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PURSUANT ,TO COURT ORDER
BROWN & WILLIAMSON PROBLEM LAB
DAY: Wednesday
SESSION: #7
DATE= April 27, 1977 'i CLIENT:
Tom
TI~: 1=30 - 3:00 LEADERS:
Jon/C~orge
SESSION P.A.G. (Problem As Given)=
How to better estimate future
environment for tobacco industry
and B&W growth (Trends. directions,
major events rather than numbers)
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How have a cigarette that's cancer free
How live w/ growing concern about health issue
How get into non-tobacco cigarette products
How smoke something that burns and won't hurt" you
Wish l.didn't have to predict, hut rather schedule the break-
throughs
H2 measure intimacy practices
Wish we wouldn't have to do same thing l0 years from now
How look at ev~lutlon of how people's needs are satisfied (survival
of fittest cig.)
How chemically develop cig. benefits for state of mind
Measure trends in music as a way of detezming what fan's products
will be
Get people who can foretell the future to work w/ us
Wish ~ weren't just An tobaeco/cig, products
Look into products non-tobacco, that glwe ~imilar satisfactions
Legalization of marijuana
Wish I knew the impact of smoking and health propaganda On kids in
schools -- future customers' attitudes
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16. corrolate imoking incidence between kids and parents
17. Psycho'logical analysis, predictions: who's ping to be kids'
hezoes
18. A six months repozt on heroes of beginning age smokers (Do it
every six months)
HOW measure attitudes of "2rid grade" teachers
20. How measure attitudes of smoking parents towards their children
smoking (Ditto for non-smoklng parents)
~ish we hsd ~ "radar" early warning system that trips before
major breakthroughs occur
22. Cultural study through time (Smoking just one facet in overall
picture)
23. HOW look at history of stimulants (what used before/in place of
tobacco) or opposite of stimulants
24. Look at image that children have, later in 20's -- is there a
¢o~relation
25. Look at images of children and images of starting s~king age --
are there certaln characteristics that pre-dlspose a child to
Bmoke
26. Is there a pilot lab somewhere that really perceives U.S.
behavior patterns
SESSION P.A.G. (Probiem As Given): Measure the intensity of the attitudes
_. of children or other precursor groups
WAys WE MI~{T GO ABOUT GETTING THESE ATTITUDES
I. Contact leading firms in
e.g.. Gilbert/
Reilley
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2. Look back at history for underlying trends, e.g., look at fads and
see if come up again
3. Contact Sesame Street
4. Get a raft of 15 year olds who are ,ot smoking -- excessive amount
Of questions -- go back 3 or 4 years later and see who is smoking
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3. Contact Gerber, S~hwinn, ~tteL ~!
6. FInS a wey to m~eed up lives vLe hypnosil r- tape I0 year ol~s
see if bm is mmokin9
7. Run a series ste~tlng at 6. What the t~e~, ~atn correlatior,
between ege 6 mnd iS
8, Take pec~le who are e~klng hypnoe~a and find out what like 3, ,
yemra back
.9, ,Look at 13, 14 year olds end images o£ what they wan~ to be
10. Take e 0roop of 6, 10. 14 year olds. Four years later see if car
predict. P~edi.ct age 9romp behavior based on previous responses
check follow-~p studies o£ ~tete and national 9ovt education on
mmokiag
Do previous 11 step~ on how much will they smoke
13. Find relationship betw~e~ health Issue~ and health problems ~nd
: for~ast eure~ problems
14. Determine why these youn~ people w~e not becoming smokers
15. Mea~re~emt o£ nicotine intake of h~m~n bein~ to get ~i~t~o~shlp
on ~elivery SO can txanslate i~to consumption
1~. Study taste threshholds in children to correlate w~th brand
prefezen~es an~ pro~ected ideal formulation for tha~ ag~ gzoup
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1. Study this list - x~zg rank mmst feasible to least.
end Of M~
2. Pick ~wo or three m~$t ~o-able Ind work with thome
Tom: by
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I, Consumption o£ Coca-Cola end c~£fee
2. Liquor industry and tren~ toward l£ght, non-color bnt'r~C2~-.-
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Check for cprrelatlon between emotional climate to stimul~n~ used,
e.g.,"
~ook at emotional climates (climatic} in U.S. re #4
Measure g~owth of "Mormons"
Measure attitudes w~thin govt. re smoking. , etc.
~ook at countries that are furthe~ aZong in the ciqarette cycle.
e.~., Scandanavian
Does the human ~eed A ~rtain ~a~tity of drugs and he ~ets At in
some form,
Look at smoking habits and places ~h~re they h~ve B monopoly
~pok at stress -- what are the emotional factors at work in various
countries
See if you can measure the number of smoking opportunities~day
Define tonnage intake in terms other th~n cigarettes -- nicotine,
tar, etc.
Measure the difference in smoking habits in plnces where s~ki~g
freedom has been cestricted, e.g., Calif. H/nn.
(Same As Pre~ious}
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