Tobacco Products Liability Project
The Controversy on Smoking and Health: Some Facts and Anomalies
Abstract
Document covers the tobacco company's position on smoking and health controversy. Presents quotes and highlights from research questioning the causality of diseases by smoking, and offers alternative theories to causation, including cancer. Argues that people will continue to smoke, and more research is needed into causes of diseases allegedly connected to smoking.
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- Draft commented on in document 282002680-282002686
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- Blackman, Lionel C.F., Ph.D. (BATCo Executive Dir., GR&DC Dir. )Lionel C.F. Blackman was a BATCO Executive Director, and director of Group Research and Development Center in Southampton, England. (N.M. Tobacco Companies Personnel List)
- Named Person
- Donald Gould. Quoted from his work in the New Scientist.
- Cain, William S. (CIAR SAB, Epidemiologist, Yale U)1988
- Atsuko Chiba. Quoted from the New York Tribune.
- Ruth Roemer, lawyer from the School of Public Health in Los Angeles.
- Doll, Sir William Richard, M.D. (Epidemiologist, Oxford U, Plaintiff's Expert)Dr. Doll is an eminent physician from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
- Peto, Sir Richard A., M.D. (Epidemiologist, Oxford U, Worked with Sir Doll, Anti-Tobacco)
- Fisher, Sir Ronald A. (Statistician, argued that lung cancer is caused by genetics)
- Wald, Nicholas J., Ph.D. (Colleague of Sir Richard Doll, coauthor with Law of secondha)Professor of Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of London, Colleague of Sir Richard Doll, coauthor with Law of secondhand smoke metaanalysis
- Dr. A. Bailey, EUPA Centre, London.
- Cummings, Gregory A. (PM Process Commercialization & Engineering VP c. 2000)Reported to Urs Nyffeler
- Eysenck, Hans Jurgen, Ph.D., Sc.D. (Psychologist, U of London; worked with RJR)
- Prof. Geoffrey Rose.
- Russek, Henry I., M.D. (CTR Special Projects Cardiologist, New York Med. College)
- Goldhaber, Gerald M., Ph.D. (Communications Prof., St. U of New York, Buffalo, Industry E)Defense
- Lord Hunter, Chairman of the Independent Scientific Committee, United Kingdom.
- Wynder, Ernst L., M.D. (Epidemiologist, Sloan Kettering, Anti-Tobacco Expert)1993 First scientist to report in 1950 on the carginocencity of cigarettes in rats painted with tar. Assistant at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Directed the American Health Foundation (AHF) from 1984 to his death in 1998.
- Hoffmann, Dietrich, Ph.D. (Biochemist, American Health Foundation, Plaintiff's Expert)Plaintiff
- Hirayama, Takeshi, M.D., M.P.H. (Inst. of Preventive Oncology, Japan)Produced a major study that linked secondhand smoke to an increased risk of lung cancer
- *Garfinkle, Lawrence (use Garfinkel, Lawrence)Plaintiff
- W.E. Chan. Conducted a study of female lung cancer patients who were non-smokers but had smoking husbands.
- Rylander, Ragnar, M.D. (PM contractor, Environmental Hygienist, U of Gothenburg)Professor of Environmental Hygiene, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Worked on contract to Philip Morris overseeing biological laboratory work being performed at INBIFO, PM's biological labs in Cologne, Germany. PM paid Rylander $150,000 per year (salary determined from Bliley PM doc 2022850392, from 1992)
- Named Organization
- *British American Tobacco Company Limited BAT (See British-American Tobacco Co.)Defense
- Yale Medical School
- School of Public health, Los Angeles.
- World Health Organization (Concerned with global public health)International organization concered with public health worldwide
- British Medical Association
- Royal College of Physicians (Monitors the quality of Canadian/U.K. medical education)
- American Cancer Society
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Medical Research Council of Great Britain (MRC)
- 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.
- American Health Foundation (Health Research)Plaintiff
- National Cancer Institute NCIDivision of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute located in Rockville, MD
- American Heart Association (Voluntary health organization that focuses on cardiac health)Voluntary health organization that focuses on cardiac health and stroke. AHA occasionally teams with tobacco retailers to engage in promotions/fund-raisers (see http://www.smokefree.net/doc-alert/messages/247136.html and http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html).
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THE CONTROVERSY-
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SOME FACTS AND
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Background to(h~ Cigarette Industry ........................... 1
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Controversy over the Central Issue of causality
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The worf~wide ccnl."cversy
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