He helped manage the Latin American branch of the Philip Morris-led Whitecoat Project (also known as the environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS Consultants Program) from 1991 to approximately 1994.[1] In 1993-1994, Davies and another Covington & Burling lawyer, John P. Rupp, together managed the tobacco industry's Latin American ETS Consultants Program, an effort to create and maintain doubt about whether secondhand smoke adversely affects the health of nonsmokers.