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nstitute Newsletter PREPARED.FOR YOUR INFORMATION BY'THE'.INBTITUTESTAFF '17761 K STREET, N.W., WASNINOTON, D.C.: 10606 • 266-6434 Number 133 October 14, 197'5 ENCLOSED wiith:th:is newsletter:iis "The Tobacco Conference" containing,excerpts from the smoking and'health sessions of the conference conducted in,June by M'axwell Associates.Copies for your own,distribution are available from TI. WA'SHINGTOFI PRESIDENT VETOED a bill to increase tobacco price support levels.Thoughl"concerned"' about grower "hardlships," he said the measure would mak,e "our pro- duct less competitive,, thus endangering the $1'bill:ion net trade surplus we noww enjoy in this commodi'ty'." . He also, objected to what he said would be an immediate.$157 million additional cost to the govt. TOBACCOLAND CONGRESSMEN reacted after news of'the veto:': some lashed out at Pres. Fbrd in speeches andistatements for the Congressional Record, others through the press; many appeared'to feel he acted onibadladvice from Secretary Butz, aifew promised political retalliation. NEW BURE'AUCRATIiC MACHINERY proposed in~ Senate health legislation wouTd create a federally chartered private'center for,education: LL ~~T and promotion. Sept. Science quotes a temporary Hill aide as i defining the center as a union of insurers, industry and voluntary societies and "...maybe it could get' the Department of Agriculture to stop giving a high rating to marbled meat and'subsidizing tobacco." EPA ADMINISTRATOR TRAIN warned the governor of Florida that persons living on land,reclaimedifrom phosphate mining may be increasing riisk,of lung,cancer from uranium radiation., LABOR DEPT. said it will reduce aTlowablie,fiber content in: the air of asbestos manufacturing establiishments by'90:percent to protect workers against lung cancer.

-2- CONSUMER PRODUCT'SAFETY COMMISSION informed U., S. Diis- trict Court that it "plans to await final action" in Congress on a bil!1 which would relieve the Commission of its court-directed consideration of the petition by Sem. Moss (;D-Utah) to put a maximum on cigarette "tar"-nicotine yields., Both the Senate and House have approved thee tobacco exemption, but the House is bog,ged down on other controversial' provisions of the bill. NATIDNAL CANCER INSTITUTEIhas named Dr.Gbri director of the:newlye established diet, nutrition and cancer program. He will continue his duties as deputy director of the Division of,C'ancer Cause and Preven:tion and director:of the smoking and health program. APPOIiNTMENT OF LEVY (Newsletter 1291) as director of National Heart and Lung,In:stiltute is now official. Iin this post, says the NIH,Record, he will direct the many activities involved in carryi~ngiout the national heart, blood vessel,, lung and blood progrram., ` NbNSMOkER'ISSUE but all bills, willibe WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE adjourned for year without enactment of no-smoke legislation carried over to 1976 session. REGULATION FORBIDDING SMOKING in restaurants withdrawnn by the Cambridge (Mass.) C'ity, Council. DOWNERS GROVEI(I11.),, a west-suburban Chicago Village adopted a law,prohibiting smoking during meetings in public places owned or leased by the vill!age, on buses and elevators and anywhere &no- smoke sign is posted on private property by the owner or leasee. Smokers can be fined up to $500 or jailed up to six,months. SAN DIEGO COUNTY (Callif:.) no-smok,ing ordinance (News- Ietter:1!3'0) for unincorporated areas has been extended into Vista by its City Cbuncil. ONE MERCHANT, out of 30,000,, objected to San Diego law (New,slietter 120), that would penalize him for allowing a customer to smoke. The City Council reconsidered':: no fine for customer smokingibut merchants would'be fined for failingito post no-smoking silgns. AP reportedithe merchant would post "The city says no smoking...per sonallly„ I dbn't give a dgmn." NEXT STEP: A citizen wrote the Madison,(Wisc.) State Journal,to point out that now that the city council has banned smoking in public places, it had better protect allergics by forbidding;flower gardens and requiring polLen warning si~gns iniflori~st shops. CIGARETTEISMOKE has been branded as an instrument of assault, ,

-3- reports the Los Angeles Times, by the "victim" in a $100,200 Calif., lawsuit.. M'EDIA DETENTE: TI spokesman Billl Dwyer arrivedli~n Oklahoma City to:ad.dress..a..luncheon.audience:, _ was greeted by a weekly paper already saying he'dispoken "a bunch of garbage." He phoned the publisher, Leland Gourley, invited him to hear the speech. Gourley showed up, got to the podium, apologized for his assumptions about what Dwyer would say, explained that he's a former smoker, tha t"the way to quit' smoking is any time you feel'like you want to smoke,, take a drink." He then put albottle of Old Crow to his lips and said, "Note the brand,name. ..I,came here to eat thi~s." Dwyer responded,, "I' think your suit size may be a 38'regular, but let me say it takes a very big man toldo what you did here t'oday. ..My hat is off to~you, sir." IN NEW YORK'TIM'ES'M'AGAZTNE, Robert,Nisbet, humanities professor at Colubia~, writes of a growing public disenchantment with scientists:, "The public perceives the ever-closer liaison between men of knowledge and groups whose purpose appears to:be to save individuals from t'hemse3ves. ..The discovery, of'a close re3at'ionship~between tobacco and lung cancer was worthy of'wide publicity. But today much publicity seems to reflect a prohibitionist mentality, a ment'ality,we used to associate with religious fanaticism." "HOW'LONG WILL YOU LIyE?'", a,quiz "'based'on scientific fact" in~Oct. Good Housekeeping, says "studies show chem- icals in~cigarettes cause lung cancer."' ARTICLE IN GLAMOUft, taken from a how-to-choose-a-doctor book,by Marvin Belskyy, states: "It's tragic that anyone smk'es;, it's especially tragic when a doctor smokes." BOLITICAL COLUMNIST Phyllis Schlafily writes: "it is: time that we apply our American ingenuity to solving the costly publ'icc health,probZems caused by tobacco and'hard liquors." .,,_ ._ .. _ SOUTH BEND (INDJ TRI'BUNE'editorializes that it has become axioma- tic that officials of such, groups as the cancer and heart associa- tions are opposed to cigarette smoking but Dr., Benjamin Byrd,, president-elect of the American Cancer Society, is going too:far in urging that,cigarettes~should be outlawed. BOSTON GLOBE, once so against smoking that it refused cigarette ads,, said' in an editorial that "Smoking tobacco may not be good'for youibut, done in moderation, it's one,of the sensual pleasures of'1ife." M ®

r_s -4- FOREI'GN PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD DOLL, compiler of so many antismoking statistics, is grouchy about the smoking-lung cancer questions (Newsletter 130) raised by Prof. Burch. He toTdia British TV audience he "had wasted more time on Burchi's ideas than anything else" in his career. NEW LAW IN GERMANY, reports correspondent for the Journal, of Commerce & Commercial New York, outlaws taxi drivers smoking while conveying passengers or even while waitingi for one who has temporarily disembarked.. PEOPLE SIR GEORGE, who:dominated the 3rd World Con- ference on Smoking and Health, is now a Scholar-in-Residence at the:Fogarty International Center, Washington.. Dr. Godber is lecturingion the Briti~sh National Health Service as well as participating in FIC'health studies. ROBERT TISCH, Loews Corporation president, was named by NYC'Mayor Beame as chairman of a citizens committee to oversee preparation for Demo national convention. RESEARCH ,DROP IN DEATHS from,hearti and chronic lung diseases in two Calif. counties duringithe, severe gasoliine shortage in the first three months of'1974, has been reported in the British journal, Nature, according to the New York. Times., Epidemiologists writing the report,said they believed re- duced'exposure to pollutants i'n, vehicular exhaust may be the most significant factor., TIAXES REFUNDS'up to $32.85 will be made to smokers who apply, by Illinois which illegally collected .0024'5 of a cent in extra taxes on every pack of cigarettes sold between Jan., 1, 1967 and: Dec. 1, 1971,, reports UPI. MISCELLANY SAN MATEO COUNTY (Calif.) authorities re- ported junior-senior high students are using alcohol, amphetamines,, barbiturates, heroin, LSD, marijuana and tobacco less this year than last. Virtually all students in the public schools respond eachiyear to confidential question- naires. "QUI'T" CAMPAIGNS BANKRUPTCY PETITION was filed inifederal court in Dallas, Texas by SmokingiControl. Centers of America, I~nc. ### 4-=