Tobacco Products Liability Project
The Value of the Council for Tobacco Research to B&W
Abstract
Expenditures made by Brown and Williamson for tobacco research are justified in light of the contributions that the Council for Tobacco Research has made. These include validating and lending credibility before juries the investigations by tobacco manufacturers particularly by the independent Scientific Advisory Board, in selecting research for funding, in providing independent research before legislative and judicial bodies, in persuading scientists of the credibility of efforts to enlist their support, in helping scientists to formulate research projects to throw doubts on anti-cigarette theory or to provide positive enforcement to the use of tobacco, and in positively interpreting data.
User-Contributed Notes
- Product Liability Medical research
Fields
- Type
- Inter-office Memo
- Indexer Comment
- Hand written note "Law Reports to President"
- Named Person
- Sommers, Sheldon Charles, M.D. (CTR Scientific Director c.1979, Industry Consultant)Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers was an Industry Consultant, CTR Scientific Director and served on the CTR Scientific Advisory Board. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)
- Hockett, Robert Casad, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Director)
- Kennedy, Senator Ted (U.S. Senator from MA)
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, has advocated against tobacco and for public health. - Hockett, Robert Casad, Ph.D. (CTR Scientific Director)
- Named Organization
- Brown & Williamson Industries (Cigarette manufacturer)Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation became Brown & Brown & Williamson Industries in 1974 (L. White, Merchants 1988). B&W brands include: Cool, Viceroy, Raleigh, Barclay, Belaire, Copre, Fact, Richland and GPC, 1976.
- Council for Tobacco Research - USA (CTR) (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
Originally organized as the Tobacco Industry Research Committe(TIRC) in 1954, and renamed Council for Tobacco Research - USA, Inc. (CTR) in 1964.- *Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) (Only use SAB with name of specific org.)
- American Cancer Society
- Council for Tobacco Research - USA (CTR) (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
- Author (Organization)
- Brown & Williamson Industries (Cigarette manufacturer)Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation became Brown & Brown & Williamson Industries in 1974 (L. White, Merchants 1988). B&W brands include: Cool, Viceroy, Raleigh, Barclay, Belaire, Copre, Fact, Richland and GPC, 1976.
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Recipient
- *McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)Defense
- Hughes, Ivor Wallace, Dr. (CEO Brown & Williamson, TI Executive Committee)
Ivor Wallace Hughes was The Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company in 1983, also served on the Tobacco Institute Executive Committee in 1983 and was CTR Director 1/28/83. - Hughes, Ivor Wallace, Dr. (CEO Brown & Williamson, TI Executive Committee)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
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