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PHILIP MORRIS MANAGEMENT CORP. ` ~ CORPORATE AFFAIRS DEPARTME Fr ida , June 8, 1990 Contact: S. SARRO, Ext. 3454 THE POST-STANDARD INDEX a,riday, June e, 1990 SMORING/TOBACCO/HEALTH Pgs. 1-9. ~~NS1 THE BOSTON GLOBE: CRANE LINKED TO TOBACCO • ~ d R ll FIRMS. Pg.4. .~a man ea y LOS ANGELES TIMES: WORLD VIEW/THE NEW THIRD WORLD FIGHT IS OVER ~'~ I(`"1 ~ (~' ~'~'~'t I a TOBACCO. Pg.5. s y ,~„ (,~, ~~ TAXES PcJs. 10-13. Column Was Exampie THE FLINT JOURNAL: Of LaZiness in d C ISSUES & ANSWERS/MOST an oz ess RES PONDENTS VEHEMENTLY GUY L. SMITH By OPPOSE CIGARETTE TAX '~ Qs EUea Goodman, columnist, Boston Globe. M HIKE. Pg. 10. t Dear Patsy~: 1 Many thanka for your column, written as t FOOD AND BEVERAGE letter to me, replying to a speech I delivered at the pgs. 14-21. Media Institute in Wa9hington. That was the speech in which I charged that some of the presa practice *THE WALL STREET -JOURNAL• "doubie-ttandard journalism," skepticism not just ~ toward the tobacco induatry but towud bu'ineat in KRAFT • S ITALIAN UNIT TO ~neral, and unquestioning acceptance of buai.~sefs' crit- TAKE MAJOR STAKE IN tq. HO LDING COMPANY. Pg.14 . I loved reading your column. It was a perfect exsnSple of what I waa talking about. *THE NEW YORK TIMES • You asked why I didn't talk to the Med9a Institute CONAGRA IN DEAL FORR about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Well, you BEATRICE. Pg.14 . (Cont'df DOW JONES WIRE: RJR HOLDINGS WARRANTS TO BEGIN TRADING ON NYSE THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990 TODAY. Pg.18. FINANCIAL TIMES : New York Stock Exchange Issues SAUNDERS DENIES ANY cowsaiwrEOrRxaewMUasa.r..wNE7.1uoo ~ KNOWLEDGE OF GUINESS SHARE SUPPORT. Pg. 21. :. . ~ ~ n-,N„r ,.,, " 5" X1Mrtw Sta[ ar % RkN 1Ms N!M Cw UM G[ A - ' ' SPONSORSHIPS/PROMOTIONS R U41 E 1+K +-wW :mo 0 13 n + v, $014 nn a„e ca 7 75102 010 7s 74u 7s + a PcJs 22-29 . . ~, ,2k a~,~we iaa 71 13 7 14 un u% - w 731a ~~ >>s.ti Kun s.-rt~ xsR r~~- r `--R . 4 m ss'.. w. vnNGi i.m. sa 71154 wr u uw ~ wa nu Pwa.t t.oo 33 30 2so 244 Xw aw + s; (A ~

z -2- tcont"4 weren't there, and I gather you didn't bother to call anyone who was. The issue did come up in the quea- tion and answer seession following the ttddress, I said that tlxre is a statistical association between smok- ims and certain disetses - which meana that amok- ' a rWc factor for those diseases. " The fact that you didn't bother to make a simple . pMone calt to check out a simple fact illustrates just poiat I was aukin about double-standard jour- Z, m. It is a product "1a:Mess and eaxiness.'• You appa rently did bother to read the prepared text of tbe address, so you msy remember that I was speaking about more than tobacco - although tobteco was all you talked about in your colunw. .Jor itutuxe, I smentioned the charge that, by the time a child growsup,he'or she-sees 100.000 beer .4omsnercitis on teitvisiott. Without a second thought, t1ap~e~ has bought this "statistic" from beer industry critics. It is trow Exhibit A in the drive to get beer commercials off the air. So let's give it a second thought. From 2 to 16 years old is 5,840 days. To see 100,000 beer com- mercials in that time, a child would have to see 17 a day. That would take between five and 14 hours of daily viewing, depending on how.determined the child was to fand beer commercials. Preposterous? You bet. But that's just the kind of "scientific finding" that the press chug-s-tugs down time and again. Remember the decade-long study of 13,000 men at risk of heart disease that my speech mentioned.' With the help of researchers, hatf the men cut the cholesterol in their diet, quit smoking, and in some cases took drugs to lower blood pressure. The other half were left to their own devices: -T'tsse result: Yes. heart attacks went down in the group that got special treatment, but other fornts of heart di+east went up and overall death rates were not 2foticubiy differ• ent. T1te sponsoring goveraatent agency had sunk mi1- lions into the study. No wonder its director went around trumpeting that this monumental effort hod shown "what we have been sayin~ a~lt along sbout cIgarettes, cholesterol and health." The trouble was, other scientists, including the director of the tacEu:o- JUN 8 Wt- fogical assessment group at the Harvard School ot Public Health, said it showed no such thing. Is it coming back to you, Ellen, what I raaant when I talked about scieace-by-press-reiesse corrupting the mediat Just recently, The New York Timea ran exactly the kind d etary 1 am catartted about. The haadline was "Evidence Mounts on Fassive Smalting," and the story mentioned a forthcoming Envisa=eatal Protec- tion Agency asaeasmettt ofpw ivg smokina stttdies. I mentioned in the apeach tlat i!S of the 23 studies on which the EPA bases its preliminary conclusions found no statisticaIIy significant relationship of pas- sive stnddng to anything. The other five tre..re con- ducted tn countries where Iifestyles are very dilter- •nt from the United States sttid dida't sdeqwtely take into ecxount lifestyle or inao= 3evel or any other posai- bie factora. No less a journalist than the New Repubi:c's Fred Barnes said, on the M¢Laughlin Group, "This new thing from EPA ts not science, i< is ideology.'• But reading the Times article, you would never have guessed that there were say doubts K all. Of course, the reporter refused to intervie+r people from our tobacco divisiott, even though they offered to ca_et with hiat. He did, however, quote heavily from 6taaton A. Glants, Ph.D. From the article, how could a reader have known that Glants is the longtime head of one of the nstton's moat rabid anti-smokfng groups? I think it is being too charitable to assume that the Times reporter waa unconscious of this. $l1en, maybe you missed it, but I said In the speech that "I am not su~~estinY that the media becorne patsies of businesa. I atn just asking that industry's critics get the same treatment industry gets. And I mean &.11 industry - not just tobacco. Fir.e if you quote someone like Glanta, but let the readers know that hif is not an unbiased voice. Give those who are crit~cized a chance to reply. Hold everyone you cover to the same standard of skepticism and integrity. Don't become anyone's p1tsy - not ours, not theirs. So next time, Ellen, before you open fire, make that extra phone call. As I said, no more Iaainess. no more cotiress, no more patsies. Your Friend; Guy Smith fi vice president for corporate affairs for Philip Morris Companies Inc. in New York Cir.v. (ELLEN GOODMAN COLUMN, SEE PAGh` 3.), fr ',

-3- ,lUN _ 8i w(T THE RECORD WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990 Cigarette lobby blows smoke: To: Gv Smith IV, vice nresi- dent o co aira Phili orate aff ms om an:e Inc. Dear uy: So sorry I miased your speech at the Media Institute in Washington last week. I loved reading it, any- way. I especially liked the part when you called reporters the "patsies" of "quack moralists" with "bogus science. " Who better to give it to the press than a fella from Philip Morris, corporate sponsor of The Bill of Rights it- self. ' From what I read, your main complaint is that we here in the Fourth'Estate are more skeptical of industry than of advocacy groups. You take us to task for be- lieving naively in the people you call "the anti-tobacco industry's top executives." Well, talk about naive. Until now, I didn't even know there was an anti-tobacco "industry." I thought these people were public- health advocates. What do they manufacture? "No Smoking" signs? Do their "top executives" rival Hamish Maxwell, your chair- man of the board, who, made $6.4 million last year? I understand that these ace tough times for someone defend- ing tobacco, Guy. You have sena- tors decrying the export of the lit- tle coffin nails to Asia. You have colleges dumping tobacco stocks as if they were South African gold. You have HHS's Louis Sullivan attacking vending machines that sell to kids. . The only good news is that an Illinois man was fined for throw- ing coffee on a cigar smoker. Now there was a moralist! Anyway, I appreciate the warn- ing about being too cozy with health researchers (I mean "quack moralists") and the need to stay Ellen Goodman is a columnist for The Boston Globe. ' skeptical. You never know what these health nuts are pushing. A clean lung could be a dangerous thing. But frankly, Guy, until your speech, I thought the media were the patsies of the tobacco indus- try, not to mention its $3 billion advertising budget. What could have given me that idea? Just be- cause the April issue of Mirabella with a hard-hitting piece against tobacco was mysteriously empty of cigarette ads? What's amazed me even more about the media is how the tobac- co industry has secured a perma- nent post as the other side of the argument. You know the drill: Over here, we have the entire weight of the medical world. Over there, we have the Tobacco Insti- tute. Shazam, a balanced issue. But what do I know? I never even realized the tobacco industry was such a passionate defender of science. The part where you attack the upcoming Environmental Pro- tection Agency study on passive smoking was a real hummer. You seem righteously worried that the scientific arguments over passive- smoking research might be tainted by politics. Well, hush my Jesse Helms. EPA, one of those "special in- terest ... bureaucracies pushing a party line," is expected to attribute some 3,000 cancer deaths ayear to passive smoking. In fact, Guy; the riska from tobacco pollution- may be worse than the EPA studysug- gests and, in any case, greater than those of all the carcinogenic out- door air pollutants on the EPA's list. Say, if the Philip Morris =job goes sour, want to defend asbes- tos? Polyvinyl chlorides? Do I sound too harsh? Hey, I agree that the press needs tp be . skeptical. Have we ever been.had by an advocacy group? Yep. But getting a lecture on credibility from the champ of disinformation is a bit much. Guy, old buddy, in your lecture on science, skepti- cism, and quack morals, how come you didn't talk to my peers about cigarette smoking? - Ever since you fellas stopped featuring doctors in ads, the pos- ' ture of the pushers has been that there is a controversy over ciga- rette smoking. The best-docu- mented health risk is put in the same category as eating sugar or drinking caffeine. Your pals keep telling us that nobody has proved cigarettes cause cancer. Four decades•and tens of thousands of studies on this subject have produced no hard science. So light up, they say. ' Well, in the spirit of a purely scientific debate, will you field a couple of questions from "skepti- cal, careful journalists"? What evi- dence would the tobacco compan- ies accept as proof of the dangers of smoking? What scientific study would make your boss believe•that cigarettes are harmful to health? And what would you all do if that study proved cigarettes were harmful? "What I am saying," you ad- monished us, "is that in covering science and industry, no more lazi- ness, no more coziness, and: no more patsies." That's what' •I'm ~ saying, too, Guy. O L ove, ~ Patsy. ~ fpt (THE ABOVE ELLEN GOODMAN COLUMN., WHICH WAS ROUTED N IN THE FYI, 5/30, HAS'APPEARED IN SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS ~ NATIONWIDE.) ~ ~

19QR • ' -4- JUM , 8 " Metro THE BOSTON GLOBE • THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1990 Crane IThked to tobacco S By Frank Phillips GLOBE STAFF State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane,: whose reluctance to endorse Gov. Dukalfls' • plan to divest the state of holdings in to- • bacco companies may block its enactment, sits on the board of a food brokerage firm - that does millions of dollars in business • with cigarette conglomerates. Crane, whose office oversees a $5 bi1- " lion pension fund portfolio, has a long : standing relationship with Merkert Enter- prises, the nation's largest food brokerage : business, which is based in Canton. - Among Merkert's clients are RJR, Na- : bisco Inc. and Phili Morris Co., two 'con- . glomerates that own cigarette Krms and food conmpanies. Crane, who is expected to become ; board chairman of Merkert whea.he- leaves office, said he sees no conflict be-~- tween his job as.state treasurer and _liis:: role as a board member of the food .bro-' kerage firm. He also said he did not fear any retribution from the •cigarette firms for any antitobacco policy his office adopt~ ed. "I have always been able to distinguish my duties as treasurer from any outside interest I might have," Crane said in an : interview. "I am well aware of what is a conflict and the appearance of a conflict and avoided them throughout my career:' : flict because the agarette industry Crane, who is not seeking reelection - has a history of using its economic after 26 years in office, said that if he de- : leverage to battle antismoldng poli- termined there was a conflict of interest : CM& between his private and public roles, he- . 'MeY make it clear in andless would step aside and allow his investment • ways that they help their friends and . committee to make the decision concern- punish their enemies," said Daynard, ; ing divestment from the pension fund he an advisory board member to the ' con- trols. The three-member committee of which he is chairman also includes the state's banking commissioner, Andrew Calamare, who is appointed by Dukalds, and a member of the Boston investment community, Phil- ip Winn. Crane- said the committee will meet on June 27 and consider the is- sue of divesting the fund of holdings in tobacco companies. As of AprI130, the state employees pension fund that Crane oversees held $26.9 mil- lion in tobacco stocks, including $19 million in Php I Morris Co. Crane said tobacco stocks have been among the best investments. "Our total annualized return is 34 percent over the past six years," Crane said. Dukakis' recent decision to devel- op a policy that would lead to divest- ment of the state's tobacco holdings received a cool reaction from Crane, who said he does not favor using public investments to advance social causes. He said such a policy would be financially imprudent because of the profits gained from tobacco stocks. Richard Daynard, a Northeast- era University law professor and a leader in the national movement to get ipstitutional investors to drop to- bacco stocks, said Crane faces a con- Tobacxo Divestment Project, a Bos- ton-based national organization. ° Crane strongly doubted he would face any retaliation and said if he did, it would have no effect on his public,position. "I wouldn't even gfve it a thought," the treasurer said. The tobacco industry has taken punitive actions in the past to com bat antismoking campaigns. In April 1988, RJR Nabisco Inc. broke an 18- year relationship with the advertis- ing firm of Saatchi & Saatchi DFS ' Compton, cancelling its $70 million plus account with the firm because it had produced an antismoking com-. -meraal for Northwest Airlines. A source in the food brokerage business said Merkert is immune I from any threats of retaliation, even • from such huge companies as RJR Nabisco or Philin Morris Co„ be- cause of its size and influence. "They are the only food broker who could handle those accounts," the source said. Those companies have no oth- er place to go." Dukakis aides are researching how the administration can imple- ment a tobacco divestment policy without seeking legislative approval.

-s- gosAnge* Stine,$ World'View JUN 8 1990 TUESDAY, JUNE S, 1990 :- The New Third World Fight Is Over T6bacco ^ Western companies eye growing market abroad to replace shrinking demand in the United States. They face opposition from local growers, health advocates in new `Opium War.' By DAVID HOLLEY TiMLt STAR wRITLR B IIJIIQG-Acrca F•sat Asia and thtough much of the developing world, a battle is raging that eomeare caliing.a new Opium War. Britain's victory in that 19th-Century conIlict enabled Its traders to continue eoahanging Indian opium for Chinese tea and silk, making huge profits while devastating China. Today's fight is over tobacco. Western 9rms, faced with declining demand at home, are seeking to expand overseas. But they face fierce resistance from local tobacco industries, nationalist advocates of a p~~~ve farm policies and outraged anti-smoking Lines are drawn for growing political conflict within and between nations. In the United States and Europe, those opposing the trade on health and ethical grounds are sharpening their attacks on tobacco defenders. Internationaliy, some tobacco disputes are escalating and more are waiting to erupt. The new Tobacco Wars sometimes reveal sparks of humor, as when leaflets passed out at a rally outside the U.S. Embaasy in Bangkok, Thailand, deciared: "If smokers have to die, they ahould the with Thai tobacco." But the battlee are mostly serious. Approxdmately 500 million people alive today will die of tobacco-caueed disranes, according to an estimate presented by Richard Peto, an Osford University cancer expert, at an April conference on tobacco and health held in Australia. The U.S. government, viewing tobacco sales as a trade iseue, has weighed in on the side of the tobacco firms, using the threat of trade sanctions to force markets open in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The Bush Administration is due to decide in November whetherto impoetr punitive tariffs on Thailand for refusing to open its cigarette market to foreign brands. Before then: officials of the Geneva- based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will examine the issue. • The tobacco industry argues that it is only seeking fair access to existing markets, not creating new smokers overaeas. Some also note that American and European cigarettes often have less tar than local brands common in developing countries. But with each new inroad, opponents become more vocal. Opium War imagery adds power to their cause. Taiwan's anti-smoking activist David Yen, who loet a lung to cancer in 1972, has been compared to Lin Zezu. the Qjng Dynasty official who led the anti-opium campaign that touched off that long-ago conflict with England. In South Korea, where resistance to foretgn cigarettes has strong nationalistic overtones, anti- imports leader Kang Moon Kyu told the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review that the key isaue is protection of tobacco farmers, and "health is secondary." Bnt Kang, too, reached back to the powerful old image. "This in Korea's version of the Opium War," he sUd. People like Yen and Kang are finding incressuigly vocal allies in the richer developed countries. Tobacco companies are "marketing death in the Third World," American Cancer Society chief execu- tive William Tipping declared at the April health conference held in Perth. Australia. "American corporations are the carriers of an epidemic, and our government has become a willing inattlmtent for the enforced export of that epidemic,' Tipping said. "Thoee of us from America can only llew ws TOEACCO, He (ConYd$ vumoRa.cey i rasa.'na*; American cigarettes, right, are among the brands found at a shop in the Chinese city of Xian; rcrznsott)nti / c.®..c~ nossrsrMmEFsoN i o....•u... An elderly man puffs away on his pipe whib he rolts cigars in China, the wodd's largest tobacoo producer. In Africa, a youngster picks tobacco under the supervision of an armed guarQ. 2025426i61

TOBACC0:1 I New Sales For i ,..,r~Vestern Firms Caatlaad trar H} feel ashamed at our Adm(nlstraUon's role in undermining world health." ' U.S. tobacco exports are booming. • American firtna shipped nearly $5 billion worth of tobacco producta overseas in tf189, according to a study released In April by the Tobacco Merchants Aan. of the United States. At a health conference in Boston late last month, former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop called the rise In tobacco, exports "a moral outrage." Koop noted that while smoking In the United States dropped 6% last year, U.S. lobacco exports rose 20%. "1 do rwt believe the United States will ever again be a good market for tobacco - producta:' Koop said. 'The curve is going down and accelerating. But If we feel good because we have beaten the cigarette Industry on its own turf, we must realize that we've driven them to scout' the rest of the earth for new victims." The tobacco Issue ia also heating up In Europe. L mtdon's Sunday Timea reported last month that thousands of tons of high- tar tobacco is being exported from Europe- an Community countries to developing nations at tow, taxpayer-subsidized prices. Such exports are expected to grow once a new ruling comes into effect at the end of 1992 banning the sale within the European ' Community of any cigarettes containing tnore than 15 mllligrams of tar, the news- paperreported• It is totally unacceptable, and against all ethics, for the European Community to dump high-tar tobacco on the Third World;" Roberto Masironi, headof a World Health Organization program on tobacco O, and health• commented in the Sunday Times report. Keith Ball, a chest surgeon and adviser to the World Health Organiza- tion, told the Sunday Times that today's European tobacco exports, much of which ~ go to Africa, will eventually bring sharply ~~ Increased cancer rates there. "We have Iit I~ts the fuse," he said. "We're Just waiting for ~,V1 the explosion." ~ 1'hose who focus not on health Issues but on tobacco's contribution to exporting 011I. countries' balance of payments often take a vcry ditferent view. A U.S. tobacco industry lobbying group called COMET (Coalition for Open Mar- kelu and Expanded Trade) recently noted that "in the face of the chronic American foreign trade deficit, the U.S. tobacco export industry has steadily Increased its foreign trade surplus• ending 1989 with a net surplus of $4.3 billion." Despite this growing trade surplus, U.S. cigarette exports account for less lhan 3% ` C:awn.mrw Maxte i . ~ of worldwide consumption, according to COMET. In an April statement on tobacco ex- ports, Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, praised the growth in overseas sales as benefiting American farmers and the U.S. economy. "The success of tobacco has meant thousands of jobs In this ,country and has provided many farm families a good income." T he Bush Administration says it re- spects health restrictions that foreign governments place on smoking and ciga- rette sales, but that when a country allowe domestic firms to sell cigarettes, foreign producers should have the same opportu- nity. -The United States, however, sometimes has attacked other countries' restrictions on cigarette advertising, further angering anti-smoking forces. Tobacco industry of- ficiale and Administration policy-makers argue that, because imports have long been shut out, American cigarette makers must advertise In these countries to let people know their products are avallable. AnU-amoking activists In developing nations usually view such advertising as anathema. In latin America. inhacco advertising uOAYA oRrra / La AmpirTlmneA "is everywhere, at all Umes-theaters, opera housee, many aporting events, popu- lar concerts," Carloa Alvarez lierrera, president of the Argentlna-based LaUn America Coordinating Council on Smoking Control, complained at the recent Boston conference. Some, however, believe that by (ntro- ducing a nationalistic element to the tobacco issue, Western firms are provok- ing developing countries to look more seriously at the question of tobacco and health. "The Western blitzkrieg .•, seems to have backfired," reported Aalaweek,. a Hong Kong-based magazine. "Asian opin- lon seems to have tipped toward seeing a commercial dispute as an issue of public health:" U 3. Trade Representative Carla An- derson Hills, stick(ng to the view that this Is atlll a commercial dispute, recently defended the American stance this waya "In a situation in which a foreign govern- ment judges it acceptable to sell cigarettes to Its eiUzens, we see no basis (or refrain- Ing from ensuring equal access for U.S. cigarette manufacturers. The sale of ciga- rettes is legal In the United Slatee and legal in those markets In which we have challenged their practices " Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), speaking at the recent health conference in Boston, ridiculed Hills' stance. "Cuta HlUe.* auppol4d to kA: the.U-$. Aa<de! repretentaUve, he doclared; "aot the U.$• rattcet representauve. ~ " The General Atxamting OfRce, Con- grus' own watchdog agettcy, lasued a mld•hlay report noting that American health-and trade policies appear to be In conflict. The report noted that ")f Congress belleves.that health twtwideratlotts should have primacy," it has the option of euct- ing laws to bring Wat about. So tar., qM . sueh bUl has beert Introdttced. cmtpanlm conunw Meanwhile, tobacco evpn in cotmtrlea to develop markets where U.B.. pressure ta not yet a major frtte. Philip ldorris Asia lttc., far exaMple, recently sponsored a Beijing exhibit of Ita Formula One racing ars. A few days later, sports officials and a Philip Morris repre- sentaUve appeared at a niews cooference In the Great Hall of the People to annotutce, the Marlboro Dynasty Ctfp soecer totRna- ment, which will bring together teams from North Korea, South Korea, China sad Japan In Beijing this summer. •' A reporter at the news conference asked for a response to crlUcism In the United States and elsewhere that, since cigarettes are not good for health, companies should net try to develop new markets in Asia. Cathy Leiber, Hong Kong-based mar- keting coordinator for Phillp Morris, re- plied that Marlboro helps "put sports on the map In countries that otherwise . wouldn't have the opportunity to compete at this level." "In terms of our visibility as a compa- ny; " ahe added, "we take great pride In the knowledge that we market a legal product around the world:" Organizations such as the London-llased Internatlonal Tobacco Growers Asan. are also fighting back. « vidence from a number of major EauthoritaUve studies has empha- sized the economic and social Imporlance of tobacco growing for many developing countries." Alan F. Ravenscroft, chairman of the growers association, wrote In an association report on tobacco in the Third World. "Yet anti-tobacco policies are being designed to reduce and even eliminate the use of tobacco by the year 2(l00;" Raven- acroftconUnued "Uttle allowance appears to have been made for the very significant losses In jobs, foreign-exchange earnings • and revenue that would result ft these policies were ever lmplemented. As a consequence of these lossea, many devel- oping countries would face serious prob- lema of social InstabUlty and economic ruin." 'Che report estimates that 33 million people engage In tobacco growing world- wide, 90% of them In the developfng countries. Including their families, about 100 million people derive their Iivelihooda from tobacco culUvaUon, the study says. The world's leading tobacco grower is China, which produced 2.9 million tons in 1989, about 40% of the world total. This is slightly more than four times the produc- tion of the United States, which ranks No. 2. ~OWTAItouJtT~' ht7M7apN peMktg clgarottn In eeft Ph* "ls Js'.naofed .n oxh" M Yarket pene)ration bY tordgn bradda remalns at Jttat 1% In Cldna, whfch at9B severely ratrieta clgaratte impotia. • The tobacco laatte In Chtna mWf tdU• tnately be of greater algnificance thqtt In any other country. 14oat qUness men are heavy smokergaAkrkfng cigareltet•V an important .ocW ritual, and few people take the risk of eartcer'very seriously. .~. . The Chinese government hIts reeently given some support to antf-sntokfng ef- forts, and the Chlnete media are beghtrdng to be aware of ttte Itrue. - : A recent report by the otficlal' Naw China News Agency quoted World Health Organization figures showing that tohac- co-related diseuea now take about =.7 mWion lives per year worldwide. •- "Predictions for the future are grhq," it added. "Of all the children alive today In China under 20 years of age, It is estimated that 50 million will die from the effects of tobacco use.", ' : . The news agency reported last moltth that survey results show 37% of- high school boys and just 2% of high school girls In China are srnokers. The report added, without giving details, that China is drafting laws "to control the dangers of tobacco••" No-smoking signs are beg(nning to ap- pear in airport departure lounges and on some trains. But they are often disregard- ed. Virtually no one In China has any concept of personal rights to clean air. ' "!n Amerlca, you cannot smoke'yufy- where-not at work, not in attplanep, tpt In restaurants," marveled an elderly Cpl- nese man who recently visited relaUves In the United States. ' In Chfna, you can smoke everywhere, even if there's a litw against (t. That's why all the American tobacco companies have started to sell in China. They can make more money here. 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I 1 -7- . JUN 8 _199_t1. Reut 06/07 1517 CANADA TO BANK SMOKING ON INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS OTTAWA, June 7, Reuter - The Canadian government said it will ban smoking on all international flights. At present a smoking ban applies to all domestic and North American flights, and international flights of less than six hours. On flights longer than six hours, Canadian carriers will be required to reduce the number of seats reserved for smokers by 25 pct by June 1. Reductions of the same size will be required in future years to July, 1993, when smoking will be banned outright. REUTER Friday, June 8, 1990 * Investor's DaBy CEO BRIEFING DATE TIME STATION LOCATION PROGRAM THE JAPANESE TOBACCO INDUSTRY has agreed not to advertise cigarettes on television between 9:45 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restriction, which began in April, is significant for U.S. tobacco giants, which owe much of their success in Japan to their TV campaigns, says Business Tokyo (June). As of March, more than 90% of the cigarettes imported into Japan were American-made. June 6, 1990 7:30-8:00 PM WABC-TV(ABC) Channel Seven New York City Entertainment Tonight Leeza Gibbons, co-host: • Cigarette companies have paid big bucks to have their brands featured in movies, and stars like Meryl Streep will smoke if it's critical to a role, but they don't have to like it. Meryl Streep (Actress): I think it stinks. Gibbons:- Now anti-smoking groups want all.cigarettes banned from the movies. Moviemakers caught between pro and anti-smokers--our Inside Story. That's tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight. A

-8- JUM *" 8 199Q - USA TODAY • FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990 •' U.S. Distribution Journal • June 1990 ~ ~miaw [it: ' . • ~ ~ I : 1:b1 "If NACS effort taps minors The National Association of Convenience Stores has unveiled a program to prevent the sale of tobacco products to minors. "It's the Law: A Responsible Tobacco Retailing Program" incorporates in-store signage, decals, buttons, an employee certification brochure, and other literature to communicate the legal sale message to c-store employees and customers. Point-of-sale material will begin appearing in participating retail locations this month. Laws in 44 states regulate the legal sale age for tobacco products and place penalties on retail establishments for non- compliance, and legislation before Congress would provide incentives to states that step-up tobacco law enforcement. The tobacco industry lent its support to the program and Philip Morris USA assisted in the design and format of the program materials. ACROSS THE USA: LbtJiSiANA • eATON aoUOE - State'. Wg6 cancer rate fa eaured by aint, ezpastrer~O ca~rdno~s~ not p~ol- lurion - said head of Dept of Health and Hoepitals. Cited: 2% of ca ncer cam ara cxused by po11u- tton. •.. VIRGINIA NORhOUC - s,rN voloateers R expected b Satut~y ~ &M oeds the Bay Day. Z,000 volunteets picked up 30 tons of traah in '89; 7,144 of 98,400 piecea of trash cve+e clgsretta buffs. . *~ W INSIGHT / MAY 28, 1990 B jRIEFING Four Inmates Filing - for Smoke-Free Jails - With more emphasis on ptnsecuting white-collar criminals, the behind bats _ life-style may have to change to accom- modate their sensibilities. In Florida, four white-collar inmates - a doctor,- two lawyers and a cable TV subcontrac- tor - complain that the county jails where they were held before sentencing had no nonsmoking section, and they • have filed aS1.4 mitlion federallawsuit contending that exposure to smoke is •"cruel and unusual punishment:' Accotding to Scott Sullivan, a phy- . sician serving five years at the Lawtey Cotrectional lnstitution in northem : Florida for forging prescriptions, all 41 ' prisons in the state system have set a4ide . smoke-free cells in response to the suit, but the state's county jails have so far refused to accommodate nonsmoking inmates. 'The air is blue with smoke" -in the jails,•says Sullivan. Health Gannett Westchester Newspapers/Tuesday, June 5,1990 Hot dog! It's better for you Gannett News Service Hot dogs may shed their unhealthy stigma and nearly half their calories now that researchers at Texas A&M University have found a way to lower their fat content. Researchers replaced pork fat with sunflower oil and water, lowering the fat content of a hot dog by 15 percent, according to May's Journal of Food Science. Researchers said they also increased by 50 percent the proportion of monounsaturated fat, which has been shown as a possible benefit in decreasing the risk of heart disease. Taste panels said the test wieners had flavor and juiciness similar to traditional franks. Chew tobacco? Watch cholesterol N GannettNews"Service That pinch be,tween the cheek and gum not only could raise your risk of mouth cancer, but also can boost your cholesterol level, a major risk factor for heart disease; according to a Brigham Young University study. The study in May's American Journal of Public Health shows that compared with non-smokers, chewing-tobacco users had 2'/: times tfie rate of high blood-cholesterol levels; heavy smokers were only twice as likely to have high cholesterol levels as non-smokers, the study said. Use of smokeless tobacco has increased substantially in the past 15 years.

.,. ` -9-. JUN 8 1990 THE CxMTTAN Sc.1tErICE MorliTOx , Wednesday, June 6, 1990 The Meyor of {he. Capita l has been Smokiny crack. 0 O 0 HaW caN YaU SMIIE THRoU6H ALL THIS I o~Tc~~E' 0 THE NEW YORK TIMES METROPOUTAN FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990 A CuomoAvvay, but Not Far, FromAlbany By ELIZABETH KOLBERT Speci.la77+eNewYorkTlmn ' ' ALBANY, June 7 - At 24, Andrew M. Cuomo ran his father's first successful cam- paign for governor. At 25, he moved into an office in the Capitol and joined the ruling elite of state government He spent his days, and many of his nights, with a telephone in one hand and a cigarette in the othero plung- ing from one political conflict to the next. Now at 32, Mr. Cuomo is building housing for the homeless. His office at the headquar- ters of HELP, the nonprofit corporation that is his brainchild, is cramped and out of the way. His days are occupied by the problems of people who have no power and no pros- pect of gaining any. But despite his career shift, Mr. Cuomo has not changed much since the days when he was the enfant terrible of the political It's hard to keep a low profile when you're marrying a Kennedy. world. He has not loosened his grip on the telephone or on the oack of Parliamentsshat lies next to it. If becoming an advocate for the homeless means becoming a critic of state government, he has not done that, ei- ther. And behind the scenes at least, he has not given up his role in state politics. 5

-io- ' T11E FUNT JOURNAL e SUNDAY, MAY13. taYO JUN 81990. ' Most respondents vehemently oppose cigarette tax hike T HERE was an overwhelming response to the latest question in nelournal's ongoing public at(airs series, Issues and An- swers. We asked readers if they ap- prove of state Rep. Perry Bullard's pro- paasal to double the state tax on cfga rettes to 50 cents per pack. Additional money collected through the new tax would be used to boost state aid to higher education, anti-dropout pro• grams, health oare, and drug abuse prevention and treaCnent programs. Respondents to this unscientific poll opposed Bullard's plan by a vote o 7I- I& In addition, Mike Miller of Swarts Creek, armed with one of our reader response coupons, organized a sign-up sheei against the proposal In a span of two hours during a recent trade show, he collected the signatures of 88 more people from throughout Michigan who oppose Bullard's plan. Here is a sam- pling of responses: VIEWPOINT • Ab.solutely NO, NO, NO NO! I am tired of all the "no smoking" signs, making me a second~lass atizett. rm tired of being picked on for "taxes." Why not impose a special tax on all fattening foods to help these obese people QUIT ... and put up some "no eating" signs. Taxes that benefit EV ERYONE should be PAID by EVERY- ONE.-./OANN G. LINES, Davison • Yes. If the people who smoke contaminate our air, litter our public waiting rooms, rest areas, beaches, parks, roads, and sidewalks with their dirty c~garette stubs and empty dga- rette packs, let them pay to ciean up their stinfdng mess A 51-per pack itr crease would be even better. - EVELYN R. GIIL6TIE, Button • No new tax. The money is there; old, dead programs have to go. We have to tighten our budget - or belts. Our whole system has gotten out of hand. We are a give-away nation and our people at homc suffer. I do not smoke; I stopped 28 years ago. - STEVE KACSOR, Owosso • I favor doubling the tax, but to be fair, the additional money should go to progratns aimed at solving the prob- leass of smoking. These might include more health testing of smokea to catch lung cancer at a treatable stage and inaeased funding for education so our young people never get involved with smoking. Another possibility would be withdrawal programs for smokers wanting to quit. - DALE F. W OLFGRAM, Elba Twp. • To think Mr. Bullard feels he can balance the budget and pay for com- munity programs on the shoulders of smokers is just plain ludicrous. Let's remember, tobacco is a legal product and when used moderately, is no more harmful than breathing the air in cor- potatekhemical valleys across this great country. Years ago, lotto revenue was the answer. What ever happened to that money? I am a non-smoker, but consider myself no better than the mil- lions of smokers in this country. - MIICE N. MILLER, Swartz Creek • Yes. As added incentive to those of us to QUIT our filthy habit, we should help to pay for non-smokers health care if they don't have insur- ance. I wish I could quit - again - to live longer, and wish my significant other would quit so we71 have more time to live together. - CAROL HOEFMAN, Lapeer • As a smoker, I object to being singied out by Rep. Bullard. I pay state taxes, fedetal taxes, property taxes, gas tax, sales tax, am a law abiding dt- izen and have served my community well. If this is a democracy, the taxes should be shared by all, not paid by one certain group. Maybe they should pick on blondes, or the people with brown eyes. What happens if all the smokers quit? -JOANNE WHALEN, Grand Blanc • Yes - not just cigarettes, but all tobacco products and alcoholic bever- ages, too. -ALBERT L POLLOCIC, Fenton • Put a tax on higher wage eanxss like Rep. Perry Bullard who can better afford to be taxed for his education. Let him pay for higher education since he obviously benefited from it. - PHII.1P A. FOX, Lennon • Yes. If we as a society can make the tobacco industries stop getting our people addicted to this terrible killer, we can also get the addict to pay more for their drug. The tobacco industries should be forced to pay for the medical expenses they cause. -ANN BROWN, Flint • No. But if you are going to in- crease taxes on cigarettes, double them on alcohol and start taxing sedat- ing drugs like valium. We could even tax the stimulant drugs such as diet pills. At bestr a cigarette tax will be temporary because we are sloMy be- coming a nation of non-smokers. If you want a tax that will continue to bring in big bucks, tax the booze and drugs. - W. IEIIB PRIEBE, Burton • No! If the money being put into these programs were given back to the schools I would be all for it. But the "state" has taken 14% from our schools. Let me see them put back what they have taken and not leave it up to the schools to vote millages and up to the taxpayer4o put it back. - DARLA STRYE, Flint • Yes. Maybe I won't have to go through the heart-breaking scenes I have in the past. My father smoked three packs of Camels per day and he diedyoung, eaten by cancer. My si.ster- in-law in her late 30s asked me to bring her two daughters to see her in the hospital, she was in intensive care, one lung taken by cancer, the other one nearly gone. With tears in her eyes, she asked them to stop smoking. One did stop, the other did not. Her (Cont'd)