Tobacco Documents Online

[Smoking and Health events over the past years]

Abstract

A list of events classified as plus (17 events including Epstein's paper and Wharton's study on financial impact of tobacco) and minus (20 events including Surgeon General reports, State Mutual Life Assurance Company study showing that smokers die younger than non-smokers).

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Type

Privileged Memorandum

Author

Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)

Named Person

Epstein, Samuel S.

Friedman, Gary Kanter, M.D. (Pulmonologist (Private Practice), Anti-Tobacco Expert)

Plaintiff

van den Berg, Bea J., M.D. (Child Health & Development, U of CA, Berkeley)

McDonald (?)(Study on women and lung cancer)

Wharton (Study on financial impacty of tobacco)

Hirayama

Carfinkel

White/Troeb (?)

Greek

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.

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).

Husband (?)

Kennedy, Senator Ted (U.S. Senator from MA)

U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, has advocated against tobacco and for public health.

Bourne, Peter, Dr.

Aronov (?) [on CO and non-smokers]

Named Organization

American Public Health Association (Public health organization)

Professional organization for people working in public health

State Mutual Life Assurance Company

ITC (Industry Technical Committee?)

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.

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.

London Institute of Psychiatry

Washington University in St. Louis

Civil Aeronautics Board (Ruled on smoking in U.S. airplanes)

Copied

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.

Date Loaded

08 Jan 2003

Recipient

*McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)

Defense