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T POST-TIMES -HERALD Washington, D.C. June 8, 1962' TIiE NEW YORK TIMES New York, New York June 11, 1962. Stnokers Out numl.eiod' ' The Kennedy Adasinistratiion's ioncern with the possible ef-, .fects; of' cigarette smoking ' op the natlmn'k health appWs t~ be refil~ctrd. eotftcidonti*liy or otherwise, in the, habits of' the President's Cabinlt. Hard oirtite•-ttnnounaement of. a Public Health Service study of' the controversial question. an informal survey showed thatt only three of eleven~ members Were acknowledged smokers: Secretary o>'' State Rusk, Secre•, tary of AkrlcultUre Freeman and Postmaster General Dav. The non smokiis are Vice President Johnso4i, Attorney General Kennedy and Secretar- ies M!cNamara of' Defense, Dil- Ion of Treasury, Udail of Inter- lory Hodges of Commerce,,Gold- berg, of Labor and Ribicoff' of Health, Education and Welfare. - The Administration's tobacco •record remains a little hazy. aino esome of its better known figures are smokers. Mrs. Ken- nedy, for one; and Sdward R. hiurrow of the United States Infornnatsatt Al[enGy`wlto alsadt~- •amokid~ -1~ 3iivin= rooms sorosr the astlott for yeazt. ' ThE Preafacnt himself smokes ksut with Cuban relhtlons what .they've been lately, he is sampling Phillipizse; Jamsican and Iviexiican stogies and a, box of, Burmese i panatelas he got from U Thant, the Acting aen- oral of' the United Nations. • ocU~~ NOTE': The new Health, Education and Welfare Secretary, Anthony J. Celebrezze, is alcigarette smoker. Psekaging Not Up to Snuff User,Q Lose About $9 Million- a Yeai' While T+nbaeLoilloop s Weiorht 'oii .-'-'~h~lf .._._.., . . ~ By IDorothy Butler fcolm W. Jensen, chief of the tion, a Pennsylvania Weights &aff ReDorter Office of Weights and Meas- and Measures official said a Pipe smokers, tobacco cilew-~ures of the National! Bureau Isurvey in his state showed; ers and snuff sniffers get, of Standards, tobacco manu- that gbout' 45 per cent of tobac. cheated on the tobacco they facturers cannot overpack to co packages were short-weightL buy to the tune of' about $9 allow for this shrinkage. Harry M. Turrell added that million a year.-.and the Fed- Edward F. Ragland, vice 'the estimated loss to consunr eral Government' appears to president of the Tobacco In- ~ers around the country ie ,ti'9:. Uc at fault. stitute, Inc., 808 1?tlf st. nAV.,,milhon each yean: The National Conference on explained to a reporter that~ Meanwhile, the Weights and . t4"eights and Measures heard the exact percentage of loss~Measuresgropp; meeting at' yesterday t'hat' between the was difficult to assess. It de- ~t h e Sheraton-Park H'o t e•1, time tobacco is packaged at pends, be said, on~ tlne length unanimously adopted a r+esolu- uhe factory, and sold at the of time the tobacco remains tion urging the~ Internal Rev- corner drugstore, shrinkage~on the shelf, the point of man- eaue Service to restudy the occurs that leaves the pack- ufacture, and climactic con. problem and act "to correct' aged tobacco user with con-, ditions. i this unfortunate - situation" siderably, less tobacco than he At a iiearing earlier this The rules can be amended bought. . week before the Intergovern+ easily to permit reasonablP And' under exi3ting Federa4 mental Relat'dbns Subrcommit- overpack, the c o n v e n~t i' o m iegulations, explained Ma1- tee studying consumer protec- noted.