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BROWN & WILI/AMSON TOII~CCO CO P./'OF.ATION B&W DAVID S, EOLDING DEPARTMENT SALE~ MANAGER 3595 S, TELLER STREET SUITE 406 LAKEWOOD, CO 80235 October 6, 1987 sTATE Senator Wendell H. Ford, U.S.S. U.S. Senate Washington, D.C, 20510 Dear Senator Ford: I am writing to voice my opposition to recent moves in Congress to ban smoking on most or perhaps all domestic airline flights, I feel that such legislation is unwarranted from either a health aspect or a safety aspect. Current airlines provide non-smoking seats, and smoking aboard eircraft is already sharply restricted; every passenger is guaranteed a no-smoklng seat, even if a smoking section must be reduced or eliminated to satisfy that guarantee. Further, measurements of nicotine in aircraft cabins indicate that the amount of cigarette smoke in the non-smoklng section is so small that it would take the equivalent of 224 hours, or nine days of non-stop flying, for non-smokers to be exposed to the "nicotine equivalent of a single cigarette". I am one of the many people who make their living by working in the Tobacco Industry, one of the oldest industries in the country, one of the highest contrib- utors to our gross national product and one of the highest contributors to those taxes collected by our government. I would appreciate your response to this letter. Sincerely, D.B. Bolding /%c: Stan Bowman BOX 3~g~ ~UIS%ql/X, ~ ~23z, [~2] 5~q~o T100~-0887

BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOB~CCO CORPORATION DAVID B, BOLDING DEPARTMENT SALES MANAGER LAiCEWOOD, CO B0235 October 6, ]987 Senator A. Mitchell McConnell, U.S.S. U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 205]0 Dear Senator McConnell: I am writing to voice my opposition to recent moves in Congress to ban smoking on most or perhaps all domestic airline flights. I feel that such legislation is unwarranted from either a health aspect or a safety aspect. Current airlines provide non-smoking seats, and smoking aboard hircraft is already sharply restricted; every passenger is guaranteed a no-smoking sea~, even if a smoking section must be reduced or eliminated to satisfy that guarantee. Further, measurements of nicotine in aircraft cabins indicate that the amount of cigarette smoke in the non-smoking section is so small that it would take the equivalent of 224 hours, or nine days of non-stop flying, for non-smokers to be exposed to the "nicotine equivalent of a single cigarette" I am one of the many people who make their living by working in the Tobacco Industry, one of the oldest industries in the country, one of the highest contrib- utors to our gross national product and one of the highest contributors to those taxes collected hy our government. I would appreciate your response to this letter. Sincerely, D.B. Bolding DBB:kh ~c: Start Bowman T!004~--0888