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Are Cigarets Quicker Than Liquor. Sun [Why Single Out One Product Over Any Other for Crippling Labels Which Fail to Distinguish Between Moderate and Immoderate Consumption]

Date: 26 Jun 1964
Length: 1 page
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NEWS CLIPPING
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31 Jan 1996
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Nash, O.
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page 47 Are Cigarefs Quicker TharH L®q~t~oP. 048 9" Springfield, Ohio June 26, 1964 '11te Federal 71mde Oommisslon. one ef the most pawerhtl of the washtngton bureau- cracies. sees an opportunity to extend itself a bit more. It has decreed that by January of next year cfgaret packages must carry the warning "that cigaret smoking is dangPtous to health and may cause death from cancer and other diseases": and that by July of next year the same watndng musl be carried In clgaret advertising. Other Washington sources, including tival bureaucracies. queetlqtt the FTC's aulhority to issue such an edict. They argue-we think correctl,y-that legislation by Gengnt:s vnntid be needed to impwse such labeling practices on the tobacco industry. Sut quite apart from that consideraliati. it would appear that the F'tC has acted in an arbitraty and scientiflcally unJustifiable man- her. In the first place thene Is not yet, after all this time, any clinlcal proof of a relatJon- <hip between cigaret smoking and "cancer and other diseases.'• A great deal ol alsusU- .al data supports such an interenre, to be ~ ire, and not all of it is likely to be puraly enincidenlal-although the existence of at leasl e modicum of dfrectly contradictory data ahoald give pause to those fincluding many dnctors who should knrnv betrcri eager to force new federal restrictions and constrictionn on the dtizetuy. I Even more to the issue is the extrava- gance of the EWe proposal. There Is no evi- dence, and no significant etalatical implica- tion, that moderate cigaret smoking is "dangerous to health." Nor ls there much practJeal inforntatlon as yet on the efficacy of various types of filters. Yet the labele pra- posed by the FTC would not discriminate be- tween moderate and hrvy smoldng, between Nlteted end unfiltered clgarels. or among the several klads of filters. With no more or less Justifieatlan. the FTC could demand that the liquor Industty affix similar health warnings to Its products and advertisemenls, and that olher Industries such as oontectioners, meat packers, and dairy Processots be required to do likewise. Appar- ently "dsngemus to health" Is ovendoddgence not otdy in clqarela but also in heverage altwhol, aweels. anlmal fats. cheese and egg producil3. "Candy fs dandy " as Ogden Nash wrote. "but liquor is quicker." Is it also quicker than cigarets. or butter and cream' in any ease why single ou1 any one of ua'6e over any other for cripplblg labels which lall to dis. tingulah betwcea moderate and Immoderate consumption? PEAMN JWIM Akron, Ohio June 27,104 Not The Only Haurd t The Ibders of the Meral Trade uncomlrlousneaa, cirrhosis of the liver Oommfsslon notwlthstanafng,lt is and death:' h1"doubtlW whetherelgaretpack- Or the FTC might next order au- ages and advertlsing will ever carry tomobile manttfactarers to aft thts warnings of dam. notice to every deshbottrd: Tltl Eobaocb indttettty fe tnltre to go 1•qy* y,0}dclo, if drlven at exces• to oow-t to Aght the commission's pive speilla or vvlth a lack of care, can edict that, lfteatlve Jtt~y 1,1865, tnari- be a hamrd on the highway and cause IlfaCdlrel'e mUIR dearly 1l18te On 8n fatal accidents." coateb>ere tutd In all 6ldverdeing that ,.,~g~ all knfves, all razorblades °cigaret emokin;:~e dangei+oug to ~~ wWd have to be labeled to h~lth t~ m~ycause tb~N !h trom att- - waarq of their poEential tlangeta t~ and otbsr tlbeaeee. . 74m legsl battle will be lengthy. One could fill this page wlth a list btdtlgdeatft @ used --~9tlnk-what a pr8oedent would be aet` of Items that wn !f the commisslon'e order were al- caralesslY, with evU Intent or almply Ilowed to 8qnd, , lack of moderadon. Other eQuaUy dangerous ftems of Why pick on cigarets? everyday life weuld !oglcslRp have to The httzlirds Involved In excessive be almllarly labeled. antoking have bzen inuy reported. Forexample,etich hottle of whisky At this pdttt, It's up to each bt- or gin would have to carry a sticker, dividual to decide for himsel[ whether saying: to smoke and, if >3o, bow much. "WARIVIIVG: Drinking alcohol Is Smeldrtg se o* one of a thousand dangemns to bealW and tnay+ cause ftamds to good health endlottgevity.

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