Tobacco Products Liability Project
[Opinion on Dr. Gardner's Request Undertake Tests on Smoke Fractions]
Abstract
Dr. Gardner's request to conduct short term tests on smoke fractions should not be accepted as the CTR has invested a great deal in the inhalation programs that need to be finalized.
User-Contributed Notes
- Smoking and Health Tar Cancer
Fields
- Named Person
- Dr. Gardner
- Named 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.
- USDA
- Microbiological Associates (Research lab in Bethesda, MD)
Research lab in Bethesda, MD. CTR contracted with this lab to do the world's largest inhalation study, involving more than 10,000 mice in 1973-1982.- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Contract research lab; does gov't work and also takes private contracts. - USDA
- Indexer Comment
- Hand-written note "CTR/[Ineligible]Res."
- Recipient
- 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.
- *McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)
Defense - *McCarty, C.I. (use McCarty, Charles I.)
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Type
- Inter-office Memo
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