E. B. Wilkes

E. B. Wilkes was a researcher in the Group Researc & Development Centre of British American Tobacco c. 1975-76. He worked on "Project Wheat", a higher nicotine cigarette.

= Biography =

E. B. Wilkes was a researcher of the Group Research and Development Centre for British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd. in Southampton, England (1975, 1976) (Project Wheat 1&2). Wilkes is co-author with D.J. Wood of Project Wheat part 1. Project Wheat was Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation's marketing study that advocated making higher-nicotine cigarettes to satisfy smokers with a high "inner need" for nicotine (Atl. J. 6/23/94). Project Wheat--Part 1: "Cluster Profiles of U.K. Male Smokers and their General Smoking Habits," dated July 10, 1975, was authored by D.J. Wood and E. B. Wilkes of the Group Research and Development Centre for British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd. in Southampton, England (Project Wheat 1 7/10/75).

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