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====History====
Sharon Boyse was born June 30 1961 in Hartlepool, England
She graduated with BA in Psychology Uni of Liverpool in 1982, and earned a PhD in pharmacology at the University of London, a few years later. For a short time she held a Wellcome Trust Travelling Research Fellowship to the University of Paris, then a Mental Health Foundation Research Fellowship, London
Boyse trained as a pharmacologist and She 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 [[Ray E. 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 look out 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.<ref>H.W. Gaisch, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jiq68e00/pdf Monthly Highlights September 1987], Fabriques de Tabac Reunies S.A., Bates Number 2001160764, September 30, 1987.(Pdf)</ref>
Four years later, she was transfered to Public AffairsDepartment of the Corporate Affairs division as the '''Manager of Smoking Issues''', and given staff assistance <ref>M.L. Reynolds, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zrp33f00/pdf "SRG Notes"], Bates No 510100069, December 3, 1990.(Pdf)</ref> in BAT's attempt was attempting at this time to compete for leadership of the international tobacco industry, with the growing political and economic influence of [[Philip Morris]](then largely under the control of [[Andrew Whist]] and [[R. William "Bill" Murray|Bill Murray]]). Sometime between 1994 and 1996 she worked as a consultant for [[The Science Consultancy]] in Galway, Ireland (probably a short duration marriage?), then returned to BAT, but relocated to America as '''Director of Scientific Communications''' with the BAT subsidiary, Brown & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky. During a court case (Newcomb v RJ Reynolds) in 1999, she finally admitted that smoking causes disease.
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