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, ?'NURSliAY, OC'd'-OBER -i4, 1974 THE NEW YORK 7':hfES 1U.S. << ~ ~FI ~L•'faj'Cf~`C C@'e~t~~~i~ -R~ o ' .~~~e~ b~ ~c~~~~; ~ar~ ~e~urs t ~' - - • . ~~~ WASHINGTON. Oct. 23 (AP) °,cause of cancer deaths in the ,-The National Cancer ndviso=! t%nited • States-and the one ry Board=has called for Federall`"'hif^ seems-hardest to change.- IregulatioQ of tar and nicotinei "While there is at present no Icr,ntent. in.. cigarettes in the-way to declare any eiearette- ;agency's. annual report, which.safe, it should be possible to was sent to Congress today bydeny those-cEsarettes which are-~ I President Ford. -- _..! obviously high in- nicotine and- I The President disassociated~tar access to -interstate corn- himself from the potentialiy; merce and tfierebv discourage Icontroversial proposal. . their manufacture." the report In a letter accompanving the said: addinq, "Likewis the ad- report, Mr. Ford said, "It!vertisin,, of cigarettes could be should be pointed out that,banned. there is considerable dispute as: "While these measures would to whether there erists ade-ibit." the reports said. "they quate scientific evidence oni would reduce the doses of noxi- which to base safe levels of tarjous materials inspired and pro• land nicotine under responsible i vi3e a medium in which educa- reRulator-v action." . itional programs might have far the President's letter said that'more impact." he had -asked the advisorv; Senator Jesse A.- He1ms, Fte- board to provide an assessmentipublican of North Oarolina. of "the scientific evidence thatisaio today that he had also re- twould provide a basis for- re-i ceived a letter from President sponsible Federal regulation of Ford stressing that the Admi- cigarettes." ;nistration has not proposed Fe- The board, composed of two deral re£ulation of cicarettes dozen scientists, doctors and inRredient levels, despite such ; public figures. said in the re-, sueQestions from the L)epart- port, "cigarette smoking re- ment of Health, Education and mains the most remediableI Welfare. ^

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