The IIHD had offices in Geneva and the USA, and was a creation of labor lawyer David A. Morse (Noble Laureate and ex-Director of the International Labor Organization to prmote the views of the tobacco industry to the United Nations, the World Health Organisation), and politicians and health-care administrators in Europe.
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The tobacco industry had a long-term relationship (through grants and contract work) with Don Ecobichon, a professor of pharmacology at the university, and it had recently established a new relationship with Professor Lucien Abenhaim from McGill's Faculty of Medicine.
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They knew that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was threatening to regulate workplace smoking as a carcinogenic pollutant in the ambient air—and therefore that their old standby claims that the 'smoker made the choice to smoke or not'... that smoking was a personal choice... would no longer excuse the damage to health.
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