From: anne@tobaccodocuments.org
Date: Thu, 04/24/08
Forwarding additional information on the April 21 posting from Bert
Hirschhorn:
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Norbert Hirschhorn <bertzpoet@yahoo.com>
> Date: April 24, 2008 8:22:14 AM MDT
> To: Anne Landman <anne@tobaccodocuments.org>
> Subject: Re: [doc-alert]A Tentative Hypothesis of Nicotine
> Addiction (BAT, 1963)
>
> Anne, it should be mentioned that Haselbach was a Battelle Insitute
> consultant working for BAT; Charles Ellis asked him to write up his
> thoughts on nicotine addiction, so it isn't quite the same as BAT
> making the statement.http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vhc51a99
> http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/tid/njc51a99 .
>
> cheers,
>
> bert
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Anne Landman <anne@tobaccodocuments.org>
> To: - Doc-Alert list <doc-alert@smokescreen.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:07:07 PM
> Subject: [doc-alert]A Tentative Hypothesis of Nicotine Addiction
> (BAT, 1963)
>
> Posting Date: April 21, 2008
>
> Title A TENTATIVE HYPOTHESIS ON NICOTINE ADDICTION
> Author LIBERT, O; HASELBACH, C
> Date 19630530 (May 30, 1963)
> Bates No. 566935581/5582
> Collection: Brown & Williamson
> Pages 2
> URL: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xkv11c00
>
> This two-page report from the Brown & Williamson document
> collection, titled "A Tentative Hypothesis on Nicotine Addiction,"
> indicates British American Tobacco was aware of the addictive
> properties of nicotine by 1963. It discusses the biochemical
> changes that occur in the body due to nicotine use and the
> mechanism behind tolerance (need for increasing amounts of
> nicotine). The final paragraph states,
>
> "In conclusion, a tentative hypothesis for the explanation of
> nicotine addiction would be that of an
> unconscious desire to restore the normal physiological equilibrium
> of the corticotropin releasing
> system in a body in which the normal functioning of the system has
> been weakened by chronic
> intake of nicotine."
>
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