Mildred Wiley v. R.J.R. Nabisco et. al.
MSS.188
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Mildred Wiley v. R.J.R. Nabisco et. al. MSS.188
Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Historical Note............................................................................................................................................... 4
Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 4
Arrangement...................................................................................................................................................4
Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................4
Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................5
Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 6
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Summary Information
Repository
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Title
Mildred Wiley v. R.J.R. Nabisco et. al.
Date
1953-1998
Extent
0.3 Cubic feet 1 box
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Mildred Wiley v. R.J.R. Nabisco et al., Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries
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Historical Note
In 1991 Mildred Wiley died of lung cancer at the age of 56 after having worked as a nurse at the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Marion, IN since 1973. She had been a non-smoker all her life but upon her
death her husband, Philip E. Wiley filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the tobacco industry's top
companies alleging that his wife's lung cancer was the direct result of her exposure to secondhand smoke
on the job. The Veteran's Administration allowed its patients and staff to smoke inside its hospitals.
Lawyers for Wiley argued the tobacco companies are responsible for Mrs. Wiley's death because they
repeatedly attempted to cover-up the negative affects of second hand smoke and lobbied the Veterans
Administration to allow smoking inside the hospitals. In March of 1998 a jury of six unanimously found
the tobacco companies not liable for Wiley's death.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a variety of documents used in the trial. Some were entered as evidence while
others were entered as evidence in other lawsuits. Most of the documents pertain to research on the
connection between smoking and cancer and to what tobacco companies knew about that connection. In
addition, the collection contains a number of articles from the Ball State Daily News that covered the trial.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
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Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State
University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to
Archives and Special Collections.
Custodial History
This collection was received by Archives and Special Collections as a donation.
Accruals
No further additions are expected.
Processing Information
EAD finding aid created 2012/10/15 by Julie Hausknecht. EAD finding aid revised 2013/10/29 by
Rebecca Marangelli.
Controlled Access Headings
Geographic Name(s)
• Marion (Ind.)
Subject(s)
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Health
Passive smoking--Law and legislation
Smoking
Smoking in the workplace--Law and legislation
Stoeckel Archives of Local History
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Collection Inventory
Survey of Cancer Research with Emphasis upon Possible Carcinogens
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from Tobacco, 1953
A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers, 1954
B&W in Chiles Tobacco Litigation, 1957
The Smoking and Health Problem- A Critical and Objective Appraisal,
1962
Report on Policy Aspects of the Smoking and Health Situation in the USA,
1964
Hilton Head Meeting of the Cigaret (sic) Company Research Directors,
1968
Stated Objective of Purpose of CTR, 1970
Veterans Administration documents, 1972-1985
Sommers' suggestions, Butler v. Philip Morris, 1973
Scientific Research Liason (sic) Committee, 1978
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Analysis of Volatile M-mitrosamines in Mainstream and Side stream
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Smoke from Cigarettes by GLC-TEA, 1979
Remarks of Thomas Frankovic, Executive Committee meeting,
1979/01/25
Smoking and Health, 1964-1979: the Continuing Controversy, 1979
Memorandum to E. Peppels on additives, 1981
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. Research Conference, Montebello,
Canada, 1982
Minnesota Tobacco Litigation, 1987
Briefing of James W. Johnston, Chairman, Executive Committee, Tobacco
Institute, 1989
Statement A. Kessler, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs on the
Control and Manipulation of Nicotine in Cigarettes, 1994
Brown and Williamson documents, Where Do We Go from Here?, 1995
In defense of smokers, 1996
State of Connecticut v. Phillip Morris Inc. et al, 1996
RJR Not Ready to Snuff Out Eclipse Brand, 1997
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State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota v. Philip
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Morris, Inc., et al, 1997
Ball State Daily News articles, 1998
Exhibit 7, undated
Smoking and Health Proposal, undated
State of Indiana v. Philip Morris, Inc., et al, undated
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