| According to
a story in the New York
Times, “The American
Cancer Society... has
endorsed Florida orange
juice....” (8/13/97)
. See also World Tonight
News With Peter Jennings
(8/13/97); The Osgood
File, CBS News (8/13/97).
An editorial in the New
England Journal of
Medicine stated:
“And why should the
American Cancer Society
endorse only SmithKline
Beecham’s
antismoking
products?” Jerome P.
Kassirer & Marcia
Angell (9/4/97, p. 700)
See also, Los Angeles
Time (8/13/97). The ACS,
however, denies that its
actions are endorsements.
Rather, it characterizes
such transactions as a
license for the
“nonexclusive use of
its logo on Florida
orange juice and
SmithKline Beecham’s
antismoking
products” in
“exchange for
monetary grants and other
considerations used for
the fight against
cancer.” (e-mail to
CSPI from William J.
Dalton, Chief Counsel,
ACS, 5/30/01) The
ACS’s “Cancer
Facts & Figures -
1998” acknowledges
on the front and back
cover “a generous
grant” by Glaxo
Wellcome drug company.
According to Advertising
Age, the ACS was involved
in a deal with General
Mills to include
information on packages
of Wheaties (1/17/00; p.
54). 2002
Corporate Donors ($100K+)
(Emphasizing
drug, chemical and
cosmetics companies, only
a partial list is
provided. See ACS’s
Annual Report 2002 for a
complete list of major
contributors)
- 3M
Foundation
- Abbott
Laboratories
- Alabama
Electric Cooperative,
Inc.
- Alabama
Power Foundation
- Amgen
- AstraZeneca
- Avon
Products, Inc.
- Baxter
International
- Bell
Atlantic Mobile
- Berlex
Laboratories
- BFI Waste
Systems
- BP America,
Inc.
- Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company
- Chanel, Inc.
- Christian
Dior Perfumes, Inc.
- City Gas
Company
- Colgate-Palmolive
Company
- Concho Oil
& Gas
- CSX
Transportation, Inc.
- Dr. Pepper
Bottling Co. of TX
- DST Systems,
Inc.
- DuPont
- Eli Lilly
& Company Foundation
- Elizabeth
Arden, Inc.
- Emerson
Electric Company
- Estee Lauder
Companies
- Firmenich,
Inc.
- Genentech,
Inc.
- General
Electric Co.
- General
Nutrition Corporation
- Georgia
Power Foundation, Inc.
- Givaudan,
Inc.
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Harley-Davidson,
Inc. IBM
- IDEC
Pharmaceuticals
- International
Flavors & Fragrances,
Inc.
- Johnson
& Johnson
- La
Prairie/Juvena Products
De Beaute
- Liz
Claiborne, Inc.
- L’Oreal,
Inc.
- Merck &
Company, Inc.
- Minnesota
Soybean Research and
Promotion Council
- Nissan Motor
Corporation, SE Region
- Novartis
Pharmaceuticals Corp
- Orlane, Inc.
- Ortho
Biotech Inc.
- OSI Sealants
- Parfums
Givenchy, Inc.
- Pennzoil
Exploration & Prod.
Co
- Pfizer, Inc.
- Pharmacia-Adria
Corporation
- Procter
& Gamble Company
- Quest
International Fragrances,
Inc.
- Revlon, Inc.
- Rockwell
International
- Scott’s
Food Stores
- SmithKline
Beecham Consumer
Healthcare
- Smurfit-Stone
Container Corporation
- SuperValu,
Inc.
- The
Coca-Cola Company
- The Kroger
Company
- TYCO
International
- United
States Sugar Corporation
- Unilever/Bestfoods,
NA
- Wal-Mart
- Warner
Lambert Company
- Wendy’s
International, Inc.
- Winn Dixie
(American
Cancer Society Annual
Report 2002, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/COM/content/div_Eastern/COM_12x_2002_Annual_Report.asp;
accessed 5/28/03)
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