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477 Den Road Stamford, CT 06903 . March 5, 19 82' Dr. David N. Sundwall Professional Staff Member Committee on Labor & Human Resources 4230 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20510 This is.to request your support in defeating S. 1929. This Bill represents bad legislation and will succeed only in generating another costly government bureaucracy. To the best of my knowledge, there is no evidence -- or even the basis for a plausible assumption -- that the public is unaware of the alleged connection between cigarette smoking and potential health problems. Smokers smoke because they choose to in spite of considerable social pressure. Therefore, it makes absolutely no sense for new government programs to further expand upon what the Department of Health and Human Services is now doi~.ng to edu- cate the public. Publishing a rotating,schedule of health warnings on all cigarette packages and advertising would not only be ineffective but would also be.extremely costly andan administrative nightmare for the tobacco manufacturers and their suppliers., ][mportantly, S. 1929 alsolrepresents another attempt to push ad- * vertising regiulation beyond any previously accepted bounds by those who would have the government totailly control our lives.. There are serious restrictive implications in this Bill that could set un- fortunate precedence in many areas beyond the tobacco industry and, therefore, it is extremely important that this Bill be killed. Sincerely, DonaldR. Bigda