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-ne enclosed Research Paper will be publisnez zy the Tobacco
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Research Council on .'.'.onday, 11th Novembe-r, 196E. :-- summarizes the
results of studies carried out for T.R.C. ';;y a ZZ3:7 from the
Tavistock Institute into motives for smakir.;.
Because it hlad '--een found that the same p-:s-..-. may smoke for
dif@erent reasons at dif-Ferent-times, it was to investigate
the whole complex o., b;havioural psychoses -nit@- t3oacco usage
is concerned. ;art 1 ai the Report sumunarizes of the study
and the results of the analysis 014 psyc'nolzgIcal related to
smokina. Part 11 revirns the analyTical matsoc;@::---' and despite
.efforts at simplification, renains hignly techniz-4-1.
A cozy of tire Pross Zuidance -.Iote, --'ss-,:e--` 7.R.C., is attached.
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D.R.N. Clark.2, =SC. ::Z:-, ESC
Dobsoh, =SC. :5,:-3T
D.S.F. Hobson, =sq: Eac
S.D. 1'41sselbrook,
K.E. Haines, Eso Esq.
J.-I. Husbands, ZEIC.
E.G. Langford, Esq. F@rdyca (Sydney)
P. Macadam, Esq. r. -ri!-Flth (Louisvl--le)
R.J. Ogle, Esq. r. I ihes (Southam ton)
G. aawlinson, Esq. X. @ap-orte (Montreal
J-G.D. Rudd, Esc. 2 Sanford (Louisville)
T.A.H. Slack, Esq. met, n. _73ttorf (Hainiourg)
C.H. Stewart-Lockhart, Esq.
P.D. Tindley, jEsq. :--or
A.D. Esq.
I.B.D. 3luett, Esq. Sir C.-arles Ellis
D. Brinsden, Esq. Dr. S..'7- Zirean
P.F. Cathrew, Esq. G.C. @-:az:zovv, =sq.
.E.C.L. Cordy, Esq.
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TOBACCO RESEARCH COUNCIL
Talephone: 01-828 2041 Glea Hou",
Telagrams: Tobcom. Lod on. SW I. Stag Placs.
London. SAV 1.
For Immediate Release l1th November, 1968.
Research Paper \,"o. 10
"The Psycholoocal Dvnai.ntcs of Smoking"
The Tobacco Research Council has published the tenth in its series of
research papers on smoking and health matters Its title is "The Psychological
Dynamics of Smoking" and it reports the results of research undertaken by
Psychologists of the Human Resources Centre of the Tavistock Institute of Human
Relations in col:aboration with Public Attitude Surveys Ltd. who were responsible
for the survey flieldwork.
The authors are Dr. F. E. Emery, '.\-Ir. B. L. Irving and Miss-Z. L. Hilgendorf.
The paper, the first on a psychological theme in the series, describes a study
@ a in 1963 into the motives for smoking which the Council agreed to support.
A sample of 2, 494 adults was interviewed and a comprehensive questionnaire used
which included a number of standard tests. The study's Main conclusion was that
the persistent pre-conditions for smoking can be found in the complex interaction
Fall between an individual's experience of stress and his susceptibility to emotional
arousal.
A copy of the report accompanies this release.
The Tobacco Research Council was originally established, as the 'Tobacco
Manufacturers' Standing Committee' in 1956 by the tobacco industry to conduct
and support research into smoking and health. Its chairman is Sir Philip Rogers, CBE.
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