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Mr. Waxman. Mr. Synar's question was have you financed stud- 

 ies on nicotine and nicotine addiction. You then answered that you 

 have concluded it is habituating. Have you financed studies? 



Mr. Glenn. I misspoke, Mr. Waxman. I didn't conclude, the in- 

 vestigators concluded. We funded the projects. Yes, sir, extensive. 



Mr. Waxman. You will give us details of those studies. 



Mr. Glenn. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Waxman. In fact, the studies themselves? 



Mr. Glenn. Yes, sir. 



[The following information was received:] 



The two boxes of documents marked "Box 3" and "Box 4" contain copies of over 

 560 publications resulting from Council-funded research that appear to examine the 

 effects of nicotine. (As explained above, the set of publications from which these doc- 

 uments were selected is incomplete.) Again, we have used our best efforts to compile 

 for the subcommittee a complete set of such publications. 



As I mentioned during my testimony on May 26, during the week of my testimony 

 the Council sponsored an important seminar on central nervous system receptors, 

 including the receptors that respond to nicotine and its analogues. Item I in the Ap- 

 pendix includes copies of the program from that seminar and of the abstracts pre- 

 sented at that seminar. 



Mr. Waxman. Mr. Greenwood. 



Mr. Greenwood. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Good morning. Dr. Glenn. 



Mr. Glenn. Good morning, Mr. Greenwood. 



Mr. Greenwood. In all of my questions I am going to be refer- 

 ring to the February 11, 1993, Wall Street Journal article. 



The article notes that the Supreme Court last year said smokers 

 can sue, accusing the industry of deliberately hiding or distorting 

 smoking dangers. 



Can you inform us as to what the record of those suits has been, 

 the number of such suits filed, and whether your organization been 

 a defendant in those suits? 



Mr. Glenn. In the two suits mentioned in this article? 



Mr. Greenwood. I am asking a more general question. Has your 

 organization been sued as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling 

 that the industry has deliberately been hiding or distorting smok- 

 ing dangers? Have you been a defendant in such a suit? 



Mr. Glenn. The Council for Tobacco Research has been named 

 defendant in a number of tobacco-related actions. 



Mr. Greenwood. Can you tell us about the status of those cases? 

 Have any drawn to conclusion yet? 



Mr. Glenn. There have never been adverse findings against the 

 Council for Tobacco Research. Indeed, in the Cipollone case the 

 court found that activities of the Council for Tobacco Research were 

 essentially irrelevant to the action at issue there. Subsequently 

 Judge Sarokin issued a statement relative to the Haynes case in 

 which we were not named as a defendant citing some 1,500 secret 

 documents of the CTR as reported in the press. 



That simply was not true. The 1,500 documents must belong to 

 somebody else because they certainly didn't belong to us. 



Mr. Waxman. So you are saying in one case the court found for 

 the Institute as the defendant, is that what you said? 



Mr. Glenn. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Waxman. Ajid have there been cases where the courts have 

 found for the plaintiffs? 



