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10. Read Mailbox 11. Send Message to TMA Staff 4 X- Exit the system I (* = Database not yet available) Enter the number or letter of your choice: 10 >>> TMA MAILBOX <<< LIST OF REPORTS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose one or more sections to down-load: -A) NEWS 9 APR 1991 [5 articles or parts] X) Leave The Mailbox. Enter your choices, then press RETURN (example: ABC [RETURN]) : a TMA DAILY NEWS REPORT *----- TMA ALERT SERVICE >> NEWS 9 APR 1991 << 9-APR-91 -----* \\09-APR-91 TMA Keyword: CORPORATE AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITY #5918 Who's News: Philip Morris Cos. 04/09/91 WALL STREET JOURNAL TX * PHILIP MORRIS Cos. (New York) -- This consumer-products company announced executive changes at three of Kraft General Foods North America's five operating groups. The management changes follow the ascension of Michael A. Miles to the post * of Philip Morris's chairman last month. Robert S. Morrison, president of Kraft General Foods Canada, was named president of General Foods USA, effective immediately. Mr. Morrison, 49

The groups said the manufacturer's aim was to encourage smokers who would like to quit to switch to these brands, and to encourage smoking by nonsmokers who are worried about addiction. Philip Morris executives said the company was not making any health claims in its advertising. "The only message is that these are low-nicotine cigarettes with a smooth taste," said Les Zuke, director of communications for Philip Morris U.S.A. Matt Myers of the American Cancer Society said scientists had determined that the level of nicotine in the two brands was high enough to prove addictive. Would you like to keep copies of these articles in your mail box? (Y/N):n J >>>> WELCOME TO 800-TMA-PLUS <<<< TMA's System For Tobacco Issues Management ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TMA Internal Information 1. Issues Selection 5. Library Abstracts 2. News - Full Text 6. Economics & Statistics 3. Int'l News Abstracts 7. Brands & Trademarks 4. Legislative 8. Industry Publications & Research TMA External Information 9. TMA External Data Bases (A $urcharge is Applied) TMA Communications 10. Read Mailbox 11. Send Message to TMA Staff X- Exit the system I (* = Database not yet available) I Enter the number or letter of your choice: x RJRNAB logged out at 9-APR-1991 12:17:41.22 609 235 DISCONNECTED 00 40 00:01:16:19 548 36 @ T;AfYm g$NO CARRIER

I the following combined: drug and alcohol abuse, fires, automobile ~ accidents, murder and suicide. No matter how you look at it, nothing can compensate for the debilitating physical, emotional or economic consequences of cigarette smoking. In purely economic terms, studies show that money spent on tobacco products will almost certainly be spent on other consumer goods once tobacco consumption is reduced or eliminated. Thus, the economic loss you and your special interest allies claim will occur because of the loss of tobacco and related business revenues will actually be negligible. Your comments only serve to highlight the influence of special interests on the budget-making process. They also expose you as an unabashed apologist and mouthpiece for the tobacco lobby rather than a champion of the health and safety of your constituents and your fellow Pennsylvanians. Since you spoke in your radio broadcast as an officer of the House Republican Caucus, I call upon your Republican colleagues in the House to repudiate your irresponsible statements in support of the tobacco industry. Sincerely, Robert P. Casey, Governor CONTACT: Vincent P. Carocci of the Commonwealth News-Bureau, 717-783-1116 \\08-APR-91 TMA Keyword: ANTI-TOBACCO ACTIVITY #241 Mon 8-Apr-91 * AP Full Health Gap Between White, Minority Americans Persists WASHINGTON (AP) _ The gap between the health of minority and white Americans persists, the nation's top health official reported Monday. A new compilation of health statistics shows that blacks, American Indians and Puerto Ricans generally have lower levels of health and health care than whites, Cubans and Asians. "We are committed to expanding health-care access," Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan told reporters as he released the report. But he said that in recommending changes to the current system, "we need to take all the time we need to get it right." Sullivan said the Bush administration has proposed several initiatives, including extending prenatal care to pregnant women and providing immunizations to more young children. "But the government can only do so much," he said. "As a nation, we often pay for a failure of personal responsibility _

\\08-APR-91 TMA Keyword: CORPORATE AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITY #5918 Mon 8-Apr-91 * Reuters CENTRAL BANK WILL HELP BANKROLL CONTROVERSIAL CLOVE MONOPOLY JAKARTA, Indonesia, Reuter - Indonesia's central bank said Monday it would provide most of the funds needed to finance a controversial new clove trading monopoly controlled by one of President Suharto's sons. Indonesians consume huge amounts of cloves, a spice indigenous to the tropical archipelago's Eastern islands. They burn up about 85,000 metric tons a year in popular kretek cigarettes. The government in January decreed that all cloves be sold to the Clove Support and Trading Board headed by Suharto's son Hutomo Mandala Putra, at a minimum price of 7,000 rupiah ($3.60) a kilogram. The group would sell them to kretek cigarette manufacturers for about twice the price. However, the powerful cigarette companies, the country's second-biggest taxpayers, already hold large stocks of the spice and have refused to buy from the board, which in turn has not been buying the cloves from farmers. The central bank said the board would need around 500 billion rupiah ($258 million) in the fiscal year that started on April 1 to finance its operations. \\08-APR-91 TMA Keyword: ANTI-TOBACCO ACTIVITY #241 The New York Times April 8, 1991, Monday, Late Edition - Final Philip Morris Is Criticized Three health groups criticized the Philip Morris Companies today for marketing low-nicotine cigarettes, which they said would mislead smokers into believing these brands were safer and less addictive than other cigarettes. The American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society said they were trying to stop the nationwide marketing of Next and Benson and Hedges De-Nic. Philip Morris has been test-marketing the two brands in several states since 1989, and is now selling the cigarettes in Tampa, Fla., and Phoenix.

years old, succeeds Richard P. Mayer, who became president of Kraft General Foods North America last month. Douglas A. Smith, 44, executive vice president of General Foods USA, will become president of Kraft General Foods Canada. Irene B. Rosenfeld, 37, will suceed Mr. Smith. John D. Bowlin, 40, will succeed James W. McVey, 59, as chairman of Oscar Mayer when he retires at the end of this year. Mr. Bowlin, who becomes president of Oscar Mayer, effective immediately, had been executive vice president of General Foods USA. Ann M. Fudge, 39, will succeed Mr. Bowlin. \\08-APR-91 TMA Keyword: STATE TOBACCO TAXATION #6832 Mon 8-Apr-91 * PR Newswire TO CITY EDITOR: GOV. CASEY RELEASES LETTER TO REP. FRED C. NOYE HARRISBURG, Pa., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Gov. Robert P. Casey today sent the following letter to House Minority Caucus Chairman Fred C. Noye (R-Perry) concerning his and tobacco industry opposition to a proposed increase in the state cigarette tax: I found your radio broadcast of Saturday, March 30, regarding your opposition to a higher state cigarette tax to be as interesting as for what it did not say as what it did. You cited a study by the American Legislative Exchange Council, of which you are a member, to bolster your claim that a higher cigarette tax will lead to "long term loss of revenue and decreased economic activity." However, you somehow neglected to mention that the American Legislative Exchange Council is a special interest group that receives substantial funding from the tobacco industry. I would like to remind you of another study, one which I believe to be more objective than the one you cite. In 1985, the federal Centers for Disease Control reported that the use of tobacco products by Pennsylvania residents cost Pennsylvania taxpayers nearly $3 billion in direct medical expenses and lost productivity each and every year. That's $247 for each resident of our commonwealth. This includes the cost of publicly funded health care and fire losses caused by cigarette smoking. It includes lost productivity due to smoking-related illnesses resulting in lost time from work. It includes lost income and lost tax revenues resulting from premature deaths caused by cigarette smoking. It does not include a person's contributions to society in terms of employment, taxes paid, investments and volunteer efforts. Nor does it include the devastating loss to a family when a parent or loved one dies prematurely because of smoking-related illness. G A 1987 study by K.E. Warner for the Journal of the American Medical Association found that smoking causes more premature deaths than all of

when a pregnant woman drinks alcohol or takes crack cocaine and the baby is born with serious health problems, or when tobacco use kills more than 430,000 Americans each year." Better control of diet, prenatal care and exercise, and prevention of tobacco use, alcohol and drug abuse as well as widespread use of seat belts could prevent up to 70 percent of all premature deaths, Sullivan said. But as he was speaking, more than 100 members of a Chicago-based community action group called National People's Action got past security guards and staged a protest in the department's headquarters building. Chanting "HHS is a mess _ people are dying while Louis is lying," demonstrators demanded to speak with Sullivan about the poor's inability to get health care. Many poor Americans are ineligible for Medicaid and cannot afford to buy health insurance, they said. About 30 protesters made it to the sixth floor, where Sullivan's office is, but security officers prevented them from getting into his office area. The report showed that while life expectancy for white Americans held steady in 1988, it continued to drop for blacks and remains more than six years less than that of whites. A white American born in 1988 could expect to live 75.6 years, but a black's life span was projected to be 69.2 years. Sullivan said blacks' life expectancy is being affected by increasing deaths from AIDS and homicides. Homicide is the leading cause of death for black males 15-34 years old, he noted. Other factors that contribute to a shorter life span for blacks include higher rates of heart disease, stroke, alcohol abuse and drug abuse, he said. Infant mortality figures also showed a racial gap. For whites, the infant mortality rate was 8.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1988, the latest year for which a racial breakdown was available. For blacks, the rate was 17.6. Provisional data for 1990 showed the nation's infant mortality rate dropped by 6 percent from the previous year the largest single-year decrease since 1980. The preliminary figures set last year's rate at 9.1, down from 9.7 in 1989. The infant mortality rate for American Indians was 50 percent higher than for whites and the rate for Puerto Rican infants was 40 percent higher than for whites, according to the report. The infant mortality rate for Japanese in the United States was about one-third lower than among whites. The report also showed that about 60 percent of American Indian, Mexican American, black and Puerto Rican mothers received prenatal care in the first three months of pregnancy, compared with more than 80 percent of white, Cuban and Asian mothers.