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Schwartz, Sorell
US Fact Witness
Dr. Schwartz is a professor at Georgetown University, Department of Pharmacology. Dr. Schwartz was a tobacco industry consultant for many years. In 1982, Dr. Schwartz co-founded the Center for Environmental Health and Human Toxicology ("CEHHT"), a consulting firm that did significant work for the tobacco industry. Additionally, Dr. Schwartz was Chairman of the Indoor Air Pollution Advisory Group ("IAPAG"), a division of CEHHT devoted to ETS. Dr. Schwartz traveled throughout the United States and abroad at the Joint Defendants' expense to testify at hearings and participate in conferences.
As a result of his close work with the tobacco industry, Dr. Schwartz has direct knowledge of (a) defendants' misrepresentations regarding ETS, research projects and industry-sponsored conferences that related to Environmental Tobacco Smoke ("ETS"); (b) defendants' development of scientific witnesses that they used to analyze, critique, and review ETS research, publications, and proposed legislation concerning ETS and indoor air restrictions; (c) attorney involvement in ETS research, including but not limited to, organization and/or support of conferences that addressed ETS, approval/disapproval of research, revision of research results, and whether to publish research results; (d) company or industry knowledge regarding research and/or the development of scientific witness teams to address ETS issues and public statements regarding same.
Source: United States' Factual Memorandum Pursuant to Order #470, Section V (tab 1)