 They agreed to create a front organization, the "International Committee on Smoking Issues" (ICOSI) (renamed the "International Tobacco Information Centre", INFOTAB, in 1981), which operated through an internationally coordinated network of national manufacturers' associations
to delay measures for tobacco control.The purpose of ICOSI/INFOTAB is best described in a document entitled "Conspiracy Notebook" produced by Brown & Williamson in the context of the US racketeering lawsuit against tobacco companies