['MEMORAN', 'DUM', '“TO:', 'The', 'Executive', 'Committee', 'of', 'the', 'Tobacco', 'Institute', 'FROM:', 'Charles', 'A.', 'Tucker', 'RE:', 'Two', 'Recommendations', 'from', 'the', 'State', 'Activities', 'Policy', 'Committee', ',', 'eee', 'i', 'ie', 'TU', 'iS', 'The', 'Committee', 'met', 'on', 'May', '27', 'in', 'New', 'York', 'City', 'at', 'the', 'offices', 'of', 'Lorillard.', 'All', 'five', 'member', 'companies', 'were', 'represented.', 'The', 'agenda', 'of', 'the', 'meeting', 'consisted', 'of', 'two', 'parts.', 'First', 'there', 'was', 'a', 'productive', 'discussion', 'of', 'the', 'role', 'and', 'scope', 'of', 'the', 'Committee,', 'with', 'background', 'reports', 'and', 'analyses', 'by', 'Messrs.', 'Chilcote,', "O'Flaherty,", 'Kelly', 'and', 'Haley.', 'In', 'the', 'second', 'part', 'of', 'the', 'agenda,', 'policy', 'questions', 'were', '‘considered.', 'I', 'submit', 'with', 'this', 'memorandum', 'the', 'two', 'papers', 'which', 'the', 'Committee', 'had', 'studied', 'before', 'its', 'meeting', 'and', 'which', 'represent', 'the', 'two', 'principal', 'policy', 'recommendations', 'made', 'at', 'the', 'meeting.', 'One', 'paper', 'describes', 'a', 'comprehensive', 'plan', 'for', 'the', 'defense', '..', 'against', 'excise', 'increases', 'at', 'all', 'levels', 'of', 'government', 'because,', 'in', 'reality,', 'this', 'is', 'a', 'single', 'issue.', 'The', 'other', 'paper', 'presents', 'a', 'plan', 'for', 'industry', 'campaign', 'contributions', 'to', 'state', 'political', 'campaigns.', 'Both', 'plans', 'were', 'discussed', 'at', 'length', 'and', 'recommended', 'unanimously', 'by', 'the', 'Committee', 'to', 'the', 'Executive', 'Committee', 'for', 'its', 'consideration.', 'SLPSLSE0']