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~ C LQNDQNi tIIPII: The British g•overnmen4 :openedi an anti'-c!9arette -:-, campaign yest,erday' with +poAtens wnrsttng ohildren to '1'bblk, . bafore sou amote " Copiea of the posters were aent to teacher trafn- -ing schools, Independent -_,aehoola and JttutL orga,nf- ntimma~ -One poster stlowa a boy ~ ~Lghtlrlg : a . etgarette, the - other a girl atoeptJTlg one. Both read: 'Before' you ` amoke, think... Cigarettes -3 1s~ORLID TELEGRJI~i ,~ ~G)' -I 1 Nev York, Nev York (~ U~ ~ ) J 1 . TSE BEE" MaY 31, 1962 - Danv111e, Via+gi,niti....-va.._.ate Lo..y Dobn.. ..jectedra ..eityhuua' of'.. DiL June 5 y 190'2 Powell's acting money to:direct a Rifleman episqde. .,. . Hand- f I i oh' someTa% id Janssen gritted his teeth lhrough a 1.0- o R " ~" ard Diamond ah'ows, b'ut'is grinning at the rerun loot which Bf`'/tj~J~S'S/1'~oK/fn9 paid for a Palm Spf-inRc house.... Lilan og vemmnnt banned _ ostensto y use of More f lltl@r -ail i cigaret and tobaecol ads from ' = p3~p~ rr «. -xo r ~Eeem, eel, how-- +,e overnm~ en~ aonirolle E• - cY,Jpar-• Cigarettes p n~.edIteS"t!lfd3 would hurt Italian counterparts. •-..,... ~"-...~.,,,a~.... LONDON (AP) - Britons are R!hen Dlort'ahi fakes,over the Tonight show dima U he ittnohing more filter c:iguetles to• y to devolb one nisht'to an all •dnal. •.~ 1`il n 4ay than ever. • he commenta Some thlhk fikera are aafer for lrt. • )~~ ( J health, but,a,ma3orreason ia,that the fllter, is cheaper. A quarlbr of' the cigarettes TDW smoked in Britaim, today are fil- gex' Y k N k ex Yo¢ r tause lung eall0lr." - una. . nu n; ixJaus . s s~aru+ua. j change in smoking habits. Seven C_ years ago barely two packs in a L~BvE' IDJ~ •J~T/ hundred bore the tilter sign. liLO Jack Heody; president of' the St. Louis, H{issoLU'iNational Unionof' Retaill Tobac- 7lllne • 19~ coaisls„is convinced that price is l . , the dominaUno factor. A pack of iv t 20 Gl t St A - cen n equ ters cos a: a Finnish Tobacco alent no~tip atbndard size costu Firms Drop YY HELSINKI, FWLAbID (Iteu-,W ters).-Finnish~~ tabacco' manw~ lacntrers wednesdayy announced thee indu'istrywould voluntarily Britaia was17'per cent.. Then.th'e give up all television beginning government raised the tobacco" next January. "for the time duty. Almost overnight filter sales ;b~eing:" ---777 embed to more than 22 per cent. I v' U~~~•~ .~' ~~ li ~ ter 1 lea~~bouaded fromr iZ a 16' aa Eu~f1T G t37ABE Boston, Mase.. .l1~nr 7, 19~', Tobacco Union Fights Theory On Cnincer Li~nk SCARIBIO.ROUG'H. Eng, (Reuters) - Seventeen thou, sandi British tobacco workers have backedd their6rma in contending they are not con- vincedi amoking' is the major cause d~l"ffi1ff' cancer., their union leader aaid here today. H. F. G. Skeates,7n his presi- dential address to the Tobacco Workers' Union conference in this northeast resort town,,saiii there were numerous'reasons why a Roy,al College of Phyai- e3atla report earlier' this year on the aSsociation' between, amoking and lung c>tncer had not proved conclusive. Skeates added: "One of the tnain arguments against' it is, that' after years of experi- menting with animal}, cancer has not been lntroditced into their bodies through tobacco smoke. It atmospheric pollution of the air was tackled with the same keenness as tobacco amokethen we would be much Lcarer to the truth of limg cancer and its causes." -s9- Eaeh time tobacco taxea' have been hiked tilter sales have- aurgEdlupwards too. In mid-1961 the filter sale to per cent. The reasca for the price gap is tltat' tite, tobscco, tax is levied on weight. Fikercigarettes:eon- tain less'tobaceo, so they are cheaper. Last March the Royal Co.llege: of~ pb'ysic:ansisssued a report.cataloging all li~.e pas: statisti¢al: evidence on the cormection be- tweea smoking and lung.caneer.. They argued that'there waa~ a'a definits.link. Cigarette sales took a diva. .. •'Lotas otpeopkgOt scared'. Hendy said. "1 estimate cigar- ettb sales went dowa by' 10 percent: , But't peopte . are coming . back . to smoking again i as the shock oI' the report i1 dulled by t9me:" The doctora said it was pasaibla. that efficient filtera might cusb. . ion harmful effects: "I estimate thao ftlter salb; 6t London anynvay: have put on I or I per' cent since the doctor's report," Hetldy said. Said a tobacco co,mpaay spokesman: Not so long ago you woultl frequently hear someone apotogii- Ing' for o:fcringsomeone a filter: Yau never hear it,now.'• Britaat still has a waytb go: before the filter is as fashionabke as it'is in ~ South' Africa, where e'8 out of lo packs ar+ filtera, or'IAve United S'atea where more tban half the cigarettes havespata, as,FmgYuhmen atill call them. , o -May 24, 1962' Galtalier, Ltd.. LONDON, May 23. (UPI) - 1C. W: DYason,, chalrman~ of Gal- laher, Ltd. wbichis onee of Britain's largest cigaretteman- ;ufgcturers,e tbldahareholders tdtaysalee had!.fallenfollowing pubLLcationof a doctor'S report '1)itkingg amkipg: with lungg cancer. He said, howevc, '•,'here ap- pears to~ be spartial, recoveryy from the low level ofconsump- tloa after . the . (Royal College ' . of, Physicians) report." He said more British amok- +nrs were switching to filtertipcrgarettes. NE4! YORK TIME6 tlecr York, New York June 20, 1962 .Btatish Establish a Code For Cigarette Ads on TV lpel.l mTn.'Ne. Tert r~mr.,. • LONDON, June . 19 . --Th cl I„dependen t.1lelevtaton ~ A u t h orit yagreed on a code for rignr.r.e anditobauco.manufacturcrchaveadvertisements, -The agreement',followst the d~ etsion of cigarette manutxc- .turers : . not to advertise ont,-le-vision before 9 o'clock in the evening to avoid encour~Fing, childrea,„to'amoke:. IL aiso~ eomes;some three monthsafter a report by the Royal Colirrc . of: Surgeons that linked luncr cancer and smoking. Thc.repnrte w^.ta given Government endorse- ment; The code agreed upon bet wcen . the c ontro6l i ng , body of eom mep - ciali television and thetab,-ux,~e industrywill.exclude.all tlvr:- tisements that suggest r.ignrotle smoking, an& masculinti nxcinscparable7 Uacit isadesm- able recreation for youns 1-pteand!a.socia7lyaeceptable uabit':: that,smokttrg prod.uces.c-tauo ptra;ure; and that iN Is cnjnod by popular heroes nrifemuirs: ~