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s.George V. Allen's speech before the Burley and Dark Leaf' Tobacco Export p 1 Foreign consumerc fiavR thrnvn alnriue - fha trodtet wa'have se2n ~'x iL,T©n ~',-~~ ~y O•t^~~~~~~ fn the worid'forr cigaretGes, pipe- tainlY, this year witb itt many ~ ~T1,~il.v(,!;[~ g v N smoking and sitt~ff," bealth and tobacco scare-news < J o acoo at e goes iato Conover sadd, It ia my own " ~ S~ O'j _? ~__ ~~~~~ ~,~•~ j he sald, thetr preferenee is for since1953. and .1954 - must' have '~ I gr !. fr ~fy! f~~~/ ~ u„ our, familiar bcands of ciganettes bad an influence." i. and th t th b " them• feeling' that some of this slowup frsm Jeurnsi w+r. Reporn . ~: A federal official' toid1he asso•- cawbe reflected In the iawestiga- ;Association was the subject of newspaper and wire service reports. 'WINSTON-SATEM! JOURNAL .Winston-Salemy North Carolina 1962 :;Ootober 3 , : ASiIEVILLE - Tobaccornen , ela"oa the rate of inerease m tion whieh our ovuff U.S, surgeon s ~ " Easy M wer :cigarette smoking In the United generali has ordered." •'have a ri•gbt and'dufiy to see that'~ the pubhe is not misled" ' in "In these troubled times. It States so far this year was less He added, "L believe that this statennents about smokigg and: seems; the public Often, settles for than in 1961 . andi that "many is particularly true for the people , health, the president of the To• the easy answer to a complex . health ~ and tbbaoco scare news: wtbo readl and' trhere has been so bacco Institute said' here yester-q~em," Allendecihred. "We all stories ' might' be responsible. t much pro and cvan, mostly con, day,;, 'gaow the public is being told that' ~e report was ~iiven by A~nt on the health issue, t6is is a prob- canc~er 'G' Conover, statnstr~an for the lem which cannot' be glossed ause of lun the a r g m c George V. Allen told the Burley 7~ Economie Itesearch, Service of over.•• an& Dark I.eaf, Export Associa- has been, found, despite the re+4 the U.S. Agriculture Departtnent. tion `"We must help the publi0earch work that does not stap. Conover said that so far this ,, to distinguish between wriatilort this belie.f, It, is our job ... year cigarette smoking in the `is actually estatilished as scien- to make sure that scientists have United' States had' increased only tific fact and what' flows out as,the opportunity to discover the about two per cent; He said the opinion and theory" about tobacco real causes-and that the public annual rate of increase over the and health. . not be stampeded into accepting past six years had been, from Allen, a former director of the,easy answers that mayy turn out three to sia per cent. said.to' be misleading or false." . . U., S. Information Agency, Allen told the gathering that Data Insufticient ~ =smoking's one of the various fac+ahe "element of qualitq"'is sti+ong• He said there was not now suf- tnrs that should be stud~edly in favor of U. S. tobacco in ficient data to identafy the reason ~~ •• foreign markets. He saidi U. S. for the slowup. But he said "cer- "Sinbling out' tobacco," hefarmers "grow the tinest tobacco added, "is not an accurate reflec• ' _ tion of over-all research fendings." upi-68 REFLECTION OF' OVERALL RESEARCH FINDINGS. ° 10/2--GEJ..206P ACCEPTING 'EASY' AN'SWERS' THAT MAiY' TURN OUT TO BE MISLEADING OR FALSE. "' HE SAID SINGLING OUT TOBACCO AS A CAUSE FOR LUNG CANCER "IS NOT AN ACCURATE IT IS OUR ,IOB... TO MAKE SURE THAT SCIENTISTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNIT'Y' TO' DISCIQ'VHR TRE' REAL CAUSES -- AND~ THAT THE Pf7BLIC NOT BE STANi,PEDED INTO WE AhL FQVfJW THE PUBLIC IS BEING TOLD THAT TFIE MAJOR CAUSE 07 LUNG CANCER HAS BEEN FOUND,, DESPIiTE THE RESEARCH WORK THAT' IDOES NOT' St1TPP0RT' TfdIS' BELIEF. ... ~ AS SCIENTIFIC FACT AND WHAT FLOWS OUT AS OPINION AND THEORY." ~ HE SAID THE PUBLIC OFTEN SETTLES FOR' AN "EASY ANSWER"'TO COMPLEX PRO'BLENSS'. ~ ' ~ ' NOTING TffAT STATEMENTS CONCEFtNINGSMOKING' AND HEALTH ARE BEING WIDELY • PUBLICZZED ABROAD AS WELL AS IN TFfE' UNI!d'ED STAT'ES, ALLEN SAID, "WE MUST HELP THE PUBLIC T0 DISTINGUISH' BE'PGJEEN WFtAT IS ACTUALLY ESTABLISfiED EXPORT ASSOCIATION. - Q GEORGE V.At.TLEN, W'fd0 IS A F4Fnr'!IEFt DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. INFCRMATION' AGENCY, MADE THE STATEMENT AT A CfJNVENTIONi 0F THE BURLEY AND DARK LEAF TOBACCO CONCERNING TOBACCO AND HEALTH. HERE TODAY THERE IS A NEED Ta,"HELP TRE~PLIBLIC SEPARiATEFACT FROMFICTION°' A'SHEVILLE, N.C'. -- TnE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. TOBACCO INSTITUTE' SAID : ' (TOBACCO )