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rese«rebin9 Into aaolcArs' haaltA. 



Thvir yi«« w«s soon tran«lat*4 into arition. 



In DscftBber 1970 JtJit'a aou** bouse vac chut down, th^ worx«rt 

 S4uke4 and their notebooks colle<rted oy tbs legal d«pex-taent. 

 Bua^amcr has no dou&ts as to tli« reason why. Be recalls being 

 told "tht Surwon 9er>«rel ic cutting our throatA. We don't n99i 

 to do it ourcelve***. 



AIt«r Ouagamer and the othar* left, several strange event* 

 occurred. One of the key experlnents had involved kcepxn<r a 

 grt^up Of rabbits alive during a three year cno)r#» inhalation 

 »tudy. According to injce Cooke, an Illinois lawyer who haj 

 etudiod th*$^ events, the rabbits were expected to yield uni^e 

 infoniatlon vn tlie effects of ciaolce on living tissue. Hovevcf 

 soon after the souse house wa< shut the rabbits eiaply 

 disappeared. 'iJic company caai offer no txplsnaticn. 



Alaost ae nycterious ham the role of Or FranX Colby. Bo was 

 brought in to exaAim; the scientist's research notes. a 

 secretary reaeiabers h-ia ro»dir>g the rJocuaents and then shredding 

 soot of thee. Again tce ccBpaoy cen offer no eicpl^nation. 



The biggeet Jritich laboratory was at Harroqate. It was jointly 

 fundod by a nuxber of UK tobacco coopenie^ through the British 

 Ivbacco Kesearch Council. Peter Lee was eapioyed there as a 

 senior scientist. Re reaains a consul tant to the tobacoo 

 industry. 



Loe says Rarrogete's vorX vlth ojiiasls failed to prove or 

 disprove a conntjvtion betveew sacking and ill health. However It 

 did becose apparent that thlft research route way running into a 

 cul d« SAC. Rarrogate was clvsed down in 1974 and «uprlsix>gly the 

 TKC abandoneU its research role. Lee has adeitted on canera that 

 he hivself was convinced nf cae association between 9»o)d.ng and 

 ill health, and that the vpideAxological work being condu<*ted at 

 ttie tiav was pretty conclusive. He alxto adaits that the Industry 

 lawyers were around to ensure Inter alia, that eaployeec did not 

 say things the industry sight later regret. 



BAT. the largest tobacco co»paDy, continued to do internal 

 research work at their laboratories in Southaapton. But 

 conditions were difficult and the publication of results strictly 

 controlled. Studies were labelledt "Must Mot Be <%hovB to 

 ITnauthvriscd Personnel." 



Dr Jases Green was their Director of H»s*»rch. he becaae 

 Increasingly disillusioned »it he tought to publicise many of 

 their findings. In a aaao to hioself he wrote: "the position ot 

 the tobacco cvaipanies is dosinatod by lege) consideration*. . . .it 

 has retreated behind iaposxibie, perhaps ridiculous, demands for 

 what \n FR terse Is callus •cientifio proof . .usujiI ly the first 



