Daily Doc: PM, Feb, 1989: Public Smoking Hearing Readiness
Daily Doc: Public Smoking Hearing Readiness
Title: Public Smoking Hearing Readiness (confidential document)
PM, Feb, 1989
Bates #: 2025848122/8125
02 Sep 1999
This confidential Philip Morris document lists the arguments that the tobacco industry "must cover" in hearings for public smoking bills. Note the arguments that smoking bans discriminate against women, the disabled and blue collar workers while favoring white male executives, and the argument that smoking bans on airplanes will cause a fire hazard.
CITATION
Title: Public Smoking Hearing Readiness (confidential document)
Type of Document: report
Author: N/A
Date: Feb., 1989
No. of Pages: 4
Bates No. 2025848122/8125
Site: http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=2025848122/8125
QUOTES
The anti-smoking movement's agenda for the 101st Congress includes a number of proposals to further restrict or prohibit smoking in public places...At least half a dozen public smoking bills have already been introduced, including legislation to ban smoking in Federal buildings and on all domestic airline flights.
What TI and its Allies Must Cover
On public smoking legislation generally, and on airline legislation in many instances, Tobacco Institute testimony and that of its allies and interested parties should emphasize:
1. The continued lack of scientific evidence that enviornmental tobacco smoke is a cause of disease in healthy nonsmokers....
With respect to airliners, experts must refute the interpretation of the report published in the February 10, 1989 Journal of the American Medical Association. That report suggests that passengers in the nonsmoking section of airliners are harmed by exposure to tobacco smoke. Nicotine exposure levels cited in the study are comparable to industry-generated data, but the methodology used to associate these levels with health harm is flawed....
2. Evidence that smoking is a minor aspect of a serious indoor aair quality problem -- a problem that can and should be addressed not by restricting smoking but by providing adequate ventilation via properly maintained ventilation systems. Smoking restrictions merely appear to alleviate infoor air pollution problems; ventilation is a comprehensive solution....
...6. Discriminatory effects of workplace smoking restrictions, including denying equal access to handicapped workers, selective enforcement and implementation that affects minorities and blue collar workers but excludes white male executives...
...8. Aboard airliners, the threat to fire safety posed by surreptitious smoking in lavatories and by other attempts to conceal -- under newspapers, magazines or blankets--in flight smoking.
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