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RE: Smoking and Health-Tim Finnegan

Abstract

Reports on Tim Finnegan's visit to Dean Sullivan, and believes he has "presuaded them to take a new thrust with their research...[which] will have questionable value but no negative." Also reports on some other projects. Discusses INFOTAB developments regarding social costs issues. Reports on work done to confirm Hirayama study.

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1. Smoking and health Industry Sponsored Research Tobacco industry lawyer Industry response Social cost

Fields

Recipient

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

Type

Memorandum

Author

Wells, John Kendrick, III (BW, Assistant General Counsel)

In a 1/17/85 memo, BWT corporate counsel J. Kendrick Wells said he had advised Earl Kornhorst, BWT's VP for research, development and engineering, on the need to prune scientific reports from his files. Wells marked certain reports with an X to designate those that were "deadwood in the behavioral and biological studies area". The Janus studies--secret program of biological research on the effects of smoking which showed tumor growth in animals--should be treated as "deadwood". These documents should be segregated, boxed and put in the basement for possible shipment to BAT Industries in England, but no one "should make any notes, memos or lists of the documents" (LAT 8/2/94).

Named Organization

Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)

INFOTAB (Int'l Tobacco Information Clearinghouse for industry, NMAs)

ICOSI (International Commlssion on Smoking Issues) was formed around 1978. It was reorganized in 1980 or 1981 as INFOTAB. Infotab is an information clearinghouse that collects articles and legislatlve information. Data Is funnelled to Infotab by members of the industry. The founding companies are R.J. Reynolds International, BAT, Philip Morris, Reemtsma, Rothmans, Imperial andGallaher. The last three companies dropped in and out. A company had to give three years' notice to resign. BAT gave its notice to resign in late 1987 in conjunction with B&W's resignation from TI. BAT and B&W's resignations were partially because of the Barclay controversy. The companies pay the Infotab dues, but the beneficiaries include the national manufacturing associations(NMAs) . NMAs worldwide receive newsletters from Infotab. They can call and get information on various topics. G.C. Hargrove of BAT was on Infotab.

SWOP

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).

Verband der Cigaretten Industry (Trade organization for the German tobacco industry)

NMA (National Manufacturers Organization) for Germany

Named Person

Finnegan, Timothy M. (Attorney, Jacob & Medinger)

Worked defending producers of smokeless tobacco (snuff).

Sullivan, Dean

Blass, John P., M.D., Ph.D. (CTR Special Projects, Neurochemist, Cornell U.)

Studied the effects of nicotine on Alzheimer patients.

Meister (Dr.)

Mantel (Nathan ?)

Berman, George (PM Social Acceptability Working Party (SAWP))

Philip Morris employee between Sept. 1976 and Feb. 1979 (estimate, could have been longer). Left PM to become independent consultant c. 1979. President of Devon Management Resources, Inc. 1979. Presented a talk on social costs for ICOSI, the International Committee on Smoking Issues, and assisted ICOSI with organization and implementation of the Social Costs/Social Values Project. WAs a member of ICOSI/SAWP. Appears to have been on a social costs working group with the Tobacco Institute arouned 1979-80.

Leibowitz

Rose (Congressman)

Adlkofer, Franz (VDC Research Director)

Argued in a 1988 joint meeting of the worldwide tobacco companies that the industry should stop developing "marketable science" for use in public relations to fight the secondhand smoke issue and instead should establish a safe threshold for exposure to secondhand smoke. (Bates No. 2021548222/8235)

Adolkofer, Dr., F. (scientific director of Verband)

believed that smoking causes cancer and other disease

@lee_peter_n (?)

Hirayama

Kastenbaum, Marvin A., Ph.D. (Director, Statistics (TI))

Kastenbaum has knowledge of the Tobacco Institute's and the tobacco industry's participation in the public disinformation regarding the health hazards of tobacco use, the manipulation of nicotine in tobacco products and the marketing of tobacco products to children.

Tsokos

VonSpecht, D.

Defense

VonSpecht, D.

Defense

Colby

White, James

Date Loaded

08 Jan 2003