Daily Doc: TI, Sep 1989: TI Decides What Goes on Death Certificates
Daily Doc: TI Decides What Goes on Death Certificates
Title: Strategic Plan for the Tobacco Institute, September, 1989
TI, Sep 1989
Bates #: TIMN0361642/1686
April 5, 2000
One must ask how any industry can publicly spend decades reassuring people (whether directly or indirectly through widespread appealing advertising) that its products are safe, while at the same time its trade group is working furiously behind the scenes to "defeat," "repeal," "modify" and "preempt" all regulatory proposals that would allow doctors to make reference to their products on death certificates.
It's macabre.
CITATION
Title: Strategic Plan for the Tobacco Institute, September, 1989
Author (Corporate author, the Tobacco Institute)
Type of Document: Confidential Report
Date: 19890900
Site: Tobacco Institute document site http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/
Page Count: 45
Bates No. TIMN0361642/1686
URL: http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=TIMN0361642/1686
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QUOTES (from the section called "Other Industry Issues"):
Objective: To represent and protect the tobacco industry's legitimate common interests in other significant and emerging issues.
Strategies
1. Tobacco Use on Death Certificates
a. Defeat all state legislative or regulatory proposals to include specific reference to smoking or tobacco use on death certificate forms.
b. Repeal of modify existing state regulations which have placed references to smoking or tobacco use on death certificate forms.
c. Monitor federal agency activity that could lead to inclusion of tobacco use questions on model death certificates.
d. Seek opportunities through federal action to preempt placement of such references on state forms.
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