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11 I r PROGRAM:~~ PAUL HARVEY STATION OR NETWORK: ABC RADIO DATE: February 15, 1967 TI1VI E: 1:00 P.M. 28 GOYERNMBH? SHOULD tEEP NOSE OUT OF CIGARETTE PACXS PAUL.HARVEY: But laws designed to protect people from themselves •- however well intentioned -- are under fire else=- where also. Congressman Don Irwin of Connecticut is fed up with increasing government "snoopervision." He says the government should keep its big fat bureaucratic nose out of our vitamin bottles, and our cigarette packs. He says government has no obligation. to stop us from smoking or taking vitamins, even if they're useless - even if they're hasard,pus. He says it's still none of the government's business. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS New York, N. Y. February 16, 1967 - .- E~ Dy F,c.p. Do.;?atl j. Ilfi::31 (1)-;°(Y=,?l.), in ., `e1, eli~ i:st~.ea ~~ete •d.:~~ ill ^ "(Co..e'i'1}rrI^.Tt] Lr1A jl~r f t ) i~ 2 1 ,5~,, f lt IIl' t? 1.,i 1lo$°. Ou"t of 0t^ 111`il'(lln'S vit'.^11 .1 t~;)' tU w:1at to Slltio!3, th.^i'5 tliJi l- l~.le3_. if t~1CF ~i..ilt t^. '.i.~:_: til]el: ~11.. -.':C,' LGO: Ir!]tl t!ii. :ii ~~'I them LrJ`.- ju Sj'c^...i .iiLii I n ;;il_ . - 1ao3o4 2qqj /f WALL ST. JOURNAL New York, -N. Y. March 15, 1967 Rep. I3onald J. Exwin (D., uw....,, matntaininp that tltb Government "sJwiud keep 4ta big Jat bureaucratfc nose out oJ the nation's vfiamm botttes and clyaret pacAes•;: The Governinent should draw the line and stop trying . to. protect the American people from their own 'folly. •If, people want to smoke, that's their bust- ness.: If they wa:nt to take vitamins, that's their businesa, too. The Government needn't lrold 'thetr band and tell them how to spend 1 0 ~ WALL ST. JOURNAL O New York, N. Y. ~ February 28, 1967 ~ G`igaret Shipments in'66 W 'Rose 2.2% to a Record,'C4~11 According to the IR S O' R}/. 6 WALr. STRET.T JOURNAL fiLq '/ (.'fpM7[r NEW YORK - U.S. cigaret shipmente !n 1966 totaled a record 522.5 billion, up 2.2~I'o from 1®65, according to the Internal Revenue Service. An additional 19.5 billion' cigarets were shipped to the armed forces overseas, pro- ducing a total of 542 billion, or the equivalent of 4,296 cigarets per capita for persons 18 years or over. This total exceeds the 4,262 for 1965 and 4,195 of 1984, but 1s less than the 4,345 of 1963. Taxable removals of cigars from store- houses totaled 8,174,000;000 in 1966, 4% less than in 1963. The volume for 1966 has been exceeded since 1920 only 1n 1984 and 1985. Shipments of llttle cigars last year amounted to 435.7 milllon, up 0.2'% from 1965. their money. /~- _ a-~4"7...