Tobacco Products Liability Project
For A.M. Release Wednesday, March 11, 1964
Abstract
Contains a press release announcing the renaming of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to the Council for Tobacco Research. Discusses the membership of the Council. Quotes Timothy Hartnett: "'a steady expansion in our program or scientific research into tobacco use and health has convinced us of the need for more permanent organizational machinery.'" Notes that the Scientific Advisory Board will still be responsible for the development of research policy and programming.
Fields
- Named Organization
- American Medical Association (physicians group)Professional trade group representing American physicians.
- American Tobacco Company
- Bright Belt Warehouse Association
- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W)
Subsidiary of BAT U.S., located in Louisville, KY.- Burley Auction Warehouse Association
- Burley Stabilization Corporation
- Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative
- Cornell Medical School
- *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.- Harvard University
- Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer in United Kingdom)
Cigarette manufacturer in United Kingdom- Institute for Cancer Research
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Larus & Brother Company
- Liggett & Myers Inc. (Pioneer in the generic cigarette business)
Cigarette manufacturer; Pioneer in the generic cigarette business; L&M is the manufacturer of Chesterfield, Decade, Dorado, Duke of Durham in 1958, Eagle, Eve, L&M, Lark, Pyramid and Stride cigarettes- Liggett & Myers Inc. (Pioneer in the generic cigarette business)
Cigarette manufacturer; Pioneer in the generic cigarette business; L&M is the manufacturer of Chesterfield, Decade, Dorado, Duke of Durham in 1958, Eagle, Eve, L&M, Lark, Pyramid and Stride cigarettes- Lorillard Tobacco Co. (American cigarette manufacturer)
American cigarette manufacturer; makes Kent, MaxSatin, Newport, Old Gold, Style, and True cigarettes.- Maryland Tobacco Growers Association
- Medical College of South Carolina
- National Cancer Institute NCI
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute located in Rockville, MD- Philip Morris Incorporated (Philip Morris U.S.A.) (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Philip Morris Co., Inc.)
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Philip Morris Co., Inc.- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral))
Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral)- Schweitzer Company (Invented reconstituted leaf (RL) process)
- *Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) (Only use SAB with name of specific org.)
- Stephano Brothers Inc.
- Tobacco Associates Inc.
- Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC) (Renamed Council for Tobacco Research-USA (CTR))
Organized in 1954 as the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC), and renamed the Council for Tobacco Research-USA (CTR) in 1964.- United States Public Health Service (Headed by the Surgeon General)
United States Public Health Service is headed by Surgeon General of the United States.- United States Tobacco Company (Producers of Copenhagen/Skoal chewing tobacco)
Producers of chewing tobacco- University of Chicago Medical School
- Wayne State University College of Medicine
- American Tobacco Company
- Named Person
- Bing, Richard John, M.D. (CTR SAB; Experimental Cardiologist)Dr. Bing worked for Counsel for Tobacco Research -- U.S.A. He was a member of CTR's committee which reviewed grant applications in 1974 (UCSF000134). Bing was on the CTR Scientific Advisory Board from 6/6/58 to present. (N.M.'s Who's Who) (UCSF B&W 1012.01)
- Cattell, McKeen, M.D., Ph.D. (CTR SAB (1954-73), Pharmacologist, Cornell U)
Former ACS Progarm Director- Hartnett, Timothy V. (B&W exec)
Defense- Jacobson, Leon Orris, M.D. (CTR Scientific Advisory Board)
Council for Tobacco Research -- U.S.A., Inc. He was a member of CTR's Scientific Advisory Board. Dean Emeritus of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine- Kotin, Paul, M.D. (CTR SAB; Associate Prof. of Pathology, USC)
- Little, Clarence Cook, Sc.D. (CTR Scientific Director, 1954-1971)
- Lynch, Kenneth Merrill, M.D. (CTR Scientific Advisory Board 1954-74)
Kenneth Lynch was on the CTR SAB from 1954-1974. (Source: NM Tobacco Companies Personnel List)- Reimann, Stanley Philip, M.D. (CTR SAB)
- Rienhoff, William F., Jr. (CTR SAB, Baltimore Surgeon)
CTR SAB- Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, Ph.D. (CTR SAB, Prof. Emeritus, Vital Statistics, Harvard 1964)
Prof. Vital Statistics, Harvard 1964 - Served on CTR Advisory Board - Cattell, McKeen, M.D., Ph.D. (CTR SAB (1954-73), Pharmacologist, Cornell U)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Author (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.
- Simon O'Shea
- *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. - Simon O'Shea
- Type
- Press Release
- Public Relations
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FRCI4: THE COUNCIL FOR ~BACCO R~SEARCH -
• , --~ (Fo~erly the ~ecco lndust~ Resea~h C~tt~e)
(Simon O'~ea)
1~0 ~st ~ Steer
Nev ~ork~ ~ev York
l~ev York -- Timothy Y. ltartnett~ chaiz~an of the Tobacco Industry
Research C~Łtteej today issued the following annoxmcement|:
1, The Committee has been officially renamed The Council
for Tobacco P, eaearch - U.S.A.
2, ~.e~bership In The Councll~ ~hlch conducts s program of
research Into questions of tobacco ~ee and health~ nov
totals 17 tobacco coml~aniea and or~-anizattone~ LIs~ett
& ~.yers ~bacco C~n~ ~cently ~avins become a ~e~er.
~. ~e Councl~ p~ans to relocate to ~ar~r ~e~ York C~ty
~ea~q~rtere vithin ~O-to-~ day~.
~r, Kartnett ssLd~ "a steady expansion Ln our prosram of scientific
research into tobacco use end health has convLcced us o~ the need ~or mo~
pemanent or~nl~tlo~l r~chLne~,"
~e Co~c~l c~mn e=phael~d~ hovever~ t~t the develo~ent
~search policy and prosm~ rill contin~ to be the ~eponslbll~ty
t~ Scientific Adv~so~ ~ ~ ~e Co~e~l ~hlch Is c~eed of ~dependent
d~re mad scientists ~d for their ~o~ ~ cancer a~ other
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ATM~P, JV0009047
Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality:
Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality:
Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et ai.
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~'as.~u~ated~ over ~0 p~lished re~rts ~ye ree~d
o~ a~d to ~aearch.
?;ot, e to Editors:
T~e =emberehlp o~ ~ne Council Sncludee the ~ol~ovin&: The ~r~can ~bacco
Com~ny~ lno.~ BrI~t ~lt ~'srebo~e Association, ln˘,~ B~ & Wl~amson
Tobacco Co,ration, ~urle~ A~tlon ~a~ho~e AaaocJat~on~ B~le~
Stablli~tio~ Co~mtion, B~ley ~bacco G~ver~ ~mt~ve ~m~latlon,
~e Im~ria~ ~baceo ~n~ Ltd.~ ~ & Brother ~y, Ine.~ Li~ett
& ~rs ~bacco C~y~ P. ~rl~d C~ny~ lnc.~ F~nd ~bacco O~ers
~ter ~. ~h~eit~r D~vlsion~ S~p~o ~ro~ers~ Inc.~ ~bacco ~s~iates~
Inc. and United S~s ~bacco C~ny,
ATIv~RIV0009049
Subject to Claims of Privilege and Confidentiality:
Produced Pursuant to Court Orders in State of Minnesota, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
