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LUCE PRESS CLIPPINGS TELEVISION NEWS TRANSCRIPTS PROGRAM: CHANNEL 8 NEWS 8 DATE: 2/1 I/B1 TIME: 12 :OOPM OOVEBAOE: SAN DIEGO STATION: KFMB CHANNEL ~ AUDIENOE: 3~2 vO00 AVERAGE 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 212-BSg-6711 THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE~ MS C AROLE MC NALLY LeT5 T STREET N W/STE 800 HASHINGTONv DC 20006 H093 PAULA ZAHN REPORTING: SMOKING: LEGISLATION The stuaents, faculty and parents at Claire~ont High School a11 said yes to setting up designated smoking areas at the school. But the School Board said no and so the ide~ will be scrapped for awhile. Despite the SUppOrt at the school and in ~he commun~ty~ th~ Board membecs apparent1~ felt setting up smoking areas would be interpreted as endorsement of smoking by students. 67 WORDS r- .~.IN CE |88~ NEW YORK WASHINGTON CHICAGO TOPEKA M ESA, ARI7-- .8336 T!04230904

CHARLOTTE, N. C. OBSERVER D. 170,046 -- $. 23P,833 CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN AREA State AndIndustry Must Help, Most cotton mills in the Carolinas Th'ey're neitla~.clLsabled enough now use~ breathing tests to: identify draw workers' ~blri~ensation.~ employees.and app.lieants wh6 Jnay'be • nosy administered nor ol~i enQugh.to particularly susee~tible:t~ q'~alify for Social Security. .::'... , or brown lung, a disease .some people Government and indtistry niight ~[evelop after years of it~haling cotton dust. That's a good i)r.actice; but in some cases it has put Carolinag mill- workers out of Work; er6adng, in ef- fect, a new category of unemployed' worker that both~ the industry and government ought l:o:be....concerned address this problem in several ways. First, the magnit.ude 0f the problem needs to lung might be a good vehic Secofidly, s~ate" compensation law needs to. be ,more fairly adininiStered. : about. :., .. When a worker has given decades of • ,Textile co~panies .-- on:itliei~ own his life to an industt~, and."ha~hi~d his health in the process to the in some c~ses, or at thefederal g6v- . health in . i • :. ' po'nt ernment's urging--~. ,iadrhi.nister ~i~~ c#.nt be employed in that breathing tests at least: anniaally to ,..~ .1~ more: ~e b~eve.that in- their workers and tO all applicants.:.-.,:. : " . ' .-: ....... ". ............. Different companies set differdnt dustry anal state government ought to. standar#s, but in most cases a worker, accept so.ha, e responsibility for seeing or applii~ant must breathe .at 75-80% : that the ~.orker is fairly compensated. dr' normal to work in most ar~as of: .t " . - • the mill. " .... .... .' Too Na~w An Ap.plicat[on Fo~: the. bad breathe.rs~ w.ho .are se-', " " " " '" " cure in their jobs, the consequences of.l ' That ~t~sn't always happen. Most failing the .breathing test aren:t se- compens~iion officers presently apply vere. The companies, for-the most compens~ion law very narrowly to Part, simply tran.sfer these workers to'~ millwork6rs who suffer from lung other parts of the nlill wh~e.Fthey" disease, b~lieving thg workers have,to aren't exposed tO.cott"o~:dust. ~- : :~. ' be totally and permanently disabled • ' " " ~ " " ~ unable to work .a,.t anythir/g ~ to But ~orae.Lose Sobs , ' . " draw any ~ompensation. ' " • .,,,' , ~ ,. " • , " .If interpreted more broadly, '..Hbw.e*er~ for thosebhd bi~sa*hers (workerg'i21awyers would say more wh6:~r~Jitly hav~e..lo~t:!.the~ j~_'~[i~--or . fairly), th~ law would allow many .of qult" '": at~d then:w.~..~t~ t~/:e6dm~_~aek these bad breathers to draw. partial tO .work, the eon~qt~#.r.~ ~rse. 'compensa :ion based, in part, on their Outdr e6neern fdC:'th~' @orderS' years 0f work and .how badly they. laealth, and als0 tO aV:o.R1 !Iablltty for bre.athe. future w6rkers' compensation claims, In ad¢ ition, one part of the sore- the mills won't.rehire them. pensation law that ought to be re-- The situation lop, these jobless bad strueturec perhaps, is the regulation. breathers ks ag~a.v~tel[~e, they that the last employer is responsible ..... ~ " " ........... " " for all a worker's compensationbene- .have hetLe educatton.~~, only. work 6~riene¢ is~'~.~l..~j"~.And, fits. That's one reason some mills are the towns where~6f~t,h~ live' turniiag 'marginally bad breathers offer littlein tim.way.of ~bs outside, away. the textile Industry. " "- ............ T!04230905

• Mill~ 9p~er.ators ~do~'t fee! this. re: :work~#: ~ell~d-to: mo.~e from .mi.ll to mill..in thb-com,se of a:¢areer, it proba- bly i~.u'.t. .. - , .'- . The l~w.could be changed to all0~/.textile comlSanie, s to f'~rm an in.- surance pool or trust fund, Out of Which they WOuld pay. worttdbs' "C0rh, pen~atibn. (How much a company paid i.n!o the. fund might be tied to how ~ell it CSmplieswith the federal cotton dhst standard, as an incdntive for'.milis..to, stay :~lean.). Th.e podl i~a ~urfa.ced in the or- ginal. Congressional hearings on cot- ton d~st, but neither government nor industry Officials have pursued it. ~ ,. . .. :~' . . . .Finally, ,the.ptight:of these work- ers. demonstrates the crying need in the Carolinas for job diVersifieatio~ in the smaller townsend for additional job .tl~.aining p~ogr,._.a~S i~.high sch..o~ ,~ ancI~mfn~ni~:.Colieges, ~-~. ., ~;. Thei'e ar~ thousands more un- el's, than the~e.':~u'e~hski~ jobs,.ac- cording. to N:.C."J,~bor ~o~nmisstoner, 3ohri Brooks..And hundreds of semi- skilldd and)high, skilled jobs go beg- ging, because fh)eunskitled don't have the training, tofillthem..... ,, • , Ti04230906

MADISON, WIS. CAPITAL TIMES --D. 34,581-- MADISON METROPOLITAN AREA Big bucks are spent in lobbying By MAIW POMMER Capital llrntq; S{aff Writer Legislative lobbyists spent more thau $650,000 in the first six month:~ of 1980 -- meaning it probably is a rail- bon.dolla~:-a-year business. According to a report issued today by ~;ecretary of ~tate Vet I'hi[lips, lob- , byists reporting s[wnding more than $654,fi0~ m January through June of last ye.r. Included m the total was $510,120 in salaries, fees, and retainers. Her attalysts is based on reports bled by those who lured the lobbytsLs. Twenty of the ~n-oups accounted for more than one third o! the reported spending, according Phillips. The '"top Z0" lobbying srendcrs for the lirst six months of 19SO, their total spending, and their lobbyists were: Common Cause In Wisconsin, $18,544, lobbyists Claire Mllbourne and Susan Lee Tibbits; Wisconsin Bankers &ssoelation, 1~18,198, lobbyists Bryan Koontz, Law- .fence Bugle, Ralph CaBle, John Knight, and Michael Vaughn. ~., Exxon U.S.A., ~18,0M, Vaughn, Cagte~, ames Nlchol.'~, Thomas Kaues, and Jamu'. I)ervllm. Jackson County Iron Co., $16.976, Jeffrey Barlvll. F.J, Pelisek, Guy 6umn, and M:u'k Thtmke. Organizatton representing UW Madison Iaculty, ~i3,M3. John Ross. WIseousln Federation oi Teachers, AFI,-C[O, $12,tH7, I,awrence Atlwardt. Stale Medical Society of Wisconsin, /I $12,10~, Man'ay Bevan, Michael Brozek, Calvin Dexter, Paul Jacob- son, I)onald I.ord, Kenneth Opin, Lots FOley, and M arvin Stromer. T~obaceo Institute Inc., $10,905. Rich- ard"P~Fe'rson anti Robert Schroeder. National Federation of Independent Business, $10,598, Bifi Smith. Wisconsin Farm Bureau [¢edera- tlon, $9,338, Roger Cliff and Paul Satin. Association of Nursing flames lnc~ $9,338 James Boullion, Stephen Gavin, anti Frederick II. Mdler. Kohl Corp., $9,285, Peterson and Schroeder. National Solid Waste Management Association-Wisconsin,. $9,240, James W. Morgan. Wisconsin Communities for Local Control I no., $9,0O0,. Ronald Parys. Motllr_ejc/e Industry Council, $8,642, James Baxter. First Savings Association of Wis- consin, ~,423, Richard Carbonneau: and John Goodland. Wisconsin Education Association Council, $8,368, Morris Andrews, Care-'= lyn Armogost, Michael Brennan, Frank Burdiclf~ John Coe, Ruby Jack- son, John Lawton, Bruce Oradei~ and.t George Williams. Wisconsin State Employees Union, $8,100, l.awton and Ro~ Kubista. Blue Cross United of Wisconsin, $6320, James W~mmer. Wisconsin Merchants Federation, $6,500, Chris Tackett, Robert Turcott, and Bruce Kuzminski. 18338 Ti04230907

FORT MYERS, FLA. NEWS-PRESS D. 63,636-S. 73,855 MYERS.CAPE CORAL METRO AREA New smoking ordinance may be too extepsive A Lee County ordinance drafted to regulate .. tOB.acco. smoking at various i~oor?pub- 1E~-l~es goes too fa~'. We don't envy county com- missioners when it comes time to consider the ordinance. They'll need the wisdom of Solomon when the smokers and the anti-smokers clash over this One. Smoking is often irritating to non-smokers. In recent years, various studies have shown that non-smokers also face sig- nificant health risks by coming into contact with smokers. But it is obvious that, as drafted, the proposed Lee County ordinance asks too much of smokers and their hosts. There is certainly nothing unreasonable in barring smokers from schools, school buses, elevators, transit buses, movie theaters and, perhaps, museums and libraries. But ordering smokers not to light up in banks and cafeterias and at retail store counters may be extending public pro- tection unreasonably into the realm of private enterprise. We would suggest that the ordinance in such cases be re. stricted to those places which post signs expressly forbidding smoking. And, possibly, that it require any smoker to extin- gnish his fire upon the request of a non-smoker. 1.$339 Ti042309

APPLETON, WIS. POST-CRESENT D. 51,617--S. 58,960 APPLETON-OSHKOSH METRO AREA Good news, bad news on sm_gking The surgeon general's annual report on the status of cigarette smoking and smokers as usual had some good news and some bad news. The good news -- as far as most smokers are concerned -- is that a switch to low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes does seem to re- sult in some "limited" reduction in the risk of lung cancer, according to Dr. Julius B. Richmond. Since cigarette manufacturers are intensifying their efforts to produce "ul- tra" low-tar cigarettes that people will use, there apparently will be increased opportu- nities for die-hard smokers to indulge them- selves at lesser risk. This risk is not only to themselves, how- ever. Coincidental with the surgeon general's report came the results of a 14-year study in Japan. Non-smoking wives married to smok- ing husbands were found to have a consid- erably higher risk of developing lung cancer than non-smoking wives married to non- . smoking husbands. The percentage also de- pended upon how heavy a smoker the hus- band was. The study in Japan emphasizes the grow- ing concern about the health hazard from "passive" smoking. Other studies have shown that damage may be caused to the small airways of the lungs of non-smokers and that existing heart and lung conditions of non-smokers may be aggravated by exposure to cigarette smoke. In the United States the lungs are the lead- ing site of cancer among men over 35 years. Lung cancer death rates among women are rising so that they probably will exceed breast cancer death rates before the middle of the 1980s. Because of the ineffectiveness of treatment for lung cancer at this time, only about 10% of those Americans who will be told this year that they have lung cancer will live five years longer. Obviously the pressure will continue both to develop more palatable really low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes and to provide more non-smoking areas. And what was the bad news in the surgeon general's re- port? Only that there might be new health hazards present in the shellac, caramel, eugenol and other chemicals being used as flavor additives iri the new low-tar cigarettes. Ti04230g09

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, HEWS -D. 76,769-- SPRINGFIELD.CHICOPEE METRO AREA "" FEB 3 19~1 U.S. Criticized For Tobacco Subsidies As a. non-smoker, l still am interest- edin the latest findings of the surgeon general's office. It now appears that even low-nicotine cigarettes contain etements that are hazardous to health. The many additives used to compen- sate for what has been removed from the tobacco reportedly are high in carcino- gens, particularly when burned. Clearly the smoker just can't win. Whether he turns to one type or the other of the cigarettes available, he flirts with an increased risk of cancer~Of course, when you stop to consider what the act of inhaling actually involve, that's not too surprising. One's lungs really weren't designed to .be assaulted by constant waves c.f smoke. Much as I applaud the surgeon gen- eral, I'm less enthus.ed about his employee -- the federal government. On the one hand that knowledgeable official is allowed to warn us of dangers to our health. On the other, the raising of tobacco is being given encouragement. Providing governmental support pay- ments for tobacco growers surely hasn't much "Lo recommend it. Would it not be more reasonable to demand that these so-called agriculturists sink or swim unaided? Why should the taxpayer underwrite part of the bill for a product that can only shorten his normal life span? THOM~,$ G. MORG~NSEN Southampton Road, Westfie]d. 1S341 Tl04230910

HERK1MER, N.Y. TELEGRAM --D. 7,260- UTICA-ROME METROPOLITAN AREA iEvidence filear On Smoking Editor, Several years ago when we were 'in the' lqrocess of demolition and making improvements at my industrial park in East Utica, two of my employees were cited for burning copPer wire without my knowledge or authority. A short time later, I was ordered to appear in Syracuge before the environmental b~ard for a hearing. For a time I was in peril of being placed unde~ a large bond and paying a fine for allowing an open fire to contaminate the air. I hired an attorney and sdvexal meetings later, I convinced them that I was innocent of any wrongdoing and the charges were dropped. Please bear with my; I am making a point concerning ~ m.~_p.ok.Lng andcigarettes. ---W'C-have conclusive proof and evidence that smoking is b.v far the most deadly and deslyuetive contaminant ";vith which o~r planet is cursed. Why do I say this? Because of the effect.it has on humans, it is habit-forming, difficult to break, and the havoc it creates both in health, prima¢i/y, and east .-- espy among o~r young people, our most precious asset. ' The principal point. I attempted to make in the ripening of this editorial is how , ineangruous the aetlons are of , our federal government, state govt~rnment and the powerful hefts media~ If any citizen'is guilty of contaminating our environment in any way whatever, they are subject to imprisonment, a heavy fine, or both. This axiom is evidenced and brazenly demonstrated, first by our federal government, billions for the tobacco industry in ~ubsidies and grants. Then, on the other hand, billiotis to cure and prevent the manifold of heartaches that smoking cauces: cancer, emphysema, heart problems and countless other ailments, other" after- effects such as early deaths, enstly health care attributable to smoking is ineo.mp~table. ~ The incoherence ot our news. ~edia leaves much to be desired. They reiterate in many of the news articles the proven terrible effects of smoking backed up by many statistics. Then, on the other hand nnt a day goes by that you do not see a full page ad telling of the marvelous pleasures of ~moking. • One of our leading national publications, "Time," in the issue of the last week of December 1980 had 10 full pages of ads on various brands of cigarettes telling the readem of their outstanding better qualities. If is' difficult for me to believe (~hat the strong, powerful medici would have a greater love for dolars than the health and well.being of human beings. Why do I feel so strongly about smoking and the. effects of it? In my lifetime I've witnessed much suffering accountable to this unwise, vain habit, which does.nothing more than give you a rotten mornin~ taste. "shortness of breath, coughing, loss of the 'fine taste of toed, - and evenl[ually other grave eansequenees. How. do I know about some of these-results? I quit smoking 31 years ago after having the habit fdr twenty years. It takes will power. I am cqnfideat that you can do it. When you. stop. life will be worth living again. Don Retie 423 W. German St. • Herkif'ner 1834 T!04230911

32 ~ News and Observer, Raleigh, N. C. Wednesday, February 4,1981 iC garette tax hd e offered aid ailing" Highway Fund • ".A bill to add a dime a pack to'the state cigarette tax was introduced 'in" the state House Tuesday by a ~Cl~.arlotte lawmaker who wants to' ..~.~ the revenue to [und state high- .w, ays. ".:- The bill would raise the current .2~cent-a-pack tax to 12 cents, with • three-quarters of the entire ciga- -rette tax going to the financially pihched Highway Fund. David ?Gl~otts, a legislative tax expert, ,shid the bill would bring the High- '~ay Fund about ~9 million a year. While legislative leaders give the bill little chance of passing, its.in- troduction by Rep. Ruth M. Easter- ling, D-Mecklenburg, got the atten- 't'~a of tobacco-country lawmak- ers. "Hell fire, the lid's popped off," exclaimed Rep. Allen C. Bar-, I~e, D-Nash, speaker pro tern. "Thdt bill will never sail,:' said ~Rep. Ed N. Warren, I)~.Pitt, who is '..;~i tobacco warehouseman. "Ever- "body is picking on our program, ,. from Caiifano on down," he said, , referring to Joseph Califand, the .former secretary of the Depart: Another legislative story is on page 24. ment of Health, Education and Welfare. Mrs. Easterling, a non-smoker, said she didn't expect the bill to pass, "but she Iw.ped it would force the House-Senate Finance Commit- tee to consider raising the ciga~ rette tax as part of any tax-hike package to increase funding for the Dep .artment of Transperation. She said a cigaratte tax increase might be coupled with a small in- crease in the gasoline tax and an increase in the liquor tax. "It seems more logical to tax luxuries (cigarettes and liquor) than a necessity like gasoline," she said. Sen. George W. Marion Jr., D- Sun'y, already has introduced a bill to double the liquor tax to give" the Highway Fund more than $100 million a year. • Other bills introduced Tuesday were: • A tax bitl by Rep. Charles Holt, D-Cumberland, an oil distributor, to exempt home heating oil,-kero- sene and liqulfied, petroleum, gas from the state's sales tax. • A bill by Rep.D.anieI T. Lilley, D-Lenoir, to phase out the local in- ventory tax paid by manufactur- ers, by providing them a state in- come tax credit. The credit would phase out the tax over the next 10 years, costing the state $120 million to $125 million over the period. • Another bill by Lilley to allow savings and loan associations to be taxed the same way as banks and other corporations..The measure would cut the S&Ls' tax bill by more than half and, according to ad industry study, would cost the state about $5 million a year. • A bill by Rep..George George W. Miller Jr., D-Durham, to r~ quire school buses to stop at all railroad crossings. TI04230912

LODI, CA. NEWS-SENTINEL D. 13,139 STOCKTON METROPOLITAN AREA ,"Parents 'smokin' o /e Parents... Lodi school board stance "; "" By JANET KRIETEMEYER News-Sentinel st~ff writer Two Lodi couples who wanted to see ~he _s~sections at Lodi and Tokay • hl~-g~--~-/F'restricted are so frustrated with their attempt they are hacking out pf the project. • Steven and Sandra Bosserman and ~tlck and Kathleen Shaeffer said their proposal that all students smoking at ,school have parental permission has come up against a stone wall -- the Lodl .Unif/ed Board of Trustees.. • "A~ far as our side Is concerned the meeting did not go well," Bosserman said. Assistant school Superintendent Tom Bandelin told the concerned parents that he would meet with them and set up a committee of administrators, parents ~nd students to look into the situation. But Bosserman and Shaeffer are not interested. Through newspaper, radio and televi- Sion ads, the foursome had summoned support from. other community members for Tuesday night's board of trustees meeting. There were about 30 people at the meeting but after waiting through a hef- ty session on the in lieu development fee proposal, most left before the smoking issue came up. "We are very frustrated," Bosserman said. "We put in a lot 9(effort and had tremendous support and it is frustrating when people say they're going to be there and they don't show up. Everything just fell together at the • wrong time." Though Bosserman is not happy with the outcome of the meeting, he does not blame the school board. "The problem is they school board gave the students smoking sections and you can't take is away without a fight,". he said. Bosserman presented the school • board with petitions signed by about 500 area resident asking for more stringent controls on the smoking sections. "This is not an anti-smoking drive in- tended to eliminate the smoking sec- tions but to require parental permis- sion," he told trustees. Bosserman said he had talked .to a number of parents and .teachers who thought smoking areas at .the high school were "absurd" and he added if the community had gotten to vote on the Issue it never would have passed. He offered his help In solving the pro- blem but alter the meeting was over he felt differently. "As fas as action was concerned we were beating a dead horse," he said. "It doesn't look like the school board is go- ing to do what the majority of parents want." Both.Bosserman and Shael~er said they are concerned with ~hat they see as a drug problem in the smoking see- tions. The said if parents were notified when their children were smoking, the sections would die out. .: "You are taking away our rights as parents by not notifying us," Shaeffer said. But Trustee John Vatsula said to the contrary, the parents were shifting their . responsibility to the school. Marilyn Hughes, a counselor at Lodi High School, said if she had to'make a decision between helping someone out financial aid forms for college and patrolling the smoking area, she would stay in her office. "I am not going to play nicotine cop," she said. Hughes said parents that are concern- ed about their children smoking cigaret- tes would know about it. "Some parents don't get close enough to their children to smell the smoke on the breath," she said. "I don't think they (parents) can ask us to do a Job and dump their responsibilities on us." But Shaeffer countered by saying it was the school's responsibility to look after students while they are at school. "If they don't notify us (about the smoking) then we don't have a ghost of a "chance," Shaeffer said. "Teachers must (Cont. on Back Page, Col. 2) (Continued from Page One) be an authority figure. Hughes said she would be happy to meet wtth parents and their child to discuss the problem if the parents don't want the student smoking, BUt there have been too many times when she called parents about a problem and was told to keep "my nose out of their business," she said. Trustee Ann Johnstor~said the parents had a" legitimate problem but that the issue is not a top priority. The schools are already understaffed and are trying to handle emergen- cy situations, she added. "Our children have got to learn to make d~clstons for themselves, good or bad, that's a part of learning," she said. "If parents are concern. ed, they have right to go to the smoking sections." Johston said that parents should work with counselors on this and any other problem they have with their children while at school, "But to try legislating in mass will create more pro- blems than it will solve."~