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March 9', 1979 IMr, William, K~loepfer,Jr., Vice President - Public Relations The Tobacco institute ' 177'6 °'K" Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 2'00'0i6 Dear Bill: for injurX, death, disease, etc., etc., etc., and then brought Dr., Sydel l on camera. on th~eMarch 9th, "Today" show!,duringthe!second half hour, Tom Brokaw interviewed a Dr. Victor Sydell (;sp?') of'. Montefiore Hospital in New York. The lead-in from Brokaw reported on an Environmental P'o~IlutionlCanferencewhich,had been h~eldin ri1ewYork apparently sponsored by"a group of unions. In his opening remarks Brokaw quoted numbers in the millions and millions specifically mentioned' the following,: but this fact was not brought out in the interview. Dr. Sydell I would suspect that Dr. Sydell is retained by the unions, 1. Doctors needimore training in occupational hazards. r 2. Doctors need to know what the hazards, of various occupations are and! appro- priate metthods of prevention. 3. a'nqu~estioning~, Dr. Sydell mentionedi the chemical industry as a high-risk one but would not dwell on that andi was generally quite unwilling to specify industries. A DIVISION OF LOEYNS THEATRES, INC. 666 Fifth Averrue„hlew York, tNew York 10019

C Mr. w'.illiamKloepfer, Jr. March 9' , 19', 7 9~ P'age two He~ dide s~tate~ that OSHA had~~ lbeen~ very ine~~ffe~ctive~~ in~~ combating these problems and that individual workers and' their unions must protect the workers andiforce the companies to.spend the money to protect the workers from occupational Iazards including but not certainly ]limited to carcinogens. I checked The New York Times this morning, but was unable to find anything on the subject conference. CHJ': cg cc: Arthur J. Stevens, Esq. ib- ~