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UZiZtS.HJ Ub.UL 'aL1L JUll 14llJ KAll1U 1\ KL'.f'UM1 t0.1UUUi015 - 2 - Schadler, Sylvia Chase, John Quinones, and Renee Pouzant, this is PRIMETIME. ' ANNOtJNCER: PRIMETIME. Now, from Washington, Sam Donaldson. DONALDSON: Good evening and wefcome. Diane Sawyer is on ae,signment. We'l1 tell you more about that later. Tonight we begin with a look at smbking and health and how the tobacco companies have worked over the years to confuse the public on this!vlt~Ll i'ssue. 'Now, let I me ~ay right up, front, th~t I personally have been• crusading against smoking for more than 20 years, and, believe-me, we ex-e~okers cari ~)e worse than reformea. Lrun]'cs. I am not unbiase.d when it comes to bkieving the, government, warn~i.rig carried. on every cigarette packt a~t the hazArds of sinoki:ng. But no~. ~of us here at PF~I1~TiME had ,prej udged the aub j ect of our xepo'rts t~43.ght . We conducte.,d a four-mont~i-long investigation which goundAat f~r 40 years, the tobacco companies have wag~d a carefully=orc}~e~.t,r ted campa~c',~`n to hide the truth in order to fend off regu.3..atioril and lawsuits and keep the profits pouring in. : ~ . It all bggan, we discovered, back in the early 1950s. Worried about smoking? Listen to the tobacco industry over the years, aild~you won't be quite so worried. MAN: it'has not been established that cigarette smoking-- MAN: The bottom line is that we simply don't know. .; MAN: it' is not a closed case. The fact is-- MAN: I don't know that they're harmful or harmless. What I'm saying is-- MAN: Wlien the answers are found, I think this industry is going to come put all right. i DR. AN'I`HONY CARLUCCI: Quit this lie. Quit telling this lie. 7Ct's over. Tt's 1992. Would you please come into the 20th Century, befor,e we get to the 21st, for God's sake? ! DONALDSON: Meet Dr. Anthony Carlucci, the highest-ranking tobacco insider ever to break ranks with the industry's line. Carlucci, a toxicologist, was the Director of Smoking and Health at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the country's second-largest. His story is explosive. I i z