Daily Doc: TI, Jun 19, 1974: TI dream: curing acne?
Daily Doc: TI dream: curing acne?
Title: Memo Suggesting Consideration of Formation of a Scientifically Oriented Group to Review Work Made at Tobacco Industry Expense.
TI, Jun 19, 1974
Bates #: TIMN0068332
May 25, 2000
The tobacco industry spends millions of dollars on research that ironically reveals no link between smoking and cancer, and is of conspicuously little use and value overall. This would seem to the average person to be quite a waste of dollars. However, this document show a revealing rationale for why the tobacco industry saw fit to press on paying for what appeared to be fruitless research: if they could even just stumble upon a cure for some other minor malady, then at least they could get the victims of that malady on their side!
This document is also interesting because it exposes the notion by industry executives that they would be well-served by setting up their own panel of scientific experts to evaluate, review and summarize their own fruitless, internally-funded research.
CITATION
Title: Memo Suggesting Consideration of Formation of a Scientifically Oriented Group to Review Work Made at Tobacco Industry Expense.
Type of Document: Memo
Author: EHRINGHAUS JCB
Recipient: KORNEGAY HR; KLOEPFER W (of the Tobacco Institute)
Date: 19740619
Site: Tobacco Institute http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/
Page Count 1
Bates No. TIMN0068332
URL: http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=TIMN0068332
Litigation Usage: MORM/TRIAL EXHIBIT; FLAG/TRIAL EXHIBIT; TXAG/TRIAL EXHIBIT
QUOTES
...Surely over the years the amount of money spent by the Industry has produced something that may be of value and use today. ...
...It seems that if we are to brag about Industry effort, we ought to know that the millions of dollars already spent have either produced nothing or have resulted in even minimal findings....
...I believe it will be difficult for the Industry to establish credibility unless the public knows that we have been and are continuing to try to find out what causes disease (specifically cancer) rather than to exonerate cigarettes. For instance, if we could even show that we had found a cure for acne we would at least have the acne victims on our side...
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