TOBACCO STRATEGY REVIEW TEAM
1. Compendium of Epidemiological Studies
The revised Compendium of Epidemiological Studies has been
completed.
The Compendium of Biological Studies will be completed during
April 1989.
The Summary of the Compendium "Smoking and Health the
Unresolved Debate" has also been completed and will be
circulated to the TSRT as a draft for their agreement.
The final version will be produced to professional standards
and consideration is now being given to the options for using
this document, particularly in external environments.
2. Environmental Tobacco Smoke
The strategy document "Environmental Tobacco Smoke : Improving
the quality of public debate", has been completed and is also
being circulated to the TSRT as a draft. This is intended to
be the working document on handling this issue for senior
management of BAT Group Companies; options for the wider use
of this document.are also being considered.
A position paper "Environmental Tobacco Smoke : The Science",
and a compilation of original documents to support the
strategy paper have been completed.
3. Conference on Low Risk Egidemiolociv
A conference addressing this issue was held in Hannover,
February 19th-24th, 1989. Some 266 delegates attended. The
conference achieved its objectives by:
(1 ) discussing problems in low risk epidemiology,
(2) discussing Environmental Tobacco Smoke at the same time
as Car exhaust, various Industrial chemicals and other
possible hazards.
The meeting concluded that the evidence against environmental
tobacco smoke was weaker than than for any of the other
putative hazards considered. The proceedings will contain
some ten papers on environmental tobacco smoke, a majority of
which conclude that there is no proper scientific basis for
associating environmental tobacco smoke with any increase in
incidence of disease.
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4. Professor A. V. Feinstein
Professor Alvan Feinstein will address the TSRT on Low Risk
Epidemiology. A copy of his recent paper "Scientific
Standards in Epidemiclogic Studies of the Menace of Daily
Life" is being circulated.
Dr. Feinstein is Professor of Epidemiology at Yale and is
medically qualified.
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