1 First of all, let me thank you for the opportunity to be with you and to describe briefly the development of our Tobacco and Health Re- search Program at the University of Kentucky. Tobacco research has been going on in Lexington for many years, as it has in many other locations, but I believe it is proper to state that our program is the first, in- tegrated effort to relate smoking and human health by a coordinated group of scientists, together, in the same place, at the same time. During the summer of 1964, it became general knowledge that the United States Department of Agriculture had been authorized to support a program of research relating the usage of tobacco to human health, such research to be financed by an appropriation of one and one-half million dollars, allocated for expenditure in Kentucky. In October of 1964, negotiations with the Department of Agriculture were initiated by the University of Kentucky and, at that time, the University submitted a two year program of research. Intimate Niaison was established with three divisions of the Agricultural Research Service, re- sulting in a vigorous exchange of visits and views between the Department's and the University's scientists and administrators. It_ soon became appar- ent that, like the University, the Department had established certain of its own research objectives and, to be perfectly frank, these objectives were not always shared mutually, especially in the area of biomedical research. Accordingly, a program has evolved which is appropriately to be considered the combined efforts of the Department of Agriculture and the University of Kentucky, not a program which can be rightly considered uniquely and solely as that of the University. That such a development occurred is, in hindsight, readily understand- able. The vast area of tobacco research is characterized by complexity, as any individual or group competent in this area will attest. Many research objectives were reviewed and, as a consequence, research agreements took time to prepare, and were not terminated officially until June of 1965. These agreements then became effective on a two year contract basis, funded from the original appropriation, starting in July 1965. Thus, actual program research preparation and activity have been in effect for only the past fifteen months, placing me in no position today to report any signif- icant scientific results that will permit us to draw any important con- clusions. with the availability of the new appropriation for 1966-67, we again negotiated contracts for the years 1966-68, covering additional new areas of research. Before attempting to outline the specific components of the collab- orative research program being described, let me tell you something about how we coordinate the several projects being conducted within the program. Internally, the University is guided by a Technical Committee composed of two representatives from each of the three major University units involved in the program: the Agricultural Science Center, the Medical Center, and the College of Arts and Sciences. This committee meets often, and its ac- TI0213-1618 Source:  http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/ffbb0047