Table 1

 Tobacco industry relationships of Life Sciences Research Office Cigarette Additives Panel and Reduced Risk Core Committee members

NameCommittee membershipProfession and employersRelationships with tobacco industryPublished with tobacco company personnelPubmed citations on tobacco or cigarette smoke as of September 2006
AlwynelleCigarette additives (last 2 meetings through the end of project) Reduced riskVeterinarianNoneNoNo
S AhlHighland Rim Research Organization USDA
Tuskegee University
CarrollCigarette additivesPhysician/pulmonologist1970–77 CTR grant43–47No28
E CrossReduced riskUC Davis
DonaldCigarette additivesToxicologist2000 Consultant (Lorillard)48,49Yes50No
GardnerReduced riskUS EPA1999 Member of Eclipse Report Expert Panel (RJR)50
Northrop/Mantech Corporation1988 Expert witness (Lorillard)51
Editor of Journal of Inhalation Toxicology1987 Applied for position of Executive Director of CIAR52
ShayneCigarette additivesToxicologistNoneNoNo
C GadReduced riskGad Consulting Services (founder/principal)
Becton Dickinson
GD Searle
Allied Corporation
LouisCigarette additivesPhysiologistNoneNoNo
D HomerReduced riskLegacy research
US Naval Medical Research Institute
Emanuel RubinCigarette additives Reduced riskPathologist Thomas Jefferson University Hahnemann University Mt Sinai Medical School/Hospital2000 Expert witness (all US tobacco companies except Liggett)53 2000 Expert witness (PM)54 1997 Expert witness (Lorillard)55 1996 Expert witness (Liggett)56 1991 Expert witness (PM)57NoNo
Rudolph JaegerCigarette additivesToxicologist Environmental medicine New York University CH Technologies (founder/principal)1999 Member of Eclipse Report Expert Panel on CO (RJR)50 1995–6 Consultant (RJR)58,59 1994 Equipment sales (PM)60 1987–90 Consultant (RJR)61Yes50No
Robert OrthCigarette additivesChemistNoneNoNo
Apis Discoveries (founder/principal)
Monsanto
University of Missouri
ReshaCigarette additives (withdrew from project mid-2003)Physiologist/biophysicistNoneNo1
PutzrathGeorgetown Risk Group (founder/principal)
Johns Hopkins University
Organization Resources Counsellors
Environ Corporation
US National Institutes of Health
James L SchardeinCigarette additivesToxicologist WIL Research Labs MPI Research/International Research and Development Corporation1996 MPI performed animal toxicology tests (Lorillard)62 1979–88 IBD/MPI performed animal toxicology tests (PM)63–66NoNo
ThomasCigarette additivesPhysiologist/Biophysicist2001 PMERP research grant42,67Yes503
J SlagaAMC Cancer Research Center, University of Colorado1999 Member of Eclipse Report Expert Panel (RJR)68
University of Texas1987–94 Consultant (RJR)69–72
Oak Ridge National Laboratories1978 ORNL had CTR contract73
ElizabethReduced riskChemist2000 SI report on phosphine (RJR)74,75No1
AndersonExponent Health1998 SI wrote CIAR monograph 199676
Sciences International (founder/principal)
US EPA
NancyReduced riskLawyer1995-present Buc Levitt and Beardsley do pro bono work for the Washington Legal Foundation, a non-profit supported partly by tobacco company donations that litigates against government regulation of tobacco77NoNo
L BucBuc Levitt and Beardsley
US FDA
JosephReduced riskBiochemist1986–9 Consultant (RJR)78,79NoNo
RodricksEnviron Corporation (founder/principal)
RichardReduced riskRisk analyst1992 Informal (unpaid) consultant (PM)80,81No1
SchwingGeneral motors corporation
Richard WindsorReduced riskPublic health educatorNoneNo14