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nstitute Newsletter PREPAREqFORIYOURINFORMATION BY THE INSTITUTE'.. STAFFI 1778IK'. STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON„ D.C. 20006, •7f8,8<SR Number 85 October 29, 1973' 1~** **~' . *** " ~** TI PRESIDENT KORNEGAY'was heard over WOR (New York) in a sometimes heated debate'with anti-cigarette'crusaders Bette Carnes, national fund,raising chairman for ASH, and Seymour Heilbroni, an attorney who heads a group caliled'Rights of Non-Smokers. Kornegay led off,saying the tobacco indus- try is "an honest and legitimate business, an honorable business:..." and the manufacturers of tobacco products "intend to stay in business." Asked if he was optimistic about the "upcoming fight"'over the nonsmoker issue„ Kornegiay answered yes and said,, "If we stick to the facts, the scientilfic facts.-I have no worry about d6bating"'the nonsmoker issue. M'rs. Carnes noted the success of the nonsmoker movement in Arizona where she helped secure passage of a bill that forbids smoking'in public buildings where there are no specifiediareas for smoking. Kornegay saidithe tobacco industry "takes a rea- sonable view'that there'are places where it's inappropriate to smoke. Just,as it's inappropriate to db a lot of'other things.... Our emphasis," he said, "is that people ought to be thought- ful both to smokers andito nonsmokers. And wtiere',there is con- flict, that every effort ought to be made to accomodate the comfort of both." Heilbron entered the conversation on an emotional note. He said,, "Half the world is starving, and we use our lands to raise tobacco, to create the stink." (('Ediitor's note:: L7.S. Dept., of Agr. records show that to- bacco acreage in America is 0:.3% of the 284 million acres devoted' to'har- vested crops))', Heilbron went on to: condemn smokers, manufacturers:of tobacco products and ttie industry as a whole., Barry Farber, moder- ator of the show, toLd Heilbron that "your emotionalism seems's to'me completely out of order." Heilbron wasn't contained as he continued to lash out at the industry.,

-2- Kornegay said Heilbron "is the emotional type" and added as the show ended that he has no objection to people standing for a cause. He said he does object, however, to being accused of speaking from se3if interest by zealots., Compensation,comes in many forms, Kornegay said, it may be measured in money or it may be measured in pubTicity., He said,the zeall- aSts are the "white knights" who enjloy'press coverage by creating an emo- tional fervor. "It's an opportunity to: make a speech," Kornegay con- cluded., *** *,~* *** ~*'* Durham, N.C., MorninQ Herald attackedlCh:airman Simpsom of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and'said he "strayedlfar afie3~d from his agen- cy's assigned'duties"'by:attacking,cigarettes_ The editorial further attacked Simpson's staff because of the,"rush job on a question which needs comprehensive research:for answers...." The Durham newspaper said! Simpson's actions were "unwarranted" and added that his:"intrusion"'imto the smoking/health controversy "refllects no credit upon him or the com- mission." ...A1so, the Pittsburg, Calif., Post Diispatch:was apparently displeased'with the new federal agency's actions on cigarettes. Its editorial saidl the commiission represents -"an, obscure bureaucracy which is assuming powers of Congiress" andladdod that if the "jerk-water federal agency" chooses to outlaw cigarettes, a black market will develop that will dwarf the dope racket., W. H. W. ANDERSON, staff chief for the Tobacco Growers' Info. Com- mittee,, told a Farm Bureau meeting in Conway,, S.C'., that Simp- son is "anielectrical engineer" who says, "Don't bother me with the facts--my mind iis already made up." According to the Col- umbiia State, Anderson also "took on what he called 'decimiial doctors" (statisticians:) whose favorite pastime is proving that people who smoke are less healthy than those who don't.,"' ***, *~* *** ~** T<^TO CONN. STATE LEGISLATORS told the Hartford Times that they will intro- duce legislation in that state in 1974 to secure a ban on smoking at,all public meetings and hearings. AN'INDIANA LEGISLATOR told the,Indlianapolis News that he will! reintroduce a bill to the General Assembly that would require 50% of all publlic build- ings to have designated no-smoking,areas. The News saidlthe originall bill'~ was: "laughed" out of the General Assembly earlier thiis year., The iegils- lator told the News: "If you read any of the excerpts from,the U.S. Sur- geon General's report, you know there is evidence to believe it is very unhealthy to be in the same room1with a lot of smokers.,"' NONSMOKERS'i~n the U. of Iowa Student Senate proposed stricter enforcement of the school's smokingiregulations. Also, Ui. of:I. administration pro- posed a ban on smoking in classrooms. IN SACRAMENTO, Group Against Smoking Pollution introduced an ordinance . to the county board of supervisors that wou,ldlbanismokiing!at all public,

-3- meetings, schools, theaters, stores, restaurants and other places in S'ac- ramento County. Describing smoking in public places as "'a fo=of civil assault and battery," GASP proposed that violators be fined from $,10 to $100. The board referredithe proposal to a joint city-county committee for study. SETTING EXAM'PLES : o Members of the Northeast.Ohio Public Healith Assn. voted'to segregate smokers at meetings and to prohibit smoking a1- together at meetings where there is:inadequate ventilation.Canton,Ohio Repository said, "The resolution points outt that health workers, because of'their position in the com- munity, should act as examples." o' A federally-financedisurvey published in the American Jour- nal of Public Health said nurses overwhelmingly agreed that they should set a goo&example for patients by not smoking, but noted that one in:three smoked anyway. Sur- vey responsesicame from 67'01nursing members of the Amer- ican Public Health Assn. HARRY CAIN,, former G.O'.P senator from Washington, became chairman of the Dade: County (Flal. )i Community Action Agency andl banned smoking at its meet- ings. Cain is also a member of the Dade (greater M'iami), County Commission. **~ *** **~ ~o-** GARDNER MCMILLAN, associiate,dir. of the National Heart and'Lung Institute and almember of'the National Cancer Institute's Tobacco Working Group, said in an Oregon interview that "it is clear that heavy cigarette smoking plays a prominent role iniheart attacks, and'there is evidence that iff the:person stopsismoking„ the risk diminishes:." INiA NEWSPAPER COLUMN, Harvard nutritionist Mayer said the guilt of'coffee in heart,atitacks must be,called "not proven." For one thing, he!said, questions!asked of patients after illness ap- pears sometimes give different results than prospective studies, and,the Framingham prospective study hasn't indicted coffee. For another, he saidlresearchers have difficulty separating coffee drinking and cigarette smoking--high levels!of both often go together. PUBLIC'BROADCASTING SYSTEM has'notifiedilocal stations that,extensive pro- grams about heart and lung ailments will be broadcast as part of the PBS "The Killers" series., On Nov. 191, the subject will be,"Heart Disease: The:Twentieth Century Epidemic." On .7an., 14', PBS will: air "Pulmonary Dis- ease: The Hidden Enemy." Both are expected to include scientists and physicians discussing smoking as causal and risk factors~, and it would appear neither will,broad'cast contrary views. I I

SPECIAL REPORT: TEEN SMOKING During September, many papers across the country reprinted (some re- exs. :;- Presumabiiy,, this meant tobacco cigarettes. ! ;.stating that more than four million U.S. teenagers are cigarette smok- ~> wrote)' a release from HEW's Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health there were a];most twice as many boys as girls who smokedi. "Among boys from 12 through 17'years of'age,"_said the gov- ernment statement, "12.8' percent are smoking; amongigirls, the figure is 11.3 percent.". As recently as four years ago, "More teenagers are giving up smoking, however. In the past five years, nine percent of the boys andifive percent of the girls wholonce took up smokingihiave now quit.," The release included'a litany of statistics and other assertions of harm from cigarette smoking, typical of Clearing- house publiciity,, whichifilled'several columns in papers which used all =.l!ine said, "Teen-Age Smoking Declines." Iin Pasadena, it read, "Teen The handout obviously confused some editors. In~Tyler, Texas, the head~- VCigarette!Smoking on Increase,, Report Shows." Other papers~dispTayed' ~simi.iar,contirauacroryneaatines., ~` --In,Richmondl, the News Leader quoted a doctor at the Medical -to 75 percent of the clinic's patients smoke. College of Virginia adolescent clinic as estimating that 70 that's going to turn your head around7" ;smoke tobacco. ..cigarettes are bad for your health., I ;smoke weed. ._.if you want to~smoke, why not smoke something --In Everett, Wash.,, the Herald quoted a teenager: "I don"t --In Omaha, the Worid-Herald quoted!an 1i8-year-ol!d: "I'di sales to minors." The paper noted'that the young fellow had been buying ciga- rettes for three years,."despite a state law forbiddingi ~~~other~things today~~that cigarettes don't seem so bad'.,".• ~ rather be smoking cigarettes than grass. There"s so many Most papers showed no j;ournaliistic enterprise,, content to reprint the ~government handout verbatim with,the appearance they'd written the None made reference to the policy of the tobacco industry statedimore than ten years ago by the presi'dent of,The Tobacco Institute. "Smok- ing is a custom for adultsiand'.. ..it is not the intent of the indus- ,try to promote~or encourage smoking among youth." story themselves. a v

. . . ..,- ~ - •~1~ . .,,.. _:. : _ ., , ; . . _. - . . . ; ;.. . . ..: g w3t broadcasting, autH audiences e y. h its lar g, ver persons in its a ` nuan n c ; or of its 1969 pullback from ' tisin d you lebrities an ce of'use of ce ti o ; n Thu withdrawali of campus advertising and promotion: of'its dis- thful appearing d y>, : o mention was made of the cigarette industry s 63 s Only the Omalra paper noted the teen-ci'garette sales law on the books t thpugH there are simiLarr f enforcemen d its lack o, its own,etate an in .° statutes~in other states. w'YOU7H ••, Your WiEaI'th Can Go Up IhiSmok 'P S 6.;,~~ ~Snnoke ~'1'OUd C ~4- ~ ..• +~... . ,b: _ \ y'~.. ~r. "9`, el '' ° ~ a ,r, s JI na.-. ,ar... _ w^ Q~ ~ +°S - - - ~'K'~. ...q.` ev I ' 4 ,.... e _ r. - ~ M,..eR %I.. °~ s' ~ ~~ Y vr.r,y "uem y. ~',* ~'qh~.~ I •1Ie~' °~~.•°~qt S b. ~b°"'°t un'+,e.a n" on r. '4f~l~ i ~e. ~,4Qi . 0. ~. a e y ry, w a6tl ~ ' ~ ,++~ . ~' C+ m"~`~ CJ ' ~ a ~ ~ ~e~ . o~ ~,._ ~ .r,~ ~ ~ y~ ~~.~~, . 7 '_'"'~+' Nwm~~~ ~ ~N s. : ~E' BaC~~( JAs Bo s_. ••.arry Girrh smu~i~r~ Tobacca Srnoke Fau s Wp y~ No w . o smw:[ ,,-c L.n% n~, " y,~ ym'w "~ w K~owg X,O"nB5 .~ ~ .w,~ rs 'Mrq~~U° ~A/ . . Bker ""~. ~~"eAr'lF dn wr 09. n" 4i., ~noro.non.o..w,y . as s1MO, 'eFS 'Ce~~ ~Lga~ R@F°''t' S~° ~, w~t~ b ~e eczae~ilng ~~ ~•T Z Y- ~ - ~1~~..~~ . . ~ .-. ~ . . ~ .. . ..A .~ ... .. . ... . ~~ .. ~ . ~ .. , Perhaps the most significant was that none of the stories recalled last summer's disclosure of the result of a federally-funded survey of all hschool students in San Mateo County, hi i ' g or and sen 30,000 juni or Calif., regarded' as a "barometer" for the U.S.s The:news has been as UPI reported it, that "high school students now smoke about as much marijuana asthey do tobacco." By comparison,,, the Clearinghouse ciga- rette data were projectedito the whole population on the basis of fewer tham 3',000 phone calls made to~teenagers in a survey., The September episode is yet another illustration of the!unquestioned acceptability of a government propaganda handout by,the news media which swallowed this one, for all practical purposes, whole. Mare Ybuths Huff, puff Health Wammimor~ Lp f-

-6- WITH UNION COOPERATIONi, Ayres!and associates spent two years studyiingismok- ing, air pollution and health,, using actual lab and air analyses and' phys- ical exams rather than questionnaires:, among 550 employees of N.Y."s Tri- borough Bridge & Tunnel Authority. They found that "continuous exposure to high concentrations of'automotive pollution is associated with an in- creased incidence of physiological abnormalities:." Theyurged that "B'oth emissionicontrol devices on all automobiles which enter the city and changes in traffic flow within the city are urgently needed:to prevent serious cardiac and pulmonary disease imthe,city dweller." "bF'GREAT INTEREST," sai~d'the authors, was their "observation that cigarette smoking,did not appear to influence ventillatory function. ..Occupational exposure, but not cigarette smoking, was related to small airway disease in these subjlects." More than half were!smokers. NEW YbRK,NEWS reported that A,yres sent:the study to the,bridge and tunnel workers' union with a letter in which he said, "This is the first study which has demonstrated that the air pollution factor is more important than the tobacco factor." LUNG'CANCER' is now at epidemic levels in the U.S'.," said the National Can- cer Institute as its director, Rauscher, announcedia $630,000 contract for Johns H'opkins U. and a $530,000 contract for Sloan-Kettering to screen. 20,00&volunteer men 45 to 69~years of age who are "'regular cigarette smok- ers" for early, signs of the ailment. STATISTICAL PROCEDURES are appraised by Feinstein, Yale physicianiand epi- demiologist,, in Clinical Pharmacoloq,y & Th,erapeutics:~ "'.~ ..Future historians will surely encounter a plethora of. .. transgressi~ons when,reviewing,the sampling procedures usedlin present-day epidemiology and clinical medici~ne.A1l of the,many epidemiologic investigations devoted' to causal factors in dis- ease have depended on chunk samples., ..tihe investigators have not fulfilled the basic requirement of:a fully:delineated' pop- ulation from whichito sample; and the 'samples' have been ob- tained by:a convenient intake procedure, not by random selection from the population that they allegedly represent...the results cannot be,extrapolated. . . ' CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS reportedloa a survey of "occupational haz- ards,of anesthesiologists", included in this paragraph: "The data show in addition that about 57% of the anesthesiol- ogists smoke,, as~contrasted with144J of the general public. Yet the general public has the higher incidence of lung cancer. The point is said to:be inexplicable, the authorities being reluctant, evidently, to~leap~to the conclusion that cigarette smoking does~not:correlate well with lung cancer in anesthesiol- ogists who take part in surveys."

-7- IN BRITAIN, the country's chief health officer, Sir Georqe Godber, issued his final, pre-retirement annual report: Cigarettes "must be the most lethal instrument devised'by man for peaceful use"., ..Courtaulds re- portedly put its new-smoki~ng,-material cigarette,, Planet, into test market in Coventry., ..BB'C programmed a film of a lung cancer operation... LONDON EVENTNG STANDARD reported that Britaini's healthiminister is con- sidering,obtaiining and publishingicarbon monoxide yield along withi"tar" and nicotine figures for cigarette brands:. The report quotedlDr., R. B. Hunter, head of the U. K., govt's. new scientific committee on smoking, as saying that low "t"-n brands may not necessarily be "'safer." AN AGREEMENT was announced iniNew Zealand betweenithe minister of Health and New Zealandicigarette manufacturers:that would add the folilowing,notice to all ciigarette packages as of Dec. 22':, "Government warning: smoking may damage your health." It,was also agreed, an overseas report indicated, that im- ported cigarettes would carry an equivalent warning., CANADIAN Health and Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde has released statistics that reportedly indicate a steady increase in the amount of Canadiamnon- smokers up to December 1i972,. A Health,and Welfare news release said thatt despite an increase in teen girl smoking and a leveliing,off of smoking by teen boys, fewer Canadians are smoking overal'l., The release said that two out of five Canadians 15 years old and over smoke regularly., The dept. estimated that there are currently a half million fewer cigarette smokers than there would have been if the 1965 rate would have continued. "SMOKE SIGNALS:,," periodical leaflet published by U. S. Seventh Day Adventists, carried'what,it described as the text of "laws being enacted"'by the Polish govt. to regulate tobacco use. Among other things,, smokingiwould be prohibited almost every- where except in private homes; all tobacco advertising in- cluding;point-of-sale wouldibe banned and a dozen different ministries would,become involved in,anti-tobacco propagandaa efforts. "No other country has faced up to the problem of smoking so forcefully, "' the leaflet saidl. NONSMOKERS GET'A BREAK in German trains, reported UPI. The German Federal Railway:Board has reserved an additional 20,000 seats in 478 trains for nonsmokers. The standard!distribution in a car is 4'0 seats for smokers and 24 for nonsmokers. NEW YORK TIMES ran a 37-inch story on~Mandiattan stop-smoking clinics and treatments, including names, addresses, phone numbers and fees, and a host of unattributed statistics on,smoking, qui~t- ting.and disease:rates in the,U. S. population. Good Housekeepingi devoted a page to the same subject on a national basis. WHITESIiDE,, author of aiterrible book about smokimg-health„ unsurprisingly led off a two-part "profile" of Nader in the New Yorker with,the latter's views about,cigarettes, which the writer obviously shares. Nader said he

-8 - checks smoking when he recruits helpers: "I look upon smokers as weak characters. I~would!have serious questions about their ability to do thee k,ind'of work we're doing." THIRD WORLD CONFERENCE on Smoking and Health is scheduled for June 1975 in New:York City. Sponsors reportedly will be American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute in cooperation with the World Health,Organization,, the Health Education Council in, Britain and the U. S. National Interagency Council on Smokiing, and Health. I KY. GOV. FORD (D) was the key speaker at a meeting of Dark,Leaf Tobacco Export Assn. in Louisville where he said,that scientists are predicting a"safe?' cigarette--one that HEW'will not label "Dangerous to your health."' Ford noted that 20% of the world's tobacco and health research is being conducted at the Tobacco and:Health,Research Institute at the U. of Ky. and'that the research is supported:by a special half-cent:per pack tax onn cigarettes which currently produces about $3'.4 million a year. Citing the heavy criticism that has confronted tobacco in recent years, Fo:rdlsaid the Kentucky-based research will help "substitute truth for suppositions and scientific fact for emotional suspicions." TI President Kornegay was there and warned the tobacco leaders about "quartierback sneaks" aimed at crippling the indlistry andd singled out Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Simpson as a:prime example. He said Simpson has no jurisdi~ction over tobacco but he still insists on trying to claim it. U. S. REP., STUBBLEFIELD:(D-Ky.); also~addressed the group as didiFrank B. Snodgrass, its v.p. and managing director. TI SENIOR V. P'., WM'_ KLOEPFER addressed an American Advertising Federation, convention in Tulsa. Commenting on govt. intervention in private business,, Kloepfer said that "there are cynics~in Washington these days who hold that if Moses now were to request The Lord,to part the sea, he would first have to present an,environmental impact survey." He went on to discuss the voluntary measures the tobacco industry has takeniand its cooperation withh the govt. and to show how the industry has handled a rash of anti-smoki~ngi propaganda.: Just prior to his speech, he was interviewed by TulsaiDaily World, business editor, Don Bachelder who noted Kloepfer hadisaid,that despite the cigarette broadcast ban and aimountediattack onn cigarettes, sales have continued to yearly increase and "'...:the record is showing that people have made a decisioniabout cigarettes and health," Kloepfer said., DIED' SUDD'ENLYI: Chester E. Reilly, 64!, an executive vice president andd director of United States Tobacco Company. ###