Tobacco Documents Online

v A I RICaMOND, VA. r TIMES-DISPATCH ~ 143,437 - S. 192,499 ' RICXMONO METROROItTAN' AREA J,!'.V'' F9 IT;: Iuctustry Wants to Know, Dryden 5ay s y e s en, m a~ fff Tirnes-Dispatch News Bureau responsible for human dis- WILLIItMSBURG - A To- ease„"'he said. 'bateo Institute official said Drydan said the tobacco in- Wednesday that the tobacco iadustry has "everything to jain and nothing to lose" lrotn Independent research btto smoking and health ques- flons. FrankGn B. Dryden„ ass+st- int to the president of the in- '=atute, safd, "if there is aomething In cigarettes or the Etaoke that ts harmful' to humans we want to find out what it Is and the sooner the .better so it can be removed." , ; "To date, however, scien- "> 'tlstv have not been able to demonstrate that any sub- ,tatice as found in smoke is ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. TELEGRAM Q. 15,766 - S. 15,865 a0tlr'r MOUNT METROROUTAN.AREA JAN IS 1937 dustry had appropriated about $20 million for research by in- dependent seientists. Working with the problems of lung cancer, heart disease and other ills, these scientists have not established a "tasu- al connection between• ciga- rette smoking and human dis- ease,'." he said. DRYDEN SPOKE ar the 21st annual Tobacco Workers Conference. About 400 persons from this country and Canada are attending the conference. . The "dragon of exorbitant cigarette taxes" may be more harmful to the tobacco in- dustry than health questions, arcording to William A. O'Flaherty, another confer- ence speaker. He is executive ' director of the Tobacco Tax Council. Tobacco growers and other segments of the cigarette in- dustry are face to face with forces that seek to destroy the industry, 0'Fiaherty said. "One of the devices, perhaps the most iinportant ob all„will be to tax cigarettes at rates which will tend to shrink the market; `he said: - The 23 states whose tobacco tax rates were increased in 1965 sufferedi a decrease in I cigarette sales of 4.6 per cent I while the 26 states whose rates were nor increased that year showed a 2.9 per cent in- crease, 0'Flaherry said; / l~ 6 304-3oa4- T~1~ T ®~~1 CCO-1 '~1 EALTH QU~5 T ION Franklln B. Dryden, assistant to the presi. :den'G of the Tobacco Institute, believes the tobacco industry has everything to gain and nothing to lose through its wide ranging •r<ttpport of independent research of smuk• tng and health quesUons. "How this re- search will come out, we have no way of knoa•ing: If there is something in cigarettes or the smoke that is harmful to humans, we want to find out what it is and the sooner the better so it can be removed," Dryd'en~ said. This forthright approach will go far to- ward removing suspicions harbored by cer- tain hostile factions. Any attempt by the tobacco industry to pussyfoot on such a vii tal question %cill only scrve to complicate matter for it at a time when the sovern. ment Is driving to place restrictions on the industry. To date, as Dn'den pointed out; scicn. tist's have noG been able to demonstrate that what is found in smoke is responsible for human disease. On the other hand, if it turned out that some other factors are re- sponsible for these diseases, the industry wants to know about it. Dryden says the industry believes that evidence against it'is "largely statistical" and has bcen.exaggerated out of proportion because of constant repetition, To get at the facts, the tobacco industry has appro- priated $20 million for research'by inde- pendent scientizts. This research has al- ready crontributed much kncu-lcdge about lung cancer, heart disease and other ills. But the scientists have not comc up with solutions nor have they established a~caus- al connection between cisarctte sntoking and human diseasc. Thus, it is rcaron.iblc to assume thatgovernntentscier.:i.;ts hare not had any more success on this qucstiotnthan have independent scientists, altitou;h the U.S. Health Service eiaimed in its nnit-fam- ous report thatit had "scientific pranf"that smoking caused'lung cancer. l66 5 0-// 3004,4 38 GREENVILLE,,S. C. PIEDMONT - D. 23,804 - -GREENVILLE METROPO4ITAN'AREA. JA:1 19 1967 Tobacco I-las 'Gain Only' In Res2arch WILLIA.~fSBURG, , Va: , (AP)- The tobacco industry has "ev- eryth'ing to gain and nothing to lose" through its wide ranging support of iotdependent research of: smoking and health ques tions, a Tobacco Institute offi- cial said 6ere. "How this researcli will come out, we have no way of know- ieg." Franklin B. Dryden, as- sittant: to the president~ of the Institute, said. "If there is something in cig- arettes or the smoke that is harmful to humans, we want to find out what it is and the soon- er the better so it can be re- moved. . "To date„ however, scientists have not beeu able to demon- strate that what is found in smoke is responsible for human disease. , "On the other hand, if it turned out that some other fac- tors are responsible for these diseases, we want to know that." Speaking at the 21st annual tobacco workers conference, Dryden said the industry be- lfeves that evidence against the industty is "largely statistical," and'h'as been exaggerated out of proportiou "because of con- stant repetition:' He said the tobacco industry has appropriated $20 million for research by independent scien-'~ tists. This research has contrib-', uted much knowled;e a5'out lung cancer, heart disease and other ills, he said, but the scientists "have not come with sotutions. . .nor have thr: established a causal conncc': between ci;arette smolin; . human discase."