Tobacco Products Liability Project
Letter re: Clarification on radon
Abstract
Intent of letter of September 2, 1987, on which Jim Glenn and David Stone commented, was to point to anomalies in scientific literature that should lead to a revision of the notion that smoking is responsible for unchanging number of deaths. Thus, the letter did not deal with, among others, funding to CTR.
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- Notes
Hand written note.
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Indexer Comment
- Refers to previous letter/comment made by the writer regarding radon.
- Type
- Letter
- Author (Organization)
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W)Subsidiary of BAT U.S., located in Louisville, KY.
- Named Person
- Glenn, James Francis, M.D. (CTR Scientific Advisory Board.)James F. Glenn was on CTR's Scientific Advisory Board. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996). He was used as an expert in the Mississippi case.
- Stone, David, Ph.D. (CTR Assoc. Research Director)
- Named Organization
- *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))Created and funded by the tobacco industry to award grants to study of the link between smoking and disease. Part of a four decade effort to cast doubt on the links between smoking and disease.
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Recipient
- Hobbs, William D. (Pres. RJR 72-75, CTR Director, TI Exec. Comm.)William D. Hobbs was a President for R.J. Reynolds and a CTR Chairman. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996). William D. Hobbs worked for RJR Industries as President & Director from 1972 to 1975, as Chairman of the Executive Committee from 1979 to 1980, Chairman & CEO from 1975 to 1980, Chairman & CEO of International Tobacco in 1978, Executive Vice President in 1980, Senior Vice President in 1971 and Vice President from 1967 to 1971. (Source: RJR Who's Who NMLRP) Hobbs served on the Tobacco Institute's Executive Committee. He was also Director, Chairman and CEO of CTR's Executive Committee. (N.M.'s CTR Who Who)
Created and funded by the tobacco industry to award grants to study of the link between smoking and disease. Part of a four decade effort to cast doubt on the links between smoking and disease.
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S~O~N &
TO~ACX~O CORPO~T~ON
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October t2, 1987
Hr. William D. ~oDbs
Chairman.
Council for Tobacco Research-US&, Inc.
900 Third Avenue
New ~ock, N¥ 10022
Dear Bill::
Thank you foc sending me the comments of Jim Glenn and David
Stone that were directed to some of the documents
accompanying my letter of September 2, 1987 to you. Their.
comments are very interesting and I hope you will let them
know that I greatly appreciate the time they devoted to
studying this matter.
I am afraid, however, that the accompanying documents on
radon overwhelmed the central thrust of my letter, which did
not emphasize radon except as it may represent an example of
a number of relatively recent anomalies in the literature.
In other words, I should think the oft-repeated notion that
smoking is responsible foe some unchanging number of deaths
Has to be revised as more non-tobacco culprits or even some
protective effects of smoking emerge in the scientific
z~tecatuce. My letter sought some profundities on the
generic issue rather than on the radon controversy itself.
I want to oe clear. My letter did not:
- relate to ~unding o~ research by CTR;
focus on radon except as it is an example of
several SUCh surprises;
suggest that CTR interpose itself in the radon
controversy oc in anything else; oc
suggest that CTR put itsel~ in the position of
cationa£izing radon, lung cancer and smoking.
~ letter was not inCenaed in any wa~ to influence CTR
~unding poiicf, which is the exclusive province of the
Scientific Advisory Board with the advice to the CTR staff.
COP" " 640000545
282002876
Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality:
Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
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OctoDec 12, 1987
Those people, however, are extremely' knowledgeable about the
smoking-and-health contcovecsy because they devote a 9rear
ueal ~f tf~e sculpin9 it. Accordingly, I just wante~ to
neac thef~ ~eflectlons on the anomalfes that seem to be
co~nt~ w~th some f~equency ~ately.
Again, le: me saf I appreciated ~eceiving the considered
c~ci~ues of the ~adon documents and w~11 c~cculate them to
t~e va~lous people here who follow these mattecs w~th keen
~nte~est.
Best ~shes.
Co~d~ally,
640000546
282002877
Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality:
Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
