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® M W ® AM' .. ~~:.. . ' - . V -7' .f` t Y 0& .l' AssocFSMd Pr!.sf_, ' >°' Fard ~ciUac.ks anti-smaking legislntiaw"t~_ t Sen: Wende'.1 F'ard, D-:f,., told a Senate subcommittee t!:at' broad anti~smolting legislstibn is "Punitive"'and designed to destroy the live t' ~ lihood of' thousands of farm families. The subcommittee also was told .: .;, ~ yesterdiay that' the Federal Trade Commission plans to publlish the };amounts of carbon monoxide in ¢igarette smoke. (Story, Page B 3' ~ ^ { , W s t kf 1n I .~

;`, Commission will begin, publ'ishing fig-' i~rye FTC chairman wasn't rrlrflC'di'at~e ~ Four of the six youngsters were smok-; _ ures early next, year showing_' the i-Ily:availabie for commenC e~+ and afli agreed' that little or nothing . ,j r is done In amtounts of rbi m n in the ~, . their schools to diseourage~ I d' ani'oke of domeS c c gare tes. ~ ' smoking. 'r; y: Perts ~ ~- _ ;in his letter to Calitano,Cf~u , ; k ' ~ ~ he only pro tobacco witness who tes FTC chairman Michael Pertschuk, Ini. T redicted that the new fi ures t£y emt !~ a letter to Joseph Califano, secretary of~ courage ~'sbRretFe mscufaChtrL' tified was Kentucky Sen. W'endell Ford. r~',L :J~r. ~ Kennedy didn't show' up at the hearing c thd. 1)epartment of, Hlealth, Educatiion, er the carbon monoxide out put of their ° end Welfare said' the availability ofl bds tt ctitb untll' afier Ford had testified and d'e- ,rano meeompen within th , ~e industry: . ~ parted. r "The end re§u1t should tb i': Ford said he had no problem with the ~ red'uction In theenvironmentall burden, 'provisions o~f~ ~Kennedy's~~ legislationthaf~n d' that carbon, monoxide poses for smok- +•per~ined to, children an smoking. , ~~would suppont'legislatfon~ t'a~ ~~ this effectl ~'- id that was the sole effect (ofi the new bill)i; the Kentucky Democrat said. ; ~~ But Ford I said the new bill goes far ? beyond the limits of' the• child~mokinR ~ problem, He called the bilU "'punitive ' legifilation'"' that Is designed to destroy the livelihood of' thousand's of farm fam~ ilies In Kentucky and' els4where; andi the cigarette tndustry: ~ : Sen. John Chafee, D-R.1., who was ; ' chairman at the subcommittee hearing, while Kennedy was absent, called Ford's testimony "thoughtful, but not surprising," and l denied the legislation ` was direct'ed' at eliminating,the tobacicR farmer. Chafee did concede that a substat~tii~ tax on high-tar and -nicotine cigarettes - would serve as a"deterrant"' to smok- st~h figures would allibw smokers to x pick a brand that '"wilt' lessen their ex- posure to a harmfull gas.`' The tar and' niicotine contents of ciga- ~ rettes have been published by the FTC! ers as well as for those (non- smokers) = j~n~he Federal Register slnce 1967. y who share their air space • ;' Pertschuk .'Ji'he FTC action was revealed yester- sgid, dgyy at a Senate hearing on, broad, new, He pointed but th.at'~ since tar and'~ nic- anti-smoking legislation proposed' by, otine figures began to be published li1 Sen~ Ed!ward! ibl, Kennedy, D-Mass. , years ago, the average tar and nicotine Dr. WilliamiFoege, director of'the na-, levels of alll cigarettes sold! In the Unit- tion's Center for Disease Control, told! ed States d'ecreased I signficantly. Kennedy's health subcommittee that' Kloepfer acknowledgedl that' the pub. c$rban monoxide In cigarette smoke licationi of'the tar and nicotine contents can Ilead to heart disease. i of'various brands created a market for' In the short-term, Foege said, carbon low-tar and -nicotine cigarettes. He said' no~onottitie decreases the ability of the it was logical to assume that this willl „ blood to carry o~tygen4 and could cause occur when cartSan'monoxi'de levels are y!, heart attacks. made public next year. - ? R' The FTC' ;5•esearch has shown, he continued', has been, testing f~br carbon, ` that long-term exposure to carbon monr monoxide content since nthe commis- ~` ` o~tid'e from cigarette smoke can build up fatty' deposits iin the arteries, de- ereasing, the flow of' blood and' creating, athero-sclerosis, a coronary artery dis- ease. ~ AC Tobacco Ynstitiute aificiai said tne cigarette industry' favors making as much informatiion, available as possible to the Smoker. But the spokesman, vice president W1lliam, Kloepfer Jr., said the main re-. ' search on the effects of carbon mmnox - ~' fde In cigarette smoke was a failure.. " Kt'oepfer said' research, done several 's years ago on rabbits by a Danish scien- tist - Paul Astrup - at first i'ndicated'~ a ~ r connection between carbon monoxide •, and artertal problems: rtrr~; cn~~t~rr.rr-~rcYrtNAr~ May 2'fi, TJ7f3 ~ ,. lsn't up to daT~with nedy questioned a panell of' By ED RYKN' F.iliterature on this particular r subj'ect," six teen i ';a sniM '~~ agers frorn VWashington~area' high ¢.,ri.r-Journro wrte?~, l,;~epfer chacged. '.It's mo$t nishortu+~i .. y "' 1 1 schools about the protilems of WASHINGTON = The Federal' Trtade ' i mate smoking ~ i •~ ~ tate~ yrster- . * .SrY ~ e, agrad'uall , But Kloepfer claimed that repeated heal ty,nrot~ec~ ticn tgx based on the tar experiments by' Astrup failed to, pro- n nicotine contents of cigar.ettes; a :~ duce the same results, andi that, Astrup system o[' 10 new warning labels thatli • recanted his original research in a sci- willl be usedi in rotation oni cigarettet , entific paper last November. ; packages;, restrictions on, smoking in, While not objecting,to the public dis-' federal facilitiles; and a federali educa-i closure of'the carbon monoxide content tion program to deter children and! irCcigarette smoke, Kllaepfer criticized; teen-agers froin smoking; -•. s- N. P®rtschuk's' letter to Callfano as "taking, The emphasis of yesterday's hearings aifenormous amount fbr granted." i ,• twas on, smoking,among youngsters. Ken-;' sian's tobacco research laboratory pur- chased a, $50;000 ei'garette-smoktng, ma- chine several years agoL ' " •In his letter, Pertschuk said that car- bon monoxide is "widely regarded as the third most significant constituent of cigarette smoke," after tar and nicotine.' •Kloepfer chat'lengedl this, saying "t'here's a very serious difference of' opilnion'" among researchers on, the sigJ nificance of' carbon monoxide. y'esterda v'sIt e~d'~~rrncei rn~ d ~_eI i e-ran n~n ii-smokin easures In Kenne ew na ona l •ton Kennedy, along wit'h a half~'azen Sen- ate co-sponsors, Is recommending ding a . . •. Fryrd! . repli!_.•±'~, '"1~I hopP~ x'~can d'e~cer,,• you" when the billi goes through #ier Senate Commerce Committee, of'wHicli fford Is a member. ' ,,r