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MikeWaters · 09-19-2005, 06:47 PM

Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):994-1004.

The power of paperwork: how Philip Morris neutralized the medical code for secondhand smoke.

Cook DM, Tong EK, Glantz SA, Bero LA.

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA.

A new medical diagnostic code for secondhand smoke exposure became available in 1994, but as of 2004 it remained an invalid entry on a common medical form. Soon after the code appeared, Philip Morris hired a Washington consultant to influence the governmental process for creating and using medical codes. Tobacco industry documents reveal that Philip Morris budgeted more than $2 million for this "ICD-9 Project." Tactics to prevent adoption of the new code included third-party lobbying, Paperwork Reduction Act challenges, and backing an alternative coding arrangement. Philip Morris's reaction reveals the importance of policy decisions related to data collection and paperwork.

PMID: 16136637 [PubMed - in process]

Jeff Lebowski · 09-19-2005, 06:57 PM

Amen to that.

Remember when Bob Dole was running for president and he said something to the effect that he wasn't sure that he believed that smoking was bad for you and that we need to wait for further research. I was absolutely stunned. Worst case of shameless pandering to a political donor I have ever seen.

ChinoCoug · 11-05-2005, 02:54 AM

I like Bob Dole, but he compared it to milk! He said some people think milk is bad for you!

il Padrino Ute · 11-05-2005, 01:07 PM

on the American market that, when used as directed, will kill you.

SoCalCoug · 11-05-2005, 04:52 PM

I hate seeing kids smoking - and there's nothing attractive at all in it it doesn't taste good, and it doesn't give you a buzz - the only thing that I see that makes it attractive to kids is peer pressure - other kids are doing it, it seems cool, so they do it. And many of them will ultimately die from it.

09-19-2005, 06:47 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	tobacco companies are evil Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):994-1004. The power of paperwork: how Philip Morris neutralized the medical code for secondhand smoke. Cook DM, Tong EK, Glantz SA, Bero LA. Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA. A new medical diagnostic code for secondhand smoke exposure became available in 1994, but as of 2004 it remained an invalid entry on a common medical form. Soon after the code appeared, Philip Morris hired a Washington consultant to influence the governmental process for creating and using medical codes. Tobacco industry documents reveal that Philip Morris budgeted more than $2 million for this "ICD-9 Project." Tactics to prevent adoption of the new code included third-party lobbying, Paperwork Reduction Act challenges, and backing an alternative coding arrangement. Philip Morris's reaction reveals the importance of policy decisions related to data collection and paperwork. PMID: 16136637 [PubMed - in process]

11-05-2005, 02:54 AM	#3
ChinoCoug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NOVA Posts: 3,005	Cigarettes cf. Milk I like Bob Dole, but he compared it to milk! He said some people think milk is bad for you! __________________ 太初有道

11-05-2005, 01:07 PM	#4
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	Tobacco is the one legal product.. on the American market that, when used as directed, will kill you. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

11-05-2005, 04:52 PM	#5
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I hate seeing kids smoking - and there's nothing attractive at all in it it doesn't taste good, and it doesn't give you a buzz - the only thing that I see that makes it attractive to kids is peer pressure - other kids are doing it, it seems cool, so they do it. And many of them will ultimately die from it. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

09-19-2005, 06:57 PM	#2
Jeff Lebowski Charon Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the heart of darkness (Provo) Posts: 9,564	Amen to that. Remember when Bob Dole was running for president and he said something to the effect that he wasn't sure that he believed that smoking was bad for you and that we need to wait for further research. I was absolutely stunned. Worst case of shameless pandering to a political donor I have ever seen.