Daily Doc: PM, Jul 8, 1983: Extramural & Defensive Activities: Strictly Confidential
Daily Doc: Extramural & Defensive Activities: Strictly Confidential
Title: Extramural and Defensive Activities: Original 22nd April 1983, Up-Date: 3rd June, 1983 Objectives and Strategies - Strictly Confidential
PM, Jul 8, 1983
Bates #: 2501001600/1606
May 19, 2000
In this document, Philip Morris (PM) emerges not only as the "bully on the block" in our communities (as we try to obtain clean indoor air ordinances) but also among other tobacco companies. For example, note PM's objective:
"OBJECTIVE -2: The further extension and deepening of scientific contacts within NMA's [National Manufacturer's Associations] ...and industry organisations...in order to enhance PM leadership and and to make prevail PM policies, PM strategies and PM approaches to common problems."This document also shows that PM attempts to influence, if not control, the standardizing organizations that carry out measurements on cigarettes:
"OBJECTIVE -3: Further deepening of contacts by PM experts with standardising organizations and with institutions that carry out control measurements on cigarettes, ingredients or other relevant commodities in order to assure that PM products are measured correctly throughout the World..."One must ask what measurements on their products PM would consider "incorrect"? Ones that affect sales or the expense of manufacturing the product? Why should their opinion of what is "correct" prevail throughout the world, when their primary concern is sales of their products and not human health or safety?
Also contained within this document is a clear admission that PM worked to influence the "free" science surrounding their products, by "modifyingthe opinions" of individual scientists and "preceding their interventions with government agencies.":
"A continuing effort to be made for contacting individual scientists or officials to modify their opinions, to precede their interventions with national government agencies and to activate other defensive industry responses through National Manufacturer's Associations (NMA's), Infotab, etc."
CITATION
Title: Extramural and Defensive Activities: Original 22nd April 1983, Up-Date: 3rd June, 1983 Objectives and Strategies - Strictly Confidential
Type of Document: Report
Author: Helmut Gaisch, Director of Science and Technology, PhilipMorris Europe Recipient: Mr. Buzzi ("In the presence of Mr. Serrano - Accepted)
Date: 19830708/E
Site: Philip Morris document site http://www.pmdocs.com/cgi-bin/rsasearch.exe
Bates No. 2501001600/1606
Page Count: 7
URL: http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=2501001600/1606
QUOTES
Objectives and Strategies
OBJECTIVE - 1: The maintenance of favourable commercial environment in the face of hostile anti-industry movements in order to protect PM long-term development plans.
STRATEGIES: Anti-smoking activities are largely channelled through the World Health Organization (WHO) and a few other activist national/international organisations. A continuing effort to be made for contacting individual scientists or officials to modify their opinions, to precede their interventions with national government agencies, and to activate other defensive industry responses through National Manufacturer's Associations (NMA's), Infotab, etc.
OBJECTIVE -2: The further extension and deepening of scientific contacts within NMA's ...and industry organisations...in order to enhance PM leadership and and to make prevail PM policies, PM strategies and PM approaches to common problems.
....OBJECTIVE -3: Further deepening of contacts by PM experts with standardising organizations and with institutions that carry out control measurements on cigarettes, ingredients or other relevant commodities in order to assure that PM products are measured correctly throughout the World, and they they find universal acceptance.
STRATEGIES: Initiative by PM representatives in directing the activities of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the various national standardising committees in the PM sense as well as actively collaborating in joint experimentations with national testing organisations...so as to assure that PM methodology, PM instrumentation, PM laboratory practices find the widest possible acceptance....
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