Smoking is Addictive

	Tobacco Institute Internal Memo Re: National Institute of Drug Abuse Desire to Have 'ADDICTIVE' Added to Cigarette Warnings To: W. Kloepfer From: P. Knopick Date: September 9, 1980
	Summary of Image Page One "In NL 233, we quoted Pollin saying that cigarette smoking is the nation's leading drug problem amoung youths, despire the rise in marijuana use. In NL 188, we quoted Pollin's predecessor, Dr. Robert Dupont: 'Cigarette smoking is more addictive than using heroin, hooking two-thirds of the people who ever smoke." [click on image to download document -- 15K]
	Summary of Image Page Two "Shook, Hardy reminds us, I'm told, that the entire matter of addiction is the most potent weapon a prosecuting attorney can have in a lung cancer/cigarette case. We can't defend continued smoking as 'free choice' if the person was 'addicted.'" [click on image to download document -- 6K]
	BACKGROUND NOTE: This document was a Minnesota trial exhibit. It is a 'classic' and points out how the Tobacco Institute understood that if the industry ever admitted their product was addictive, their defense of "free choice" in liability suits would go right out the window. Quotes: ...Shook, Hardy reminds us...that the entire matter of addiction is the most potent weapon a prosecuting attorney can have in a lung cancer/cigarette case. We can't defend continued smoking as 'free choice' if the person was 'addicted.' Anne Landman American Lung Association of Colorado, West Region Office Grand Junction Title: Memo Re: National Institute of Drug Abuse desire to have 'addictive' added to cigarette warnings Author: P. Knopick Recipient: W. Kloepfer Date: September 9, 1980 No. of Pages: 2 Site: Tobacco Institute http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/ URL: http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=TIMN0107822/7823

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Tobacco Institute Internal Memo Re: National Institute of Drug Abuse Desire to Have 'ADDICTIVE' Added to Cigarette Warnings