Guide to the Dorothy P. Rice Papers,
1974-1997 (bulk 1994-1997)
Processed by Julia Bazar.
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
530 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
Phone: (415) 476-8112
Fax: (415) 476-4653
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Biological and Medical Sciences--Public Health--Public Health General
Biological and Medical Sciences--Consumer Health
Biological and Medical Sciences--Substance Abuse--Substance Abuse General
Guide to the Dorothy P. Rice Papers,
1974-1997 (bulk 1994-1997)
Collection number: MSS 98-03
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
- Processed by:
- Julia Bazar
- Date Completed:
- October 1998
- Encoded by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Dorothy P. Rice Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1974-1997
Date (bulk): (bulk 1994-1997)
Collection number: MSS 98-03
Creator:
Rice, Dorothy P.
Extent:
3 boxes
approx. 1.85 linear ft.
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library.
Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Abstract: This collection contains the non-confidential documents of Dorothy P. Rice pertaining to the class action suit filed by Mississippi
State Attorney General Michael C. Moore aimed at recovering Medicaid costs for treatment of tobacco-related illnesses from
the tobacco companies.
Physical location: Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Dorothy P. Rice Papers, MSS 98-03, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Acquisition Information
The Dorothy P. Rice Papers were given to the Tobacco Control Archives by Dorothy P. Rice on March 16, 1998.
Biography
Dorothy P. Rice is a renowned expert in health statistics specializing in cost-of-illness studies. Rice served as an expert
witness in the class-action suit against the major tobacco companies filed by Mississippi State Attorney General Michael C.
Moore to recover compensation for state Medicaid costs for the treatment of tobacco-related illnesses. Rice is co-author with
Wendy Max, Adjunct Professor of Medical Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Health & Aging at UCSF, of
The Cost of Smoking in California (1995), and a number of other articles on the costs of tobacco-related illnesses. She was also a principal investigator in
two projects funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The first, "The Cost of Smoking in the United States"
(9/1/95-present), co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was to develop a model to estimate the cost of smoking
including direct and indirect costs, control for other factors, and apply the model to the various states. The second project,
"Public Economic Costs of the Health Effects of Smoking" (1/1/96-12/31/98) provides technical assistance to staffs at State
Health Departments and State Attorneys General offices on the economic costs of the health effects of smoking.
Rice received her B.A. in Labor Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1941. After college Rice went to Washington,
D.C. where she held a variety of positions within the federal government during World War II, and joined the new Division
of Hospital Facilities in the Public Health Service at the end of the war. In 1949 she left paid employment and focused on
raising her three sons. She returned to the Public Health Service in 1960. Over the next several years she served in a variety
of positions with both the Public Health Service and the Social Security Administration. With the enactment and implementation
of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965-66, she became Chief of the Health Insurance Research Branch, Division of Research and Statistics
in the Social Security Administration. In 1972 she became Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Research and Statistics at the
Social Security Administration and in 1976 she moved back to the Public Health Service, serving as Director of the National
Center for Health Statistics until her retirement from the federal civil service in 1982.
After moving to California in 1982, she contacted former University of California, San Francisco chancellor, Philip R. Lee,
with whom she had worked during his tenure as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Welfare. Lee introduced her to Carroll
Estes at UCSF's Institute for Health and Aging, leading to Rice's appointment first as Regent's Lecturer and then as Professor
in Residence in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Since 1994 she has been Professor Emerita, working part-time
for the Institute for Health and Aging. Rice has an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Rutgers University and has authored
approximately 200 articles and other publications.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains the non-confidential documents of Dorothy P. Rice pertaining to the class action suit filed by Mississippi
State Attorney General Michael C. Moore aimed at recovering Medicaid costs for treatment of tobacco-related illnesses from
the tobacco companies. The bulk of the materials (depositions and other court documents) are dated 1995-97. Background documents
included in the collection are dated 1974-97.
The Mississippi case (Mike Moore, Attorney General ex rel, State of Mississippi Tobacco Litigation, Case 94-1429) ended in
a landmark $3.4 billion settlement by the nation's four largest tobacco companies (Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and Lorillard Corporation) four days before it went to trial in July
1997. This settlement paved the way for similar settlements in Florida and Texas, and the attempt to create a national tobacco
settlement. The Mississippi case would have been the first Medicaid case to come to trial. Moore had already set precedent
when the Liggett Group, a smaller tobacco company, had signed a separate out-of-court settlement with the state that dismissed
them as parties to the Mississippi litigation in return for Liggett's agreement to provide internal documents and witnesses
to the plaintiffs in the Mississippi and other state-sponsored suits.
Materials include copies of depositions of key plaintiff witnesses: Lester B. Breslow, Leonard S. Miller, Vincent P. Miller,
Richard Peto, Victor Rogli;
copies of court documents and correspondence concerning subpoenas of business records, and various motions;
background material including tobacco company corporate documents, reports on research by Rice and other witnesses, and journal
articles.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series: Depositions, Other Court Documents, Background Materials, and Tobacco Company
Documents. All records are arranged chronologically except for Depositions, which is arranged alphabetically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Rice, Dorothy
Breslow, Lester
Philip Morris Incorporated
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Brown & Williamson
P. Lorillard Corporation
Smoking--Law and legislation
Tobacco industry
Externalities (Economics)
Series 1:
Depositions,
1996-1997
Physical Description:
Box 1:1-26
Scope and Content Note
This series includes the transcripts of depositions and supplementary exhibit materials of several expert witnesses, including
Lester B. Breslow, Leonard S. Miller, Vincent P. Miller, Richard Peto, and Victor Rogli. Brief excerpts from the deposition
of Dorothy P. Rice can be found in the supplemental information included with the Defendants' Motion to Exclude (Statistical
Model) and Exhibits found in Series 2: Other Court Documents.
Arrangement
The material is arranged alphabetically.
Box-folder 1:1-3
Lester B. Breslow (I),
November 4, 1996
Box-folder 1:4-5
Lester B. Breslow (I) - Exhibits,
November 4, 1996
Box-folder 1:6-8
Lester B. Breslow (II),
November 5, 1996
Box-folder 1:9
Lester B. Breslow (II) - Exhibits,
November 5, 1996
Box-folder 1:10
Leonard S. Miller (I),
October 15, 1996
Box-folder 1:11
Leonard S. Miller (II),
October 16, 1996
Box-folder 1:12-16
Leonard S. Miller (I) and (II) - Exhibits,
October 15, 1996
Box-folder 1:17
Vincent P. Miller,
February 20, 1997
Box-folder 1:18
Vincent P. Miller - Exhibits,
February 20, 1997
Box-folder 1:19-21
Richard Peto (I),
September 17, 1996
Box-folder 1:22
Richard Peto (I) - Exhibits,
September 17, 1996
Box-folder 1:23-24
Richard Peto (II),
October 23, 1996
Box-folder 1:25-26
Victor Rogli,
November 6, 1996
Series 2:
Other Court Documents,
1995-1997
Physical Description:
Box 1:27-36
Scope and Content Note
This series includes correspondence and copies of papers filed in court including subpoenas of business documents, motions,
and responses.
Arrangement
All records are arranged chronologically.
Box-folder 1:27
State Motion for Ruling
In Limine - Precluding "Set-Off",
July 7, 1995
Box-folder 1:28
Memorandum in Support of State's Motion for Ruling
In Limine - Precluding "Set-Off",
August 11, 1995
Box-folder 1:29
Defendants' Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Ruling
In Limine - Precluding "Set-Off",
August 22, 1995
Box-folder 1:30
Plaintiff's Reply Memorandum Supporting State's Motion for Ruling
In Limine - Precluding "Set-Off",
August 25, 1995
Box-folder 1:31
Subpoena for Production of Business Records,
April 5, 1996
Box-folder 1:32
Plaintiff's Supplemental Response to Defendants' First Set of Interrogatories,
[May 17, 1996]
Box-folder 1:33
Correspondence--Re: Subpoena to Compel Production of Business Records,
June-August 1996
Box-folder 1:34
Defendants' Notice of Motion to Compel-- Business Records Subpoena,
July 1, 1996
Box-folder 1:35
Reply Brief in Support of Petition to Compel Production of Business Records [Subpoena],
August 12, 1996
Box-folder 1:36
Defendants' Motion to Exclude [Statistical Model] and Exhibits,
June 6-17, 1997
Series 3:
Background Information,
1985-1996
Physical Description:
Box 2:1-15
Scope and Content Note
This series includes background materials related to the case, including reports to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concerning
progress on Rice's grant to research the state-specific economic costs of smoking, journal articles, and other materials regarding
statistical research into the medical costs connected to tobacco use.
Scope and Content Note
All records are arranged chronologically.
Box-folder 2:1
Correspondence - OTA and Texas,
1985, 1995
Box-folder 2:2
Rice and Max Business Documents,
1992-93
Box-folder 2:3-4
Mississippi tobacco meeting information,
1992-93, n.d.
Box-folder 2:5
Tobacco Related Disease Research Program - Secondary Analyses Workshop, February 8-9, 1993,
1992-93, n.d.
Box-folder 2:6
Tobacco Related Disease Research Program--Evaluation Advisor Committee Meeting,
September 17, 1993
Box-folder 2:7-8
Final Progress Report - Health Services Block Grant - Mississippi,
June 10, 1994
Box-folder 2:9
Reports to National Center for Chronic Disease Control - Comparison Manning et al. and
Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report Article,
August 1994
Box-folder 2:10-11
State Smoking Estimates,
1994-95
Box-folder 2:12
Journal Articles,
1994-96
Box-folder 2:13
Report to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - "State-by-State Analysis of the Economic Costs of Smoking",
February 23, 1995
Box-folder 2:14
Reports to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - "State Specific Economic Costs of Smoking",
September-November 1995
Box-folder 2:15
"A Report on Minority Health in Mississippi, November 1, 1990" and "Medstat Analysis, November 2, 1994",
October 24, 1996
Series 4:
Tobacco Company Documents,
1974-1997, n.d.
Physical Description:
Box 3:1-6
Scope and Content Note
This series includes copies of tobacco industry documents produced in discovery.
Scope and Content Note
All records are arranged chronologically.
Box-folder 3:1
Corporate [Tobacco Industry] Documents - Index,
n.d.
Box-folder 3:2-4
Corporate [Tobacco Industry] Documents,
1974-85
Box-folder 3:5
Documents from Barnes and Moore,
1977, 1993
Box-folder 3:6
Tobacco documents forwarded by Ness, Motley, Loadhold, Richardson & Poole,
1996-97
