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19 December 1980
Sent to: GIBB
RITTERSHAUS
SIQUEIRA
NICHOLLS
SANFORD
As I intimated at Sea Island, I believe that the
smoking and
health issue is going to have an increasing,
rather than
decreasing, influence on all our lives in the
future. Public
Affairs are extremely active in the area, and they
look to
myself and R&D staff for technical in-put.
Geoff Felton is, of course, the formal link
between R&D and
your own Company. At the present time, this link
manifests
itself mainly in the form of the regular letters
and photo-copied
attachments. There have, from time to time, been
comments
that more detailed interpretation of the key areas
would be
more helpful than the rather thin commentary on a
large number
of issues, publications, reports, tv programmes,
etc -
which by the nature of things, tend to be
primarily associated
with the U K.
The object of this letter is to ask if you would
care to comment
on the way Geoff currently fulfills his role and
if appropriate,
to indicate how a modified activity would be of
more value
to you. Please be very open in your reply; we want
to make
the very best use of the expertise we have
available to us.
With kind regards
Yours sincerely
L C F BLACKMAN <z>
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BATCo document for Province of BritiSh Columbia 4
November 1999