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June 2002, Vol 92, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 891-892
© 2002 American Public Health Association

LETTER

ILSI AND THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY

James Stanley, PhD

James Stanley is with the International Life Sciences Institute, Washington, DC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to James Stanley, PhD, International Life Sciences Institute, One Thomas Circle, 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20005 (e-mail: ilsi@ilsi.org).

As president of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), I would like to respond to the commentary "Junking Science to Promote Tobacco" published in the November 2001 issue of the Journal.1

ILSI supports sound, peer-reviewed science. Yet, by implying that we are or have been a tool of the tobacco industry, which is not true and has never been true, the article unfairly tarnishes our reputation and the reputation of the scientists whose painstaking, honest, and valuable work we have funded.

Clearly, tobacco use is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and a critical public health problem. There . . . [Full Text]

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