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ETS AND SIDESTREAM SMOKE RELATED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Abstract

Lists start/end date, objective and project leader for ETS and sidestream smoke research studies conducted between 1981 and 1990. Includes notes on final report for each, where applicable. Notes that "before 1981, research activities were only classified under generic names [and] . . .dealt, among other topics, with sidestream studies, but no reports were published. This activity was essentially aimed at measuring nitrosamines, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen in sidestream smoke. . . The only trace of this activity is the monthly reporting that was performed at the time."

Fields

Type

Summary

Fax

Company

Philip Morris

R&D

Site

MN Depository

Named Person

Gaisch, Helmut W. (PM Europe Science & Technology President)

Director and Principal Scientist, Tobacco Science and Technology, Fabriques De Tabac Reunite, S.A., (1987). Helmut Gaisch was an attendee at Philip Morris's 1987 Operation Downunder Conference, held to determine a new strategy the company could take on the issue of ETS. (PM's "Accommodation" strategy was borne from this conference). Gaisch worked to thwart ETS regulations in Europe using data from INBIFO. He was a Philip Morris European scientist, Head of Laboratories, FTR/Philip Morris Europe. Member to Tobacco Advisory Council (TAC), 1987.

Leyden, Don

Fink, Dr. Walter (PM researcher)

Bourlas, Manuel "Manny" C. (PM Science and Technology VP )

1994 Neuchatel, Switzerland. VP Environ & Oper Compl in 1993. VP Science & Technology from June 7, 1993 to May 24, 1994. Member of PM Ventilation Task Force. Reported to Steven Parrish, Senior Vice President, PM External Affairs 1994. Represented PM interest in international markets.

Named Organization

Verband der Cigaretten Industry (Trade organization for the German tobacco industry)

NMA (National Manufacturers Organization) for Germany

Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)

Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.

Coresta (Industry-affiliated Int'l scientific/research group)

An international organization whose objective is "to improve cooperation in scientific research and tobacco." Consists of 186 member companies/institute from 54 countries, including tobacco, paper and filter companies, and universities engaged in tobacco research.

Operation/Project

Rosa

Laundryman

Poldi

Lama

Tasso

Tear

Mars

Balance

Neptune

Phobos

Hydra

Orion

Uranus

Deimos

Janus

Triton

Rhea

Calypso

Rigel

Atlas

Nino

Spotless

Savoury

Protagoras

Lear

Heat

Compo

Olga

Thesaurus Term

Industry Sponsored Research

Sidestream Smoke

Additives

Cigarette Design

Carbon Monoxide

Nicotine

Ventilation

Trains

Ammonia

Formaldehyde

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Smoke Constituents

Nitrosamines

Keyword

Glycerin

Polyethylene glycol

Utropin