Francis J. C. Roe

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{{#badges: tobaccowiki}} Francis J. C. Roe was a consultant in pathology for the Tobacco Research Committee around the time Helmut Wakeham was at Philip Morris. Roe specialized in cancer, toxicology and pathology. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)

Roe was a leading member of many tobacco-funded organizations and operations, and is known in some of the tobacco literature as the "main whitecoat in Europe"

Documents & Timeline

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1975 Sep 3 Francis JC Roe and Peter N Lee, both lifetime tobacco lobbyists from the UK, visited New York and the new American Health Foundation, Naylor Dana Institute, then reported (4 pages) to British American Tobacco. [1]

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1988 Apr 18 Helmut Gaisch's ETS Plan and Budgets for four years. [Note: This has been paraphrased - Gaisch ran PM Europe's FTR operation out of Switzerland]

• Aim: to maintain the argument: There is no convincing scientific evidence that ETS is a health risk for non-smokers.
• Scope: Management of experts as scientific spokespersons (extra mural research - scientific events)
• Experts: total of 22 excluding Germany: Lucien Abenhaim, Claude Bieva, Brun (Probably A Brun - Alzheimer Researcher), Gerolamo Chiappino, John M Faccini, R Fresenius (consultant recruiter), Lambert (unknown), Annuka Leppanen, George B Leslie, Torbjorn Malmfors, Bo Mikaelson, Georg Neurath, Odd G Nilsen (spelling), Roger Perry, Francis JC Roe, Schneider (6 possibilites), Scholz (unknown), Daniel Thorburn, Anna M van der Wal (spelling), John Wahren, Lars A Werko, Arne Westlin
  • Germany handled by Gunter Wille and Franz X Adlkofer
  • Nordic by Malmfors, with John Rupp, David H Remes, Nancy Balterr
  • UK by Roe & Leslie with Rupp, Remes, Balter
  • France/Italy by Rupp, Remes, Balter
• Program: (see document too extensive to paraphrase)
• Annual Budget: $6 million

[Note: Gunter Wille MD was Chairman of German Cig. Mfts Assn, and worked for Philip Morris, He died "a tragic death" (no further mention);
George B Leslie was Roe's partner in many of their tobacco industry 'projects', particularly ARIA, the fake scientific association for WhiteCoats.
Franz X Adlkofer was a corrupt scientist who worked for a number of industries, at this time, for tobacco via the Verband (aka VdC - German research group)
R & L Fresenius also ran the Fresenius Institute which did lab work and IAQ testing (PASS)   [2]

Related Sourcewatch resources

• Association for Research into Indoor Air or ARIA.

References

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