Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman

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Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman was a tobacco industry law firm that served as counsel to Philip Morris as far back as 1946.[1]

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Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman was Counsel for Philip Morris.(PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)

Alexander Holtzman was a member of this firm circa 1963.[2]

On or around May 19, 1967 (3 1/2 years after the first Surgeon General's report definitively linked smoking with disease) William W. Shinn of the Council for Tobacco Research sent a letter addressed to Alexander Holtzman, Esq. of Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman (counsel Philip Morris) about CTR Special Projects, outlining a proposal to support and publicize research advancing the theory that smoking is beneficial to health as acts as a stress reducer, even for "coronary prone" persons, representing that stress (rather than nicotine addiction), explains why smoking clinics fail, and proposing to publicize the "image of smoking as 'right' for many people...as a scientifically approved "diversion" to avoid disease causing stress." page 14

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