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Public Statements of AB Concerning Tobacco Summary of Table of Contents Volume 1 Includes Documents Dated 10/20/53 through 4/18/60 * Volume 2 Includes Documents Dated End of 1960 through End of 1971 Volume 3 Includes Documents Dated 1/25/72 through 5/12/83 Volume 4 Includes Exhibits A through G * Indicates vol~ne cDntained inside. 282004129 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.

51. 52. 53. 54. 56. 58. 59. 60. PUBLIC STATEMENTS OF AB CO~CER~I~ ~OBACCO MASTER LIST - CHRONOLOGICAL VOLUHE 2 1960 Annual Report ......................... 1961 Annual Report ......................... "Heavy Smokers an~ Low Mortality," Jacob Cohen, R.K. ~eimann (3/62} [A copy of this document in its entirety is included as Exhibit to this report] .......................... press Release "Heavy-Smoking Group Shows Longer than Average Life Span" (3/5/62) ........................... A Summary of Biologic Research on Tobacco Supported by AT (4/62) [A copy of this document is in- cluded as Exhibit C to this report] ...... Press Release, "Very Difficult to Refute," (4/9/62) ........................ Press-Release [Untitled] 5/4/62 ............ Press Release, "Relaxation by the Pack" Paul M. ~ahn (12/6/62) ............. 1962 Annual Raport ......................... Press Release= Statement to Security Anaivsts, R.K. Heimann (5/4/63} .......... Press Releases "Headline Eunting wit~ Statistics," R.K. Reimann (6/4/63} ....... • P~ess Release [Untitled] 6/26/63 ........... Statement made by Robert B. Walker (7/I0/63) ................................ 236 236 237 244 246 246 248 249 250 25~ 254 267 267 2820041.30 282004130 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.

63. Press Release: AB, 10/3/63 ................ Press Release: "Another Record Cigarette Year," Robert B. Walker (12/12/63) ........................ 1963 Annual Report ......................... Press Release: "American Tobacco Announces First Cigarette With 'Tar' and Nicotine Data on Package" (I/6/64}: ................................ 65. Press Release: "American Tobacco Offers AMA Basic Research Data" (2/18/64). ......................... • .. .. 66. Press Release: "American Tobacco Scientist Discloses Facts Behind Tareyton Filter," Dr. H.R. Hanmer (3/12/64) ............................... 67. Annual Meeting of Stockhol~ers-1964- Statement of Robert B. Walker (4/i/64) ................................ 68. Press Release~ "Carlton Changes 'Tar'- Nicotine Test Data," R.B. Walker (5/15/64) ............................... 69. House Hearings: Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Committee of Xnterstate and Foreign Commerce, statement of Bowman Gray (~/25/64) .................... 70. Press Release: =Cigarettes Review and Forecast," Walker/Jones .(12/3/64) ........ 71. Press Release: "AT Removes Data on 'Tar' and Nicotine from Carlton and Montclalr Packages," R.B. Walker- John Wayne Jones (12/64) ................. 72. 1964 Annual Report ......................... 268 270 2";2 273 ( . ~!.:[ . 275 276 278 281 282 295 297 298 2820041.31. 282004131 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et aL v. Philip Morris, et al.

73. Senate Hearings -- Cigarette Labeling and Advertising, Committee on ~nter- state and Foreign Commerce, Statement of Robert C. Hockett (3 or 4/65) ......... 74. Senate Hearings -- Cigarette Labeling and Advertls|ng Committee on Commerce, Statement of George V. Allen (3 or 4/65) .................................... 75. Senate Rearings -- Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Committee on Commerce, Statement of BoW~Sn Gray (3 or 4/65) ..... 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. ~etsko Letter to Magnuson (4/6/65) ......... Press Release, "Increased First Quarter Sales and Income Forecast by Walker of AB," R.B. Walker - John Wayne Jones [4/7/65) ........................... Press Releases "American Tobacco Co. Review of Outlook," Walker/Laric (12/6/65) ................................ Senate Hearings -- Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Committee on Commerce, Statement of CTR-USA (1965). [A copy of this document is included as Exhibit P to this report] ............. Rouse Hearings -- Cig. Lab. & Adv. -- Comm. on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, statement o~ Bowman Gray (1965) .......... 81. 1965 Annual Report ......................... 82. Press Release, Letter to FTC, Edward S. Rarlow [7/1/66) ....................... 83. 84. Press Release: Walker/Laric (8/30/66) ...... . 1966 Annual Report ......................... 306 314 325 326 328 329 336 337- 340 341 2 2004t32 282004132 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.

85. 86. Press Release, "AT Refutes Anti Cigarette Charges," Paul 5ar[c, Robert B. Walker (4/20/67 [?]) ............................ Press Release "American Tobacco Cleared by Federal Jury in Tobacco Case," Walker (6/6/67} .......................... 87. Testimony of Robert K. Heimann in Za@urskl v. A.~.T (6/7/67) .................. 88. Trial Testimony of Virgil Hagen in ~ag~rski (6/7/67) ........................ 89. Press Release: [Untitled] (7/31/67) ...... 90. Press Release~ "American Tobacco Introduces 'Fifty-Fifty' Cigarettes" (10/2/67) ............................... 91. "AB'S Rev[e and Outlook," R.B. Walker (12/15/67) .............................. 92. 1967 Annual Report ........................ 93. Press Release, Walker/Laric (5/7/58) ................................ 94. Press Release "Year End Review," R.B. Walker (12/10/68) ....................... 95. 1968 Annual Report ........................ 96. 97. Answers to Interrogatories in Weaver v. AT (4/9/69) .......................... Brochure: "The Cigarette Controversy Eight OueSt[ons and Answers" (Approx. 4/30/69) ................................ 98. Press Release: {5/7/69) ................... 99. Senate Hearings -- Cigarette Advertising & Labeling Consumer Subcommittee, Sta£ement of Joseph P. Cullman, II~ (7/26/69} ............................... ~2 346 347 359 360 362 365 368 369 372 402 iv 282004133 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.

I00. Advertisement: "Why we're dropping The New York Times" (9/4/69) ................ iOl. Press Release: [Untitled] (11/13/69) ..... 102. Rouse ~earings - Cigarette Labeling an~ Advertising Committee on Inter- state ana Foreign Commerce, State- ment of Joseph P. Cullmsn, {1969) .................................. I03. 1969 Annual Report ........................ 104. 1970 Annual Report ........................ 105. 1970 IO-K ................................. 106. Press Release: "Address by R.K. Helmann at Annual Meeting of Stockholders," (5/5/71) ................................ 107. Press Release= "AB Estimates Nontobacco Business Approaching $8~0 Million in 1971," Walker/~e imann {5/5/71) ......... 108. 1971 10-K ................................. 429 432 468 469 470 471 478 483 282004134 282004134 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.

48. 1960 ~nnua~ ~e~ort The Tobacco Institute, Inc. represents you~ Company and other tobacco manufacture:s in creating b~.tter knowledqe and understanding of tobacco among the general pubZic. On December l, 1960, Mr. George V. Allen assumed the Presidency of The Tobacco Institute. ~r. A11en resigned last year from government service after a distinguished thirty-year career as ~m~assa~or to various count:ies, as Assistant Secretary of State fo~ Public ~ffairs, and as Director of the ~nlted States ~nformation Agency. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Mr. Allen was reared in the tobacco country an~ has had first-han~ expe~ience in OUr industry. 49. Your Company continues to support the scientific program Of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, now in its eighth year. Since its inception, hhe T.I.R.C. has appropriated about $4 ailllon ~or objective research in the area of smoking and health, this research being performed by independent sclentists with no obligation to the industry other than to pursue the ~acts and publLsh them. The research program is administetea by a Scien- tific Advisory Board whose me~be~s are not connected with the tobacco Industry. Last year in a joint repOEt to the T.Z.R.C., the Scien- tific AdViSOE~ Board stated in part~ ". . . perhaps the mosf slgn~fican~ development has been the general recognitfon that we do not yet have the answers~ that an association between the extent of tobacco use and the incidence of lung cancer ~oes not prove a causal relationship . . 12-13 __ ~961 Annual Report Smoking and Health Your Company continues to support objective and inde- pendent research in this ~ield through the Tobacco In- dustry Research Committee. Since its formation in 1954, 236 28 004:1.35 282004135

T.I.R.C. has appropriated $5,450,000 for research grants in hospitals, medical schools and research institutions throughout the country. Recently the Chairman of the Tobacco I.~ustry Research Committee stated that: "In the last eight years, the cigarette hypotheses have been subjected to clinical and laboratory tests throughout the world. Today, while the hypotheses are still alive, they rest almost wholly on assoc[- atlons derived from statistical studies that did not give comparable consideration to other factors. These other factors have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years and good progress is bei.g reported. Tobacco use is still under study, by T.Z.R.C. and othe=s, but the chemical and laboratory experiments have railed to explain the statistical associations." 12-13 50. "Heavy smokers and Low Mortality", Jacob Cohen, R.K. Heimann (3/62): [A copy of this document in its entirety [s included as Exhibit B to this report.] Comment The health history of this population of heavy smoking tobacco company employees tends to disprove the hypothesis that cigarette smoking causes higher mortality from all causes, from cancer, from lung cancer, or from heart disease. This interpretation is strenghtened by the following data of observation: The substantial degree to which the studied population's cigarette consumption exceeds the national average~ ~n the percentage smokin~ more than 20 cigarettes daily, the Finkner study group recorded the ratio as 2:1 or more in every subgroup and in virtually every age group. In view of the population's vocational interest in the product it manufactures, and the provision of a free package Of cigarettes 23"/ 28;2004136 282004136 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al_

each working day, this characteristic of the g~OUp studied is not astonishing. 2. The unusually stable nature of this employee group, as indicated under "Characteristics o[ the ~opulation" above: Stability of the-popu- lation for purposes of these studies is also insured by the fact that employees on leave, retired for disability, or retired for age, continue to be covered under the group insur- ance plan. These employees or former employees were included on the July i rosters used to compute expected deaths; and actual deaths among them were reported by the Metropolitan Life ~nsurance Company. 3. The extended nature of the aortality rese~6ch, covering a continuous time span of 14-1/4 years. 4. The consistently lower than average mortality of the studied population for each of the three mortality studies {Table 5. The consistently of the degree to which this mortality for the entire I~-i/4 year period lower than the national rat~, as between the various causes of deaths [Table II, Column 'Other Statistical Studies A number o[ studies, of which those of DOll-Sill and ~ammond-Eorn are representative, have yiel~ed a sta- tistica~ association in individuals between cigarette smoking and higher mortality rates. Othe~ studies, in- cluding Eastcott, Dean and the present study, have shown no such association. A number of distinctions ma~ be noted in connection with the diametric opposition between the results of the two groups of studies. Statistical association studies of the Hammond-Horn, Doll-Hill type compute expected deaths on the basis-of mortality rates shown ~y professed nonsmokers. The pro~essed ~o~s~oker is take~ as the norm or "average" against which various types of smokers are Compared. This raises two questions: (i) whether those smokers who manifest hi~her mortality rates do so as a direct resu~ of the effects of smoking, or whether the smoking habits of some of these higher-mortality smokers 238 2b12004t37 282004137 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et sl_

diagnostic of other factors that predispose to shorter llfe, and (2) whether the proEessed nonsmoker with low mortality rate can be taken as a norm. The former question cannot be answered from the statistics themselves, since this would require that all relevant or predisposing factors other than smoking be held constant. No attempt was made in the Doll-Will, Hammond-Horn, or their counterpart studies to dO this, since all relevant factors affecting mortality and/or cancer mortality are not known, and since some of the Suspected factors -- previous medical history, genotypic differences, constitutional predisposition, exposure to various environmental agents, "rate of living," the "stress" factor, etc. -- are difficult if not impossible tO reduce to mathematical terms, even if they could be gathered for populations large enough for statistical study. that Touching on the latter questioa, Berkson* has noted ~i~ht persons who are nonsmokers, or relatively smokers, are of a constitutional type that is biologically disposed to self-protective habits. t-exth is not implausible that they should be, average, relatively longevous, and this im- on plies that the death rates generally in this segment of the pop~latlcn will be relatively low. The extent of this difference between death ~ates of professed nonsmokers and average U.S. oltlzens was indicated by Hammond-Horn, who computed mortality rates of 777, 1,253, 1,781, and 3,280 per I00,0~0 for nonsmoking white males in their 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, and 65-69 age groups, compared with rates of 1,439, 2,210, 3,402, and 4,895 per 100,000 for white males of the same age groups in the general ~opulation. These mortality differences between the professed nonsmoker and the "average" white male reported by Hammond-Horn were great -- 85%, 76%~ 81% and 49%. Should Berkson's characterization of noh- s~okers be correct even for a numSer of persons in that category, the Sammond-~orn interpretation that cigarette smokers incur "excess" mortality rates becomes meaningless. That is, the association their data showed reflects only the choice of an abnormally longevous g~oup as a criterion of what is "normal." The same would be true of a n~mber 239 ZSZOO41~S 282004138 Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality: Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et at=