The Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

Ae, Doyle; Rand, Michelle; Powell, L. W.; Simmonds, WJ; Wing, L. M. H.; Zylstra, W

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb112788.x

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“…45 Doyle could have hardly imagined that his private letter to the ATRF secretary would later become public, so his private insistence that the ATRF was indeed not being used as a public relations tool by the tobacco industry provides an interesting insight into either his naivety or ability to rationalize. 46 In 1988 the Medical Journal of Australia published a significant letter signed by all members of the scientific advisory committee of the ATRF stating: ''the members of the scientific advisory committee are unanimous in believing that smoking is an important causative factor in several major diseases. We recognize the link between smoking and lung cancer which generally is attributed to the presence of known carcinogens in tobacco smoke.…”

Section: Rising Criticism Of the Atrfmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“A deep fragrance of academia”: the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

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2003

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Objectives:(1) To review the history of the tobacco industry supported Australian Tobacco Research Foundation (ATRF)(1970–1994) for evidence of the industry’s use of the Foundation to further its objectives that “more research was needed” on smoking and health and to promulgate the view that nicotine was not addictive. (2) To review efforts by public health advocates to discredit the ATRF as a public relations tool used by the Australian industry.Methods:Systematic search of previously internal industry documents released through the US Master Settlement Agreement.Results:The ATRF was headed by prestigious Australian medical scientists, with at least one considered by the industry to be “industry positive”. An international ATRF symposium on nicotine was vetted by the industry and heavily attended by industry approved scientists. Following sustained criticism from the health and medical community about the industry’s creation of the ATRF to further its objectives, the ATRF’s scientific committee was provoked to publicly declare in 1988 that smoking was a causative agent in disease. This criticism led to growing ATRF boycotts by scientists and substandard applications, causing the industry to see the ATRF as being poor value-for-money and eventually abandoning it.Conclusions:The raison d’etre for the ATRF’s establishment was to allow the Australian industry to point to its continuing commitment to independent medical research, with the implied corollary that tobacco control measures were premature in the face of insufficient evidence about tobacco’s harms. Sustained criticism of tobacco industry funded research schemes can undermine their credibility among the scientific community.

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Section: Rising Criticism Of the Atrfmentioning

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“…Research workers have no direct contact with the industry.'' 46 This was followed by a letter to a newspaper emphasizing ''the fact that the A.T.R.F., although funded by the Tobacco Industry, is entirely independent of it''. 47 …”

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“A deep fragrance of academia”: the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

Chapman,

Carter,

Peters

2003

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“…In particular, we do not, in any sense, act as spokesmen for the tobacco industry, nor do we have any financial relationships with the tobacco industry except to advise on the disbursement of research funds." 2 None of the standard publicity material distributed by the Smoking and Health Research Foundation of Australia appears to make any mention of their source of funding; the name change from Australian Tobacco Research Foundation only contributes to obscuring an obvious connection. 5 By the early 1990s the Australian Medical Association, the Thoracic Society of Australia, the National Heart Foundation of Australia, and some state cancer councils such as the New South Wales Cancer Council expressed their strong opposition to the acceptance of funds from tobacco industry sources.…”

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Croatia: hot salaries, cool penguins

1999

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“…It is not our task to advise the tobacco industry on any matters other than those that relate directly to the funding of research projects, or to discuss other matters that are related to industry and society. In particular, we do not, in any sense, act as spokesmen for the tobacco industry, nor do we have any financial relationships with the tobacco industry except to advise on the disbursement of research funds.”2 …”

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Australia: industry flies the surrender flag

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1999

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The Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

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“A deep fragrance of academia”: the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

“A deep fragrance of academia”: the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation

Croatia: hot salaries, cool penguins

Australia: industry flies the surrender flag

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