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officials from one company that reveal a recognition of 



nicotine's drug-like effects: 



"Nicotine is not only a very fine drug, but the techniques 

 of administration by smoking has considerable psychological 

 advantages."* (Chart 24) 



"...nicotine is a very remarkable, beneficent drug that both 

 helps the body to resist external stress and alsp^ can, as a 

 result, show a pronounced tranquilizing effect." (Chart 

 25) 



These statements were apparently made by Sir Charles Ellis, 



a member of the Royal Society of London, who served as science 



advisor to the board of British American Tobacco Company. He was 



responsible for advising the establishment of the company's 



research and development center at Southampton, England. He was 



also responsible for advising on the research operations of BAT's 



associate companies." Two of his recently reported statements 



are particularly striking. One statement was made in 1962: 



"Smoking is a habit of addiction." (Chart 26) 



But perhaps the most striking statement attributed to him is 



one from a meeting of company scientists in 1967: 



"Sir Charles Ellis states that BATCO is in ^^ 



the nicotine rather than the tobacco industry." (Chart 27) 



These statements are echoed by those made in an internal 



company document by another senior scientist at a British tobacco 



company: 



"There is now no doubt that nicotine plays a large part in 

 the action of smoking for many smokers. It may be useful, 

 therefore, to look at the tobacco industry as if for a large 

 part its business is the administration of nicotine (in the 

 clinical sense)." 



These statements are consistent with the quotes from William 



L. Dunn, an official of Philip Morris, that I cited for you in my 



testimony last March. (Chart 28 and 29) 



"Think of the cigarette pack as a storage container for a 

 day's supply of nicotine." 



"Think of the cigarette as a dispenser for a dose unit of 

 nicotine. " 



"Think of a puff of smoke as the vehicle for nicotine." 



"Smoke is beyond question the most optimized vehicle of 

 nicotine. . . " 



other scientists are quoted in a May 30, 1963 paper that is 



