The April 2000 Lawrence Summers Memorial Award* goes to  Joseph Cullman, former chair of Philip Morris. Asked in 1971 on CBS's Face the Nation by Morton Mintz if he was aware of a massive UK study of 17,000 pregnant women and their newborns and its conclusion that babies of smoking mothers had greater incidence of low birth weight, increased risk of stillbirth and infant death within 28 days of birth than babies from non-smoking mothers, Cullman said he was aware of the study and its results. His response: "Some women would prefer having smaller babies."

Thanks to Simon Chapman, who located this item in the tobacco industry papers. See http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=1005081714/1732

*In a 1991 internal memorandum, then-World Bank economist and current Secretary of Treasury Lawrence Summers argued for the transfer of waste and dirty industries from industrialized to developing countries. "Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (lesser developed countries)?" Summers wrote. "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. ... I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under polluted; their air quality is vastly inefficiently low [sic] compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City." Summers later said the memo was meant to be ironic.