'-~AT,' BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY LI-NUTED
TO- B.D. Bramley
CC: D.S. Watterton
FROM: C. Proctor
DATE: 3 December 1993
SUBJECT: TSG Briefing Notes on Smoking Issues -
Additional Item
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Staius qfEPA Lawsuit
Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, among others,
have undertaken legal action aQL= the
United States Environmental Protection Agency over
that Agency's release of a ri-111-
assessment of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
We are informed that this legal
action has reached a critical stage. It is likely
that oral arguments will be heard over the
next few weeks, leading to a decision on whether
the case should be dismissed. !,
dismissal of the case at this stage would most
probably, albeit inaccurately, result in
claims that the courts have upheld EPA!s decision
to classify ETS as a "known hunan
carcinogen."
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BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 26
October 1999