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It w*« a strategy which •«rv«d tha industry well. Two yearo later 

 a aanior Lorillard axacutiv* wrota ta hi« CBO aicplaining why 

 CTR't worX was not considarad la^rtant in Uj« widar »ci«ntific 

 coKsurtity. *Hid^rioally th« ;}9int industry fxmdad SBoking and 

 h»«lth r(.«aarch projacta D«v« not t>««h »«l«ct«d against spdciflc 

 siclantifiu 9oala, but rathar for various purpcftts such as public 

 relation*, political rolatiens, po«ition for litigation ate. 

 Thua, it seems otjviou* reviews of such progranB for scientific 

 rwlavanca and aerit in the saoking and health field arc not 

 li)taly to produce high retij>gs» . 



Dr rranci* Roa was the reeearch co-ordinator of tha British 

 Tobacco ttPriiP.Brch Council. Be reaeabers visiting the CTR in 1972 

 and coalns bacX with the view that it waa *a distinctly ehady 

 op«r»tion». It had «juicJcly b«co»« clear to him that tha whole 

 operation was "lawyer driven" and th^ research was beijig 

 ■deliberately constrained*. 



one person who the CTR tried tw constrain was Dr Frederick 

 HenhuTfer. He had worked with thea since 1954 and built up what 

 ha consider^ tr> he an open ana honest relationship. 



tn 1973 Or Hoaburger sada a breakthrough. Using a $ophi9ticat«d 

 Kinoke inhalation aachine he succeeded in inducinq cancer of the 

 lai/ox in 47% of a eroup of specially bred Syrian Colden 

 haaatars- These results r»iftAd new warning fiagt dAOUt 

 respiratory cancer induced by inhaled smoke. 



The CTR were shocked by Dr HoBburg«r's findings and ioBedlately 

 forbade hia to publish until his work was confirmed by others. 

 They also switched his funding froa grant to contract. 



A few Bontbs later Dr Dontenvill, a Oeraan professor, published 

 the rcoults of a ciailar eurvay he had carried out uiilng Ceraan 

 bred S/rUn hamsters. Uis anlaals were not as su;>wptible to 

 cancer as Hosiburger's but Dontenwill still found that 4% got 

 cancer of the larynx. 



The tobaccv industry iaaediately disni»ccd Dontenwill 's work as 

 '*aavQrick* and CTR becaae deten*ined to prevent Dr Uoaburger from 

 publishing. Taken together the two survays would be dyneaite. 



CTtt't Scientific. Director. Rob Bockett, and their le^al 

 representative, sd Jacobs, visited Dr Uoaburger at his Kaune 

 suaacr hou&e. They told his his work had been funded on a 

 contract not grant basis aM so he did not have the right to 

 publish. Hoaburger retorted that the aajority of the work had, 

 mfaot, bean done on a grant bAsls. 



