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— BUSINESS: Document trove details links between tobacco, oil industries ~ Wednesda... Page 3 of 3<br />

"The worst thing that can happen, in many instances, is the hasty passage of a iaw or laws for the control of a given air<br />

pollution situation," Vance Jenkins, executive secretary of the Smoke and Fumes Committee, said in a 1954 trade journal<br />

article about smog pollution.<br />

The corporate predecessors to Chevron Corp., Exxon Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC were each involved in the Smoke and<br />

Fumes Committee through former companies and subsidiaries, often broken-off units of the Standard Oil corporate empire.<br />

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed <strong>comm</strong>ittees to<br />

examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.<br />

"Scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect the global climate," Raymond said at a press<br />

conference.<br />

The University of California, San Francisco, documents were cached there starting in 2002 after tobacco industry litigation. Hill<br />

& Knowlton references are heavily featured.<br />

An internal Hill & Knowlton memo from 1954 describes a booklet that employees circulated to doctors nationwide on the<br />

"cigarette-lung cancer theory." They also show company founder John Hill, as well as colleagues Bert Goss, Richard Darrow<br />

and others, sat in on meetings of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, an industry panel.<br />

Hill also appears in meeting minutes in the 1950s for the Manufacturing Chemists' Association Inc. And a flyer from 1963<br />

indicates Goss, president of Hill & Knowlton at the time, hosted an event that November about the future of public relations.<br />

An executive of Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc., a predecessor of Mobil Oil, coordinated that talk, held at the New School in New<br />

York City.<br />

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http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060040530/print 8/1/2016

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