TY - JOUR T1 - “The Tobacco Products Research Trust 1982–1996” JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 193 LP - 193 DO - 10.1136/tc.7.2.193 VL - 7 IS - 2 AU - CHERYL SWANN AU - PETER FROGGATT AU - LISA A BERO Y1 - 1998/06/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/7/2/193.1.abstract N2 - Editor,—Lisa Bero’s review of the above report1 is generous, but contains, apart from a number of minor inaccuracies, two specific points which we think should be challenged.(1) “More documentation of the futile search for a ‘safer’ cigarette”. The reviewer makes much of the fact that “internal tobacco company research . . . had already demonstrated by the early 1980s that the production of a safer cigarette was not feasible for a variety of practical and legal reasons.” However this view was never apparent to the trust and only came into the public domain in the mid-1990s, when the trust’s programme was terminating, with the delving into the Brown and Williamson papers.2 She also discounts the points that (a) the search for a “safer” cigarette (after the collapse of tobacco substitutes) by “product modification” required properly funded and planned studies to monitor the … ER -