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sRrr~s~ Mm~ICAr- 10URNAL VOrXncm 282 7 ~4ARC~ 1981 NEWS AND NOTES Qu~tzalcoatlus northropi~ a prehistoric pterosaur~ is thought to be the largest flying animal of all time with a wingspan of 11 to 12 metres (Sdentific American February 1981;92-102). The fossiliscd stomach contents of pterosaurs include fishm but how could the flying reptile catch them? In the vivid simile of the article, "The body of a pterosaur makes it about as suita~Sle as a folded newspaper for motion underwater." Biomedical research oreanisations will have to be creative in adapting to austerity, says Donald S "Fredrickson of the US National Institutes of Health in the "New England ffournal of ACe&'dne'" (1981;304:509-17). In the zero-sum game all players must suppress ~arrow interests to allow selective growth in areas in which scientific opportunity is hottest and persistent activity in colder areas in which the need for krunvledge is great. The butter mountain and other bizarre feat-ares of EEC farm p~licies are more easily understandable against the background information (Hannah Research Imtitute Report 1980:72-3) that since 1960 the yield of milk per cow has riseff" by a~ average of one-third and in the Netherlands and :Eke total milk production has doubled. Further evidence of the good results of renal transplants from living donors has come from the Cleveland Clinic in a report in the "'ffournal of Urology" (1980;124:779-80). The balance of risks remains favourable even when the donors are aged aver 50: five- year follo~-up of 46 such transplants showed that 60% of patients were still alive and that 45% of grafts were still functioning. The age lirr~t for donation should probably be set at / ,xj! President Reagan has made his views on smoking quite clear. n a letter to a tobacco farmer, quoted in the Tobacco Observer f December 1980, he writes: I can guarantee that my own cabinet members will be far too busy with substantive matters to waste their time prosely~ising against the dangers of cigarette smoking. For the rccord, 47 192 Americans were killed in battle during the whole of the Viemam war, while the United States Surgeon General estimates that 346 000 Americans die every year from smoking-related diseases. Measurement of blood nicotine concentrations in plpe smokers, says the "Brltlsh Journal of ]~'seases of the Chest" (1981;75:71 confirms that the majority who do not inhale absorb relatively little nicotine--far less than cigarette smokers. So what is the barfs for the satisfaction that oozes from a pip~nan who has just lit up? Further evidence that passive smoking c~m cause lung cancer has come from Greece ([nternatlonalffournal of Cancer 198I; ~/:I.-~), where a study of 51 .woolen with lung cancer and 163 controls showed that compared with a non-smoking husband, one who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day increased his wife's risk of cancer by a factor of 3-4. A reader in Birmingham has sent a cutting from a local paper reporting that the 24-bed smallpox hospital in its 20 acre grounds is to have £150 000 spent on it's maintenance. It will soon be the only smallpox isolation hospital in the country: but horn many more years will have to elapse before the DHSS accepts that smallpox is extinct ? Research on ache continues apace. The latest ~stalmcnt from Newcastle upon Tyne (British Journal of Dermatology 1980; 103:654-5) suggests that the individual patient's immune response to Propionibacterium aches may be an important factor in determining the severity of inflammatory ache. Mutterings of &'scontent among young doctors unable to find work or forced into jobs they do not want may have Z~¢rcalated dm~a to the schools: the latest figures from the Urffversiffes Central Council on Admissions shiny that last year only 11 424 applications were made to medical schools; the peak of 13 003 was in 1974. What does cannabis do to the lun~ ? In physiological terms it lowers specific airways conductance (Chest 1980;78:699-706), indicalgtag that the main effect is on the large airways. Damage can be shown to the tracheal mucosa of habitual heavy smokers. The clinical and epidemiologicaI implications of these findings remain unknown. Mincroa's feminist hackles rose when she read the account in "Health Trends" of attitudes to job molnTity among young doctors and th~'r ~ives. "Her main interests should be her husband's not her own happiness~'" the researcher was told~and the evidence suggests that traditional beliefs of this kind were, if anything~ more prevalent in the wives than the doctors themselves. Fibromuscular dysplasia is an arterial disease whose clinical importance is that lesions of the renal arteries may cause hypertension. Its cause remains unsown; but a report (American ffournal of Pathology 1980;101:415-24) of identical histo- pathological appearances in turkeys suggests the possibility of viral infection as one factor. The latest instalment in the saga of £xmdon University's medical schools is an analysis--"Report of the Working Party on Medical Costs"---of the savings to be made for each of 1 7 combinations of closures and amalgamations. None of these schemes made more than marginal savings---because the working party had been told that there should be no overall reduction in student intake and no redundancy of academic staff. IVhat a waste of time and effort. Ti04231021

S'|'ATENENT BY SENATOR STROM TIIURNOND (R-SC) BEFORE THE TOBACCO SUB- CObhXlITTEE OF HOUSE AGRICULTURE CONMITTEE REGARDING TI]E~E~NOMIC .NARION, SOUTH CAROLINAf SE~T~MBER"i:.~;1978:~= ~j:"0Ol'~7.~[. =f~-7:f ~'~" ~:!-; .i~f-. - .... " : .- " ,~-- " ~ ~~:.~ ~ -~ ~"~7:~ ~ ~ [ ........ . ~ " Hr. Chairman: I want ~o than~ Congressman Jones, the distinguished Chairman o~ the Tobacco Subcommittee of the House A~ricul~ure C~mmit~ee, and Congressman ~ampler, the distinguished Ran~ing Ninority Nember of the Tobacco Subcommitlee, for scheduling ~his hearing in South Carolina. I~ is indeed a pleasure to have several members o£ ~he Tobacco Subcommittee -- Congressman Jones, Congressman Wampler, Congressman Sebelius, Congressman Nalhis, and Congressman Jen~ret~e -- here in our S~a~e/and I want ~o e~tend an invitation ~o each member ~o visit South Carolina often. The flue-cured iobacco program is extremely important ~o Sou~h Carolina. Sou~h Carolina's flue-cured tobacco crop was valued a~ over $172 million for ~he 1977 crop year, the largest cash crop in South Carolina. Ab'out 90 Dercen~ of ~his production was concen- trated in ~he fol~owing six countieS: Darlington, Dill6n, ~lorence, H0rry, Nation, and Wil-liamsburg, all of which are loca~ed in north- eastern South Carolina. The flue-cured tobacco program is unique, in that for forty- five years we have maintained a ~rogram based upon production control and price supports. The entire "~obacco program has cost ~he Pederal government only $52 million since 19~. Pew, if any other,-farm progra~'~an ma~ch its record of farmer cooperation and fiscal res- ponsibility. In my home ~tate, as well as in the other flue-cured tobacco producing state~, the flue-cured tobacco farmer typifies the "family" -I- Ti04231022

farmer". This remains true even though many changes have taken place ever the years. In the earl), Years of the'~rogram all the dult~vat$on was done.with mulesfa~id, the:'crop h'a~[~and ........... C-T- -~ ..... :-.~ ~ " - by the family and neighbors. Now ~#esre in Kff-K~6 of expensive tractors, bulk barn~, and mechanical harvesters. Yet, despite this extensive mechanization, the flue cured tobacco farmers still ~xemplify the independent family farm operator/whose economic vitality is essential to the future well-being of American agriculture. The tobacco industry is closely interwoven into the economic well-being of local merchants, fertilizer dealers, warehousemen, and ban~ers. The value of the flue-cured tobacco allotment is capitalized into the. value of the farm and serves as a major source of collateral for credit. Tobacco is the leading cash crop in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kent~mk)v~nd ranks high in Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. Nationw~de~ i~ is the fifth largest cash crop after corn, soybe~ns,,wheat, and ~r. Chairm~n, as you can see, any sudden lo~s of ~he tobacco program would cause severe economic upheavals in the tobacco pro- ~ucing areas of South Carolina and other States. Wen though tobacco is cultivated on approximately ~00,000 farms -- most of them small -- in only 22 states, impact~n the entire economy of the United States. Some 1.~ million people are employed full or part-time7 n the growing, manufacturing and distributing of tobacco products. They work in every state and earned $]1 billion In 1977, Americans spent $17.1 billion for tobacco products -- Ti04231023

a record high. Of that amount, over Sb billion in direct taxes : ....... on..tobacco produc.ts,~~vent. -into- .tl~e~tr~-asuFic5 -of/the..Federal, ~-~- .. ....... ....... % ...... :--:-(--"-:--'~9.~=~ff~.::~.~::~:~':~;~:..':. : : -~-:-qv-z;~ ~:~:'-:z"-~.'~--:--:. .--:: :~- ..... - ...State, and local govexnments.~n.£~scal year 1917. ~he ]-ederal - ...... . . . .,& ..~ - . , . . ; - . . , ...... . ,~ . government's share totaled $2.3 billion; the States' sh:~re totaled $3.6 billion; and local governments received S]2A m~llion. This tax revenue amounts to nearly three times the amount that U.S. farmers received for their tobacco. Tobacco is among the top five U.S. agricultural "export~ in terms of value. Tobacco ~p~s totaled $1.732 billion in 1977, far exceeding tobacco &reports of $573 million. The net result was a $1.36 billion positive contrib~tion "toward the nation's balance of payments. ~Ir. Chairman, as I am sure you and the other members of the Subco~ittee are well aware, every year when Congres$ considers the Agriculture Appropriations Bill, there are critics who try to weaken and discredit the tobacco program for one reason or another. The failure of thes~ critics to undermine or sub~tsn- ~tia]ly curtai~ the tobacco program, speaks for itself. The fact that tobacco provides jobs for 1.5 million Americans, provided tax revenues of over $6 billion in 197~, and provided a favor- able contribution to the trade deficit of $1.36 billion last year, cannot be ignoreff. Tobacco is a vital contributor to the economic health of our economy, lye must stand behind the tobacco progranL~nd prevent any changes that are designed to weaken it. Few, if any other, farm progra~can match its record of farmer cooperation and fiscal responsibility. Let's work to keep it that way. -3- Ti04231024

Radio TV Reports 41 East 42nd Street Ne~- '~brk N.Y. 10017 (212) 599-5500 PRODUCT: PROGR~¼: AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION STATION BREAK 3/13/81 WCBS-TV (NEW YORK) 81~3791 IOSEC. 9:SSPM I. ANNCR: Next time you 2. reach for a cigarette, remember where your 3. and kick the habit. smoke goes 4. It's a matter of life and breath. ALSO AVAILABLE IN COLOR VIDEO-TAPE CASSETTE T!04231025

Alcohol a factor SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)--A Univer: sity of Utah researcher says" alcohol ma.y contribute to thr~at anal mouth cancers by impeding the body's ability to metabolize vitamin A. ~ Section 1 Chicago Tdbune, Tuesday, March 17, 1981 T!04231026

Radio TV Reports 41 East 42nd Stree! New Sbrk N.Y. 10017 (212) 599-5500 AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, PRODUCT; AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION 81-03944 PROGRAM: GREAT AMERICAN HERO 3/18/8] 30 SEC. WABC-TV {NEW YO R K) 9:59PM I. BOO BOO: Good morn- 2. How are you feeling? 3. YOGh Good morning 4. YOGI SINGS: Went to ing Yogi. Boo Boo, Great, just bed early. Took a swim. great. Climbed a tree... YOGI AND BOO BOO SING: An~J breathe clean air. YOGh You had breakfast? 5. BOO BOO: Great, just 6. YOGI AND BOO BOO: 7. honey, fish. 8. BOO BOO: Took a little great. Ate just about Berries, nuts, run...YOGl: Over to the everything on my plate, camp. 9. BOO BOO: To see what 10. ~ eoople are up to. Gh Like what Boo Boo? BOO BOO: Smoking cigarettes, 1 I. YOG I : Breathing smoke? Yuk. Well we sure won't. 2o BOO BOO AND YOGI: Smoking's really bad foryou. YOGI AND BOO BOO SING." That's why people need doctors and bears don't. ALSO AVAILABLE IN COLOR VIDEO-TAPE CASSETTE T!04231027

Radio TV Reports 41 East 42nd Slree! Ne~ ~brk NA'. 10017 (212) 599-5500 P RO DU CT: PROGRAM: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES GREAT AMERICAN HERO 3/18/81 WA BC-TV (N EW YORK) 81-03999 30 SEC. 9:42PM 1. C3PO: R2,Dut that down1 2. (R2D2-SFX) smoking is dangerous. 3. C3PO: No. 5mokinq isn't groWn-up, it's very foolish. 4. (R2D2-SFX) 5. C3PO: Because it's a 6. irreparable to your lungs 7. (R2D2-SFX) 8. dirty habit, and it's very bad to your heart. C3PO: I know I don't have one, but hunlans do and I thinkwe should set a good example. 9. (R2D2-SFX DROPS 10. C3PO: Well done R2. CIGARETTE) ALSO AVAILABLE IN COLOR VIDEO-TAPE CASSETTE Ti04231028

PARIS "--IVor the first time, Philip Morris Inc. and R.5. Reynolds Industries are sending out their second team--Parliament and Winston-- in test markets, to help market leaders Marlboro and Camel fend off a challenge from leading German cigaret marketer Reemtsma and its new copycat U.S.-style brand, West (A_A, March 16). Backup products for Germany wait in the wings for what looks like a major battle. T!04231029

generics go national Following almost a year in test in 30 states, Liggett has announced that it will initiate a trade ad cam- paign supporting national distri- bution of the 14rag tar no-name brand. The effort, created in- DURt[.~,M, N.C.--Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. is rolling national with generic brand cigarets in what is the first positive news to come out of company headquar- ters here in recent months. house, is themed "Generics on the move." The marketer of Eve, Chester- field, Lark, L&M and Decade has enjoyed surprising success with the generic unit. However, the growth, which is expected to level out at 1% share of market, will not make up for losses sustained by its name brands. Liggett currently has about a 2.2% share of the do- mestic cigaret market. A 1% mar- ket share Js equal to $130,0Q0,000 at the factory level. Liggett's Gary Tobacco Co., which has dealt primarily with the importation of foreign tobacco leaf, will handle sales and distribu- tion of the brand. The company added that the sales staff has grown sharply since Liggett began marketing its generic product (AA, Dec. 1). Though the generic brand sells for $1 less per carton than brand name cigarets, research indicates that many consumers have a strong brand identity, which they are willing to pay for, according to sources. This marketing factor may limit the growth ofthe generic audience, but bargain hunters will flock to the unit, sources say. Some marketing will be handled by TopCo Industries, Skokle, Ill., which tested the product. # T!04231030