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ulillia1) la:-J s n~l[ a0a 1493 RA.UlU TV REr'0R'i' ` "RP,DIO TVREPORTS NATIONAL MARKETCOVERAGE TRANSCRIPT FoR PHILIP MORRIS STATION WABC-TV & TaE ABC TV NETWORK PROCMAM THIS WEEK WITH DAVID BRINKLEfffy NEW YORK DATE 01/10/93 12:15 P.M. AUDIENCE wRiER EPA SECONDHAND SMOKE REPORT ` BROADCAST EXCER T U 002/004 rt...r Torkr 212-309-1400 i Chic.,.: 312S41-2020 DefraiF. 313344.1177 /-ss Ilnle4s: 213•t66-6124 ~ 1NoshkfQf+oet. 0.Cs 301.656-t06C ~ Romns 617,536-2232 : Pf+ii.d.lph+ar 215567-7600 I San Francisc.a 213.466-6124 MiotrJs 3053583358 ~ DAVID BRIN=Y: 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 c~:acer a.nd it' s dangerous and it kills you. GEORGE WILL: What they did is they upgraded it. You say I'm exercised. I'm exercised with enthusiasm 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 ann enormous litigation danger before, say, employers who allow smoking in the workplace because then someone who.comes up with lung cancer can claim that adequate precautions were not taken. David, I can't think of any -- maybe you all can -- change in common everyday etiquette in American life comparable to the change in the last 25 years in the status of smoking. This week, the Baltimore Orioles became the fifth major league baseball team to say in an open air stadium you cannot smoke in your seat, SAM DONALDSON: gut 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 ROBERTS: Then the bats will become endangsred. Are you kidding? ~i O DONALDSON; The old line was if smokers wanted to kill *Pa. 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 you doing 0; this to them? Why don't you like them? Smokers must be driven out ~~ because they simply are killing themselves and everybody else and ~~ . ~` Whila Rodio TV Reporn andeavors ro oiiure the aeeuroey of moFariaf suppGed by ir, ir eannor ba rospo~ibl. tor misfakvs or omtmtons. Maferia( supplisd by Radio TV Repone may b+ used for HIa and rahranca purposea oniy. It may nor 6a raproduc.d, sold or pu6lidy dornonskai.d or axhi6ir.d.

U000/004 l:i:'ss 'tSZ-1Z 3ua 14as RADIO TV REPORT ul/ 11/ a:5 - 2 - they're adding to the costs of this government. Talk about the deficit. The single thing that would reduce health care costs the most would be 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'll•figure out soma 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 should go out of business, Cokie. BRINKLEY': Well, they're making a ton of money selling tobacco abroad. WILL: Exactly. BRINXLr,Y: Do you know what the world's largest selling consumer product of any description is? DONALDSON: 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.employex say, "Well, I didn't know it at the time. The government only came out with this i report in 1993?" ~ C DONALDSON: 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 Cs~ O ~ be living in a cave not to know that smoking was bad for you. ~ C3t

U004/004 p zl2 30b 1493 RADIO TV REPORT vt, ll/ aJ 1J : J4 - 3 - DONALDSON: The comps.nies, in response to this report, David, held a press conference saying, "Well, there hasn't been any final 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. DONALDSON: How do they live with themselves? How do these tobacco executives go home and live with themselves? BRZNKLEY: You'll have to ask them.