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594 [From the waahmston Po.t January 23, 10721 ' 93% WANT BMOIfERR gEOREOAT® (By Stuart Auerbach) An unpubllshed government study hns found that 43 per cent of all airline passengers think emokcrs should be neparated tmin nonsmokers on alrplanee. This "uirathlr minor(ty" Inrlndes a great many smokers as well as almost ell the uonemokcrs who were surveyed,-said E. A. lrlchardson, who coordinated the study for the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA and the National Institute for 6ccnpational Health and Safety cooperated on the xtndy, which wasconipleted-laetmonth. OOlclale of the FAA and the U.S. F'nblic Health Service are currently deciding what, if auy, recom- mendatlonn should be made xR a result. While Ille FAA-I'II$ study found that xmoktng was not a health hazard in commerclal airplanes, the passenger euney Indicated that far more people t/mn expected are bothered by their ncighbors' smoking while oit air trip. "It can be predicted that more people will be snnoyed by tobacco emoke 1n the future nnleax cornstive action is taken," the report concluded. The_ most likely form of correct(ve action would be either an FAA regulation or a recommendation to the airlines that apecial smoking eectione be set up aboard all flights. - Four alrlines--Amerlcan, United, Pan American and Trans-Worid-volun- tartly set up smoking nnd nonsmoking sectionn. They received awards for this last year from the D.C. Medical Society. Most of the Imeeeugera who wanted eMlun taken to curtail amoking felt that a special wrtion of the plane would be enough. But 15 per cent felt that all gmnking xhmud be totally banned nn nirplanen. A total of 3,206 puss.mgers of 20 International and eight domestic flights were surreyed and the planes themselves were checked for polluation caused by tobacco emoke. The study was commissioned the report sald, as a result of "a large number of complaints" Including Rorae fonvarded to them by Congressmen and the Whlte House-to the FAA, the PHK and the airlinex. In addition, a group hendcd by Ralph Nader sued In federal court to torce the FAA to ban all emaking on eommercJal airliners. The U.S. Court of Appeals in March rejected the Nader suit. While tobacco snmke was listed ea the major eource of pollution aboard the airplanes, the amount of carbon mmmoxide, hydrocarbons and particles were found to be far less than in ihe average uShan environment. Nevertheless, the survey showed that nonsmokers, and to a lesser degree smokers, nre annoyed by tobacco smoke In alrplane cabins. Fifteen per cent of the men smokers and 22 per cent on the women smokers on domestic flights, for inntunce, wld they were annoyed by smoking on airplanes. Moreover, 80per Cent of nllthe sinokeresurveyed on the domestic flights and 27 per ment on the Internatlonul flights telt the government should take eonle action to curtail smoking on planen. The nonsmokers, predictably, were stronger In their objectlons: 02 per cent of the nonsmoking International Imsrengere and 73 per ceaLol the nonsmoking domestic iumaengers felt @mnkern should he segregated. The latest report on smoking and health by U.K. Fnrgeon General Dr. Jesse 1.. Steinfeld said that tobacco tumes--especlally carhon monoilde-may be dangerous to nonemukerawtio Inhale them. - LnRt year Sleinfeld suggested that more attention be paid to the rights of nonsmokers and sald that smoking ehould be banned In public places such as restaurants and alrplanea - [From the New York 77mer Feb. E, 19721 CmASmTE BnoKtxa 6ltows KMAaP Deor Arrw BRITISH 9TnnS Innoon, Feb. 5(AP)-Coneumptlon of dgarettee le down in Brltaln follow- Ing a report by the Royal College of Physicians. 4 / 595 The health issue has apparently taken bold more here than In the United Kutten, where--cigaretie conxuniPtlnn-wnx np 3-lier cent ht 11r1. In Britain thc Covernment neye-nulen have droplxvl 5.5 In'r crn In the ln>tt year. Tobacco comlRnalee put the loss ut 4 to 5.5 lier cent. 7'he pllye/a'kllls' report, innu,~l n year ago, found that cigarette mmokern were twhe un 111,03, to dle In uJddle age nn uonmmokere were. It eetlnmted that the hubit kilinl ¢'l,tkq Brltuns hetween 35 Imd W every year. Then cnme henlth wnrningx on cigarelte pnc•knges, mrtl-smoking commercials on television, nnd the expansion of "no Rmoking" nrcnn in ptlblic plncen. The trmunerelnlR were ntRlilvored by the Coreriiment through t(ie IleultG P:du- cnlion Cntmcil jointly Onnnced by nnlimmi nnd loeul guvennnentR to educate people in how to mulntnin their phynical well-Ireing. eMO%INa vE. acx APrr.AL The eampntgn played the c(gurette companies at their own game. The meR- ange trun that If you w/shed to remnln healthy and retain your sex appeal, the Brnt thing tn do was glve up mauking. --- - "\Ve nre ecrtnln that the ade hnd n great eRect" n eounciloBicial anys. The Government nlm> cnnte to an ngreement with the tobacco cnmlmnieR under which every package of cignrettes must curr): the mes.wlge: "Warning by Il. 31. Oovermnent-Rmoking can dmnnge Tottr health." Unch of the pressure came front a grnnp cnlled Action nn Smoking nntl Health, or AK31, formed shortly-nfterptiblinitlon of the ItoTnl College report. The director general, Dr. John Dnmvnmly, n former jnnlor minlxter with the Oovenmleut'x Depnrttuent of Ilealth says: - "We have already Imd n 01x'r cent rednctlon. Il we can tnaintnin the mumen- tum at eny 3 Per cent anmmlll', then 10 or 15 years' time we mndd'lun+e a substantial majority of nnnnnmkern in this conntry." 'i [From the New York Tlmee Jan. 29,19721 , , CtaARErrE ADR UP IN PuR6rcwrmNR . anT TOTAL OVTLAYa POa YEAR DROPPED 28 PERCEa'T FROM 'fn (By John D. Morris) WAentxuroN, Jan. 1&-Clgarette manufactnrera tripled their expenditures for newspaper, luagazine and autdmr udvertising lnst year, .Iditing more than 3132-mlllion frinn rndlonnil television. -Thelr tntnl ndvertiemg outlays of x:.NN4mlillo.n nevertheless were 29 per cetrt helnw those nf 1070, WP last year ht widch radio and television adrertlning of cigarettes waR legal. The FYvlerul Inw against broadcasting rigaretJe cnnuner- clnlR took effect Jnn. 2. The Tobnccn Institute, which compiled the llr2 figures anti announced them hnlny, fnllel the nvlactlon "drmnntle" and snid It "helies the dire predictionns of nntlxmuking enomdera thnt cigarette conlpnnles would 'flmnl' nther medin with their si6es mesages.•' But Kenntnr Frnnk I9. )[nns, Democrat of Utah, who slNmenred the legislation bmming tvuumervinls, isaued a Rtntenlent aRtitlling the increased ndvertining ]u other mediu na "dlsgraceful" nnd "nnrnnne/onuhle." - -- PIOt/RF.a ON arx CONCERNR The Tnbsccn Institute, the (ndltntrT'n Wnshington-Imsed trude association, nbtnined tlie D171dntn from the emurtry'n Rix clgnrette ntivertl.ers. '1'hey nre American Brmtds, Inc.; the Brown & Wi111amnotrTohaero Cnrlmrntlon; Llggett & Dfyern, 7nc.; the Iwlrlllnnl CorPorntlon; 1']dllip Morris, Inc., nnd B. J. Reyn- olds Industries, Inc. - Cnmpnn.r-hT-cnmpnny figures were not made nvnilnble. Overall, the eix mnn- IltactllretA qtmdrnidedYhelr adrertlning In neu-pmin'rs, dnnbled It lit magazines nnd htcrrn+td It morw thnn nlx-fuld in the out0nnr (bllllwmnl.e) metlln. The following breakdown, In mllllonR of dollars, wnR glven : b0~tT869~ 00t