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RADIO iV REPORTS NATI®NAL MARKET C®wERMGE TRANSCRIPT FOR PHI'L1P' MORRIS STATIO'N WABC-TV PROGRAM GOOD MORNING AMERICA My NEW ' YORK DATE 07/22/93 07:OOAM AUDIENCE Su87ECT SECOND HAND SMOKE BROADCAST EXCERPT N.w Yoekt 212-309J400 Chkoqw 312541.2020. O.MOU1373J44;! 177 Los Ainpsst 2113,4d6-6124' Washin9tbn, O.Ca 3p1,65ib•4068 i &+ostewt 617-5315•2232' PhAod.Iohiet 215'.567•76!D0 i Son Franrcisca 203+41616-612J MNanmb i305iJ5R335'b CHARLES GIBSON (ANCHOR) : Good' morning, America. I'm Charles Gibson. Sitting along with some'one who has earned her stripes. JOAN LUI+dDEU (ANICHOR) : I dressed up bec'ause you're back. Hi, I'm Joan Lunden. It is Thursday, July 22'. And we! actually have some goodinews'. There is water again in Des Moines, not drinking water. That's probably weeks away but running water in the city mains to fire hydrants' and downtown buildings to feed the fire sprinkler systems. Individual neighborhoods are expecting to~come on line later today. MORTON DEAN (REPORTER): The federal government is setting of f a secondhand smoke alarm and we get more' on that from ABC's Bettina Gregory in Washington. BETTINA GREGpRY' (REPOR'TER): The Environmental Protection Agency urged parents not to, smoke in their homes and said childrenn and nonsmokers should be protected from smoke in public places andd on the job. CAROL BROWNER (EPA ADMINISTRATOR) : In summary, Mr. Chairman,, E. P. A. believes that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke provides sufficient risk to recommend preventing involuntary exposure in all indoor environments. N' GREGORY: But the attacks on the E.P.A.'s' report on C environmental tobacco smoke, or E.T'.S., Continue. ~ REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS BILLEY (R.VIRGINIA) :. In its 0 considieration of E.T.S. the agency has deliberately abused and'I-& manipulated~ the scientific' data in, order to, reach a: predetermined! ~; politically motivated!result. Q1 L1 W'h0s ~Rodib T1W Rspons «,d+wws b ea.arths oocwacy o( swtrid supqfisd br i,,M'oarwl lbe ntpon.ibl. tor mistabs a oiniusion.. AAol.rid suppli.d by Rodio iV hpwls ewy be vs.d fow 66 and fsi.rab purlwts a*. ll'eroy nd'be r.poduo.d. wld or pu61'idy dseromMaAed «.ahAid.d.

REPRESENTATIVE HENRY WAXMAN (A CALIFORNIA) : There is a clear Yonsensuis among! those with no financial interest at stake that environmental tobacco smoke causes a broad array of serious adverse health effects. GREGORY: The E.P.A. estimates up to one million children suffer asthmatic attacks because of E.T.S'. MICHELLE WOODWARD (AGE 9):• Some problems that I start having when I am around smoke is I get dizzy, I start to sneeze, I can't breathe very well, and sometimes, I get headaches. GREGORY: So the federal government is moving ahead' with initiatives to ban smoking in public places, despite the lawsuit from the tobacco industry which attacks the E.P.A.'S conclusion that secondhandi, or environmental tobacco smoke causes cancer. Bettina Gregory, ABC News, Washington.