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[Memo From S. Chilcote Sharing Response to Public Health Service Pamphlet on Smoking Addiction With Industry Executives]
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Memorandum from S. Chilcote regarding Tobacco Institute response to the "text of a new Public Health Service pamphlet regarding cigarettes as being addictive and worse than alcohol and hard drugs," released to the media by the Office on Smoking and Health. States release received substantial publicity. Informs that "our staff is 'drilling' media with the following information which we prepared this morning, and which is also in the hands of our legislative representatives," and includes said document (CIGARETTES ARE WORSE THAN HEROIN? REALLY?). Indicates memorandum has been cleared by Shook, Hardy, & Bacon.
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- Company
- TI
- Type
- MEMO
- Named Organization
- American Cancer Society
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychological Foundation
- Brown & Williamson
- Federal Trade Commission
- GrandMet U.S.A.
- Liggett & Myers
- Lorillard
- National Institute on Drug Institute
- Office on Smoking and Health
- Phillip Morris
- R.J. Reynolds
- Tobacco Institute
- American Psychological Association
- Author
- Chilcote, Samuel D., Jr. (TI President (1981-1997))Chilcote has knowledge of The Tobacco Institute's and the tobacco industry's participation in public fraud and disinformation relative to health hazards of tobacco use, in the manipulation of nicotine in tobacco products and in marketing of tobacco products to children.
- Named Person
- Blau, T. (Dr.)
- East (Sen.)
- Lipton, M.
- Pollin, W.
- Schacter, S. (Dr.)
- East (Sen.)
- Recipient
- Judge, Curtis H. (RJR Bd of Direct. '67-69, VP Mrkting '68; CEO of Lorillard)Curtis H. Judge served on the RJR Board of Directors from 1967-1969, Vice President of Marketing in 1968, and on the Advertising Committee. (Source: RJR Who's Who NMLRP)Also, CTR director, President of Lorrillard during 1970s-1980s.
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Seidensticker, R. B.
- Stevens, Arthur Joseph (LOR Sr. VP '89-95 and TI Communications)
Served on Lorillard Board of Directors 1985-92, was Senior Vice President from 1989 to 1995, served as General Counsel for Lorillard '93-95. Served on Tobacco Institute Communications Committee.- Tucker, C. A.
- Bowling, J. C.
- Cullman, H.
- Dey, K.V.R. (Jr.)
- Horrigan, E. A. (Jr.)
- Hughes, Ivor Wallace, Dr. (CEO Brown & Williamson, TI Executive Committee)
Ivor Wallace Hughes was The Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company in 1983, also served on the Tobacco Institute Executive Committee in 1983 and was CTR Director 1/28/83. - Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Keyword
- Cooperation (Btwn. Companies)
- Surgeon General's Report
- Subject
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Cessation
- Cigarettes
- Drugs
- Federal Level
- Government Agencies
- Health Advocacy Groups
- industry response
- Industry Strategies
- legislation
- lobbying
- mass media
- nicotine
- Political Influence
- Publications
- withdrawal
- addiction
- Cessation
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ISHB cleared this ~or WK 3/7/83-]
March 7, 1983
MEMORANDUM TO:
Curtis H. Judge (Lorillard), Arthur J.•Stevens (Lorillard),
James C. Bowling (Philip Morris), Hugh Cullman (Philip Morris),
K.v.R. Dey, Jr. (Liggett & Myers), Edward A. Horrigan, Jr. (R.
J. Reynolds), I. W. Hughes (Brown & Williamson), Ernest Pepples
(Brown & Williamson), Robert B. Seidensticker (GrandMet
U.S.A.), and Charles A. Tucker (R. J. Reynolds)
FROM: SAMUEL D. CHILCOTE, JR.
Over the weekend the Office on Smoking and Health gave
media a typed document which they said is the text of a new
Public Health Service pamphlet regarding cigarettes as being
addictive and worse than alcohol and hard drugs.
Resulting publicity has been substantial.~ Our staff is
"drilling" media with the following information which we
prepared this morning, and which is also in the hands of our
legislative representatives. Our statement follows for your
information:
CIGARETTES WORSE THAN HEROIN? REALLY?
"It was selected because it's sort of a dirty
word." So
stated Morris Lipton, one of 17 scientists who wrote
the
National Institute on Drug Abuse review which is the basis for
the government tract released March 7 Lipton thus explained
the NIDA group's 1979 conclusion that cigarettes are addictive.
"It was published as a dirty trick." That was the
conclusion of The Tobacco Institute after a government agency
distributed typewritten copies of a reworking of the old claim
two days in advance of a Congressional hearing on legislation
to change the cigarette warning. A pamphlet, claimed to be the
basis for the release, has not been printed.
The record of testimony on similar legislation last year
shows little support and substantial refutation of the
addiction claim.
The first Surgeon General's report on smoking and health,
in 1964, said the practice of "smoking should be labeled
habituation to distinguish it clearly from addiction."
Thirteen years later the director of the government's
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Office on Smoking and Health said that "the scientific evidence
on that point has grown rapidly to show that you cannot account
for smoking behavior on the basis of some such simple kind of
physical addiction to nicotine...There is good evidence to show
that this is not so."
In 1977, to the question, "Is cigarette smoking an
addiction?" The American Cancer Society responded, "The short
answer is no."
In his 1981 report on smoking, the Surgeon General refused
to support any "addiction" finding: "A great amount of
preliminary data already exists on the role of nicotine in
human smoking behavior, but the influences of tolerance and
dependence on nicotin~ in the initiation, maintenance and
cessation of smoking behavior are still not resolved "
The same year a staff study at the Federal Trade
Commission stated that "available evidence doe'~ not
support...the notion...that addiction is a significant problem
in the case of cigarettes."
William Pollin, director of the National Institute on Drug
Abuse, made the addiction charge last year at a Congressional
hearing on cigarette labeling legislation.
The claim was challenged by Dr. Theodore Blau, president
of the American Psychological Foundation and past president of
the American Psychological Association, who testified that "no
general agreement among scientists exists in answer to the
question of whether cigarettes or their contents are
addictive. "
Blau quoted Dr. Stanley Schacter, a member of the 1979
NIDA panel, as saying that "the data supporting the proposition
are not particularly good. In fact, looked at with a ruthless
eye, they are rather flimsy. When scientists are asked...they
generally agree that we have a long way to go before we can
give scientific support to the statement, cigarette smoking is
adictive. "
At one hearing, Sen. East (R-NC) cautioned against
comparing tobacco and drugs as bringing "science into disrepute
because the common sense of the man or woman in the street
would say, 'Hey, that won' t wash. ' Why? Because common sense
tells us that a heroin addict is destroyed as an individual.
They simply become dysfunctional."
In fact, carelessness is destroying the usefulness of the
concept of "addiction." Last fall in a speech, the Surgeon
General declared that youngsters are "addicted" to video
games. Blau, in his testimony, rejecting use of the term to
chracterize smoking, said "people Have equally strong
attachments to tennis, jogging, candy, rock music, Coca-Cola,
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