Tobacco Products Liability Project
[Background information on discussion about Dr. Gardner's Request to Undertake Short-Term Teston on Smoke Fractions]
Abstract
Reports that Dr. Gardner's proposal to undertake short term tests on smoke fractions was considered as unacceptable. CTR has been carrying out tests on cigarette smoke coadesate fractions, and the outcome of such tests should be awaited. Tests on mice through the CTR are red-light tests and may be harmful to the tobacco industry if known by legislators (Sen. Kennedy) and difficult to explain. The funding of work by several companies is unlikely to pose antitrust problem.
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Fields
- Named Person
- Hugehes, Ivor Wallace(?)
- Dr. Gardner
- Spears, Alexander White, III (LOR President & CEO)
Associated with CTR, used as an expert in the Mississippi case.- Senkus, Murray (RJR Director of Research c. 1968-early 1980s)
- Stevens, Arthur Joseph (LOR Sr. VP '89-95 and TI Communications)
Served on Lorillard Board of Directors 1985-92, was Senior Vice President from 1989 to 1995, served as General Counsel for Lorillard '93-95. Served on Tobacco Institute Communications Committee.- Hockett, Robert Casad, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Director)
Scientific Director of the Council for Tobacco Research from 1972-1974 (WSJ 2/11/93; Allman complaint). Bio-Research Institute BRI conducted a study for the CTR. When Syrian hamsters were exposed to smoke twice a day for 59 to 80 weeks, 40% of those of a cancer-susceptible strain and 4% of a resistant strain developed malignant tumors (WSJ 2/11/93). Before publishing the study in 1974, BRI's founder, Frederic Homberger, sent a manuscript to Robert Hockett, then scientific director of the CTR. Dr. Homberger says he had to do so because halfway through his study, the CTR had changed it from a grant to a contract so they could control publication. They were quite open about that (WSJ 2/11/94. Soon thereafter, Hockett and CTR lawyer Edwin Jacob went to Dr. Homburger's summer house in Maine. Hockett and Jacob did not want BRI to call anything cancer, they wanted it to be "pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasis," a euphemism for lesions preceding cancer (WSJ 2/11/93). Dr. Homberger said no, this is not right, it is cancer. Jacob told Dr. Homberger that BRI would never get a penny more if the paper was published without the changes. At the last minute, Dr. Homberger changed the final proofs to read "microinvasive" cancer, a microscopic malignancy. Nevertheless, BRI was never funded by the CTR again (WSJ 2/11/96) Hochett made a statement, as scientific director of the CTR circa February 1972 that neither tobacco and health research in general, nor that of the Council for Tobacco Research has established that tobacco use or cigarette smoking in particular is a major health hazard (Allman complaint, pp. 41-42). Robert C. Hockett was Scientific Director, Vice President and Research Director of CTR. See Bio-Research Institute, TTLA Almanac - Names. (N.M.'s CTR Who's Who)- Roemer, Henry C. (Jack) (RJR VP; CTR Director)
RJR in 1958. He served as Vice President & General Counsel of RJR Legal Dept. in 1970, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of their Legal Dept. 1972-1983, and retired in 1986. Board of Directors 1972-1983; as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary from 1982 to the present, as RJR Tobacco Secretary & Director 1958-1970; and as Vice President and General Counsel in 1970.- Ed Jacob (?)
- Kennedy, Senator Ted (U.S. Senator from MA)
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, has advocated against tobacco and for public health. - Dr. Gardner
- 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.
- Lorillard Inc. (American cigarette manufacturer)
American cigarette manufacturer- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral))
Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral)- Brown & Williamson Industries (Cigarette manufacturer)
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation became Brown & Brown & Williamson Industries in 1974 (L. White, Merchants 1988). B&W brands include: Cool, Viceroy, Raleigh, Barclay, Belaire, Copre, Fact, Richland and GPC, 1976.- United States Food and Drug Administration
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Contract research lab; does gov't work and also takes private contracts.- 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. - Lorillard Inc. (American cigarette manufacturer)
- Type
- Inter-office Memo
- Attendee
- Roemer, Henry C. (Jack) (RJR VP; CTR Director)RJR in 1958. He served as Vice President & General Counsel of RJR Legal Dept. in 1970, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of their Legal Dept. 1972-1983, and retired in 1986. Board of Directors 1972-1983; as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary from 1982 to the present, as RJR Tobacco Secretary & Director 1958-1970; and as Vice President and General Counsel in 1970.
- Stevens, Arthur Joseph (LOR Sr. VP '89-95 and TI Communications)
Served on Lorillard Board of Directors 1985-92, was Senior Vice President from 1989 to 1995, served as General Counsel for Lorillard '93-95. Served on Tobacco Institute Communications Committee.- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Stevens, Arthur Joseph (LOR Sr. VP '89-95 and TI Communications)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Recipient
- Yeaman, Addison Y. (BW VP & General counsel; CTR Chairman of Board)General counsel for B&W. CTR Chairman/President 1975-1981
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