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TA1148 Strictly Confidential Dr. Helmut Schievelbein Author : P.N. I,ee Date : 29.8.79 Dr. Helmut Schievelbein is a well known cardiologist working as Director of the German Heart Centre in the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Bio- chemistry of Munich University. He has published widely on smoking and on nicotine and a list of references to some of his more relevant work is attached. He has close associations with the German industry. 15 years ago he was director of the Tobacco Research Institute in Hamburg for a year before he left for Munich and Dr. Pl. Dontenwill took over. More recently he has been and still is a member of the Council on Smoking and Health set up by the Verband about the time that the laboratories in Hamburg were sold. He is not however a paid consultant to the Verband as I understand it. He is also a member of a NHO smoking and health group and attended the Stockholm World Conference in that capacity. The paper "Science no longer in demand?" (TA1123) has now been published in the Munchner Nedizinische Wochenschrift. Dr. F. Adlkofer of the Verband told me that he and Schievelbein wrote it jointly. Adlkofer said Schievelbein is an honest scientist with clear ideas - Schievelbein is not worried by the liaison ( } with the German tobacco industry, feeling that he is saying what he believes and not what the industry wants him to say. Adlkofer also said however that on occasion he felt Schievelbein to be not completely up to date with recent scientific work and that some of his work tended to be superficial.

3 ) Some more important references Schievelbein, H. and Rerle, S. The pharmacology of nicotine (In German). Med. ltschr., July 1988, 20, 290-8 Schievelbein, H. ed. Nikotin. Pharmakologie und Toxikologie des Tabakrauches Stuttgart, Georg Thieme Verlag, 1968 Schievelbein, H. aAd Eberhardt, it. Cardiovascular actions of nicotine and smoking. J. nat. Cancer Inst., June 1972, 48, 1785-94 Schievelbein, H. Passive smoking a danger for the non-smoker? Tabak.-J. Internat., February 1976, 1, 35-6 Schievelbein, H. The evidence for nicotine as an etiological factor in cardiovascular disease. Proc. 3rd Wld Conf. Smoking and Health, 1976, 1, 297-312 Schievelbein, H., Heinemann, G., Loschenkohl, K., Troll, C. and Schlegel, J. Metabolic aspects of smokin.g behaviour. In: Smoking behaviour: physiological and psychologicall influences. Edited by x.E. Thornton. Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1978, 371-379 Schievelbein, H. et al. Tobacco smoke as a risk factor in the etiology of arteriosclerosis. In: Hauss, W.H., et al., ed. International symposium: state of prevention and therapy in human arteriosclerosis and in animal models. Opladen, lfestdeutscher Yerlag, 1978, 483-492 4

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