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MEMORANDUM FOR: Committee of Counsel
Abstract
Discusses petition from the National Association of Motor Bus Owners to the Interstate Commerce Commission requesting an increase in the smoking section on interstate buses "from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of the capacity of the bus." References attached Federal Register notice and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) comments (neither included). Lists additional documents included with the filing, i.e., consumer pamphlets, Congressional Record reprints, articles/statements by medical professionals, and ASH non-smokers' rights legislation digest. Offers copy of petition upon request and references attached complaint (not included).
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- Temko, Stanley L. (Covington & Burling, TI Budget Committee)Stanley Tempko was an attorney at Covington & Burling. Tempko has knowledge of the legal issues facing the tobacco industry; additives; freon; grass-roots lobbying; and workplace smoking.
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- Covington & Burling
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- Committee of Counsel
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~ I~OVINGTON & BURLING"
MEMORANDUM FOR:
RECEIVED
December 12, 1975
AL:Xt .,i) II iOL
Committee of Counsel
As I mentioned briefly at Wednesday's meeting, the
National Association of Motor Bus Owners presently has pending
before the Interstate Commerce Commission a petition request-
ing that the smoking section for interstate buses be changed
from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of the capacity of the bus.
Notice of the filing of the petition and providing an. oppor-
tunity for comment was published by the ICC in the Federal
Register of August 18, 1975. A copy of the Federal Register
notice is enclosed.
There were relatively few comments filed with the
ICC. The most extensive were filed by Action on Smoking and
Health (ASH) on September 30, 1975. A copy of the ASH comments
is enclosed. As they indicate, various additional documents
were included~ in the filing. These apparently consisted of:
A basic flier describing ASH, together with a
number of other fliers or pamphlets on smoking
and health, reprints of articles from. magazines
on Banzhaf, and reprints of material from the
Congressional Record.
2. The following articles or statements:
(a)
Carbon Monoxide and Cardiovascular Disease,
by Wilbert S. Aronow, M.D.
(b)
The Effects of Tobacco Smoke Pollution on
the Eyes of the Non-Smoker, b~-Norman Epstein,
M.D.
(c)
Scientific hvidence on the Hazards of Involun-
tary Smoking,.by David M. Burns, M.D.
An ASH-prepared "Digest o.f State (and Federal)
Non-Smokers' Rights Legislation" containing infor-
mation available to ASH up to November 13, 1975.
If you desire copies of the actual petition filed by NAMBO, or ~..
of any of the attachments to the ASH petition, please let us
know. ~
COVINGTON & BURLING
Committee of Counsel
December 12, 1975
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There is also enclosed a copy of a complaint filed
in the Federal District Court in Dallas by the ICC against
Continental Trailways. This complaint, which charges viola-
tion of the ICC regulations on smoking on buses, has j,ust
been made available to us through the good: offices of Nambo.
{tanley L. Temko
Enclosures
cc: Eugene R. Anderson, Esq.
Paul Daniel, Esq.
Joseph. H. Greer, Esq.
Arnold Henson, Esq.
Cyril F. Hetsko, Esq.
Alexander Holtzman, Esq.
Abe Krash, Esq.
Daniel J. O'Neill, Esq.
Arthur J. Stevens, Esq.
