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Kon«t^«le»a th« tob«cco industry (iid uftd«xtaXc a eignificant 

 amount of ••cr*t ro«««rch Lnto tho ciftoking and Qe«ItA qUAAtlofl. 



raiiuraB« hae ob^ain«d « t^ahr of confidential industry reports 

 detailing this work. 



I^^ett & Kyera oovmiacioned Arthur Little life ecience** division 

 to investigate the linxfi DetwB^n saokinq and cancer. By 19*1 

 tnelr conclu^iuns were uTiAnbi^ou*; "There arc biological active 

 aeteriala prceent in cigarette tob^crfl. Thase are caT)C«r 



r^uftin^, cancer proootiog, poisonous, &tioulatinq, pleasurable 

 aiiU riavoarful". 



Dr Jan«B Mold worked as a research scientist with Lig^tt i Myere 

 for nearly thirty y<>ar6. "By the early «0'6 we en Vnew that 

 isioking cau««d canr.mr . »te jusc weren't allowed to tell aiiyona*. 



LorrilArd had eleo arrived at the fraxe conr.iuRion. They were 

 de^p^r^tply trying to produce a safer ciyorette and had even 

 written to Dr Wynder on the 9u±>j«ct saying "ve consider your work 

 Above reproeeh, as usual*. 



Britieh ^^ericen Tobaoco'c reepcCBe was slightly nore theatrical. 

 They becaae eo concerned th«ir secret research aight leoX out 

 they resorted to the u«e of code words. Caacer become "Zephyr", 

 jtouee expcriaenta b«case "Januc" eyperinertt^ and Oth«r ahiaal 

 testjt became ''Con<3ueror" t<$t$. 



Jurt a fev yearc after publishing their "FranX Statement* the 

 toDftcco industry had be^oae le^s than franX with their conauecrB. 

 Tony van den Burgh aayc the industry knew ejtactly what the score 

 wa«. "Our products were killing people". 



9n pcCTKrri. ran To^cfn ftTP.KAwni. 



By the early sixtiec the tobacco industry harJ evolved several 

 parallel stretAgies for dealing with the saoKiog and health 

 crisis. They believed the key wee to pretend a debate was still 

 raging about eaoXing and cancer and it was doing Sll it could to 

 r»solvA things in an op«A an honest wey. 



To achieve this goal the Tobacco inrorration Research Cosusittee 

 wj»« spilt in tvw; the Tobacwj Institute now handled PR whilet the 

 Council for Tobecco Research haivlled scientific research. 



