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This Associated Press stor;;r taas carr3er3i in many nevspapers.) :7s -rred Tv Filter Fact _. v . . _ i~tion On Dan~er~ Of I''obacc ASHEUIZLLE CITIZEN '--Ashevi'lle,Nortla Carolina ;Qctober 32 1962 • t3tises Btat' Writer to make sure that aeienRists have; with demand, delegates were told ed: (1) 'Increasin8 tobacco cor.- . 8,9 LE"W78 W. GREEIK port this belief. It' is our 3oti ... for Yeeping supplies in balance Aa .encouraging.factors, ite lis_t- tobacco industry.-long be• ~°p°~' :eo discover the earlier in a morning session. sumption (2) ' U. S. produces best. irea1 causes-and that the public ~~ G, jr,,.4s, deputy' ad- leaf in!world (3) Increasing world ~Seered by die me al statements ;~ and, public opinion and Fiaunded by ;~ be stampeded into accepting' mtnistrator ln price and pro- prosperity' (4) aooperative mar- canoer . fear, , had easy answers that may'turn out duction, Agricultural St®bIliza- keting development to popularize ~'e~'to be misleading or false." tion and Conservation Service, American leaf,(5) constant Ui S. Tluesday ntging the publlc to keep : open mind on 1 the amoking: Aqien noted that smoking is one c!W the responsibility and will- supply to fill foreign orders. aa ' . / bealth relationship at the Burley d of ' various factors that should be and Dark L~eaf Tobacco Associa- studied further. He added that : tion eonveation in Battery Park .'.'siugling out tobacco is, not an 8otel. accuiate reflection of overall re+' GeorBe V: Allen, president of sbarch findings."' tbe ~iobacco Institute," Inc. and aIn the' .subseyuent' interview, former AsbeviDe Times reporter, Allen - a one-time teacher at told the gathertng. "We rnust help 'Graee School and principal of the public to distinguish • actuaI Weaverville and' Sand Hill Schools irientifict fact' and what' fdbws out before entering government' serv- as, opinion, and! tbeory-" .., ioe-~said the tobacco industry ' Noting that tobacco . has' beea has poured' $6:?S million into un- onder atfack by health authorities `'estricted research, and at the .sinfce the New World was dis- present' time has grants totaling covered, Allen said in an inter- over ;1 million a year for irn- view ,er his luncheon talk that' dividual specific projects direcE- the aiedical profession is slow to ly concerned l with . tobacco and cbangie _op?nions afterr they have h' reiterated and reempha- allel advanced. He drew, a par- sized his statements abont the allel between the, present' cancer controversy and ~~.s concerni with the pro'~ erroneous opm- ion iem, and' said th~st' medical ad- ad- ~ advanced duringme.early vanees ' have not revealed any days of tuberculosis research. In liia addness. Allen said pea definite proof of cancer-tobacco pk should reserve relationship: the matter. .~ ~~t a~ "Doctors are slow to accept ."Tbe tobacco industry is' not changes in theory because off trying to cram cigarettes doaPn: fixed attitudes, and reputations teenagers, thmats, and' has no at stake ooulid be~lowered by new quarrell with people who don't concise findiags,_ he said.• smoke: To present the tobacco Shifting to enother phase of industty as selfish and grasping concern, Allen said the asdustry ..lWanting.bo sell the Iast pound fought bard' to get the recent regardless of' its impact,, is a~ternational Trade - Expansion false picture and distorted in;± Act passed' by Congress. 3ge," Allen, said. - • •He cited as a major reason for "If we in the tobacco Industry this interest the fact that 30 per keep a 1 steady nerve we can : cent of the dark leaf crop and 4p tight through and' lick tfiia latest per cent of' flue cured' tobacco Is crisis. We in1 the industry, are ea"ed, to foreign nations. more Interested in finding the e present time, he sai8, answer to cancer than any other the European! Common Market group. We are American cit.izens r° carrymg on restnetive prac- and first of'all we are human be- tues against American tobaccos. ings. Cancer ~a- a greet,I unsolved' In tariff rate reduction, our na- *ster'y' ..• . and ovr livelihood tion will' have an opporlunity to Is concerned." increase exports, and the trade bill is the only way reductions t Allen reveakd a vast atnoun of research and medical talent' :nvolvediin cancer research, and .predicted the cause ot° lung can+ cei• would' be found 114 five years. "In these troubled tiimes, it seems, the public often settles. .:or the 'easy answer'' too a coni- plex problem,", Allen stated. "We all know the public Is being told that the major cause of lung, can- •cei` has been found, despite the mesea!'ch,work that does not sup- ingness of, burley' tobacco grow- ~•Witb; the trade and Gowver~ ers in voluntari]y reducing their.. ment bebind the effort, I believe acreage in 1955 as the prime we will continue to hold our own '' force in the success of the pro- Ip, a growing' world market, gram. E*ldsen coneludedl Lewis pointed out that the re- daction of acreage was the result'' of a free vote, with over' 95 ~ per cent of the burley farmers par- ticipating. And be. r,zmarL-ed that atiis attitude unfortunately was not shown by farmers In.•other commodities. The final morning session ~ of the three-day meet also 9ncluded a panel discussion, with, Albert' G. ,Clay,-president of the Burley _Auc- `tdon Warehouse Association, Mt' Sterling, Ky:, as moderator. One panelist, Art' G. Conover, statistician with, the Economic R:esearch! Service, USDA, pointed outithat the increase in cigarette consumption has slowed' down considerably. Noting tbat the ex- pected rate of lnerease in con- sumption is related' to the popu+ latlon increase, Conover stated that the slow-up was largely due to the health seare news stories and releases from other public servioe media. , r Noting a study being made by 12 experts unier 'the direction of ' U. S:. Surgeon General with the ~resuits to 1 be reported in stages, Conover said that most people have adopted a, wait andl see at- titude: At the convention's closing ad- dress at a banquet Tuesday nignt, Clarence R. Eskildsen, associate administrator of the Rore'ignAgri- 'cultural, Service. USDA. said that the Common Market aTss a mix- ture of promise and problems and may ba negotiated. that when kinks are ironed out "At the present time we have !be tobacco industry would find a a#90 million tobacco export busi- great future In trading there. ness, and the Europeans are not ge, said about' 45, per cent of •going to i reduce the tariff on this' total burley, exports: go to aiic . •unless we agree to reduce aome opmmon Market nations. Tobacco progress is a model in R°' listed! as the greatest probo and inits mechanics lems facing the iadustry: (1) philbs°pli)' aiiifts ifl, tobacco t,aste (2) eom* h3~3?~gZ. pet'ition of other producing areas (3) tradb barriers. TTMS' NEWS Burlir.gton, N. C. October 3, 1962 :I)uty Cited ~ For Tahacco -. Iudu,Q,tr` ? ASHEVILLE (1)- Gc~nrge~ V. Allen, preside~nt o the TobacQ~n stitute say,s i k the dut~lhc to'ta industny not to mialead thr public on the question of smoking and health. • - . Speaking to the Burley an& Dark Leaf Tobacco Export As- sociation here Tnesday. Allen said, ,"Wtl must help the public to dis- tinguish between what is actually. .estabiished as scientific fact and, what flows out as opinion and theory. "We all know the public ia being told that the major cause of lung cancer has been found, despite the vvsearch work that does not eup• port this belief: It is our iob. .to make aure that' sclentists have the opportupity to discover the i'eal