Tobacco Products Liability Project
Moss Hearing on October 5
Abstract
The industry should accept the request to appear before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation to tell about industry sponsored research as refusing to so would leave the field open for Rep. Moss. The industry may present Dr. Cline a from UCLA who feels that cigarette smoking is not a big risk though he has not dome aany significant work on tobacco. He can also testify as to the philantropic funding of the industry.
User-Contributed Notes
- Industry sponsored research smoking and health government organization cancer Financial investment
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- Memorandum
- Indexer Comment
- Hand written notes: "law reports to industries"; "see USG-Subcommittee=-overisght &Invb. Hearing smoking & Health - act. 5"
- Type written note: "(Note: Mr. Pepples called in today and said he had discussed the matter with Mr. Korengay. Mr. Korengay agrees that he should appear at the hearing.)"
- Named Person
- John E. Moss (Chairman, House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation)
- Yeaman, Addison (B&W Vice President)
General counsel for B&W. CTR Chairman/President 1975-1981- Gardner, William Ullman, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Advisory Board grant reviewer)
Dr. Gardner worked for Counsel for Tobacco Research -- U.S.A., Inc. He was a member of CTR's committee which reviewed grant applications in 1974. (UCSF000134) Gardner served on the Scientific Advisory Board for CTR and was a CTR Scientific Director. (N.M.'s CTR Who's Who) (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996). See Gardiner, Bill, TTLA Almanac - Names.- Gori, Gio Batta, Ph.D. (Tobacco Consultant, formerly w/ NCI, Industry Expert)
1993 Started career at NCI and then went to work for the industry. Believed a safer cigarette could be made, and that there were safe threshold levels for exposure to the chemicals in cigarette smoke.- Pittman, Robert A. (Sr. Brand Marketing Supervisor, B&W 1968-70)
Sr. Brand Marketing Supervisor, B&W 1968-70- Jacob, Edwin J. (CTR Special Projects, key legal strategist)
Key legal strategist in many capacities, including Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan (CTR). Career stems from 1950's. CTR Special Projects.- Hockett, Robert Casad, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Director)
- Cline, Martin J., M.D. (Professor of Med., U. of CA, Los Angeles, Industry Expert)
Defense- Golde, David (Dr.)
- Waxman, Henry A. (U.S. Representative)
(D-CA) Was chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in 1994.- Shinn, William W. (TI Communications; Shook, Hardy, CTR Attorney)
TI Communications Committee and was also a lawyer for CTR. William W. Shinn worked for Shook, Hardy & Bacon.- Califano, Joseph A., Jr. (Sec. of U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare)
- Sterling, Theodor D., PhD (Industry Consultant, Statistician Applied Mathematics)
Theodor Sterling was a statistician with Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is listed as a consulting scientist for the tobacco industry in 1988 memo PM 2023034933/4946 from Andrew Whist to R. Murray. Sterling presented the industry's poibnt of view at indoor air symposia in Tokyo, 1987 and in the U.K. in 1988. Industry Consultant and CTR Special Project recipient.- Kornegay, Horace R. (TI President and Exec. Director)
VP Leaf Ops (RJR), TI Chairman (1985) - Yeaman, Addison (B&W Vice President)
- Named Organization
- House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation
- *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.- American Medical Association (physicians group)
Professional trade group representing American physicians.- UCLA
- Harvard University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH (NIOSH)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is NIOSH.- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W)
Subsidiary of BAT U.S., located in Louisville, KY.- Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)
Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral))
Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral)- Tobacco Associates Inc.
- United States Tobacco Company (Producers of Copenhagen/Skoal chewing tobacco)
Producers of chewing tobacco - *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
- Author (Organization)
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W)Subsidiary of BAT U.S., located in Louisville, KY.
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Recipient
- Edens, Joseph E. (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- Pittman, Robert A. (Sr. Brand Marketing Supervisor, B&W 1968-70)
Sr. Brand Marketing Supervisor, B&W 1968-70 - *McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)
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Moss Hearing on October 5
Ohtober 2, 1978
The House Subco~mittee on Oversight and Investigations
(John E. Moss of California, Chairman) has suddenly called
a hearing for 10:00 a.m.. on October 5..Attached Is the
"Dear Horace" letter which Moss sent to the Institute.
Add Yeaman says CTR got a similar letter whlch was
addressed to Dr. Bill Gardner, the scientific director
at CTR. The letters request an appearance before the
Subcommittee to tell about industry sponsored research and
particularly refers to the recently Issued AMA-ERF volume
entitled "Tobacco and Health". The Subcommittee staff
called CTR before the letter got there and volunteered that
it would be Just fine to send a written statement if it was
inconvenient for them to come In person. ..
- Horace has reason to believe that Dr. Gori and someone from
'---AMA have been Invited to appear at the hearlng. The best
..... hunch is someone is staging a media event--perhaps to try,to
pump alr back Into the announcement of the A~ "study". The
GorI announcement coming immedlately on the heels of the
.report tended_to detract from Its L~pact. It Is Horace's
Judgment, and Bob Plttman and I concur, that the Industry
should not decllne to offer witnesses even on such short
notice because to do so would leave the field open to Moss
and whatever he is trying to achieve in the media. As more
" is learned~ this initial decision to prepare a~d pre~ent
witnesses may be re-examined. But presently two people are
expected to be ready and step forward on behalf of the industry.
at ~bursday's hearing. Ed Jacob is working with Dr. Bob Hockett
of CTR and Bill Shiun is getting in touch with ~larty Cltne
at UCLA. As you know~ Dr. Cline and his nesociate, Dr. David
Golds, planned to be in Wasblv£ton on October 4 anyway to
present a status repcrt on the UC~.q work. Since Congressman
Moss. is also from California as is one of the members of his
commtttee~-Congressman ~axman, it is p~rticularly appropriate
for Cline sod UCLa to be exposed before tht~ ~roup. Bob
-Hockett ~ould-talkab~u~the quarter century and $46 million in
_.. research which is CTR's experience. We. will make a final
Judgment about using Dr. Cltne as a witness after BIll Shinn
has flnlshed visiting wlth hlm.
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I think he would provide a good response to that part of
Moss' letter to Horace which says "Specifically of interest is the
report submitted by you . on February 15, 1978". That
report referred to the tnd~s~ry's institutional grants for health
research to Harvard, UCLA, Washington University (St..Louts),
etc. Cltne could tell about his program which has studied host
defenses of the lung, the immune actions of the entire body
and chemotherapy. He has done work with human macrophage cells
(the lungs' garbage collectors) and has looked into the health
effect of occupational dust, which fits right in with the current
emphasis by National Institute for Occupational Ssfety and
Health (NIOSH) and quite recently by Secretary Califano on the"
very large fraction of cancer that is related to occupational
factors. Cline feels that cigarette smoking is not such a big
risk and comes out somewhat the way Ted Sterling does on that
point. Cline has not done any significant tobacco work, hbwever.
The contributors to Cltne's program at UCLA are:
(I) Brown & Willlamson
(2) Philip Norris
(3) R. J. Reynolds
(4) Tobacco Associates (Joe Williams)
(5) U.8. Tobacco Company
.The payments to UCLA are based on market share and have resulted
in the.following totals:
1974 $ 300,000
1975 $ 350,000
1076 $ 350,000
.1977 $ 350,000
1978 $ 350,000
TOTAL $1,700,000
Brown & Wllllamson's portion has amounted to about $85,000 per
year. We are committed to an additional three years in the
Cl£ne program.
patlenceand a philanthropic as well as a conunerclel interest
in supporting the work at UCLA. Ho further can say that the
industry has hover asked him to make any public rolat£~n~ or
special commercial push on behalf of cigarette smoking.
Cllne can-testify that. there are not likoly to be quick answers
in any of. thls work and that statlstlcaZ guesswork is no way
to resolve the hard quostions surrounding environmental health
hazards. He also can say the tobacco industry has shown great
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Horaceteels that presiding at the TI meeting takes precedence.
over the invitation to apperr before Moss' Subcommittee. The
TI is not a sclentlflc operation. It does not administer grants.
Horace has already told the Rogers~ co~mlttee all he knows about
the lndustry's research and there is no reason to repeat it
before the Moss co.mitres. The Institute will file a nice tight
state~ent about the total dollars the Industry has spent and
then if we go with Cllne he can give a full statement on the
UCLA program as an Illustration of the institutional grants
which the industry has made over the years.
I" will ~o ~nto ~shlngton ~esday night and ~eet with Horace.
Dave Henderson and BIll Shlnn to do any last minute tuning with
respect to the hearing presentation for Thursday.
Attachment
(Note: Mr. Pepples called in today and said he had discussed
the matter ~Ith Hr. Kornegay. Mr. Eornegny agrees that he
should appcar at the hearlng.)
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