Summary

OSHA CLEAN INDOOR AIR HEARING CONTINUE. (Cross examination of RJR by Coalition on Smoking OR Health DID NOT happen) WE HAVE OTHER MATERIAL FROM THE OSHA HEARING HOWEVER.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 243037
Story Slug INDOOR AIR HEARING / OSHA / CLEAN AIR (1/18/1995)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD
Date 1/18/1995
Archive Time 24:03
TRT 2:18
Supers 1) DR. STEPHEN SEARS, RJR SCIENTIST 2) DR. CHRISTOPHER COGGINS, RJR
Video Description HEARING VIDEO AND SOTs
Description OSHA CLEAN INDOOR AIR HEARING CONTINUE. (Cross examination of RJR by Coalition on Smoking OR Health DID NOT happen) WE HAVE OTHER MATERIAL FROM THE OSHA HEARING HOWEVER.
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) Unknown Speaker 00:01 Certainly there are variables. Unknown Speaker 00:03 I'm thinking primarily of dietary. They're very mistaken. I think you could answer that best, right? When we say it's a risk factor Unknown Speaker 00:13 within the context that you have just said, Can you give me an example of an agent that causes a disease? So the evidence on asbestos and mesothelioma would partially meet your criteria. Unknown Speaker 00:31 In my opinion, as a scientist, I think yes. Unknown Speaker 00:33 Does active smoking causes lung cancer? Unknown Speaker 00:37 I don't know, because the evidence here is much less weak. We certainly have the epidemiology, but we do not have the corroborating animal evidence that there are numbers of studies dozens upon dozens of inhalation studies that have been performed with mainstream smoke in a many different species durations of many years. And uniformly these studies have not produced an increase in the background rate of lung cancer as a result of those exposed
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Keywords

POLLUTION
INDOOR AIR
SMOKING
OSHA
CLEAN AIR
RJR
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