Tobacco Products Liability Project
[Memo on Use of Document entitled "Functions and Significance of Smoking in Every Day Life"]
Abstract
The report "The Functional Significance of Smoking in Every Day Life" should not be used by the industry because some of the authorities cited may not agreee with the conclusion of the report that smoking is a suitale coping aid in every day life. Furthermore, and more seriously, the report, by asserting that the primary motivation for smoking is the pharmalogical function of nicotine, presents an inconsitency among B&W scientists. There are also concessions about "tolerance and withdrawal. The report may give support to claims of addiction in litigation and heighten the possibility of FDA involvement.
User-Contributed Notes
- Public Relations Addiction Smoking Attitude Pharmacology Litigation Withdrawal Product Liability
Fields
- Type
- Privileged Memorandum
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Named Person
- Stpney, Rob
- Named Organization
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W)Subsidiary of BAT U.S., located in Louisville, KY.
- United States Food and Drug Administration
- Copied
- *Humber, Tom (use Humber, William Thomas "Tom") (President of National Smokers Alliance (PM front))TI Communications; later, as employee of Burson Marstellar PR firm, Humber became president and CEO of National Smokers Alliance, a Philip Morris "smokers rights" front group.
- Stepney, Rob
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Recipient
- Kohnhorst, Earl E. (BW President of US Business)Earl E. Kohnhorst was the Director of Research for Brown & Williamson. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996). In 1994, Kohnhorst was Executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (LAT 8/2/94). He was also vice president for research, development and engineering, BWT in 1985. (LAT 8/2/94). 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). Kohnhorst wrote a 4/26/85 letter re: carbon monoxide . It mentions development of Fact cigarette prototype which was designed to deliver low carbon monoxide. It describes shredded dried stems process which results in carbon monoxide reduction (E. Kohnhorst LT 4/26/85).
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AU 6 1 6 1984
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FROM: E. PeppXes
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entitled "The FunctLonsL SLgnlrlcanca Or Smok/ng In (va~y Osy
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"'"". r 1Oen~/rlca~/on m=e me% OF smoking othavloc. Fo~ example,
- smo~Ln9 Ls ulCLma~ely ~LeO ~o ~ pharmacological "psychoactive
function of nicotine. Some of ~he scLen~lscs who consult
8~w In connection wL~n health LLtLga~Lon ~ouLd not agree
for an moomren~ Lncons/s%mncy among B&ff's sc/en~/s%s, whLCh
coula cause some aLrrLcut~y Ln ¢ou:~.
"tolerance and wLthotavsl-. (See es~ecLsL.Ly psges~t-~3.) The
~e=ott f~equentLy expresses the v/my Lnat smo~ln9 has cattaLn
of t~anouLILze=s, alcohol, etc. Zn sOOLtLon, smo~Lng Is
refe~ed ~o ms one Fo~m of "O~ug usage', "psychoaot£ve
suostance usage', o: "psycnoac~1ve o:u9 usage'.
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