Annex A
INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON SMOKING
AND HEALTH
TERMS OF
REFERENCE
The committee is appointed by the Health Ministers
to advise them and, where appropriate, the tobacco companies on
the scientific aspects of matters concerning smoking and health,
in particular:
(a) (i) To receive in confidence full
data about the constituents of cigarettes and other smoking materials
and their smoke and changes in these.
(ii) To release to bona fide research
workers for approved subjects such of the above is agreed by the
suppliers of it.
(b) To review the research into less dangerous
smoking and to consider whether further such research, including
clinical trials and epidemiological studies, needs to be carried
out;
(c) To advise the validity of research results
and of systems of testing the health effects of tobacco and tobacco
substitutes and on their predictive value to human health.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON TOBACCO AND HEALTH
TERMS OF
REFERENCE
The Committee is appointed to provide advice
to the Chief Medical Officer on scientific matters concerning
tobacco and health, in particular:
— to review scientific and medical
evidence on such areas relating to tobacco and health, including
behavioural aspects of tobacco use, as may be agreed between the
Committee and the UK Health Departments and in the light of these
reviews;
— to advise on research priorities
on tobacco and health, including behavioural aspects of tobacco
use;
— to provide advice to the Department
of Health, acting on behalf of the UK Health Departments, about
the constituents of tobacco products and their smoke;
— to review existing controls on additives
and the emission of toxic substances from cigarettes and to provide
advice on controls.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON TOBACCO AND HEALTH
TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP
TERMS OF
REFERENCE
The Technical Advisory Group is appointed to
provide advice to CMO, through the Scientific Committee on Tobacco
and Health, on technical aspects relating to tobacco products
and their effects on health, in particular:
— to review information on the composition
of tobacco and tobacco smoke and to consider proposals for further
analytical work;
— to follow findings from the routine
monitoring of smoke components and to advise on any changes in
procedure that may be required;
— to review existing controls on additives
and the emission of toxic substances from cigarettes and provide
advice on controls;
— to study information on innovative
tobacco products and possible impacts on health effects.
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