Posted by Ann Geoffrey Bible, Chairman of Philip Morris, testifies at the Minnesota trial: "I'm unclear in my own mind whether anyone dies of cigarette smoking-related diseases." (Cited in Pioneer Press, 1998) "Monkeys can be trained to inject themselves with nicotine for its own sake, just as they will inject other dependence-producting drugs e.g. opiates, caffeine, amphetamine, cocaine. The absorption of nicotine through the lungs is as quick as the junkie's 'fix'." (Brown and Williamson's research review, 1973) "The entire matter of addiction is the most potent weapon a prosecuting attorney can have in a lung cancer case. We can't defend continued smoking as 'free choice' if the person was 'addicted'." (Tobacco Institute, 1980) "I believe nicotine is not addictive" (James Johnson, RJR, under oath before the Congressional Health & Environment Subcommittee, 1994) "Cigarette advertising reaches children as young as three. In one study, six year olds were as familiar with Joe Camel as Mickey Mouse." (JAMA, 1991) "We don't advertise to children. First of all, we don't want young people to smoke. And we're running ads aimed specifically at young people advising them that we think smoking is strictly for adults. Kids just don't pay attention to cigarette ads, and that's how it should be." (RJR, 1984) "The lower age limit for the profile of young smokers is to remain at 12." (Internal RJR document, 1987) Terence Sullivan, a Florida sales rep for RJR, asked which age groups exactly RJR was targeting. The reply was "They got lips? We want them." "The three most commonly purchased brands among adolescent smokers in 1993 were the three most heavily advertised brands in 1993: Marboro, Camel & Newport." (US Dept. of Health & Human Services, 1994) "We estimate that 34% of all experimentation (with cigarettes) in California between 1993-1996 can be attibuted to tobacco promotional activities." (JAMA, 1998)
on 6/11/2001, 8:20 am
An actor promoting RJReynolds products asked an RJR executive why he does not smoke. He was told: "We don't smoke that $hit - we just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the black and the stupid." (Cited in First Tuesday, ITV 1992)
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