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CONFIDENTIAL: MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION We're talking about the out-of-the-blue hit in January when there was a media leak of a long draft letter to Secretary Heckler from the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse. Bill Pollin at the National Institute on Drug Abuse chairs the council. The draft appeals for Heckler's support of a total cigarette ad prohibition. We believe it still hasn't been sent. Sam has had a round and a half with Pollin, stressing the star-chamber proceeding. We've twice circulated appeals to the council members, showing them the literature about how ads don't make people smoke, and telling them about our own youth project. In the meantime other advertising is being attacked--drugs, beverages to name two--so we've tried to loop the whole media and advertising community into awareness of the NIDA problem. Either face to face, on the phone or in correspondence, we've urged all the publishing, broadcasting and advertising associations, as well as some of the individual major media, to raise hell with Dr. Pollin. The leak was a one-day news story, and that'sc it so far unless there are any questions. TIMN 0013708