health, Stockholm, June 18-21,1979.,~
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~leal~h My preliminary assessment of the 4th.World Conference on Smoking and
in Stockholm is, that it lived up in all respects to the predictions
',in my memorandum of June llth:
"...Stockholm gathering will be by and large a "Carrie Nation"
meeting. What "scientific" contributions are planned, are
mostly reviews of previously published data. "Significant"
new scientific information can be expected to be nil or
minimal."
Within that pattern, a paper from the laboratories of Prof. Astrup,
repeating his data given several times previously, that Public Smoking has
no effect on normal non-smokers, was noteworthy, because of the audience
addressed. The only possible exception was a paper by Prof. Lindenberg of
Karlsruhe/Germany, on lung cancer mortality in West Germany, which requires
some careful reading before its significance - if any - can be evaluated;
This assessment is based on telexes No.l through No.7 from Mr. Jules
Hartogh, which most of you received, as well as on telephone conversations~
with our Dr. Nystrom, Mr. Finnegan and other sources.
Maximum attendance was below 500 and fell to about 150 on the last.
day. Tobacco Industry representative~ from various countries tl~roughout
the world may have constituted ~ in my estimate.- about up to ten percent
of the total.
Trying to anticipate the future, it can - in my judgment - be expected
that the major thrust of the anti-smoking forces will be in the order given
on the following issues: "Social Acceptability", including Public Smoking;
"Social Costs"; "Advertising"; women smoking; and Third World.
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