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==Sharon Boyse==later==Sharon Blackie== : '''Note:Sharon Boyse''' Occasionally spelled BOYCE in the tobacco archives. , whose married name is Sharon Boyse Blackie, was [[British American Tobacco]]'s (BAT) main scientific-confuser in the UK, Europe, Asia and South America. Essentially, she was the strategist (along with [[Christopher Proctor]] and [[A.D Clive Turner|Clive Turner]]) most responsible for deflecting public and political attention away from the regulation of smoking in public places.('''Note''': Occasionally her surname is misspelled as BOYCE in the tobacco archives.)
Trained as a pharmacologist.
She Boyse trained as a pharmacologist and joined BAT's Corporate R&D division at Millbank in the UK on December 3 1986 as Senior Adviser on Scientific Issues in the Smoking and Health Division, under RE Thornton.<ref>A.L. Heard, [http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/data/b/l/h/blh21a99/blh21a99.pdf"Dr. S. Boyse"] , Bates number 109844307, December 17, 1986. (I page pdf).</ref>According to Philip Morris reports, her "task is to tour Pharmacology Departments at Universities." At this time BAT needed to lookout for research which may find evidence damaging to the industry, and also seek out potential scientific witnesses who might be willing to help them in court cases and government inquiries. [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jiq68e00/pdf]
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Two of her more important science-for-sale contractors were:
* [[Steve Milloy]] who ran the [[TASSC]] and <http://www.junkscience.com>operations
* [[Paul Dietrich]] who ran an anti-WHO (World Health Organisation) operation through his pseudo-think-tank, the [[Institute for International Health and Development]].
====History====
Four years later, she was transfered to Public Affairs, and given staff assistance [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zrp33f00/pdf] in BAT's attempt to compete for leadership of the international tobacco industry, with the growing political and economic influence of [[Philip Morris]].
