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Worldwide Regulatory Affairs 950000 Original Budget
Abstract
This 1995 budget for Philip Morris'(PM) Worldwide Regulatory Affairs office lists the company's activities to fight public health-tobacco control efforts around the globe during that year and what it cost PM to carry out these activities. It lists PM's consultants by name and/or company, tells how much PM budgeted to pay them, and lists the countries where PM applied this interference.
PM's activities included persuading restaurant owners, airport officials and employers around the world that they needed too install new ventilation equipment instead of banning smoking entirely, developing strategies and programs to protect smoking in the workplace, subsidizing construction and renovation of airport smoking lounges, working to prevent and pre-empt smoking restrictions, "slowing down the spread of smoking bans on international [airline] carriers," promoting acceptance of indoor air quality standards that would allow smoking, funding front groups like ARISE (Associate for Research in the Science of Enjoyment) and TASSC (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition), funding of public relations groups like the Dolphin Group and Burson Marstellar to push their agenda, and much more. According to this document, in 1995 PM planned to implement the above activities in Brazil, Costa Rica, Japan, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Finland, Czech Republic, Korea, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Italy, Columbia, Poland, Norway, Gulf Council Countries (GCC), Argentina, United States and Australia.
PM's total budget for these activities in 1995 was over $17 million, which does not include legal costs for 1995, which are listed on Page 20 of the document. The total cost of legal assistance to PM's Worldwide Regulatory Affairs Department in 1995 was $25,785,000, which includes the costs of lawsuits against the ABC Television Network, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and legal work on cigarette issues like ingredients disclosure and ignition propensity. The law firm of Shook, Hardy and Bacon alone was budgeted to make over $7.3 million from Philip Morris in this single year.
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Thanks to Simon Chapman of Australia for bringing this recently-loaded document to attention.
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Category: Workplace/General
Develop Strategies and programs to protect smoking in the workplace; identify/support allies in business organizations, trade associations, unions.
Support PMI workplace initiatives in various markets including Brazil, Costa Rica, Japan, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland.
Category: Ventilation Technologies/Applications
Identify/develop/promote a range of cost-effective solutions to address concerns about [enviornmental tobacco smoke/indoor air quality] in various venues; be prepared to suggest to employers, restaurant owners, airport officials, etc. technologies which would pernit the designation of smokign areas that can be designed as inexpensively as possible.
Professional services - 469
Design ventilation models for restaurants and workplaces for international (e.g. Hong Kong, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Finland, Hungary, Czech Republic) 150...
...Ensure accomodation of smokers in airports by making available appropriate technology and expertise to airport authorities and publicizing its success; priority markets incl. Korea, Puerto Rico, Brussels, Madrid...
Category: Hospitality
Develop and help implement restaurant/public place accommodation programs for select int'l markets to prevent/pre-empt, and ins ome cases, ensure compliance w/ restrictions; priority markets are Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, GCC, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Norway, Italy, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea.
Category: Transport: Airlines
Objective: To slow down the spread of smoking bans on international carriers, including proposed U.S. legislation and international agreements.
Category: Standards
Objective: Monitor and participate in the development of acceptable IAQ standards which will provide smoking accommodation.
Category: General Programs
Develop and execute survey instruments to track attitudes and messages on ETS, smoking restrictions, enviornmental priorities, tolerance/intolerance and sound science. Develop alliances among parties with similar interest and promote a variety of key concepts. Identify a broad range aof scientific and technical experts who can address ETS and IAQ issues.
Contributions-450
Sounds Science coalition of U.S. and European scientist to discuss and recommend the appropriate use of epidemiological studies in risk assessments and policy0making conference 250
Communications plan for above conference 100
Develop allies in academic fields and public policy associations to help promote a variety of messages including sound science, tolerance, U.S. extremism, economic impact of government regulation, etc.
Support for U.S. public policy groups 300 Support for international policy groups 150 Support for ARISE 150 Support for TASSC 200 Asia Initiative 100
Imperial College 150
New York Medical College 200
Category: Communications
Support U.S. and international initiatives to promote messages on ETS science, accommodation IAQ, sound science, etc. through direct and indirect approaches; to maximize positive outcomes and counter as necessary negative outcomes of current issues in the U.S. (incl. EPA, OSHA)
- Company
- Philip Morris
- Author
- Philip Morris Worldwide Regulatory Affairs
- Recipient
- Presumed corporate recipient, Philip Morris
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