Tobacco Products Liability Project
[Comment on Dr. Blackman's Paper "The Controversy on Smoking and Health: Some Facts and Anomalies"]
Abstract
In light of the smoking and health litigation in the US in which plaintiffs' lawyers are aggressive about questioning CEOs about publiched company statementson the basis of BAT publications intended for limited distribution the usual attention given to proposed BAT publications are justified. (45 comments are made suggesting alterations and deletion of statements and conclusions in the draft paper, rewriting passages, and deleting or not using some references.)
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- Five pages of a 9 page document
- Attached draft paper mentioned (See doc. 282002690-282002720).
- Type
- Letter
- Author (Organization)
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W)Subsidiary of BAT U.S., located in Louisville, KY.
- Named Person
- Taylor, Peter
- Cummings, Kenneth Michael, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Epidemiologist, Roswell Park, Plaintiff's Expert)Senior research scientist in the Department of Cancer Control and Epidemiology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY
- Friberg, Lars, Ph.D. (Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden)Defense
- Cederlof, Rune, Ph.D. (CTR Special Projects, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)Professor Rune Cederlof was a CTR grantee, CTR Special Project recipient and Industry Consultant. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)
- Lundman
- Gilliam
- Keys, Ancel
- Morris, (Prof.)
- Garfinkel, Robin (Dr.)
- Named Organization
- B.A.T. Industries PLC (BAT)British American Tobacco Industry, parent company of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. in the U.S.
- 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).
- *Health and Human Services (HHS) (use United States Department of Health and Hum (US)
- New York Times
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral))Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral)
- Copied
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- 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.
- Recipient (Organization)
- B.A.T. Industries PLC (BAT)British American Tobacco Industry, parent company of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. in the U.S.
- 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).
- Recipient
- Morini, Alec (BATCo.)Defense
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Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
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Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of IV~innesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
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18, Suggest delete cefecence to Pcofessoc Cumming. In the
b:oaocast, Cumming indicated he oelleved that a suostantlal
g¢oup (pernags 30% of smo~e:s) "are at risk from smo4ing."
The omissions ot trend lines on the two graphs ate
contusing. The publication cited contains graphs ~lth the
tend lines beginning in 1943 and also snows a trend line
rot ages 65 and 74 years, which ~as curiously omitted in
the BAT draft.
20. The phrases £ndlcated--'active suoJects" and "smoker
p~edominantly so)"--are contusing.
21. Recommend delete references to Fcloerg and the 81~l£ogcaohy
on Smoking and Health. Unfortunately, Frioerg, Ceoerlor
and Lundman puolisned a monograph in 1977 which stated that
"lung cancer is closely related to t~e amount
smoked . . " tha~ associations ~ere confirmed ~etveen
smoking a~d '
res~£ratory, cardiovascular and ot~er symptoms
of disease or ill health, that there is no douot a0out a
causal link oetween smoking and lung cancer, and that the
results r=om the Swedish monozygotic ~win studies are
contrary to t~e constitutional nypot~esis a~vanced ~y
The ptoolem carries over into the quote from the
Bibliography on Smoking and Health, ,hich Should also de
Oelete~. The same a~t£cle states that "the Tell documented
evidence of a causal association bet.men smoking and lung
cance~ found in othe~ studies has Omen further suppoited."
22. The article by Gilltam does not ~lscuss smoking.
2~. Reconslde¢. ~e cannot locate the £ndlcated piedlction
the article ay Belcher.
24. Hhat is the source for U.$. statistics? 0des the term
"incidence or lung cancer" refer to mortality or motoidity?
25. Rewrite. The article should make an ooJ~ctlve statement of
t~e results or mouse-skin painting experiments. The phrase
"very little, lr any, advance" is vague.
26. Conside¢ deleting the section dealing wl~n COLD. The title
of t~e section focuses on lung cancec~ The same paragraph
in the fourth Report which presents the taole reprinted in
the Draft states "it must be emphasized that at present
only the effects or tobacco are reliaoly known to de or
substantial importance.~
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27. Sug(jest aele~.].on of ~efe~ence ~.o -o~k oy Keys
seconaa~y ~cZe f~om one Lancet. In Ma~Cb, ~84, Keys
an~ o~e~s puoL~sne~ a s~u~y wn~cn conclu~e~ t~a~
3a~n, wnele colona~y deaths wele ~oo tel ro~ evaluation."
Keys, eT eL., The Seven Coun~tes..S~udy: 2289 Oea~ns ~n
Yea~s, P~even~,ve ~eo~c~ne (1S84), ~.14Z. Zn
TobaCco Ins~t~u~e published a Ze~e~ which clued Keys
suDDa~ oF ~ne ~osl~lon..~na~ c~ga~e[~e smoking
m~Jo= ~s~ faccoc ro~ car~ovascuZaw o~sease. Keys
ces~on~e~ vL~ a vl~r*011c leC~ec complaln*ng of
unending scream or m~sre~cesenCac~ons and d~sCorClons
28. Reconslde¢. We do not have the source For the ouote
Pecta*n£ng to T~e HRFIT study. AT Least one .ell-knoqn
~£s conclusion that the study fa~leO to prove smow~ng ,as a
ma~or factor In coronary hear~ d~sease. However, comments
¢ause~. a oecrease In CHO £nc£dence.
29. Delete t~e material presented ~er~a£nlng ~o hypertens¢on.
Smoking Is, Out hypectens£on is not, f¢equently cited as
~e~ng causally related to hear~ a--~ease. The g~a~h
p~ov~des mortaL£ty totes for certain d£seases associated
Suggest reconsLder. Does t~e 8AT have P~otessor MOrriS'
Professor MOrriS may have s~a~ed about smoking based only
upon a few sentences desc¢ipt£on of his ~ork In an article
abOUt exe¢clse. ~s the matercal gratuitous? The state~en~
£s not necessar/ly ,nconsls~en~ ~ch smokLng as ~ eaJor
r~sW rac~or. Our dove=series ~11 Insist that we De as
careful In making any s~atements abou~ health (such as T~e
Qener/ts, £r any, of execc*se) os ~e are about dec~d~ng
~hethe~ 1~ has Oeen proven tha~ cigarette smok*ng causes
d£sease.
~1. Oele~e. Pulmonary emOol*sm *s not related to heact d£sease
and not generally associa~ed .lth smoking.
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