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9tADlO Nrw Yofka 212'30!D..IAOp Chicaqet 312 541 ?020' TiIREPORTS DrtroFft J 13 :344-1 A 77 Lot /Any.lat:213 466-6174 VYanhinyton, O:C.:'301-656-106! Boston: 617'536 2232 NATS®WAIhIMWK= Philad.Iphio:'215'-Sb'7,7600! San Francittco:'213!4b'6b124 TRANSCRIPT Mia rai:', 305 J5;8-335'B FOR PHIL:IP 11C1RAt-IS STATION WABC- TV & TH'E PROGRAM' THI''S WEEK'WITH'DAVID, BRINK~ ABC TV NETWORK NEW'YORK DATE 01/'10/93'. 12: 15 P. M';. AUDIENCE SlDB1ECT EPa St,rnrsnuAntD SMGKE REPORT BROADCAST EXCERPT DAVID BRINKLEY: In the meantime, George, you were exercised', I believe, about, a discovery by the U.S. government.. An announcement this week or last that secondhand, smoke, smoke as other people smoke and blow it out and you breathe it in, it causes cancer and it's dangerous and it kills youi. GEORGE W'ILL,: What t hey did is they upgraded it. You say I' m exercised. I'm exercised with enthusilasrn for the findings. What it means is by upgrading the status of this to what I think the term is a Class A carcinogen,, secondhand smoke,, they really put an enormous li igiatio,n dangler before, say,, employersi who' allow smoking in the workplace because then, someone who comes up, with lung cancer can claim that adequate preeautions were not taken. David, I can't think of any -- maybe you all can -- change inn common every'day etiquette in American life, comparabl'e to' the changee in the last 25 years in' the status of smoking,. This week, the: Baltimore Orioles became the fifth m j!or 7`eag-ue baseball team' tosay in an open air stadium you cannot smoke in your seat.. SAM DONALDSON: But George, there''s more'work to be done in this church. Smokers must be driven to a cave someplace 6000 -- Carlsbad Caverns. That's the only place we should allow them to smoke. COKIE R.OBERTS,: Then the bats, wi11 become endangered. Are you kidding? D+oNA.LDSpN:' The old line' was if' smokersi wanted to kill themselves, let them kill themselves, but they're killing everyone around them.. They're killing their children. If,you're smoking, folks out there, and you've got young children, why are youldoing this to them? Why don' t you like them? Stnokers mustbe driveni out: becausethey simply are killing themselves and everybody else and VVliib Rodw fly Repons edewon b,avsae dre oocwocroi''mmerwl supphed by dj i1'connolibe rasponsible ,fbr mialokes or cmnsionL AAobr.ol wppLed by Roda TV'Repons moy be used 61.6 ond re(e.e.+ce prwposed onFy: Y imoy rwl lbe reprodLced, sold or publialy denwnsetoled or eahibibd'

they're adding to the costs~ of this, government. Talk about the dleficilt. The single thing that would reduce health care costs the most would1be to ban people who!smoke.. WILL,: Do you know what would happen if everybody quit smoking today, by the way? DONALDSON: They' d start drinking? Is that your view? WILL: The. Social Security system would be in dire shape suddenly because the actuarial tables of the Social Security system count on a certain large number of Americans dying prematurely from lung, cancer and not collecting their benefits. DONALDSON: Well, we' 1 l f iguire out some other way to save the Social Security system. ROBERTS: And a lot of tobacco farmers and cigarette companies would go out of business. DONALDSON': They__phoulid go out of business, Cokie. BRINKLEY: Well!, they're making a, ton of money selling tobacco abroad. W'ILL : Exact ly . BRINKLEY: Do you know what the: world''s largest selling consumer product of'any description is? DbNALDSpN:! I think you' ve telegraphed it. What is it? BRINKLEY: Marlboro cigarettes. WILL: Is that right? BRINKLEY: Marlboro is the largest selling, consumer product in the world. ROBERTS: I'm curious about this litigation because what happens now?' Now we,know secondhand smoke causes cancer. At what point are you then able to: sue?' Can your employer say, "Well, I didn' t know it at the time. The government only came out with, this report in 1993?" DOWAL,DSOU: The: tobacco companies have engaged in a conspiracy for about 45 years to try to obstruct the truth on smoking and health,. ~. ROBERTS: But everybody knew smoking,was bad. You'd have to be living in a cave not to know that smoking,was bad for you. ~ ~ Q ~ W

DONALDSONi: The compani~es, in, response to this report, David,, held a press conference saying, "Well, there hasn't been any finall conclusive proof. This just comes from people who don't Like cigarettes." ROBERTS: But look, that's just an excuse: to not take. responsibility for your own actions. DONALD'SON': How do they live with themselves? How do these tobacco executives go home andIlive with themselives? BRINKLEY: You'll have to ask them.