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Institute Newsletter IPREPAREDFOR YOUR INFORMATION BYTHEINSTI'TUTE.ST'AFF '17T6I p~, STREET,.N.W.,, WASHIN~GTON, D.O.: 20004 '. •~ 286-6W31. Number 101 June~ 24~:,~ 19~~74'1 WASHINGTON the job, whi~ch has been NEW SURGEON GENERAL? Deputy Asst. Sec. for Health Theodore Cooper "will soon be named" to vacant since the Steinfeld departure nearly 1-1/2' years ago, accordingito a trade paper report of remarks made by Bertram, Brown, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, at a meeting; of the National Advisory Mental Health Council. Cooper is former dir- ector of'the National Heart & Lung Institute. DIiSTILLERS WERE LECTURED at the 4th annual alcohol conference they sponsored along with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and'Alcoholism. HEW,Secretary Weinberger greeted par- ti~cipants withithe observation that alcoholism is "a devas- tating',drug abuse illness as nearly as'wid'espread as thee common cold." I~nstitute Director Chafetz said the industry must "fuZly, realize that it cannot escape a'~ts responsibili'ty to un- pollute the American drinking envircmment,, just as other industries have found that they cannot escape their responsibility'to unpoZZute the natural environment." AD AGE predicted that the Federal Communications Commission will "sched- ule a vote within two weeks" on whether to junk its 1967 policy--first appliiedito cigarettes--that "fairness doctrine" free responses to com- mercials must-be provided by broadcasters. MEDIA nonsmoker issue. "CROSSF'IRE," a,Washington,TV "talk show,"'was the scene of a sometimes heated debate over the TI's Senior V.P. Kloepfer and Rep. Young,,, (R-S.C.) spoke for tobacco while Banzhaf, director of Action on Smoking and Health, and Dr. Esther Foxe, educational diagnostician for a local school district unc,a member of GASP,,attack,ed'smoking as being,a health hazard to nonsmokers. Some gleanings from the show: Kloepfer assertedithat Banzhaf"s view of the pertinent lit- erature proved his unfamiliarity with it. Young liked the controversy to a witch-hunt--if enough'people believe in it it,becomes'a fact. Foxe said she was allergic to smoke and

-2'- doesm't enjoy herself in any public place. Banzhaf said segre- gated smokers on long-distance flights should be happy--they get to see the X-rated movie. And so it went. NATIQN''S BUSINESS invited readers to vote yes/iao and comment on the ques- tion, "Should smokers:be ilsolated in, or banned from, public pl'aces?'" "MAKING AN ASH: OF'ITSELF" is what the Phoenix ArizonalRepublic says:the Federal Trade Commissioniis doing in checkingiwhether cigarette ads carry the health warningiin proper size., An ed- itorial said FTC is alcandi~date for "the Goo-Goo Award," point- ing out that the difference between 12- and 14-point type is 1/36 of an inch. NEW ORLEANS'TIMES-PSCAYUNE denounced a pending state bill to require gro- cery chains to buy tobacco products from wholesalers instead of mfrs. PEOPLE INiTHE JOURNAL Cancer Research:a long letter from,Wynder said the time has come for National Cancer Institute to organize worki.ng groups to pi~n down and prevent causes of "tobacco related," digestive tract, endocrine-related and gen- ital cancers., He said "epidemiological data indicate a causative asso- ciation between cigarette smoking" and certain cancers, but made no ref- ference to any laboratory or clinical evidence., He said NCI's Tobacco WorkingiGroup is a step in the right direction, but is inadequate to the task. - SCHEDULED AT THE AMA CONVENTION THIS WEEK: Daniel Horn, director of the National Clearinghouse on Smoking & Health,, to appear with three physicians on a "panel on;llifestyles as precursors to coronaryartery d'ilsease" and to hold an AMA-sponsored news:conference;, and Lowenfels, a New York physician, to give a paper pointingiout that "the incidence of significant' aZcohoZ,tism ranges from 10-20% in hospitalized surgi- cal patients and'thus aZcohoZism represents: the corrmonest chronic dis- ease which the surgeon will encounter.," (Our emphasis),. TIME reported that Ethel Merman is a regular volunteer clerk in the gift, shop at New York's Roosevelt Hospital, noted she's a nonsmoker, depicted, her happily sniiffing the aroma at the cigarette,display because she likes it. ACCORDING TO' the Spencer County Magnet, a Ky. weekly, the state's,governor, Wendell Ford to-lT the Burley and Dark Leaf Tobacco Assn. convention that the tobacco industry will willi be saved by development of: a"'safe"' cigarette, that the the "reference ci~garette" developed at the U. of Ky. is ai step in that direction, that more than 10 millionihave been producedland "when perfected„ it could be a most silgnificant boost for the tobacco industry." Ford is running against Marlow Cook,for the latter's U.S. Senate seat. INIA LONG INTERVIEW with the Chicago Sun-Times, Draper Daniels, now head' of an ad agency bearing his name, said he was the man who "'con- ceived the Marlboro man in 1954," that he quit smoking two years ago,, unimpressed earlier by smoking-health evidence. "Today,"'he was qkioted, as saying, "I thi~nk, the evidence is overwhelming."

_3- ANTISMOKING CRUSADER Mary Lasker received the "Life Line" award from Wynder's Americam Health Foundation. Said David M'ahoney, AHF board chairman„ "She"s been more influential in the whole,business of health than any man or woman in the worldltodey." NEW YORK' BOARD OF HEALTH backed away from its proposed staff smokingiban, puttingiforth for further comments a new proposal prohibiting smoking inielevators, supermarkets, 80% of any classroom and in!any enclosed public places where 501or more persons gather for religious, recreational or social purposes:. It didn't specify what those places might be. Gbne from the new~proposal are earlier proposedlsmokingibans in restaurants and sports arenas where season tickets are sold. NONSMOKER ISSUE Sunnyvale (Calif.)' Valley Journal reported that GASP (Group Against Smok,- ing Pollution) has grown in 18 months from two to:11 chapters in the state with,3,000 members in the bay area alone. The article said the organization is preparing to distribute "modbl ordinances" for city bans and restrictions of 'smoking. Ui. OF OREGON President Robert Clark, pipe smoker, announced a smoking ban of the university. reportedly an occasional in,all public indoor areas FLORIDA SENATE passed a bill tolprohibit smoking in elevators in thatt state,and'rejected an amendment to the bill that would have segregated smokers in public buildings. IN AN EDITORIAL, the Jacksonville Journal saidl that "the FZorida Senate got no more than it deserve wlien its president, Sen. Mallory Horne, called it down. ..for wasting time on tri'vi!a:whiZe iinportant. Zegis:lation sat wai'ting. " The editorial went: on to say that "the question of whether smoking in elevators shouZd:not be made a criminal'offense is hardZty one upon which the future of'the state depends. ...Legislators might as well face up to the facts: Synoking on elevators is inconsiderate,, and any smoker who:does it is aa boor. But unless they''re prepared to hire a law enforcement officer for every elevator in the state, this is one cause the ZaWmakers might' as tueZ2 forget." THE'LAKELAND LEDGER asked its readers to write in their views about the issue when it was pend'ing.. The newspaper reported that of 19 replies, 18'peopl!e apparently favored~senate action to banismoking in public buildings. FRESNO COUNTY' (Cali~f.) board of supervisors banned smoking at movie theatres, stage productions and at public lectures., CALIFORNIA Assembly adjourned without voting.on a bill that would havee segregatedismokers in restaurants, govt. agencies,, theatres and hospi- tals and also would have provided for ai$5q1fine,to violators. LET'S LIVE, a Los Ahgeles-based healthipubliication, ran a three-column, 13-page feature called,, "The Case for the Non- smoker, 1974." Speckled with all kinds of antismoking ac- ronyms, the feature thoroughly covered the anticigarette movement during the past year.

-4- TAMPA (Fla.) City Commissioner Tom Varn was photographed by the Tampa Sun-Journal at a city commission~meetingiwhen he took a moment to "clear the air" by sprayingicommission members with an aerosol', after his com- plaint that there,"s excessive:cigarette smoking at the meetings.. RESEARCH MARTELL, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, published in the British journal Nature his,well'-publicizedifinding,s that "tobacco curing and the combus on. . . in burning cigarettes" produce radioactive particles whichiare inhaled and "may account for bronchial cancer among smokers." He said his case is "rei~nforced" in part because "the carcinogenicity of the chemical carcinogens:in cigarette smoke has not been demonstrated for the low concentrations which occur in smoke." BY'INVITATI~ON ONLY, scores of researchers were taking part iniclosed-door symposia, last week and this, on inhalation.. The first was held at National Cancer Institute,, the latter at Battelle Research in Seattle. Among participants: Auerbach,, Dontenwill, Saffiotti, CTR staff members and some cigarette company research directors.. TAXES RADIO STATI~ON WCBS in New York interviewed'"Joey,` pseudonym of an all!eged,"hit man"' and mobster.. Excerpt from the dialogue:: Q. At $20„000 each',you haven't become a millionaire killing peopZe? A. No, but' I ai'rr,'t done bad. I'ue had other things. I've been a booJanaker„ I've run cigarettes--I made more money smuggZing cigr arettes into New York City than I'did inanything eZse. That was one of the greatest rackets ever created and'I want to thank the city and state of Nev,York:very much for creati'n.g,this business for me. Q.. For taxing cigarettes? A. Oh, sure. I mean; you can't tax peopl'e out of exi..stence,, and that'ss what they're trying to do, so when you create a market like that,, I'm going to pi'ck it up. All they're doing is asking to be took. ~HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS I WESTERN MASSACHUSETTES LungiAssn. said it's last Christmas Seal campaign brought in $9,000 less than a year ago, announced a special dilrect-mail "emphysema" fund drive to try to,make up the difference. *** *** C 4~. Enclosed is the newly revised and expanded edition of "Some Facts:About Tobacco." The informa your files. Copies fo tion it r your contains should ownidistribution be a are helpful addition to available by contact- Gi ~ ingi TI. C11