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FOR IFAMMIATE RaXASE
may 19, 1994 Contact: Tom Fitzgerald
502.1589-7488
Jot Helewicz
502/568-7801
ADDICTION EXPERT PREPARED TO TESTIFY
BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE
Laulaville. KY - To address possible scientific questions raised by Brown
Williamson's public release at nicotine studies earlier this week, the company has
wirengod for Dr. Steven M. Raffle to appear Friday, May 20, before the
Congressional Subcommittee on Heatth & the Environrrient.
Brown & Williamson today submitted Dr. Raffle's statement to the
Subcommittee and expressed confidence that Subcomrrftee Chairman Henry
Waxman ID-Callf.) will want to hear this Important and highly relevant testimony
about the actual Battelle research studies which have been so widely distorted
by the news media and Congressmen Waxman.
If Congressmen Waxman refuses to hear this testimony, it would
underscore that he is not Interested in scientific conclusions about this research--
but instead prefism to sensationalize speculation and media distortions about
what this rosoarch actually shows.
The company added that Or. Raft -- who is already in Washingtoin, DC
and prepared to testify - is the best qualified person to discuss the scientific
relanverice of the Battelle Institute nicotine study, which S&W provided to the
Subcommittee and the news media.
Dr. Reffle will be able to discuss an relevance of the Battelle study and
put this report Into its proper scientific perspective. He has carefully examined
the Battelle study wW reached the following cancluisloris, as set forth In his
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*no reports ... war* not novel. At the time the reports were comploted,
there were many reports In the open scientific literature addressing, and
providing dots. concerning the effects of nicotine an animals. The 1964 Surgeon
General's report discussed these areas of inquiry or referenced materials that did
so. In summary. the reports I have described added nothing of consequence to
what already was available to researchers and others, Including the U.S. Surgeon
General.
*In my opinion. and for the reasons summarized above, nothing In these
reports could have substantially affected the ultimate conclusions of the 1964
Surgeon General's report that cigarette smokft did not cause addiction."
Dr. Raffle holds an M.D. from the Chicago Medical School and an A.S. in
Physiology from the University of California. Berkeley. Further, as a Board-
certified psychiatrist with over 20 yews of clinical practice with patients who
have had problems with drug abuse, Dr. Raffle can provide highly relevant
testimony on questions concerning addiction.
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