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THE TOBACCO INOL'STBT BESEABCU COililtTTEE 



The T'ibacco luduscry Research Committee was organized early in lo-j ^ 

 is comprised ofjix tobacco mapufact uripg conman iga and ei?ht associatin.-*** 

 tobacco growers aud wurehoTliitJHUiU. Timothy ^< :^Hartne ct> former Dresiri. " 

 B rown J; WilIiam>oQ Tobacco Corn., is q tiaiipinn --Jir'*«l. 



TUtfniurtn.ses and objectires of the Commitlee are to aid and assist resi» ^' 

 int o tobacc o use and h ealth and to make available to the public factuaii;^!!*''* 

 tio5"on this gnb ject. . 'Mo r^ 



in the light of wide publicity given to some statistical studies attemntinr J 

 link tobacco use and lung cancer, the Tobacco Industrv Research Cnmn .. 



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c^ rhe disea.^e indicate that many factors, such as various types of air pollution. u> 



suspects in lung cancer and other ailments. Medical and research scientists anw 

 that no persuasive, definitive, and final conclusion has been established wither 

 spect to the cause or causes of this disease. 

 ^ The fact that cig ar ette smoking today should even be suspec ted as a caoa 

 V, of serious fiUengn I* n^iiiiiiitir of fifiAp coflcernto tI16 tPPaggd IBflustry . Accoi^ 

 -.^ ingly, the Committee pledges aid an d assi stance tO rH6 research effort into ifl 

 \ phases of tobacco use and health. " 



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STATEME>(T BT DR. LITTLE 



"The Scientific Advisory Board of the Tobacco Industry Research Committw 

 has certain opiwrtunities and obligations of tremendous importance to the futait 

 development of scientific research in the United States. 



"First, it can recommend financial support of basic or pioneer research on ti» 



own evaluation of individuals or InstitntioDs on the basis of promise or faitk 



rather than on a purely factual and materialistic standard. Pioneer reseuck 



is the creative idea phase of discovery. It is the absolutely essential forerunnv 



\ of progress to the project" stage ! 



"Second, the Board can itself plan and Initiate research in fields .and for pur- 

 poses not now being covered. This is. I believe, an entirely new departure tor 

 any indastry. Granting a group of scientists the power of creating new reseaicfc 

 activity is a great and exciting development. 



•If we on the P.iurd have the wisdom and vision to plan creatively.. we may iw 

 ''^'ff *'> J"atify TlUa gonf^dence placed in us. !{_ we do justify it. the tobacco ia- 



\ dustry will have made its t^r patest c onTribntion of service to mankind aad^may 

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\ well establish a preceilent and pattern which other .industries will follo w b 

 Mippott of research." " ' .1 



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Statement of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, Sclentiflc Director, the Tobacco Induitiy 

 Research Committee, and Chairman, the Sclentiflc Advisory Board. Mad* 

 at discussion with science writers, Monday, May 16, 1955, Tobacco Indust^ 

 Research Committee oflBces, 5320 Elmpire SUte Building, New York, N. I.. 



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fA year has gone by since the Sclentiflc Adrisory Board to the Tobacco InduatiT 

 Retfiearch Committee first met to discuss the course of scientific research to 

 be financed by grants from this Lnduatry group. ^ 



At that time, many of us were strangers personally, though not scientiflcauy- 

 As members of a newly created Scientific Advisory Board, however, we had » 

 least three essential things in common. "* 



First, we had 'rrn niTrn a fraa rriP ^' '"^ond an Industr y's research fund «» 

 "•rjlinnrht bwt Tharin [f^^f w^ ■ challenge and responsibUlty. i 



"Secondly, we shared a firm belief that sound scienanc researcn -would cw, 

 ^nue to unfold, however gradually, the solutions to perplexing health Pro''^®^ 

 / Thirdly, and importantly, we were in full agreement that the arena of P^'^Jj 

 ( controversy wa« fn h«» avo i ds In the Interest of constructive science and genntf* 

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