Tobacco Products Liability Project
Industry Response to Cigarette/Health Controversy
Abstract
Outlines the history of the interaction between tobacco companies and government agencies. Describes the role of the Tobacco Insitute and the Council for Tobacco Research in research favorable to the tobacco industry, the "tar derby" of the 1950s, how the FTC comes to be involved in tobacco regulation, the making and impact of the 1964 Surgeon General's Report, and the background of he Cigarette Labelling and Advertising Act and how the tobacco industry benefitted from the Act. Also describes other agency actions and the role of the Congress as well as the position taken by different industry groups. Concludes by noting how the industry has benefitted from efforts to regulate cigarette advertising.
User-Contributed Notes
- Industry Activity--health claim Adverse Effects Industry Response Cigarette Design--filter design Tar--tar level Anti-smoking Advocacy Advertising Restriction Warning label Advertising medium--broadcast advertising Regulation--legislation --advertising restriction Government organization--Congress
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- Type
- Memorandum
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Named Organization
- 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).
- *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
Created and funded by the tobacco industry to award grants to study of the link between smoking and disease. Part of a four decade effort to cast doubt on the links between smoking and disease.- Federal Trade Commission (Enforcement agency for laws against deceptive advertising)
Enforces laws against false and deceptive advertising, including ads for tobacco products. Ensures proper display of health warnings in ads and on tobacco products;collects and reports to Congress information concerning cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertising, sales expenditures, and the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content of cigarettes.- The Consumers Union
- The Readers' Digest
- Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service (U.S. Federal government public health advocate)
The U.S. Surgeon General's office has found since 1964 that tobacco use causes disease in humans.- Grocery Manufacturers of America
- Federal Communications Commission (U.S. government agency regulating TV, radio)
Enforced the Fairness Doctrine against the tobacco companies; required time be provided on TV, radio for anti-smoking commercials.- Federal Consumer Products Safety Commission
- Harvard University Medical School
- American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA)
- Advertising Federation of America
- Radio Advertising Bureau, Inc.
- *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
- Named Person
- Kintner, EarlPlaintiff
- Terry, Luther L. M.D. (Surgeon General, 61-65, U of Pennsylvania, Anti-Tobacco Expe)
Luther Terry was former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service from 1961 to 1965. Terry was emeritus professor of Research Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1984 (E. Whelan 1984).- Kennedy, Senator Ted (U.S. Senator from MA)
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, has advocated against tobacco and for public health.- Senator Hart
- Terry, Luther L. M.D. (Surgeon General, 61-65, U of Pennsylvania, Anti-Tobacco Expe)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
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