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Roger Jenkins & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Roger Jenkins, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, specializes in studies for Big Tobacco or its fronts that find little exposure to secondhand smoke. Oak Ridge National Laboratory and its researchers, although part of the U.S. Department of Energy's often highly-classified research establishment, are for rent to private corporations.
Roger Jenkins has...
- Generated secondhand smoke exposure studies directly for Big Tobacco.
Example: In 1986, Jenkins got $855,000 from Big Tobacco as "co-investigator."
- Been funded for several years by a Big Tobacco front, the Council on Indoor Air Research (CIAR).
Typically for Big Tobacco, these commissioned studies attempt to show that exposure to secondhand smoke is no problem.
Jenkins' findings, and Jenkins himself, frequently appear in hearings to oppose local smokefree measures. As an expert witness for the defense in a lawsuit brought by flight attendants against Big Tobacco over the lung cancer and other diseases they contracted at work, Jenkins' evidence was excluded by the judge because of his pro-tobacco industry bias.
During testimony Tuesday [Judge] Kaye barred industry witness Roger Jenkins, a chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and co-author of a study on secondhand smoke, from discussing the research on grounds that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s assistance with field work and lab analysis made it suspect.
— "Tobacco Firms Battle Flight Attendant Law Suit," Los Angeles Times 9/28/97
In 2000, one of his studies was used by the American Beverage Institute, a Big Tobacco ally against smokefree measures, in testimony before the New York City Health Oversight Committee. In 2001, a Jenkins study was also employed by an Ottawa, Canada, front group battling that city's smokefree measure.
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