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CIAR

Abstract

Reports on importance of CIAR to the industry and what repercussions would arise from its demise. Claims that CIAR "represents credible, quality science and provides a vehicle for its support and conduct" whose "credibility derives from support of independent investigators and the involvement of the CIAR SAB." Notes that "some scientists can accept support from CIAR but NOT from tobacco cos." Emphasizes need to maintain RJR membership in order to fund new research. States that CIAR is a significant source of funding for indoor air research and that its demise would result in a public perception that the industry was never serious about the ETS/IAQ issue, or that it has "conceded the issue is lost." Lists current issues that would be negatively impacted by demise of CIAR: regulations, litigation, contacts with scientific community, and loss of "vehicle for conduct and monitoring of research projects (US and overseas)." Questions the international repercussions in light of an upcoming IARC study release.

Fields

Type

Report

Company

Philip Morris

CIAR SAB

Site

MN Depository

Named Person

Bero

Glantz, Stanton Arnold, Ph.D. (UCSF Professor of Medicine, Author of "The Cigarette Papers")

Stanton A. Glantz worked for the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California--San Francisco (1994)

Eisenberg, Max, Ph.D. (CIAR Director)

1998

Matanoski, Genevieve

Lippmann, Morton M.D. (Member, CIAR Scientific Advisory Board)

Vice Chairman, Dept. of Environmental Medicine, New York University Medical Center, c. 1994

Woods

Utell

Cain, William S. (CIAR SAB, Epidemiologist, Yale U)

1988

Burge, Harriet A. (Microbiologist, U of Michigan, Sick Building Syndrom)

Named Organization

Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR) (Industry formed/funded air research organization)

Nonprofit organization funded by the tobacco industry. CIAR was formed in March 1988 by tobacco companies "to sponsor "high-quality research on indoor air issues and to facilitate communication of research findings to the broad scientific community."

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral))

Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Held hearings in 1994 to ban smoking in workplaces)

OSHA opened hearings in September 1994 on a proposal that amounts to a virtual ban on smoking in every workplace in the nation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Contract research lab; does gov't work and also takes private contracts.

Swedish Tobacco

Rothmans

*British American Tobacco Company Limited BAT (See British-American Tobacco Co.)

Defense

JTI (Japan Tobacco Inc.)

Japan Tobacco Inc.

SEITA (Societe Nationale d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs et)

Societe Nationale d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs et Allumettes

Brown & Williamson Industries (Cigarette manufacturer)

Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation became Brown & Brown & Williamson Industries in 1974 (L. White, Merchants 1988). B&W brands include: Cool, Viceroy, Raleigh, Barclay, Belaire, Copre, Fact, Richland and GPC, 1976.

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (WHO cancer research arm)

International Agency for Research on Cancer - The cancer research arm of the WHO. Conducted a multi-center epidemiology study on ETS, initiated in 1988, data collection completed in 1994 and results were published in 1998

Region

United States

Thesaurus Term

Industry Sponsored Research

Industry Front Groups

Indoor Air Quality

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Research Studies

Health Advocacy Groups

Industry Intelligence

Keyword

IARC Multinational Study on ETS and Lung Cancer