John Dollisson and Bill Webb interviewed on ABC's Pressure Point in 1984

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Click here to review an excerpt from an episode of the ABC's TV programme Pressure Point in 1984. The interviewer is Huw Evans, the interviewees are John Dollisson (CEO of the Tobacco Institute of Australia in 1984) & Bill Webb (Philip Morris Australia). Huw Evans asks the interviewees for straight answers regarding health warnings:

Evans: "Do you agree with health warning number 1 'Smoking causes lung cancer'?"
Dollisson & Webb: "Certainly not"
Evans: "Smoking causes heart disease"
Dollisson & Webb: "Certainly not"
Evans: "Smoking reduces your life expectancy"
Dollisson & Webb: "... certainly not"
Evans: "...final one, Giving up smoking improves your health"
Webb: "... I don't think that there is any evidence to support any of those contentions"

British American Tobacco

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Paul N. Adams, CEO BAT Plc

Adams is currently Chief Executive Officer of BAT Plc. In 2005, he was paid £2.12m plus £406,601 in share options. Adams has been employed by BAT since 1991, when he joined the BAT Group as Asia Territorial Director for the Far East and Australasia. During his career at BATCo he has held the following positions:
* BATCo, Asia Territorial Director, Far East and Australasia, 1991-1993
* BATCo, Asia Regional Director, Far East and Australasia, 1993-1998
* BATCo, Regional Director, Europe, 1999-2001
* BATCo, Deputy Managing Director, 2001-2002
* BATCo, Managing Director, 2002
* BATCo, Chairman, 2002- present
* BAT Plc., Executive Director, 2001-2003
* BAT Plc., Chief Executive Officer, 2004-present.

Dr Sharon Blackie (formerly Sharon Boyse)

Dr. Blackie was employed by BATCo in 1986 as a Senior Scientific Advisor in the R&D Department. In 1991 she was appointed Manager of Smoking Issues in the Corporate Affairs Department and became the Head of Smoking Issues from 1993 to 1994. She was effectively BAT's UK scientific spin doctor. From 1994 to 1996 she left the company and worked as an industry consultant. From 1996 to 2000 she worked for Brown & Williamson as the Director of Scientific Issues, and then as Director of Applied Research from 2001 to 2002. In 2002 she returned to BATCo to the position of Head of Strategic Research.

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Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, MP

Kenneth Clarke is a member of the British Conservative Party and is deputy chairman of BAT. In 2005, he received £154,237 in director's fees from BAT.

Nick Greiner

Nick Greiner (ex NSW Premier) was appointed chairman of the board of the then WD & HO Wills Australia company (a BAT subsidiary) in 1996. He stepped down as chairman of the BAT Australia board in 2004. Greiner was Liberal premier of New South Wales from 1988-1992 and resigned from politics after being criticised by a body of his own creation, the Independent Commission against Corruption.

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Dr Chris J. Proctor, Head of Science and Regulation, British American Tobacco

Proctor was employed by BAT in 1983 as Senior Analyst in the R&D Department at Southampton, a position he held until late 1989, when he left BAT to work for industry law firm, Covington & Burling, in Washington DC. In Sep 1993, Proctor returned to BAT to work in the Smoking Issues Department under Sharon Blackie nee Boyse and in Sep 1994 officially became the Department Head. Around 1996, he became Head of Science & Regulation.

Philip Morris (Altria)

Geoffrey Bible, Philip Morris, Head Honcho from Jun 1994 to Aug 2002

Australian born Bible was Chairman and CEO of Philip Morris Companies (Altria Group Inc.) from June 1994 to August 2002. Bible held the following positions within the Philip Morris group of companies:
* Vice Chairman, World Wide Tobacco, PM Companies (May 1994-Jun 1994)
* Executive VP, Worldwide Tobacco Operations, PM Companies (Apr 1993-May 1994)
* Executive VP, Philip Morris International (PMI) (Apr 1991-Apr 1993)
* President and Chief Administrative Officer, Kraft General Foods, (Feb 1990-Apr 1991)
* Chief Executive Officer, PMI (1987-1990)
* Executive Vice President, PMIl (Feb 1984-Apr 1987)
* Managing Director, Philip Morris Australia, PMI (May 1981- Feb 1984)
* Vice President, Planning, PMI (Oct 1979- May 1981)
* Director, Planning, Philip Morris Europe/Middle East/Africa, PMI (Jul 1976 - Oct 1979)
* Manager of Finance, Philip Morris Europe/Middle East/Africa, PMI (Nov 1968 - 1970)

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Louis C. Camilleri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Altria Group

Camilleri was appointed CEO of Philip Morris Companies, Inc in April 2002 and became Chairman of the Board of Directors in April 2002. Camilleri has been employed by Philip Morris/Altria for nearly 30 years and has held the following positions:

* Senior Vice President & CFO, PM Companies (Jan 1996-Apr 2002)
* Senior Vice President, PM Companies (Aug 1996 - )
* Senior Vice President, Corporate Planning, PM Companies (Jan 1995-Aug 1996)
* Vice President Corporate Business Strategy, PM Companies (Jan 1995-Aug 1995)
* Senior Vice President, EEC, PMI (Jan 1993 - Feb 1995)
* Vice President, Central & Eastern Europe, PM EEMA, PMI (Jan 1992-Jan 1993)
* Vice President, PM EEM, PMI (May 1986 - Jan 1992)
* Director, Business Development and Planning, EEMA, PMI (Feb 1982-May 1986)
* Vice President, Eastern Europe, Australia, PM EEMA, PMI (Apr 1978 -Feb 1982)

Nerida White, Director Communications, Philip Morris Asia

White was formerly Corporate Communications Manager for Philip Morris Australia.

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