Bliley TI
Subject: HEW [Health, Education and Welfare] Objectives in Preventing Disease/Promoting Health
Abstract
Transmits Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) "plans for the smoking and health component of HEW's long range plans for disease prevention and health promotion". Notes areas where plans could impact state public smoking legislation and "Federal legislation and regulation", particularly Federal Trade Commission (FTC) activities regarding warning labels, reduction of tar, 'known carcinogens' and other smoke constituents proportional to tar reduction. Strategizes about analysis and response utilizing industry contractors and Tobacco Institute (attachment missing).
Fields
- Named Organization
- Congress
- Cook & Henderson
- Covington & Burling (Tobacco Industry law firm)
Tobacco industry law firm. Was involved in organizing the Whitecoat Project.- Federal Trade Commission
- Federal Trade Commission (Enforcement agency for laws against deceptive advertising)
Enforces laws against false and deceptive advertising, including ads for tobacco products. Ensures proper display of health warnings in ads and on tobacco products;collects and reports to Congress information concerning cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertising, sales expenditures, and the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content of cigarettes.- Health, Education and Welfare
- HEW
- Johns-Manville
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Medical-statistical Group
- MIT
- PHS
- Public Health Service
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon
- Smoking and Health Work Group
- TI
- Tobacco Institute
- Cook & Henderson
- Type
- Memorandum
- Named Person
- Califano, J.
- Harris, J. MD
- *Kotin, P. (use Kotin, Paul, M.D.)
Associate Pro. Pathology, USC - Harris, J. MD
- Copied
- Kornegay, Horace R. (TI President and Exec. Director)VP Leaf Ops (RJR), TI Chairman (1985)
- Frankovic, T.L.
- Author
- Panzer, Frederick (TI VP of Issues Management c. 1988)Vice president of The Tobacco Institute, early 1970's
- Keyword
- Acrolein gases
- Asbestos
- Califano's battle plan
- California
- Carbon monoxide
- Carcinogens
- Dade County (Florida)
- Gases
- Hydrogen cynanide
- Nitrogen oxides
- Non-smoking
- Oregon
- Sales-weighted average tar
- Statistics
- Asbestos
- Recipient
- Mills, J.
- Subject
- Cigarettes
- Diseases
- Economic costs
- Federal level
- industry sponsored research
- legislation
- Legislatures
- nicotine
- Regulations
- Research studies
- Restrictions
- secondhand smoke
- Smoke
- State level
- tar
- Warning labels
- Additives
- Diseases
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CONFIDENTIAL:
M E M 0 R A N D ~ M .PtOduced~SOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION
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DATE: December ll, 1979
SUBJECT: HEW Objectives in Preventing Disease/
Promoting 8ealth
Attached are HEW plans for the smoking and health component
of HEW's long range plans for disease prevention and health
promotion. These plans grew our of a conference in Atlanta,
and had been circulated to the participants for review and
comment.
When I learned of this, I requested a copy from the public
affairs officer of the Public Health Service whom-I Know.
As you can see From his note, we have an opportunity to
comment--an option which should be studied.
The section on smoking and health contains many of the same
recommendations as Califano's battle plan. Most significant
are the following economic and regulatory objectives:
B"Establish laws in all 50 States encouraging nonsmoking
in public places, and in work and dining areas~currently
existing in 51 states)";
@"Label a11 cigarette packages and advertisements with improved
health warnings, required "tar" and nicotine levels, and
levels of major gases";
|"Reduce to below I0 mg the sales-weighted average "tar"
content of cigarettes (currently 17 mg)";
|"Reduce the concentration of known carcinogens and carbon
monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxides, and acrole£n
gases in proportion to the reduction in "tar" content.,,
The first is particularly important to the issue of public
smoking legislation and could be a factor in upcoming
initiatives in California, Oregon, and Dade County. The
other three impact on Federal legislation and regulation,
the last in particular affecting possible FTC activities.
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Substantive matters aside, the procedure used by HEW in
setting these disease prevention goals and objectives
leaves a lot to be desired in terms of fairness. Paul Kotin,
Senior VP of Johns-Manville, was a member of the Smoking
and Health work group as was Jeffrey Harris, an MD-economist
of MIT, who is, I believe, a ˘onsul~an~ ~o HE~ on ~he economic
costs of smoking.
~CO~ENDATI ONS :
1. Our medical-sta~isxical group~and Shook, Hardy ~ Bacon~
analyse any health and statisxical aspects.
~2. Cook ~ Henderson/Covington ~ Burling analyse for any
defects in a~inis~raxive procedure ac~ or federal advisory
co~ittee ac~.~
5. " Based on their input, a decision can be made at TI
to whether ~o cogent directly or alert Congressional~
members who might Zhemselves object.
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