Robert W Meyne
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Rob Meyne was the PR Director at RJ Reynolds tobacco in the mid 1990s, who rose to be the Senior Director of Public Affairs. He was engaged in all of the tobacco industry's scams at that time.
Documents & Dates
1994 Oct "RJ Reynolds Takes Its Message on the Road". Meynes, as the senior director of public affairs, was to go on a six week, 28 city media tour with researchers. (See Page 28) [2]
1996 June 7 Steve Milloy of TASSC is now e-mailing copy, but still using his his CAIS office E-mail (milloy@cias.com). The Email carries a junk-science address under the heading
- From: owner-junksci@www.standup.westlake.com
- To: junksci-outgoing@www.standup.westlake.com
This is a 9 page document addressed initially to Chris Coggins at RJ Reynolds -- it consisted of the index for the Junk Science web page for the week of June 6 1996.
He is focussing on President Bill Clinton's problems with Paula Jones and linking the scandals to Agent Orange. This is basically expanded headlines plus a smart Milloy comment tacked on, although some items on hazardous waste claims are expanded into short articles.
He also praises Marcia Angell at the New England Journal of Medicine who has published a special article...
... railing about the travesty of the breast implant controversy, including the associated junk science . Of course, I applaud Dr. Angell for taking notice of junk science -- in fact she links junk science with other issues including asbestos, diethylstilbestrol (DES), Benedictin, the Dalkon shield, Agent Orange, Alar-treated apples, radon and electromagnetic fields.
Much later this email was forwarded to Robert Meyne (RJR PR) and also Peggy Carter (Media Relations). [3]
- NOTE: Milloy's original email still carries the EOP Group fax number ... so the EOP Group, APCO, and Philip Morris are all behind the Milloy-junk-science scam. He also seems to need RJR approval for his activities.
