Tobacco Products Liability Project
[Opinion on Dr. Gardner's Request Undertake Tests on Smoke Fractions]
Abstract
Dr. Gardner's request to conduct short term tests on smoke fractions should not be accepted as the CTR has invested a great deal in the inhalation programs that need to be finalized.
User-Contributed Notes
- Smoking and Health Tar Cancer
Fields
- Named Person
- Dr. Gardner
- Indexer Comment
- Hand-written note "CTR/[Ineligible]Res."
- Named Organization
- *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.
- USDA
- Microbiological Associates (Research lab in Bethesda, MD)Research lab in Bethesda, MD. CTR contracted with this lab to do the world's largest inhalation study, involving more than 10,000 mice in 1973-1982.
- Oak Ridge National LaboratoryContract research lab; does gov't work and also takes private contracts.
- Recipient
- Hughes, Ivor Wallace, Dr. (CEO Brown & Williamson, TI Executive Committee)Ivor Wallace Hughes was The Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company in 1983, also served on the Tobacco Institute Executive Committee in 1983 and was CTR Director 1/28/83.
- *McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)Defense
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Type
- Inter-office Memo
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