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The sampling of industry documents below provide a window into the tobacco industry's strategies to address issues surrounding secondhand smoke or "environmental tobacco smoke" (ETS). These strategies include innovative cigarette design, formation of scientific organizations and coalitions to disseminate research information, and involvement in national ventilation standards and regulations surrounding indoor air quality.

Cigarette Design

Brand Idea Possibly Testable by JAN. '85 (1984)

RJ Reynolds concept for a cigarette designed to generate lower sidestream smoke and provide "smoke for the smoker only."

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xov77c00

B&W Tobacco Corp. Invention Disclosure: Cigarette With Improved Smoke Quality and Reduced Sidestream Smoke (1989)

Brown & Williamson design for a new cigarette with reduced sidestream smoke using a low sidestream cigarette paper and a tobacco blend which contains reconstituted tobacco strands.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wcn33f00

Eclipse: A Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious (1996)

Presentation by RJR advertising firm, Mezzina Brown, on marketing the smokeless cigarette "Eclipse".

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ogu03a00

Industry-Sponsored Research

A Study of Public Attitudes Toward Cigarette Smoking and the Tobacco Industry (1978)

Roper Organization study noting a growing public acceptance that secondhand smoke is hazardous. Recommends short term public relations strategies as well as a long term plan to develop "clear-cut, credible, medical evidence that passive smoking is not harmful to the non-smoker's health."

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/qra99d00

Center for Indoor Air Research (1987)

Describes a plan for creation of a scientific institution, backed by the tobacco industry, that "legislators and standard-setting bodies would view... as a credible source of information on which to base their positions on indoor air quality, especially ETS."

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/oak01c00

Suggestions for Structure of CIAR-Sponsored "ETS Research Needs Document" (1988)

Outlines the creation of an "ETS Research Needs" document and a proposal to disseminate the document to the scientific community through the request for application (RFA) process, ensuring wide distribution within the scientific community.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mzk21e00

[Memo regarding Max Eisenberg's visit to OSHA] (1993)

Note detailing the director of CIAR's visit with the Head of Office Standards at the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), and their discussion of the Hazelton and Oak Ridge ETS studies with offers of future presentations to larger groups at OSHA.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vtz77e00

Publications Resulting From CIAR Supported Research; May 1997 (1997)

Bibliography of scientific papers resulting from research conducted or supported by CIAR from 1989 to 1997.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vhx91d00

Air Quality Standards and Regulations

Indoor Air Quality Programs (1988)

Tobacco industry plan to promote ventilation as a solution to secondhand smoke concerns.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ggr65e00

ETS Strategy (1989)

Strategies for dealing with issues surrounding environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Tactics include an evaluation of the risk assessment methodologies utilized by EPA and U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) to "identify how these methods may be manipulated to allow for differences in interpretation of regulations."

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vhe54e00

Philip Morris and the International Scientific Organizations ISO - CORESTA (1990)

Memo emphasizing the industry's influence over two important international standards organizations, the Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco (CORESTA) and the International Organization for Standarization (ISO).

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fli98e00

Before The Science Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Guide to Workplace Smoking Policies, EPA/400/6-90/004, Comments of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company on Chapters 1 And 2 (1990)

RJ Reynolds paper presented before the Science Advisory Board of the EPA refuting the scientific information contained in the EPA's draft version of their guide to environmental tobacco smoke.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/cat44f00

IARC (1993)

Philip Morris memo naming the members of the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) task force and the preemptive measures needed to "develop and implement strategies to mitigate the impact which an adverse IARC finding could have on smoking restrictions."

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/big02a00

OSHA And Secondhand Smoke (1994)

Proposal by the public relations firm, Powell Tate, suggests strategies to deal with the OSHA smoking restriction plan. Suggestions include recruitment of spokespersons and allies throughout labor unions and within Congress, a media outreach program, and assistance with OSHA submissions and testimony.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jso43e00

Ongoing Monitoring of ASTM Committee D22.05, ASHRAE SSPC 55, and ISO TC 205 (1996)

A request by industry consultant firm, Theodor Stirling & Associates, for continued funding of their involvement in the standards activities of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the International Organization for Standarization (ISO).

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/yqq83c00

Media Relations Plan: Places (1998)

Outline of Philip Morris' "Places Program" which promotes ventilation options to the HVAC community, hospitality industry and the general public that would "comfortably accommodate both those who choose to smoke and those who don't."

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/awt27d00