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-ii- follows: The members of the Subcommittee are not in agreement with all the statements made and do not subscribe to all the research programs and plans outlined, or to the background information believed to justify all the programs included. "As I look at the present document it seems that we may have gotten away from the original direc- tive to try to develop a document reflecting what we could agree were gaps in knowledge and priorities for filling those gaps." Secretary Finch made a further public reference to the project on July 26, 1969, in his letter to the Speaker of the House and to the President of the Senate, transmitting to Congress his Department's annual report on smoking and health as required by law. Referring to his April 25 announcement, he stated: "It had been my hope that the preliminary report of the scientific group might be available for reference in the report which I now transmit to you. I am advised that they have made substantial progress. Their report has not been completed, but it is my hope that it will be at an early date." | In part due to personnel changes within NIH and HEW, and in part because of the apparent "impasse" within the drafting subcommittee, no apparent further progress on the project occurred during the fall and winter of 1969-70. The latest comment on the matter, however, appeared in the report of the Hous~ and Senate conferees on H.R. 6543, the

"Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, " issued on March II, 1970, and subsequently approved by both Houses of the Congress : "The conferees noted that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has informed the Congress that discussions have been held between officials of the cigarette industry and the Department...in an effort to identify gaps in knowledge regarding smoking and health. The Secretary is urged to expedite such identification in a cooperative effort between the cigarette industry and the Department in order that priorities may be set for closing these gaps through appropriate research. "

-13- Appendix i. Persons who attended meeting in the office of the Secretary, HEW, May 2, 1968: Secretary Cohen Assistant Secretary Philip R. Lee Surgeon General William H. Stewart Dr. Kenneth Endicott, Director, National Cancer Institute Tim Worth, Officeof Secretary Cohen ~ Earle C. Clements, President, The Tobacco Institute Joseph F. Cullman 3d, Chairman, Philip Morris Edwin P. Finch, President, Brown & Williamson Alexander Galloway, President, R. J. Reynolds Milton E. Harrington, President, Liggett & Myers Fred Haas, General Counsel, Liggett & Myers H. Henry Ramm, General Counsel, R. J. Reynolds Paul Smith, General Counsel, Philip Morris Addison Yeaman, General Counsel, Brown & Williamson 2. Members of the Joint Committee on Tobacco and Health who attended its first meeting in San Francisco, June 20, 1968: National Institutes of Health Francis R. Abinanti, D.V.M., Ph.D. National Institute.of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Carl G. Baker, M.D. National Cancer Institute Kenneth M. Endicott, M.D. National Cancer Institute Paul Kotin, M.D. Division of Environmental Health Sciences

-14- Gardiner C. McMillan, M.D. National Heart Institute Ian A. Mitchell, M.D. National Cancer Institute AMA-ERF Committee for Research on Tobacco and Health: Robert J. Hasterlik, M.D. University of Chicago John B. Hickam, M.D. Indiana University Paul S. Larson, Ph.D. Medical College of Virginia Maurice H. Seevers, M.D. University of Michigan Ira Singer, Ph.D. Council for Tobacco Research: Richard J. Bing, M.D. Wayne State University CTR/m -ERF McKeen Cattell, M.D. Cornell University Leon O. Jacobson, M.D. University of Chicago Clarence C. Little, Sc.D. CTR, Scientific Director Sheldon Sommers, M.D. Columbia University

-15- Tobacco Industry : Earle C. Clements The Tobacco Institute Philip Grant, General Counsel Lorillard Corporation Frederick P. Haas, General Counsel Liggett &Myers Tobacco Co. David K. Hardy, Counsel t.o the Tobacco Institute Shook, Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell & Bacon Cyril Hetsko, General Counsel American Brands, Inc. H. Henry Ramm, General Counsel R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Paul Smith, General Counsel Philip Morris, Inc. Addison Y. Yeaman, General Counsel Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. 3. Members of the drafting subcommittee: NIH AMA-ERF Dr. Baker Richard J. Bing, M.D., Dr. Kotin Prof. & Chmn., Dept. of Dr. Mitchell Medicine, Wayne State Univ. School of Medicine Dr. Hickam Dr. Larson CTR Dr. Jacobson Clayton G Loosli, M.D., Ph.D., Prof of Medicine " & Pathology, Univ.~ of So. Calif School of " Medicine Dr. Soldiers