Tobacco Products Liability Project
Re: Tobacco Institute - Winter Meeting
Abstract
Summarizes items for discussion at Boca Baton meeting including company response to the request of and American Tobacco's financial contribution to TAND, President Carter's letter to Congressman Fountain, possible hearing about oral contraceptive warnings, Federal bootleg bills, Californians for Common Sense, Californian distributors, CTR, and warning notice litigation.
User-Contributed Notes
- Industry activity lobbying health warning impact of regulations cigarette tax industrt front group antitrust
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- Notes
Handwritten notes at top of document.
- Recipient
- Edens, Joseph E. (BW; CTR Director)Joseph E. Edens was an employee of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation and served as Director and on the Executive Committee for the Council for Tobacco Research
- *McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)Defense
- Bryant, H.D
- Pittman, Robert A. (BW Sr. Brand Marketing Supervisor, 1968-70)Sr. Brand Marketing Supervisor, B&W 1968-70
- *Blalock, JV (use Blalock, John V.) (Executive)
- *Cummins, B. D. (use Cummins, Bob D.)Defense
- 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).
- NATD
- American Tobacco Company
- TAN (Tobacco Action Network)Organization created by the tobacco industry to galvanize "grass roots" political action from among those who work in some capacity for the tobacco industry: growers, manufacturers, retailers of cigarettes, etc.
- TI (?)
- White House/the Carter Adminsitration
- United States Food and Drug Administration
- United States Department of Health, Education & Welfare (Branch of U.S. Government concerned with public health)
- Tax Council
- Crime Subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee
- House Ways and Means Committee
- Californians for Common Sense
- Group Against Smoking Pollution/Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution? ("GASP)" (Group Against (or to Alleviate) Smoking Pollution)A not-for-profit corporation founded in 1976 as the California Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP). Now there are several state branches of GASP around the country.
- Woodward & McDowell
- *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.
- CIM
- Stanford University
- 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.
- JEE
- Governors Conference
- Named Person
- Horace (Horace Komegay of TI?)
- Bernie Martin
- Mel Melinsky
- Arnold Henson
- Art Stevens
- Heiman (Robert Heiman?)
- Jim Davis
- Bernie Martin
- Bill McCarty
- Bill Hobbs
- Cliff Goldsmith
- Curt (?)
- Bob Pittman
- Jack Kelly
- Bill Ogburn
- George Nolan
- President Jimmy Carter
- Congressman L. H. Fountain
- Califano, Joseph Anthony, Jr. (Sec. of U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare)Joseph Califano Jr. is the former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1977-1979), in Carter's administration (A 5/17/94; WP 4/3/85). He spoke against the tobacco industry on ABC's "Day One" program. He testified before the Waxman subcommittee on 5/17/94. He was an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson (AP 5/17/94). He was President of Columbia University's Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, circa 1994 (AP 5/17/94).
- Peter Bourne
- Governor Hunt
- Governor Shapp
- Dick Woodward
- Curt Judge
- Arthur Furst
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
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