Gio Batta Gori

Gio Batta Gori is a spokeperson and consultant for the tobacco industry and an expert on risk utility and scientific research. , p. 162,, p. 44 He is a frequent author for the libertarian Cato Institute, and was formerly an official with the United States National Cancer Institute. Gori believed a safer cigarette could be made, and that there were safe threshold levels for exposure to the chemicals in cigarette smoke.

National Cancer Institute
Gio Batta Gori has a doctorate in biological sciences and a masters degree in public health. Between 1968 and 1980, he was a scientist and top official at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he specialized in toxicology, epidemiology, and nutrition. He held several positions, including Deputy Director, Division of Cancer Causes and Prevention, Acting Associate Director, Carcinogenesis Program, Director of the Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Program, and Director of the Smoking and Health Program.

Gori and the Tobacco Industry
In 1980 Gori became Vice President of the Franklin Institute Policy Analysis Center (FIPAC), a consulting firm funded initially by a $400,000 grant from the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W). Following its initial formation, FIPAC continued to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding annually from B&W. Gori worked on Research & Development projects for B&W Tobacco, such as analysis of the sensory perception of smoke and how to reduce the amount of tobacco in cigarettes. By 1989, Gori was a full-time consultant on environmental tobacco smoke issues for the Tobacco Institute in the Institute's ETS/IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) Consultants Project. In May 1993, Gori entered an exclusive consulting arrangement with B&W Tobacco, receiving $200/hour a day to $1,000/day for attending conferences.

Books

 * Gio Batta Gori, Virtually Safe Cigarettes: Reviving an Opportunity Once Tragically Rejected, Ios Pr Inc, January 2000. ISBN 1586030574 ISBN 978-1586030575
 * Gio B. Gori, John C. Luik Passive Smoke: The EPA's Betrayal of Science and Policy, The Fraser Institute, 1999. ISBN 0-88975-196-X (In this 118-page book, paid by cigarette company Brown & Williamson and published by Canada's Fraser Institute, Gio Gori and co-author John Luik claim the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used "junk science" to distort the health effects of secondhand smoke.)

Source

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