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I~r.J.C.B. Idhri~!~aus, Senior Vice Presideil~ ~ ..-- q- 1"7- "7 ~" Tobacco l,sritute, 1776 K St.,N~, Washington,D.C. Dear" Blucker: l~m afraid we have some serious problems facing us i** the n~t session of the ConnecticuE General Assembly (See clipping) .-.- what wiEh tl,e avowed declaration of war against smoking b/. Scott HcAl!~er., chairman ~ the Hartford Board of ~ucation. H~lister attributes his lung cancer to being a four-pack-a-day smoker. ~l,at ever happened to ~ao(leration~)e* He apparenEly wants a complege aboli~lon of smoking in public places in Connecticut. (As you know, in nearby Windsor, a councilman wants to abolish smoking entirely, and, of course, ~he chairman of the Ass~ibly's Public Heal~h and Safety Conm~ittee, Dr. Morris Cohen, a re~ired Bloomfield dentist, is also a former lung cancer patient . Cohen once told me.privately ne smoked moderatel~ years' ago--long before he was a lung cancer victim, I bei~eve...and I've since heard his sister--a non-smoker--had a malignancy, also (although l'm not certain of this and will check it Out). McAllscer Is a 'pr' type and was recently promoted to ~eeut~ve vice _Rreside~ of the Alsop-f~,ily controlledJ{~rtford Fire Ins. Company (John Alsop,Rep.National Chmn, from Co~m.,is c~n of the company and he is, of course, brother of Joseph Alsop and the late columnist Stewart Alsop) He also Is apparently close ~o U.S.Sen. ~well Weicker (R-Corm.) Complicating our problem in Conn., also, is Herb Brucker, for~r editor of the Hfdt.Comrant, and now a syndicated col~nlst, who is also anti- smoking (and vociferous abou~ it) again as a result of a bout wi~h cancer. I don't know how widely Brucker is syndicated, but he has ¢onslderable influence in Hfdt.,where his col~n appears about three times a week. Cordially Angelo J,De ~£o to that degree ~ ~hough~. If anyone~over-ate~/~ i~gine he would die o~ e~,,~4-relateo d~seases~ bu~ ~ don't hear anyone calling for the ~boli¢ion of steak & potatoes or pas~ryk ~ng ra~e thought: Are we resdy to urge moderation- .,~vou,*,,.ue~,=u~,,.TA,~,,~,~=c..v~=~ as sensible wh~ther you eat~ s~ke, drink, ~erci'se~ or even tak~~ asp~rin~