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Abstract

Committee due to a lack of a motion. No vote was taken. Very seldom is a bil~e~-6a~ed in this manner but A-K Associates did an excellent job working the committee and the results support, their effort.

Fields

Named Organization

Senate

Tobacco Institute (Industry Trade Association)

The purpose of the Institute was to defeat legislation unfavorable to the industry, put a positive spin on the tobacco industry, bolster the industry's credibility with legislators and the public, and help maintain the controversy over "the primary issue" (the health issue).

Named Person

Bergson, Paul C. (RJR Lobbyist, Public Affairs VP, TI Executive Committee)

Defense

Bewley, Larry A.

Cherry, James R., Jr. (PM; LOR, Assoc. General Counsel; General Counsel & VP)

J. R. Cherry, Jr. was employed by Lorillard, Inc. and served as Vice President from 1989 to 1993 and then again in 1995; served as Legal Counsel in 1993 and then again in 1995.

Chilcote, Samuel D., Jr. (TI President (1981-1997))

Chilcote has knowledge of The Tobacco Institute's and the tobacco industry's participation in public fraud and disinformation relative to health hazards of tobacco use, in the manipulation of nicotine in tobacco products and in marketing of tobacco products to children.

Foster, Edward J.

Haley, Martin Ryan (State Activities Policy Committee)

Humber, Tom

Irish, K. Michael

Kloepfer, William J., Jr. (TI Public Affairs VP, c. 1988)

Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Relations for the Tobacco Institute

Kochevar, John A. (PM Dir. of Public Affairs & Asst. to VP of Corp. Affairs)

Attended Philip Morris' Operation Downunder Conference in June, 1987, which was an intense effort to come up with a strategy to deal with the environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) issue and the financial damage it was doing to Philip Morris.

Lewis, Robert J.

Marshal, M. Hurst

Marshall, M. Hurst (Tobacco Institute VP, c. 1987)

M. Hurst Marshall was a TI Vice President. (Source: NM Tobacco Companies Personnel List). As of 12/1/93 and until at least 2/97 [was Director of Government Relations for RJRT Region 3 (which covered California, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, S. Dakota, N. Dakota, and Wisconsin) [Sources: TI16470711/0712, RJRT fax from Gov't Relations dept., and RJR 518230245, 1997]

Mort, Donald E.

Mozingo, Roger L. (TI Lobbyist, Sr. VP, headed up state and local lobbying)

Involved in state and local level lobbying for the tobacco industry. Was a Vice President at TI, in the State Activities Division in the 1970's & 1980's, later went to RJR. Roger L. Mozingo was Vice President of State Government Relations for RJR in 1994. (Source: R. J. Reynolds Summary - RJR Liability Notebook)

O'Flaherty, William A.

Defense

Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)

Temko, Stanley L. (Covington & Burling, TI Budget Committee)

Stanley Tempko was an attorney at Covington & Burling. Tempko has knowledge of the legal issues facing the tobacco industry; additives; freon; grass-roots lobbying; and workplace smoking.

Date Loaded

18 Jul 2005

Box

1161