Reply #92: That's a tobacco company funded study

[Kingshakabobo]

Posting a tobacco company paid study.

http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=331



Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Studies coming out of national laboratories, and the scientists conducting the research there, have a high level of perceived credibility simply because they come from government entities. However, in addition to research and development in its official capacity as a national laboratory, ORNL also accepts private contracts whose research and results do not have official government standing.

Michael Guerin, who runs the analytical chemistry division at ORNL, has received more than $1 million from the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) and the Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR).1

Roger Jenkins, a chemist with ORNL, performed research on tobacco smoke and secondhand smoke exposure for the tobacco industry, specifically on research commissioned by R.J. Reynolds (RJR) and the CIAR.2

In 1997, Dade County (FL) Circuit Court Judge Robert P. Kaye barred tobacco industry witness Roger Jenkins from testifying in the Florida flight attendants’ lawsuit regarding his secondhand smoke studies, on the grounds that R.J. Reynolds’ (RJR) assistance with field work and lab analysis made the research suspect. Judge Kaye stated, “ It reminds you of having the fox in the henhouse in a situation like this.”7

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