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DRAFT DRAFT William Kloepfer, Jr. ~, 1974 True? False? cco Facts "PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO SMOKE. FALSE. Among people with allergies, some react to a skin test ~. involving a tobacco leaf extract, but that's ver~~ eren toba'c~-~ ~mo~e. ~moke can make~p~ple ~ncomfortable--direct e~os'ure can make the eyes smart, /,,_~.~ .... for example% _~t,~ ~.n ~_~_~_ =-~- ~-~k__~r TOBACCO SMOKE ~S A ~OR SOURCE OF A~R FALSE. ~'w: ...... ~ ....... " =nn_.=n.m .................................. ~ ~'~ ~"; ~hah'~ 'fT~U~--~.~t 9pe of the best studies, p~lished by ~e New Yor~ Academy of Sciences, showed that cigarette smoke provided less than one ten- ~.~ thousand~ of ~e carbon ~noxide in our air. Motor vehicles produce ~re ~an 5,900 times as much. Even forest fires produce over 700 times as much. F~SE. ~e myth comes from an .o~er~ent in a small room with no ventilation, where over three packs o~_.g~g~et~ ....... -- . ~ ....... ..~,~ were s~ked in two hours. Obv~oh~a~ 5esides, ~'~ when a window was opened after the e~erimeht, the traces of nicot~e in ~e air disappeared in 15 minutes. -U. S. government experts did a study in airplane~~~.~ ~a lot of s~king a~ng passengers. With sensitive~ instr~ents and nodal ventilation, they fo~d little smoke in ~e air and said it "does not represent a signi- ficant health hazard to nonsmoking passenger~ TIMN 262713 CONFIDENTIAL: MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION

THE SURGEON GENERAL SAYS C N MONOXIDE IN EXPERIMENTAL SMOKE- FILLED ROOMS EXCEEDS PERMISS~LE LEVELS. TRUE. BUT--Putting the emphasis on that word "experimental," it's also true that the scientists who ran the tests went out of their way to point out that such conditions would rarely if ever be found in real life. And even in these extreme, heavy smoking, no-ventilation situa- tions, excessive carbon monoxide [was~/~ly~not found. • TOBACCO SMOKE IS DANGEROUS FOR NONSMOKERS WITH HEART OR LUNG TROUBLE. ~ he pointed out that if the artificial levels of car- ~ bon monoxide found i~-the experimental smoke-filled rooms wer___~e to prevail, this "ma[, o__n o~ccasion, dependin9 ~ the length of exposure," be harmful and "this would be partxcularly slgnlfxcant" (he did not say .how) for persons with heart or lung ailments. Surge~General himsel~ho also pointed to another ~ study wh~l~ showed ~relationship baleen par~s'~ ~~ng ~~~ers' respiratory i~ess-rates. ~ ~~oth~~hildren were put in a small r~om, ~~~as fil~ wi~~ke, ~ey were shown "scare" ~ ~~~~lleged ~ers ~f tobacco, ~ere was~no ~r, an~he~ ~ey ~dly had higher hear¢- b~~s an~od brassie. ~s ki-d of "evidence" Ass~ ~~.~al~ ~o~ac~ true, nd still only~~nor.ity of s~kers would be aff ~cted. But e~gh the n~e~~oZ~l~esses statistica .ly " " ~rers ~e<~[~ ~moklng are smai~ob~o manufact ~t~;~/have kept increasing their research co~~ :o $50 ~:~.~~_~ndependent scientists to find the zru~. Cz- 5 TIMN 262714 CON~DE~IAL: ~~OTA TOBACCO LITIGATION

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