Note for the Tobacco Strateiv Review Team ieet='i
(b) Other Issues
Reitulatorx- Issues
W Additives, including Pestigides
Regulatory authorities in a number of countries are becoming
increasingly interested in the additives and pesticides used by the
Tobacco Industry. and in the criteria used to establish their
safety. Legislation already exists in many European countries;
recently there have been requests for information from the Medical
Board in Finland, for brand specific information on all additives,
and in the USA. Where the Department of Health and Human resources
is currently considering a consolidated list of additives obtained
from industry.
At the 1989 Research Policy Group meeting in Vancouver it was agreed
that urgent action was required to strengthen the Group's position
on additives and pesticides. As a result guidelines on establishing
common criteria for evaluating additives throughout the Group are
being prepared. It is also anticipated that monitoring systems for
establishing that upper limits for additives, pesticides are not
being exceeded will need to be strengthened.
(ii) Product I nno, -at ion
Control of Product Innovation has been proposed bv the Medical Board
in Norway. If adopted the regulations would certainly exclude
products such as 'Premier', and might only permit the most
conservative of product innovations, if anv. This position is the
opposite of that in the UK and possibly in German,%, where it is
understood that broad support was given by the Independent
Scientific Committee to the concepts relating to Premier.
(.:ii) Cigarette Testing and BARCLAY
Proposals from two CORESTA Task Forces relating to cigarette testing
have been agreed by the CORESTA Board, albeit with some dissent from
R J Reynolds. The first task force proposal relates to
channel-ventilated cigarettes; the second to modifications to the
standard method, (notablv the exclusion of the electrostatic method
of collecting tat hither to used in Germany). The combination of
both proposals, as modifications to the existing method should
greatly facilitate their adoption by ISO, the International
Standards Organization and, more importantly. by regulatory
authorities such as the EEC. A harmonized method will be required
in Europe, associated with the introduction of tar ceilings, and an
industry agreed method is obviously preferred to the imposition of
an arbitrarily chosen procedure.
Adoption of the revised methods (which includes the introduction of
an insert into a cigarette holder which blocks some of the channels
in channel ventilated products) will result in BARCLAY in
Switzerland be ranked at 3aw.
iv) General
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A strategy document on the impact of the BAT Group of the increasing :n
activities bv reltulatorv authorities in the three areas described CD
above is being prepared U-7
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke
W In various regions of the world industry programmes have been
developed to identifv consultants who could be trained to con
both to the scientific literature and public debate On ETS. Most. Of
these programmes have been initiated U%- Philip Morris and ait
coordinated by the US law firm Covington and Burling. A I-eCVriLJV
developed programme in the Far East also has supputt from OATCu,
Brown and Williamson. R J Revnolds, RoLhmans and possiblv JT1. As
part of this programme. consultants have been identified in a number
of countries, including Hong Kong, Philippines and Thailand. and an
indoor and outdoor air quality study in three major cities is
currently being developed by BATCo -
Within Europe the bull, of independent consultants have been
recruited by an organization called ARIA (Association for Research
on Indoor Air) acting for Philip Morris but without other industry
support. As yet the organization has not achieved any great success
in influencing scientific or public opinion on ETS, perhaps because
it has little credibility and its objectives seem to relate to
quant rather than qualiv... Attempts are now being made to extend
the organization an a wor Idwidt basis and a very large meeting on
indoor air/Env ironmental Tobacco Smoke is scheduled for November
198q in Montreal. Philip Morris ha,. also held a small closed
meeting on Low Risk Epidemiology. This was held in Neuchatel.
(ii) Restrictions on smoking in public places and in aircraft are
becoming more widespread throughout the world. Particularly severe
restrictions have recently been proposed in Singapore and New
Zealand; largely as a result of BAT's recent strategies and
initiatives on ETS there has been some success in publicising the
industry's point of view in the media and to governments.
(iii) A number of internal and external presentations on the subject of
E7S have been made b-.- RATCo. For example. over the past few months
Dr Chris Proctor reported results of the Southampton ETS programme
at a varietv of conferences, including those in Brussels, Hannover
and Anaheim. US.@.
Addig&ion
Claims that nicotine is addictive are becoming more widespread in manv
parts of the world. In Canada, Health and Welfare commissioned the Royal
Society of Canada to produce a report to decide whether tobacco use should
be considered to be an addiction, dependence or habituation. The
conclusions of the report were that it should be considered to be an
addiction, and the potential legal and social implications of this
classification are considered.
At the 1989 meeting of the Research Policy Group it was agreed that
further research into the effects of nicotine should be carried out in
order to shed light on this issue. The problem. of course, is that
addiction is largely an issue of definitions rather than of scientific
evidence. However. a number of scientists working on nicotine are
currently being approached to see whether additional research would be of
an%, value.
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