Act I, Scene 4: Unwelcome Results
"Most people with whom I talked expressed deep concern
over the possible impact of the reports to come from Harrogate."
Griffith report, 1105.01,
p.2
When head B&W scientist Dr. Robert Griffith returned from a trip to
England in July 1965, he brought bad news from the biological testing program.
By then, researchers at Harrogate had duplicated work originally done in
1953 in which tumors were produced by painting cigarette tar on the skins
of mice. The difference was that the Harrogate scientists went to a lot
of trouble to use fresh tar, or condensate, instead of old tar, hoping the
results would be different. The results were worse. The BAT researchers
also were looking at all sorts of ways to fortify cigarettes with nicotine,
like putting nicotine-containing powders directly into the tobacco. (See
also "Current
Chemistry Research at Southampton," 1109.01)
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