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,.. ` NEVVS BRIEFS TOBACCO INDUSTRY -CANCER INSTITUTE SEEKING LESS HAZARDOUS CIGARETTES Greensboro Daily News April 28, 1976, p. A3 NEW YORK (AP) - The-National Cancer Insitute, which for years has been urging Americans to stop smoking,_ is now sponsoring research to produce less hazardous cigarettes and it's already producing results, an institute scientist szid Tuesday. It isn't a case of "if you can't lick 'em, join 'em," because the institute's main message is "Don't Smoke," Dr. Gio B. Cori said Tuesday. Cori, deputy director of the;nstitute's division of cancer cause and prevenion, said 60 milLion Ar.t^:icans contir,le to- smoke despite warnings of health haz- ards-- a number "sufficient to justify our research" to reduce their risks of cancer. - f .• Tobacco companies are supporting the research, and being informed of pro- gress, and "some new cigarettes of the last six months are a result," Cori said. - 7eZFes-crit>'ed methods of making ciga= • Cori has said on earlier occasions at rettes less hazardous to the Tt:ird In_ ter- ` national Symposium on Detection and Prevention of Cancer - are precursors of toxic or harrnful ingre- dients. - Instead of spacing plants generously apart, crowd them like wtieat or corn. The plants then are less efficient in pro- -. ;dµcing harmful ingredients. ...• - In processing, try to remove precur- ~rs of tar or other harmful ingredients, then add some inert material, like cal- cium carbonate. This adds to the weight, the institute that the goal would be to make something that looked like a ciga- rette but just produced hot air, then add the right flavoring. Cori said methods of making ciga- rettes less hazardous include-- - Using less fertilizer, scr the plants and leaves-contain less materials that 4 I A Y..-t~VoL, ;1 6, N~o:~9, MAY ~ T• 197~ making-more cigarettes, but each-pro- duces less- tobacco fuel on each -puff. This "is one of Lhe most promising'ap- proches we have." - Use highly porous cigarette paper, reducing the amount of-tobacco burned on each puff, thereby producing less tar and other elements. The burning tem- perature also goes down. Gori also said that filters have limited value on cigarettes, because each diffec- ent type may remove some undesirable . products but not others. - "l;re have toyed with-tne idea of drugs `- to-make it easier to quit smoking, and harder to resume," Gori said. Nicotine-like chemlcals have been used in chewing gum and pills, but don't work well, he said. The institute has just- started tests of a product that Is lnhaled, "and we may-have results (on effective- ness) in a year or so." , Environmental Scier.ce-,- - & Tec:.-tology 1 April 1975-,_ p. -313 The /lrst Insecticide made (rom-a naturally occurring virus was registered by the EPA. The insecticide „_ Is effective against the cotton bollworm and tobacco twdworm. Tcsts h3ve shown the v'xus product to ;.r,se s r,r aitlal hazard to insecticide ePplicalors and noadverse clfects on - benelicial b7rds•-insectr, or other - wildlifo. The insecticide ic sotd under the trade name Elcw by Sandoz. Inc. tNotnest", Fla ). In another resticide _ matter. Russell E. Tra!n• EPA administrator, will cancel the registrations of afi mercury-containlnQ •FiOsticides used as bactericides or i,ngtei..ss In paints and coatinqs. but wlll al:ow the continlX,d use of - moreurial pesticides as fungicides In the treatmont of fabrics intendod for - ppnlinuan ouldoor use. and for tfw - control o( OWch elm disease. . .ry

.1 ; ._.: :;- ;~. NEVUS BRIEFS TOBACCO-iNDUSTRY PILOTS -SEEK SMOKING BAN Greensboro-Darly News 4/22/76, p•- A2 - commercial airline pi!ots and two pub- lic-interest organizations petitioned the federal goveinment today tc:ban smok- ing in the cockpit as a"partictplar hazard in aviation." WASHINGTON (AP) --A -group of The petition- to the FederaVAviaticn - Administration also requested a-go«rn- ment rule prohibiting srr.oia:ag by any Ilight crew member•withir; iight hours of take-off. A- report accompanying_ the petition ~ -said smoking in the cockpit, by the pilot or any other crew member, "signifr cantly interferes with the pi yslcal and mental abilities airline pilots need to op- crate at maximum performance levels. "An airGne pilot who smokes during or before a flight thus is not merely choosing to poison himself, but hc is aLo endangcring the lives of possibly hundreds of other people." New cigarette flavor process developed NEW YORK, N.Y.-PO[oSan, inc. has developed a method to impart a new flavor to cigarettes without - interfering in any- way-with the tobacco.-The company's methods have-been fully patented in the U.S. and many countries abroad. According to a company spokes- man, lhe new flavor is reminiscent of chcwing- gum and it_has a favor- able effect orn the smoker's breath, -nullifying any unpleasant - after- tastc. The process is suitable for every type of cigarette, filter as well as ndif'-fitcr. Even menthol cigarettes are said to acquire a most en;oyable new flavor. Lab samplcs of cioarcttcs mpd- ificd by the Porosan process and more information- may be obtained by writing Perosan, -loc., 2480 Post Road, Fairfield, Conn. 06430. ISO seeks standard for cigarette toEsacco loss Experts of the Inrernatinnal fhgani- ition for Standardization, a Geneva- based international b9- dyaffili3tc+! with the United Ivations, are seeking ac- eeptance of an -inrernatinnally agreed ateuad for determining the ioss of tobacco from the ends of ciesrettc-a. - With this in view, an ISO technical- _• committee is -experimenting, with a sismelatophore - a vibrating box .p- - paratus- designed to determine, under repeatable conditions, the (et•.dcrwy of the ends- of cigarettes to lose their contents. - The lcxs of tobacco in this way garticularly- affects - short strands the pipeline, covering such quesrioQs -- and - according to- ISO's experts - irritates -smokers. -Agitation of cigarettes while being carried in a smokcr; pocket, for exantplc, makes this effect most noriceahlt. - From this scandpoit,r, says ISO, the ceater a eigazctre's resistance to to- cco Inss, the higher its quality. lSrJs experts have already produced tw-o international standards specifying methods for determining silica content and alkaloids in tobacco. Eight-more draft standards are in as: • Air . permeability of cigarette pafxrs- - - • Cigarette smoke condensates. • Alkaloid retention by filters. • I)etermrnanort of rates of free combustion. • Requirements for cigarette slnok- ing machines. Wall Street Journal April 29, 1976 -p. 1, C. 5 Cff:.ll:Zs' Yift;r.L bnthera a lot of people, so tobacco companies move to make tlw smokes more_ acceptable. This summer Con. , solidatcd Cigar Corp: plans to introduce a-": tipped cigar that will smell like a pipe.- '` American-Cigar test markets a cigar with an htr,er wrap!>er lnprcgn:ited with chat'eoal to reduce "unpleasant cigar odor." , Y 41 W ~7~•e~.~.;fe~ ..