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BY HAND 



The Honorable Henry A. Waxnan, Chairman 

 The Honorable Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., 



Ranking Minority Member 

 Subcommittee on Health and the Environment 

 House Committee on Energy and Commerce 

 2415 Rayburn H.O.B. 

 Washington, D.C. 20515 



Dear Mr. Chairman and Rep. Bliley: 



I am writing to submit, on behalf of Philip 

 Morris U.S.A., information that you requested from 

 Dr. Cathy Ellis at the Subcommittee's April 14, 1994 

 hearing. Specifically, we are providing statements from 

 scientific experts as well as relevant literature in 

 support of her view that neither smoking nor the 

 nicotine delivered in cigarettes is properly classified 

 as "addictive." 



First, we enclose the summary statements of the 

 following eight eminent scientists: Rubin Bressler, 

 M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University 

 of Arizona College of Medicine; Robert Cancro, M.D., 

 Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Psychiatry, and Chairman 

 of the Department of Psychiatry, New York University 

 Medical Center; Harold H. Kassarjian, Ph.D., Professor 

 Emeritus of Marketing and Consumer Behavior, Graduate 

 School of Management, University of California at Los 

 Angeles; Stuart A. Kirk, D.S.W., Ralph and Marjorie 

 Crump Professor of Social Welfare, Department of Social 

 Welfare, School of Public Policy and Social Research, 

 University of California at Los Angeles; P. Caren 

 Phelan, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, Austin, Texas; 

 C. Robert Cloninger, M.D., Wallace Renard Professor of 

 Psychiatry, Washington University Medical School, and 

 Psychiatrist-in-chief, Barnes and Allied Hospitals, St. 

 Louis, Missouri; Michael A. Bozarth, Ph.D., Associate 

 Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of 

 New York at Buffalo; Domenic A. Ciraulo, M.D. , Professor 



