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Supporting Biomeujicai- Investigation 



Staff, the Scientific Advisory Board and the Council's 

 grantees are fulfilling their respective responsibilities. 



The Council and Its Mission 



The Council is a private, non-profit organization 

 that sponsors research into questions of tobacco use and 

 health and makes the results of that research available to 

 the public. The Council is funded primarily by five tobacco 

 manufacturers. The Council currently awards approximately 

 $20 million a year in grants-in-aid to assist biomedical 

 research, making it one of the largest private grant-giving 

 organizations funding scientific research in the United 

 States today. 



The Council uses its funds to support established 

 experts as well as promising new researchers at universities 

 and medical centers in the United States and abroad. All of 

 the research funded by the Council is performed by 

 independent scientists. The Council does not itself operate 

 any research facilities. 



The Council and its predecessors have awarded in 

 excess of $220 million to fund over 1,380 projects performed 

 by approximately 1,000 researchers. Our grantees include 

 three Nobel Prize laureates. A substantial portion of the 

 researchers receiving Council grants have received co- 



