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WR'EPAREOfORYOUR: INFORMATIONI9Y THE: , INSTITUTE STAFF ' 1T76' KSTREET,N.Ni.~ WASHINGTON, D:C. 20006 ' •Y66d17I1 Number 104'. August, 12', 1974 FEDERAL TRADE'COMMISSION went to federal dis- trict court in Chicago to seek a preliminary in- junction to stop egg producers from using ads which argue that there is no proof that eating,eggs increases the risk of heart disease., At the same time, reported Advertising Lge magazine:, FTC issued a complaint charging that ads run by'the National Commission~on Egg Nutrition (News- letter 88) made false claims concerni~ng the scientific evidence on the relationship between egg,consumption'and heart disease., Argument on the injunction is set for Aug. 29. WASH I NGTpN ~ must smoke,__at Least bad is-better than uorse.r"' VITAL STATZiSTICS released by gpvt.show remarkable downtrend in emphy- sema death rate. In "68 it had climbed:to 12.1 per 1001,000:population, then dropped each year to 10.91in '71, the latest year available. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR SMOKING & HEALTH is distributing a 17 x 22-inch wall poster that lists "tar"-nicotine content of practically all~ domestic cigarettes and portrays thousands of smoked'andiun:smoked,cigarettes~on:a table., The verbiage:. "The cigarette roorZd'is divided'into the bad and'the worse. You can buy as much as 34' mgs.of tar i'n a cigarette, or as ZittZe as 2. As much as 2.Z mgs. of nicotine, or as little as 0.2. There's a Tar &'Nico- tine list below that tell's you whicli, is which. Look them up. If you WOMEN DIDNi"T SHARE the reported trend., Their emphysema death rate', reachedl 3'.7' in ' 68„ went to 3.6, 3.7' andi 3. 8' in the next three years. Male rate peaked at 20.9 in '68,, dropped steadily to 181.3' by '71. SENATE Appropriations Committee Report on,the agriculture appropriations bill for fiscal "75 paiditribute to tobacco's contribution to the coun- try''s: balance of'payments situation and noted that tobacco exports last year came to a record $970 million and that "there' is still an expanding overseas market and~a plentiful supply. An additional $1;000,000'in,market devel- opment seems to the CoFnrrittee a roorthwhiZe investment in view of'the $20 billion ag, ricuZtural'export market."

-2- "UNBELIiEVABLE" is the way Sen.Hatf'ield (R-Ore.) views the tobacco portion of the "Food for Peace" program. He toldd his collieagues that he i~s "astounded to Zearn that our Government,, whi;cA has found that cigarette smoking,is hazardous to health, and'has restrictions put on aZZ advertising of tobacco,, then uses,ta.xpayers' money to buy tobacco„ store it, and'shi.p it to other count'ries, giving Zow interest loans to support its purchase, aZZ under the name of fooI for peace.!' ANTISMOKERSICLAIM more young women are smoking, and that smoking by mothers endangers infant survival.: But AMA reports that infant mortality for the first four months this year was at a recordilow, and seven percent below the,same period last year. RESEARCH A GREEK RESEARCHER compared 686 farmers with 620 bank em- ployees, reportedito the 12th international CtSngress on Diseases of the Chest in London that he found'ifar higher heart ailment rates in:the bank employees, but no signi~fi- cant difference with the farmers in smoking habits. MORTALITY FROM RESPIRATORY CANCER inianesthesiologists was less than expected in a survey reported by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The "Statistical Bulletin" said that chest cancer deaths among the doc- ,tor,s represented only 30% of that among other male insured lives stud- ied., "This finding was noteworthy; " claimed the report, "in, view of the fact that a recent survey~of the characteristics of inembers,of the American Society of An esthesiologists: had shoim that 57'percent of those.who:responded to the survey smoked' and.of theseone quarter smoked from 20 t'o,40 cigarettes a day." U.,S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE announced funding of a $109,500 research contract to the U. of Ky., ResearchiFoundation, Lexington, as part of an "'over-all program to reduce the possible health hazards of cigarette smoke". Agr., Dept., said scientists will evaluate certain carbon compounde to derive means of improving tobacco,throughicuring and type selection. SMOKERS DO seem toIower blood pressu're'tYlah"nonsmokers:-, I,atest evidence,appears in a study of 5,2001Danes, ages~40-59, in whom were studied the separate relationships between blood'pressure,, age, physi- cal fitness as measured by lung capacity-weight-height, smoking andd drinking. Said the researchers: The,blood pressure differences be- tween smokers,and nonsmokers and drinkers andinondrinkers could not be explainediby differences between the groups in age, weight or physical fitness. Subjects "driinking much,alcohol" did'have higher blood pres- sure than those who,did not drink,,, indicating, saidlthe researchers, that they have an increasedirisk of cardiovascular disease., "Up to nowy" they said, "'. ..alcohol has not beenifound aicoronary risk fac- tor." ALCOHOL AND MARIJUANA use are more prevalent among junior andisenior, high school students thanitobacco use, according to a 1968-1974 survey conducted by San Mateo (,Calif.) County. Of those interviewed,, the,study reported that 89.,5% indi- cated some use of alcohol, 61.9% usedimarijuana and 56.9$ used tobacco., Use of these items,, among a total of seven Tistedias "drugs," is reportedly on the,wane.

-3-. PEaPLE WASHINGTON POST did a feature about Sunday par- ties on-private barges in a small suburban lake. One reference was' to "the party~barge of acting Surgeon General Paul Ehrlich who occupied himself by steering the craft. ..and puffi'ng away at his pipe. A~ked if acting surgeon generals should be smoking pipes,, Ehrlich replied, 'No. And don't print' that. "' ' CUYLER HAMMOND,, in a new tv intervi'ew, was asked, "Does the air,, the dirty air in New York City, decrease our chances of living to be a hundred?" Answer: "I can find' no evidence of'this at all. We've made a study, of a mi!llion people aver a six-year period;, and we can find no relationshtip between air pol2ution, by any,measure of it, and Lung cancer:" 4 MIAMI DOLPHINS' Nick Buoniconti has j'oined in a tobacco advertising/pr campaign, ~he HolTxwood_(Fla.) Sun-Tattler reportedi. An.editoriali said the star linebacker should "have thought,twice." The Newspaper: said Buoniconti owes it to his fans "to not in any way seem to be encouraging them to pick up a habit which the U.S: surgeon general says is dangerous to their health,° WASHINGTON U.'s Paul E. Lacy, M.D. (Dr:.Lacy is headlof the tobacco industry-funded cancer immunology project at Washington .U.), has beeniappointed to a term on the advisory council of the National Imstitute of Environmental Health Sciences. . NIOMSMqKER' I'SSUE NEW YORK CITY Health Commissioner Bellin an- nounced that,Nov. 1 is the date the city's new smoking banibill will become effective in all theaters, hospitals, nurs- ingihomes, elevators,, museums, libraries and other enclosed spots where the public gathers for religious:,, recreational', or social purposes. For violators, the new ban carries with it a$'1,000 fine and one year in prison.--it"s categorized as a "Class A" misdemeanor. CARMEL (Calif.) city council unanimously voted to ban smok- ing in council chambers while meetings are imsession. =_,C6-7xZTOS---4Ca3ifz4--cikl!-counci3-decided against adopting-a -resolution that would have segregated smokers in public meeting places containing f5q~or more seats after hearing a survey that said such a resolutionn would be unenforceable. IN SANTA MONICA (Calif.,) the city council has directed the city attorney to study smoking curbs adbpted by other com- munities andito report to the council with his recommenda- tions at a later date., WASHINGTON State Board of Health is conductingihearings:to discuss a, 0 proposal by the state chapte r,of Action on Smoki~ng & Health~to ban cj smoking in all public places except specially designated areas. Res- taurant and'hotel operators opposed the idea on grounds that it's,im- ~ practical and financially impossible. Chrmn. of the Washington Hotel- Motel Assn. told the,board that a Hilton had tried to keep one floor ~ free for nonsmokers for three months but the experiment was a"finan- ~ cial disaster". M~

-4- CALIF. GOV. REAGAN vetoed a state bill that would have al- lowed highiscEoo s to set asidle special areas for student smoking and commented to the Los Angeles Times that "smoking is a dangerous habit that can produce tragic results." Times said that it wasn't known if the bill's author would attempt to override the,veto,, AN EDITORIAL in Administrative Management magazine pondered the rights of both, smokers an nonsmokers an ad thiis to say: ": ..6mokers also have rights as individuals, and'an outright ban on their enjoyment of tobacco is hardZy the way to settl'e this thing. For management„ its best course is to~issue reasonable guidelines that stress mutual courtesy; and'to set up nonsmoking areas tuhere:feasibZe. What it comes down to is some consciousness raising among smokers,, too, and in t'hi's: let's give The Tobacco Institute the last word: 'A considerate smok'er ...will:think twice:before:"Zighting upl"'in a crowded roomr-particuZ:arZy if, a sep- arate smokers? area is available." NATIONAL REVIEW publisher Wm_ A., Rusher wrote: in a syndi- cat~column that "ax,-grinders" write him letters of com- plaint more often than not. Top on the list of:Rusher's ax- grinders are "hon-smokers." Rusher said he:once wrote aa column suggesting that smokers are being harassed "i'nto giving up smoking for their own~good". He said he was di?- luged by maiil from ax-grinders and added'that "people with freak, illnesses ((those allergic to tobacco smoke)) have no business passingil'aws of general applicati~on:." BETTY CARNES,whose claim to fame is lobbying for an Arizona statewide ban on smokingin certain public places, went into:surgeryin Phoenix and,, said1the Phoenix ArizonaiGazette, though heavily sedated, placed a "Thankyou for Not Smng"siign over her chest as she was being wheeled to,the operating room., REPDRTING'LOS ANGELES!city council consideration of a smoker segregation proposal (Newsletter 103), the:L.A. Times ran the story on page one in a morning edition with a full banner headline that read: "Council Pushes L.A. Smoking Ban." THE DAY M'IAMI'S'nsw ban~of smoking in supermarkets became ef:fective,, police announced they didn't expect to arrest violators until the public became more aware of the law. A,spokesman said, "Rapes, murders andd burglaries will understandably receive more attention than smoking vio- 1'ations." "BUTTLEGGING" was the term the Raleigh News & Observer used for smuggling cigarettes and,it blamed organized1crime for "playing havoc with the North Carolina economy." The editorial went on to say:, "The best' and easiest way to bring cigarette smuggling to a screeching,YuzZt and to kiZl in one stroke the Mafi.a's interest in this state is surrly to take the profit out of buttZegging.. This can be done simpZy, by increasing North CaroZina's: state tax on cigarettes to where it wiZ:Z be at least within holZering, distanceof tobacco taxes eZsewhere im.the East., With one Zick we couZd put the: smugglers out of business and increase considerably the fZbw of state revenue." ### C ~ V11 WW rx ~'