LERNER'S EARLY TIES TO TOBACCO PROVED LUCRATIVE

Source from:  therapeuticsdaily.com St Petersburg Times - Jun. 17, 2007  06/21/2007

Richard Lerner was ahead of the curve when it came to mingling science with market. In the 1970s, Lerner sought and got grants from the Council for Tobacco Research, a group created by Philip Morris. It laid the foundation for a long and lucrative relationship between Scripps scientists and big tobacco - forged at a time that cigarette makers were challenging a growing body of scientific evidence that linked cancer and smoking. Since 1980, Scripps has said, its scientists, including Lerner, got $2.2-million in research funds from the tobacco industry. In addition, Philip Morris paid Lerner and another top ... Enditem