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0 PR 1-68 INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM~ Subject: Regular Summary of Recent News and Editorial Comment, Prepared by Hil'1 and Knowlton, Inc. 1. North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin, in a Senate speech and news conference, charges Senator Kennedy (D.-Ni. Y.) with spreading anti-cigarette propaganda, likening it to the Prohibitionist ac- tivities of the Thirties, and calls for a health research center in North Carolina's Research Triangle, withiCongressman Galif ianakis joining in. (Page 1-5) 2. Appointment of James M. Nicholson, Indianapolis attorney, to the FIC covered nationally, his views on consumer affairs an unknown quantity. (Page 6-8) 3. Veteran Administration doubles emphysema treatment facilities; story used in literally every section of the country. (Page 9) 4. National Tuberculosis Association uses Christmas Seal compaign as vehicle for another potshot at smoking; mats withshow business, athletic personalities used in hundreds of newspapers. (Page 10-11) 5. Tobacco Tax Council's William O'Flaherty subject of interesting profile in Richmond News-Leader. (Page 12-13) 6. UPI's Patricia McCormack feature on cigar-smoking women; popular with feature and magazine sections. (Page 14) 7. Anti-cigar tax demonstrations in Pennsylvania and decision to drop from the budget covered in Pennsylvania dailies; AP and UPI Wire- photos of cigar-smoking Amish farmer with protest label published from coast to coast. (Page 15-16) 8. California Health Director Lesliie Breslow says smog cleared of lung cancer causative taint. (Page 17-19) 9. Recap of Senator Robert Kennedy's running battle with networks on cigarette advertising gets wide use, apparently from handouts to Washington media andinews services. (Page 20) 10. California Medical Association announces that 91 percent of its members were anti-cigarette; story mostly in California media. (Page 21)

11. American Tobacco President Robert B. Walker charges anti-cigarette f orces have been publishing conclusions long before release of basic data. (Page 22) 12. NBC calls Strickman's filter "not much better,if any;" Strickman says he'll sue for $100 millLion, later $500 million; wants control returned to him by Columbia University. (Page 23-26) 13. Smoking in poorly-ventilated rooms creates hazard for all present, both smokers and non-smokers, according to Carnegie Institution's Dr. Philip H. Abelson. (Page 27) William Kloepfer, Jr. Vice President, Public Relations The Tobacco Institute, Inc.