Act III, Scene 3: Science to Order
"CTR Special Projects, Project title/description: Methodology
for Quantitating Exposure to Inhalable Ambient Tobacco Smoke/Budget: $855,000"
Document 2048.26, p.4
One research area where there continued to be plenty of activity was second-hand
smoke. The "Special Projects" unit at the Council for Tobacco
Research, which was jointly funded by all the tobacco companies, ran a large
number of "passive smoking" studies in the eighties. Of course
that hasn't stopped the industry from saying - just as they still do with
lung cancer - that science hasn't proved environmental tobacco smoke is
unhealthy (Sirridge
letter and attachments, 2048.26). CTR Special Projects also paid
scientists who testified as experts on health issues before Congress and
state legislatures, where they sometimes failed to mention who was supporting
them.
The material at 2048.26 will give you a sense of what Special Projects
was all about: some very well known, very big labs doing some very expensive,
ambitious- sounding research.
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