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APPENDIX 42: Letter from the Vice President Corporate Affairs, Philip Morris, European Union Region to the Clerk of the Committee (TB 19D) 

Thank you for your letter dated 28 February 2000, in which you request on behalf of the Committee that I provide the basis for my comment that Professor Perry's "affiliation with the industry and with Philip Morris was very well known".

My statement that Professor Roger Perry's association with tobacco companies was well known was based on my understanding that the relationship was reported in the media as early as 1988. Indeed, as I stated to the Committee, Professor Perry was publicly criticised for his involvement with the tobacco companies. The attached news articles and radio broadcast transcript are examples of the publicity that Professor Perry's relationship with the tobacco industry and Philip Morris received in 1988.

Further, in a 1998 news article (also attached) it was reported that Frank Cranmer, a clerk to the Environment Committee at a time when Professor Perry was special adviser to that committee, acknowledged that the members of the Environment Committee were aware Professor Perry had a relationship with the tobacco industry.

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