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p. D1 vs)4 TJal 7-7u4t. 07s, 1910 Charities' aIItl-tObdCCO lobbying is critiazed Byran USA'PODAY Three major health charities are under th+e by a private group ciwgft they spmd ooo Yttle moner on research and too much time an polltlo, msiabr aotEmb.m lo~yinS Targeted: the American Heact Asociation, Arnericsn Gnng heodation and Maeei. am Caocer Society. The saedy out ooday Irom Capital Research Center. Washington. D.C., concludes the charities cuuecdvely spent lm than 25% of their 1988 bt dge~ on rexarch, and that the ALA spent less than 3% over the pau 10 ye.es Hut the three groups camta that to study is misieading Fl- o.ndN reporo aho. Io ASAr epent 33.2% on re- searcb ia 1998. • AL5 spent 27%. P- ALA. which wao not craH ed to itmd research and has only c+ecentty tegm otterlag gtao% spent 18.8% oC its 1989 bnd@et on research. Macgery HdtbrinC. Natloaal (3.ritlea Inforznetion Butesu. aays the g~oups mea all spend- ing atafdaecb for cbaritles In 198s, the March of Dimes spent 12% on reseerci; Muxn- lar Dystrophy Association, 20%; NadooN Multiple Sclero- sn Sodety.1T% "OI all the volunteer agen. dest theyve sfngted aut three with one aetWlty in common - an andtob.coo lobby,* says ALA's Jame3 Swomley. The ~ Coalition on Smoldng or Health was instrusaental ia banning smoldng on airlines. Capital Research's Willa Johmon would not di9dox whether the robacco industry helped fund the stndy: "Even if t.~he.y~~ ~~~Yw. were invoived. the scudy wSin0 on its own me1L" Report autl:or James T. 8en- oett, political economist at George Mason Univereity, Fairtax. Va., says charities should atay out of politics or "they ahauldn't do it with ow subeidlxed coonibudom."