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l-f CTR initially fund«d restaxch pro;»ct» exauining the h«alth 

 haz&rds of amoking but they v«r^ «b&ndon«d by 1964 whan th« US 

 Surgoon a«n«ral puhltchcd hi6 report acc«pCii>3 tne llnxx b«tv««n 

 saokLnQ and ca^c«r. 



Thi«i r«port »a<3e a product lifti^lllty lavsult kr\ LnevitAbility aoii 

 th« ci4«^«tt« cottDonie* tumad to thair lavyora for b«lp. At 

 thic Boaant a train of avantc b#9an chat would avAntuaiiy l*ad 

 to control of an «ntir« Industxy pa*»inq to a littla )aicwn Kansas 

 City law fira. 



^ftooX, Hardy * Sacon ware ;»peciali»t3 in px^uct liability ard 

 they alraady knew tha cisa of tha problem. Iccording to Robert 

 waM, a Lorillard iawy«r at tft« tlaa, "By l^es David Hardy of 

 SbwX Hardy 4 Bacon had beco»a tha ao«t important nan i« tba 

 tobacco induotry". 



Tha lawyers quickly soved into CTR. Par.oraaa ha< obtainad a 1>65 

 »^»or*ndu» froa BAT's Xflerican sub«idiary, drown i Wllliaason. 

 It shows now lawyers ber^an dt!v;iding tha thrust of CTR's raaearcb. 

 Tha aaao, which ainutca a mo«tLng of industry genaral counKal , 

 sayc "Category A" propofiais should ba "projects of ess»«nti«lly 

 adversary valu«". in other words projects should b« prioritisad 

 vhioh challenged the linkfi between Rjwicing and cancar. 



The nemo doesn't surprise Dr Mold. Ha noticed the CTR appeared 

 to be treading water and not trying to break through in X«y areas. 

 US now believes CTlt w<iji always designed to fail. "CTR'a polioy 

 of scattargun fvuvding could never produce the intensive 

 collective effort needed to resolve the indwt*try'> probleas and 

 it w«T* probably never intended to do so*. 



Other aocuaeht* show scientistii seeking CTR funding were 

 eveatually required to write directly to the lawyers. Shock, 

 Hardy 6 Bacon in Kaztsas City not to CTR in New York. 



By 1970 th*re could be little doubt *bout the real purpo«a of the 

 tobacco industry's front or^nisations. Despite the 1»54 "FranX 

 Stateaent" and aany later plcdgaa, they were for public 

 relations not scientific research. 



A 1972 oeao fro» Fred Panzer, the vice-^residant of the Tobacco 

 Institute, reveals the Industry's plan. "For twenty years th« 

 industry has operated a holding strategy coneioting of oreatin^ 

 doubt about the health charge without actually denying it*. 



US then say» Che tiae has coae to challenge the health charge by 

 providing sene credible eltQrn«tivft<; (;uch as ti>« "constitutional 

 hypcth««is". This su9ge<ted that sacking caused no ill effects 

 and people's susceptibility to diceaee w«a deterained by th**lr 

 individual constitutions. Panzer aidn't advance any aedioal 

 evidence for it but he didn't need to. It was a PR oaapaign not 

 a radical d«bo««. 



