Tobacco Documents Online

[Public Statements of AB concerning tobacco]

Abstract

Lists documents containing statements of executives and scientists regarding animal experiments showing the connection between cigarettes and cancer.

Fields

Named Organization

*Tobacco Industry Research Committee--- TIRC (Renamed the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR))

Organized in 1954 as the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC), and renamed the Council for Tobacco Research-USA (CTR) in 1964.

National Institutes of Health

Yale Medical School

American Tobacco Company

Medical College of Virginia

Roswell Park Memorial Institute

*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.

Named Person

Hanmer, Hiram R., Ph.D. (ATC director (1896-1976))

Developed standards of measuring cigarette smoke in machines

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.

Haag, Harry B., M.D. (Pharmacologist, Med. College of Virginia, Industry Expert)

Co-wrote Tobacco: Experimental and Clinical Studies (1961), Scientist [NM # 6830]

Roffo, Angel Honorio, Dr. (Argentinian oncoclogist, did early tobacco studies establ)

Laric, Paul

Gwynn, R.H.

Little, Clarence Cook, Sc.D. (CTR Scientific Director, 1954-1971)

Heimann, Robert Karl, Ph.D. (ATC President and CEO; CTR Director)

PR Committee for the Tobacco Institute and on the Executive Committee as a CTR Director.

Dorn, Harold F. (Chief Statistician for the NIH)

Hahn, Paul Meyer (ATC President (1950-63); TIRC Chairman (1954))

Walker, Robert B. (Tobacco Institute Exec. Dir., CTR Dir., Ex Comm)

Robert B. Walker was a Tobacco Institute Executive Director, CTR Director and on the Executive Committee.

Harlan, William R., Ph.D. (Developed standards of measuring cigarette smoke in machines)

Hockett, Robert Casad, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Director)

Scientific Director of the Council for Tobacco Research from 1972-1974 (WSJ 2/11/93; Allman complaint). Bio-Research Institute BRI conducted a study for the CTR. When Syrian hamsters were exposed to smoke twice a day for 59 to 80 weeks, 40% of those of a cancer-susceptible strain and 4% of a resistant strain developed malignant tumors (WSJ 2/11/93). Before publishing the study in 1974, BRI's founder, Frederic Homberger, sent a manuscript to Robert Hockett, then scientific director of the CTR. Dr. Homberger says he had to do so because halfway through his study, the CTR had changed it from a grant to a contract so they could control publication. They were quite open about that (WSJ 2/11/94. Soon thereafter, Hockett and CTR lawyer Edwin Jacob went to Dr. Homburger's summer house in Maine. Hockett and Jacob did not want BRI to call anything cancer, they wanted it to be "pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasis," a euphemism for lesions preceding cancer (WSJ 2/11/93). Dr. Homberger said no, this is not right, it is cancer. Jacob told Dr. Homberger that BRI would never get a penny more if the paper was published without the changes. At the last minute, Dr. Homberger changed the final proofs to read "microinvasive" cancer, a microscopic malignancy. Nevertheless, BRI was never funded by the CTR again (WSJ 2/11/96) Hochett made a statement, as scientific director of the CTR circa February 1972 that neither tobacco and health research in general, nor that of the Council for Tobacco Research has established that tobacco use or cigarette smoking in particular is a major health hazard (Allman complaint, pp. 41-42). Robert C. Hockett was Scientific Director, Vice President and Research Director of CTR. See Bio-Research Institute, TTLA Almanac - Names. (N.M.'s CTR Who's Who)

Bock, Fred Garland, Ph.D. (Biochemist, Roswell Park, Anti-Tobacco Expert)

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Date Loaded

08 Jan 2003