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profits at the expense of the public's health and its right to know about how these products 

 are being manufactured and marketed? Absolutely! 



I would like to request, Mr. Chairman, that our March 7th petition be included in today's 

 hearing record. I would like to highlight several statements from the petition to give the 

 members of this subcommittee an idea of the kind of actions and deceptions the tobacco 

 industry was engaging in that subjects them to FDA authorities. As far back as 1961 the 

 industry knew it had a real dilemma on its hands. A Ligget and Myers document of March 

 1961 from its consultant Arthur D. Little began with the statement, "There are biologically 

 active materials present in cigarette tobacco. These are a) cancer causing, b) cancer 

 promoting, c) poisonous, d) stimulating, pleasurable and flavorful. The document talks 

 about the 'disassembling and 'reassembling' of the cigarette using a process designed to 

 'minimize the biological effect' . " 



A 1962 Philip Morris document talks about speeding up activities on the solvent extraction 

 of tobacco for the purpose of reducing "the quantity of TPM, nicotine, and gas phase 

 materials." Another 1964 confidential document talks about the need to develop a 

 "medically acceptable cigarette in light of the present health attitude." The research 

 benchmarks were defined as: 



- Nicotine removal 



- Phenal removal 



- Polynuclear hydrocarbon removal 



- Nitrosamine removal 



A 1968 Ligget Myers memorandum refers to a meeting in 1968 of the top scientific 

 directors of the tobacco companies in which strategies were discussed on product research 



