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Txzr CouNCxL Fon ToBAcco PIESEARcx-1--µC`.J".S.A. 110 EAST SfTnI STREET NEW YC1RK. N. Y. 10022 May 19, 1977 Mr. C. I. McCarty President Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation i6p0 West H:i.l1.. Street Louisville, Kentucky 4(}20l Dear Charley: Mr. Leonard Cornell, representing Addiction Research Foundation of Palo Alto, California, wi1.]., in al1l probability, seek an appointment with you to discuss the possibility of receiving financial support from your company for the Addiction Research Foundation. _ The purpose of this letter is to make clear to you the part I, as President of CTR, have played in this ma.tter. Late last year Dr. Avram Goldstein, who was Professor of Fharaacol.ogy, Stanford University, and is presently pirector, Addiction Research Foundation had discussions with I7r« William U. Gardner relating to aa possible grant from CTR for work with respect to nicotine in the framework of addiction. Dr. Goldstein is not now working wi.th nicotine and it became apparent that any funding by CTR 'would in effect be for the purpose of renovating and equipping Addiction Research Foundation in such a way that it might in the future interest itself in the addictive aspects, if any, of nicotine. I think I should sa.y, that Dr. Goldstein's scientific credentials are of the highest. Dr. Goldstein was told that The Council would give careful consideration to any proposals he might wish to submit that are specifx.caLly directed to tobacco use and health, but that it was not in a position to provide funds for structuring the Addiction Research Foundation. Subsequent to Dr. Gardner's conversation with Dr. Goldstein, I was approached by Mr. Leonard Corne].l, whom I understand to be associated with `-Dr. •- Goldstein in what appears to be a fund raising capacity. I tried, I thought with some succ-as, to make The Council's position clear to Mr. Cornell. He then raisedd the question whether the "tobacco industry'r, as he put it, might be interested in furthering the d.evelopment of Dr. Coldstein's Foundation. I hope I made it quite clear to him that not only could I express no opinion on that sub j ect but that it would be highly inappropriate for me individually or as President of The Council to appear to lend any sponsorship to any approach he might choose to make to the several manufacturing companies. s

'~HLy ,OOt7NCXL TOR ToBAcco RI:SRA.RCI~ .-^U.S.A., INC. Mr. C. J.. McCarty - . -2- . . M.ay 19, 1977 I did, however, agree to furnish him the names of the appropriate persons in each of the manufacturing companies with whom he might seek an interview. In response to a telephone ca'lll from Mr. Cor:nell early last week, I told him that I would address a letter to you and to the other heads of the companies who are members of The Council, identifying him and informing you that he would be seeking an interview. I apologize for this lengthy intrusion on your time, but I want you, when approached by Mr. Cornell, clearly to understand the position of CIR in this matter. z. Addison Y. Yeaman . Chairman and President AYY/Ip