Daily Doc: RJR, Feb 13, 1980: Tobacco's competition: pot, drugs, tranquilizers


Daily Doc: Tobacco's competition: pot, drugs, tranquilizers


Title: Teague's Fearless Forecast for 1981-1986
RJR, Feb 13, 1980
Bates #: 500917493 -7502



April 1, 2000

In this document, Claude Teague (Director of Research and Development for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) says that pot, tranquilizers, alcohol and psychotropic drugs are competitive products to cigarettes, and expresses concern that these drugs could erode their cigarette market.

This insight helps us understand why tobacco companies opt to own liquor companies (e.g., Philip Morris owns Miller Beer).

CITATION
Title: Teague's Fearless Forecast for 1981-1986
Author: Claude Teague, Director, Research and Development for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Document Type: Draft Report
Date: 19800213
Page Count: 10
Site: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. document site: http://www.rjrtdocs.com/rjrtdocs/frames.html
Bates No. 500917493 -7502
URL: the R.J. Reynolds site still does not support transfer of URL's. Use the Basic Search option at the doc site. Basic Search Criteria: "teague and fearless" (entering this criteria, without quotation marks, will return this document).
QUOTES
(from page four of the document):

4. Changing social values may add to manufacturing costs and reduce the market for cigarettes:

- Social acceptance of smoking will continue to decline.

- Methods may evolve for relatively painless methods for stopping smoking.

- Competitive products, such as alcohol, pot, tranquilizers and the new generation of psychotropic drugs may decrease the market for cigarettes.

[emphasis added].

This service is brought to you by the American Lung Association of Colorado ( http://www.alacolo.org/) and Smokescreen ( http://www.smokescreen.org)

To join Doc-Alert, go to http://tobaccodocuments.org/, scroll down to the bottom of the page, enter your email address in the box marked "Daily Document Newsletter," and click *subscribe.*

Visit the Daily Document Archives at http://www.smokescreen.org/list/viewmsgs.cfm?id=66.

Anne Landman, Regional Program Coordinator
American Lung Association of Colorado, West Region Office
Grand Junction, CO
(970) 245-2120
afoxland@gj.net
This document's URL is: http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddcompetition.html

Return To: Anne Landman's Daily Document Page

Return To: Tobacco BBS Secret Documents Page
***********************
Go To: Tobacco BBS HomePage / Resources Page / Health Page / Documents Page / Culture Page / Activism Page
***********************

END OF DOCUMENT