From: afoxland@starband.net
Date: Fri, 01/03/03
Anne Landman Posting Date: Friday, January 3, 2003
Environment
Company/source: Brown & Williamson
Document Date: Undated
Length: 4 pages
Bates No. 670118414/8417
URL: http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/126936.html
PDF Version:
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=kug93f00&fmt=pdf&ref=results
This document appears to be related (perhaps as an attachment)
to the document featured in yesterday's posting (January 2, 2003, Technological
Forecasting for Tobacco to 90000) since both of the separate Bates numbers that
appear on the document are very close numerically, and the topic, printing and
even the wording are similar.
The document consists of four pages of future-oriented
questions about factors that could potentially affect tobacco sales and use into
the future. Some of the questions are astounding for their frank references to
tobacco as a drug and a "sociological crutch," its addictive properties, the
clear recognition of the harm tobacco causes, references to finding an
"antidote" to nicotine addiction, and more.
Some of the questions posed in the document include:
"WILL HYDROPONICS OR CELL CULTURE OR TISSUE CULTURE REDUCE CANCER
CAUSING AGENTS IN CIGARETTES?"
"WILL A RISE IN U.S. STANDARD OF LIVING FACILITATE ENTRY OF A
TOBACCO & MARIJUANA MIXTURE INTO THE MARKET? OR WILL SUCH A RISE ALSO CAUSE MORE
LEISURE TIME WHICH IN TURN WILL ALSO EASE ENTRY OF TOBACCO-MARIJUANA INTO THE
MARKET?"
"WILL CPSC [Consumer Products Safety Commission?] FORCE
SELF-IGNITING CIGARETTES FOR SAFER DRIVING, ETC.?"
"WILL POLONIUM IN THE SOIL BE COUNTERED BY HYDROPONIC CULTURE?
[Note: Polonium is the source of radioactive Polonium-210 in
cigarette smoke.]
"WILL TOBACCO BE REPLACED AS A SOCIOLOGICAL CRUTCH? (I.E., NO
LONGER SEEN AS REBELLION, THEREFORE, NO MORE PRESSURE ETC.)
"WHAT WILL BE THE EFFECT OF INCREASE (OR DECREASE) IN BREAST
FEEDING OR NEED FOR ORAL GRATIFICATION?"
"IF MARIJUANA IS LEGALIZED, WILL TOBACCO GIVE ENOUGH OF A HIGH BY
ITSELF TO COMPETE?"
"WILL AN ANTIDOTE BE DEVELOPED TO COMBAT NICOTINE ADDICTION?"
"WILL NEW DELIVERY SYSTEMS CAUSE MORE HARM (E.G., DIFFERENT
CANCERS OR MORE NUMEROUS CANCERS) THAN IS BEING CAUSED NOW BY INHALATION?"
"CAN A METHOD BE FOUND TO DELIVER NICOTINE (AND THC) TO THE BODY
WITHOUT FILLING THE LUNGS WITH SMOKE? WOULD USE OF VARIOUS BODY-ENTRY POINTS BE
ACCEPTABLE TO THE CONSUMER?"
The concern that tobacco use may one day no longer be seen as
"rebellion" and that a decrease in pressure to use the subststance (presumably
among youth) may ensue indicates tobacco industry reliance on these phenomena to
generate new smokers. The notion that an "antidote" might one day be found to
"combat nicotine addiction" indicates recognition that nicotine addiction is
seen by much of greater society as problematic--a view the industry has sought
to subvert, avoid and deflect. The concern that a tobacco "high" might one day
have to compete with the "high" provided by legalized marijuana indicates how
the tobacco industry views its products within the context of the greater drug
world.
The document itself contains no date, but yesterday's document
(which may be related to this one) is dated 1976. This one may be close.
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Type: REPT, REPORT, OTHER
Named Organizations:
Subject:
marketing
marketing research
drug use
marijuana
drug dependence
FDA, Food And Drug Administration (U.S.A.)
ACS, American Cancer Society
CPSC -Consumer Products SafetyCommission
Litigation: 10004026
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