APPENDIX B
FUIqLHER CONCLUSICITS OF THE SMOKING An 11ZkLTH
CONFERENCE 1= IN CANADA, IN MARCH 1973
1. More information about the health effects'of
nicotine should be made available to managers in
the Group, to enable them to distinguish its
effects
from those claimed for 'tar'. Millbank to arrange.
2. While there is to date no conclusive evidence
involving humans showing that low tar cigarettes
are less harmful, animal experiments suggest that
reduction of tar is likely to be desirable.
3. Should governments wish to control the
activities
of the tobacco industry by legislation, it would
be preferable for this to be achieved by the
placing of tobacc-- under existing multi-product
consumer protection legislation rather than under
a seuarate Tobacco Act. If tobacco were to be
placed under a Food and Drug law, classification
of tobacco under the food section would be
acceptuable, but classification of tobacco as a
druz
should be avoided at all costs.
More informatior. about 11passive" smoking
(inhalaticn-
-smoker. ) would be obtained and
of s=oke by non 9
C4 rculated. Millbank would consider whether
furt'--er research was needed on this subject.
The latest posit-ion regarding little cigars in
the U.S.A. was noted. Steps to avoid genuine
sma-IL
arillos of r~,e same
-iza~s (as onnosed to Ci
dimeasions as cigarettes5 being subliecred to the
same restrictions as cigarettes should be
conside--et
by t-',ose Group companies sellin;: the=.
a. B&W would inform Mill'bank of the effects of
the New
York City differential tax based on tar and
nicotine
content.
The forthcoming publication of the Dontenwill
paper
in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
in Aoril was discussed. it was agreed that steps
shoilId be taken to obtain indust=j agreement to
empa-
asize its positive aspecus and to minimize its
negative aspects.
S. If an7 companj were asked what its a,~zitude
would
be il" marijuana were leFalized, it s"nould answer
that rhis was a h7-pozhetical question ana it
seemed U-I
hi-17 doubtful, on present evidence, that any CZ)
Government would ever legalize it. C:)
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9. Our policy regarding additives to tobacco
remained
that no additive would be used without prior
clearance by the Group Additive Guidance Panel.
10. Existing Group policy that new smoking
materials
would only be used if a health advantage over
existing materials currently in use could be
demonstrated, was confirmed.
11. Existing policy that pure nicotine should not
be
added to any smoking material was confirmed,
although tobacco extract containing nicotine could
be added.
12. Millbank would investi6ate methods of
examining the
claims that had been made for black tobacco and
its
alleged less harmful effects on smokers.
13. it was agreed that no product modification
should
increase the carbon monoxide content of smoke. The
Group should continue to investigate methods of
reducing carbon monoxide in smoke.
IL. The Groun's normal internal controls on the
use of
fumixants should Cont4nue.
it was agreed that the four companies reoresented
at the Conference and Millbank should exchange
quarterly progress rencrts on political
developmentS
in the area of Smoking' and Health in their
countrJes.
;-pecial reports will be submitted by mid-Mlay on
each
company's progress in developinr the strategies
ref-erred to in Object'-.re 3 on page 2 of the
mai::
policy paper. A fur-.her conference would probably
be desirable in the autumn of 1974.
-6. it was agreed that Millbank would investigate
ways
of improving the provision of information on
Smoking
and Health throughout the Group.
17. it was agreed that the content of the talks
triven
on Smoking and Health at the Chelwood courses
should
be examined to ensure that a balanced view of the
situation was presented.
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