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But it is hard to believe have been amalli compared to panies has been charged by the that tobacco in a few centui•ies to those for other crops be- Federal Trade Commission has, come to world-wide ~ac-" a ,cause"production has been with false advertising as to the cepQance if it has not given controlledmorerigidly. •. ••superior.efficacy of its filter inn man a lot of pleasure in that" Tobacco manufacturers and i t to b f t i d le s no protecting smokers rom ar t me An p asure e . cigaret i for an 11 -a y- i~e f f e c t they tos. n, r. ,r tmaa nmn-r_ fh- and nicotine. The company in- scorned in a world full of vexa- - maynave on would growers, who~ will re- siststhats its advertising is tions and tensions. indeed, , , , , . y~ Surgeon Gen- 000 for their tohbaco this verkising probably does more while not dismissing the poasi- •health .i.~.:.A ;'ttive an estimatedS1 1i)D 00t1 True or false such ad- those who sell the cigarettes - ti•ue ycar., S ?: ~ V zt ya . ' last .,-- ' a:rBurney -. ;,:,;-;.MAIITfN week warned, ~ Officials estimated that that the w•eigh'tt of evidence more than 40.000waRe eern- ~ linplicates smoking as the ers woutd! . hee thrown out of 4c(,•;main cause off aa rising rate work In the tndustry. T h e f r s..otf lung cancer, b'ut he has no wages w e r e estimated at powerto ban~.smokittg even if more than, S189.000i,000a ; he favored such a move. lp, yesr. Thousands of, retaill to- '., dustry spokesmen attacked bacco stores would be affect- Burneyswarning as a warm- ad. Heavylossesw•outd beed over rehash of, oldsta• sustained alsoIm useless cig<,n~ , . Vtics. . -.••.. i••. ' aret cending machines. . . Butt if the government did A.ban on ciqaretswould af- ban cigarets, the aetron'would fect' an estimated 58 million Lavee se•,'eralh'efty conse- smokers in this country:Of- ~- r ;. quenees. For onee thingg iti ficials estimate that an addi+ would.paralyze a seven billion tional 12 million persons __doWarindustry:. For another, smoke cigars and eight mil- 'it wouldtake a painful bite lion more.smoke pipesnr.roll- ^ ..from federal, state and local ., 1~1 tax revenues. your-ow•n cigarets. 0!o. ; .. . . . Officials emph'asired, how- ~-` . Wfiile taking no sides o,n the eser,, that theree iss no legal , aancer controversy, farm of- authority for banning cigarets 1\ " Sctals said Wednesday a or taking them of6-the mar- ~ ~drastto ban o6 cigarets would ket.. Tobaccois nott covered adcersetyaffect three-quar- by the Food•. Drug and. Cos- A,~ :~ . ters of A mitlinnn farm families metic Act which ~ provided aw '.and thousanas.me.e w'orkera ,.now marketing;. prncessingthority for recent action by dd selling tobacco products. the Food and Drug Commis- aa ~I_- ~The Agriculture Depart' sion against tainted cranber- ~ ''.ment said taxes collected on ries" b b ( de The commission has seized a t d l 'than all the lung cancer drum- bility of danger from excess beaters in convincing the pub- smoking, ought to be engaged ;; raise of a praduct er in in the lic th t there is a dan ~ g p a cigarettes from which it needs which has brought pleasure to ,; protection. simple people, has been en- The tobacco companies have joyed by many of the greatest done all they can to offset what thinkers since its introduction, they believe is a fallacious and is now a source of reiaza-'r propaganda that smoking may tion and enjoyment by millions bring on dread disease. In of far from foolish people, in. '.~ their thesis that a connection cluding probably a majority of ,' between smoking and lung can- doctors. _ cer has not been proven, they Perhaps this would have been have recently had some sup- a safer world if tobacco had port from The Journal of the never been discovered. That American Medical Association. applies to alcohol, probably to Yet day after day the millions pork:. Recently a woman doctor spent on advertising by many in England' added carbohy- cigarettes is put to the service drates and sex to the list of of proving that there is a dan- things to be avoided in any de- ~ ger but that the filter of such- sire for longevity. Certainly the and-such a cigarette reduces it automobile (regardless of the most. ' effects of its fumes on human Hardly any company's adver- lungs) has cut short the hopess tising has taken a positive po- of long life of many in our sition imthis matter..And there times.. is a positive position. It could„ We should not disregard the + indeed, be well argued that„ dangers of any of' them, includ- I since Sir Walter Raleigh intro. . ing tobacco. But there should duced tobacco to the world, no be a few kind words about the new discovery has given so pleasure in the poet's pipe, the uc s ye ra ; o acco pro , clgarets att times where they ` ~state and local ^overnmentswere represented to aid in re:- -l will total 52,70Qi000•0000 t h i s ducingweight or too have some year. Nearly two bidlrnndol- medical effect:. But suchac- lars of this goes to the fed- tion was based on.grounds thee eral governmentalone. ., cigarets were sold as drugs THE l.lIA11I HERUL and were mislabeled. Mia:ni, Florida December 3, 1959 much pleasure to man with less physicisYs cigarette, the poor proven harm. Of course, there man's smoke which tobacco has are dangers in too much smok- brought. And certainly the to- ing, The doctors are inc•reasing- bacco companies should' be the ly insistent on the dangers of first to praise that long and uni- too much eating. But, though versal enjoyment' and the last nobodyy ever beathist wife or to try to~persuade the public of drove his car in a lethal man, the essentially dangerous qual- ner because he had smoked too ities of t'obacco by stressing much, more attention seems safety belts they provide along sometimes to be directed at the w•ith the boat' ride. In advrrtis- dangers of smoking than at the ing, the sea and' the scenery, hiE{IS' Pc G35JR'J7R dangers of drinking: the pleasure and the relaxa- Raleigh, 1'lbrt'h Carolina Man is often foolish. He does tion should get mare emphasis De.cemoer 16, 1959: 1 many things thatt he ought not: than the possible storm.