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FEB/81993 rWpRAM EYEWITNESS NEWS SrA.rfON KABC-TV flAIM 0 QZY FEBRUARY 4, 1993 5:00 PM LOS ANGELES TQBACCO INDUSTRY HAROLD GREENE, CO-ANCHOR: Zno California Department of Health services is taking the ofPansive against smoking. Today in Hollywood the California State Health Director announced that her office has revived an advertisinq campaign aimed at the tobacco industry and its billion-dollar marketing plans. DR. MOLLY JOEL COYE, STATE HEALTH DIRECTOR: Today the tobacco industry money is more deadly than a contaminated syringe with the HIV virus in it. More deadly than a mosquito carrying malaria. (CLIP FROM PUBLIC SERVICED ANNOUNCEMENT) GREENE: The California Department of Health Services is launching its own wave of ailtl-tobacrQ...,.public service announcements. They were produced using monies gencrated from that tobacco increac• we all voted on, (SIC) or I should say the majority voted on...or I should say, two-thirds voted on. ANN MARTIN, CO-ANCHOR: Anyway, it was voted in. GREENE: It was voted in. HARTIN: Right. # # # N N CA CD r w ~ N O