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Page 6?N T®0033063 I X0RNING SUN Wtimore, MBrylBttd June 26, 1964 Cigarette Order A good many people whose viewa are entitled to reapect have been drawing an identical iaterence about ttmokhtg cigatetles: they asy a health hazard is tsvolved, aod to be sMl@c, they say the hsaerd aoald be death by cancer of the threat or lunga R7tele polot of view was pretty well arnu- merized eome months ago In a report prepared for the United States Public Health Service. Braad agreement was lndieated Wednesday m a resolution of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association. By a coincldenee, Wedeesday was also the day that another Federal agency intervened in the cigarette con- troversy. and In line with the Public Health Service report. Chairman Patd Rand Dixon of Uro Rederal Trade Com. ttttasion. en fodependent ageacy charged with prolecting the public against unfair and misleading busiuesa cladma. armwnced that the tms• mission would require the cigarette mamdact=ts to priot a health waro• tng on their pactagisg and in their admtleh n-- me.-Aw e.o.:3 ho-r to eeJr that cigareltes "may catuo death from cancer and dber dieeasea; ` tbao the eammianion does aot pm acrlbe aoy paetlcular vabiage. Thta ftmula ta milder than ons originally proposed by the Federal 'Rade Commissioa, and Chairmao .aai e,ys the commission will always be available to the tobacco industry for change fo the labeling order It the indut;uy can show a good reason for change. But everybody ueder- atanda that the industry may well take certain other steps first. We bave began, in brief, a larnthar exercise is due proceu of laiv, aph A SnptOas Oeutt decision wry possibly at the snd of the trait The evideire so far appears to Eustity the eoduni.s• sion In darting the legal proceat, NEY YGAK T%MES IVev York, New York June 23, 1964 Inaction on Cigarettes $urgoon Geaar8l Lnther L,. Terry is under• standably amnoyed at the lull In the anthsmoktng campttign. He haa erltielaed the American Med- Ical Aseodatioa's report on cigarette smoking as weak and weasel-worded-a judgment reflected In eeveral critical resolutions submitted to the A.U.A,. itselt by delegates to ite current con- vestJon. Dr. Terry has also attacked the tobacco Industrq's demand that action aWait additional roeearch. 8e In aH for stepping up efforts to fiud out "how etgamt.t s smoking produces lung eancer, broaehitla and other diseases," but be points out t4ere Is no need tor turther eseminatlon to determine whether cigarette nmo&Ing Is a health hazard. Aa tar as Dr. Terry h ooncemed, the advisory report leaves uo doubt that smoking is harmful to hcalth. The $urgeon (ieneral has more than ble owa eoammltxae's definitive report to oontiem his judg. tasat: 8tadles by the Amerlean Gmoer 8odety, the Amerlean 8eeatt Aaeoelattoa and affiofal groups abroad ali underline the llak between tobacoo ana early death. 8mo$hog !e not the oaly cause, but it Is a poved, tdentJfiable killer that must be subf ect to greater controL Effective act3on has been etalled becauee the Adminiatration and Congeess hati*s tailad to praza for reseonable curbs. The report to the Swgeon General called an the Government to talro "ap• propriate remedial actios,'• but the cigarette In- daedy ItselP seema more Interested in policing s,caenros than Washington. It has at leset pro- posed ea advaraedng code and appointed former Governor Meyaer of New Jersey to edatinlster it. Tie Juatlce Department has just given the ladus- trr tetinparary authority to go ahead with the oode. The Federal Goverament, as we have often observed, hes the maia reepomsibiltty to Iotorm the public about the daogere i.n amoking. The Federal Teade Commfssion should aoon bring out Rs om oode for olgarette advertidog, and the AdmWstr$tloa should lollosv with other tneas• ures to alert the public to the rieks involved. . ._~ , : ~ ... . ~.~~ ~-•_-•-- - -- - - --- - - - ....r - = - - - -- - - - ---- -