Jump to full article: The Cancer Letter , 2008-03-27
Author: Paul Goldberg
Intro: The press release quotes Bennett LeBow, chairman and CEO of Vector Group: . . .
The document is posted at http://www.tobacco.org/news/54637.html. . . .
Over the past four years, Henschke received over $100,000 in grants and contracts from ACS, the
society said. This included several $10,000 to $15,000 contributions for the annual meeting of the I-ELCAP,
and a $61,850 contract to support the I-ELCAP pathology and cytology evaluation program.
Each time she accepted ACS funds, Henschke signed a document certifying that she didn’t represent a
tobacco company or subcontract work to those who do.
The ACS definition of a “tobacco company” contained in each of these documents includes “any
company that manufactures tobacco products and is commonly considered to be part of the tobacco industry,
including subsidiaries and parent companies, as well as philanthropic foundations and other organizations
closely linked with the tobacco industry.” . . .
Though scientists who receive Legacy money are precluded from accepting concurrent funds from
tobacco sources, surpluses of funds received from tobacco companies in the past are exempted from this
prohibition, Cartwright said.
“The American Legacy Foundation requires grant recipients to agree not to accept tobacco funds or
anything else of value from tobacco companies during the Legacy grant period,” she said in an e-mail. “It
does not include a look-back provision, i.e., we do not disqualify grantees on the basis that they may have
previously received tobacco support. . . .
On March 10, at a gala at the Pierre hotel, Legacy gave Henschke its “Humanitarian in Medicine and
Public Health Award.”
In 2007, the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute gave $8.7 million to Weill Cornell to set up a
“multidisciplinary research and clinical program to enhance early detection and treatment of diseases related
to secondhand smoke exposure-including cancer, heart disease, emphysema, asthma, chronic bronchitis and
osteoporosis.”
The initiative, called the FAMRI-I-ELCAP Collaborative Network, was expected to recruit 5,000
individuals from industries associated with exposure to secondhand smoke.
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