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I believe yon will be interested in the enclosed exchange of letters and I would like to pass along to you a caution raised by Wharton that because this is private correspondence it should not be used in any communication with the American Cancer Society or other anti-smoking groups.

The enclosed is comprehensive enough in its coverage that I felt we should all read it and share it with our colleagues.

I want to talk .today about health and the environment'- from my own narrow point of view - which means that I~ll talk a lot more about cancer and less about birth defects, mental retardation, and even less about the emotional instability that an unstable environment can help foster. \ For some years I felt (minor)~uilt about being male and thus, I thought, not subject to the health p~oblems related to children and childbearing that women were obviously subject to.

RESEARCH cation printed a lengthy article by Wilbert Aronow, M.D., on "The Effect of Smoke on the Nonsmoker."

I am writing to you to express concern and disappointment about statements coming from various sources and publications at Dow concerning cigarette smoking and lung cancer, and am particularly distressed by the failure of the Dow people to respond to earlier communications from us.

You're t6~;~ind. I 'just want to announce first of all, for those of yo6 whoha~ened to n6tice the marquee - billboard - just outside the theater, what you are about to see will not be the movie "Dr.

You asked me to look into a rather muddled piece from the Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration News (#i) which mentioned testing lung function in 12,000 children.

Mr. Kloepfer asked me to send you the enclosed article about ASHRAE.

Advertising Investigation. This position is supported by the following facts:

Letters are welcomed and will be published, if fimnd suitable, as space permits. The editors reserve the right to edit and abridge lettes, to publish replies, and to solicit respon~'es from attthors and others. Letters shotdd be submitted in duplicate, doubk.-spa~'ed (including references), and generally ahould not exceed 400 words.

By formal notice dated June I0, 1981, the Federal Trade Commission requested comments by interested persons concerning its Staff Report on Cigarette Advertising (File No. 792-3204). The Commission alleges that:

The discussion on smoking and health has intensified in recent months. Those who contend that smoking is dangerous to health have tried to convince cigarette smokers to stop smoking through various means, including warning labels on cigarette packs and ever increasing cigarette excise taxes. The net result of these effo~s has, on the whole, been disappointing to those who oppose smoking.

I. Survey his entire cigarette operation to determine the location of those machines to which minors are likely to have access.

Professor, Schools of Medicine and Public Health Co-Director, Center for Health Enhancement Education and Research University of California at Los Angeles

Background: Asbestos and Consequences of its Use A.

The present members of County Council are:

As friends of the tobacco industry in the State of Harylan.d, we are, of course, concerned about increasing governmental intrusion into our personal and private lives,

AN ACT to a~end Section 24-9, titie "Smoking prohibitions and restrictions" of Chapter 24, title "Health and Sanitation" of the Hontgomery County Code (1972), as amended, for the purpose of prohibiting smoking in theatres, movle"h6u~es, workpi~es employing health cam ~acilities more ~han 2S persons,~nd food service facilities

To amend the Public Health 8~,-x-ice Act and the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to increase the availability to the American public of information on the health consequences of smoking and thereby improve informed choice, and for other purposes.

The News' September 19 editorial (enclosed) claimed "the tobacco industry gets additional assistance, estimated at more than $30 million annually, from government research aimed at developing sa£er cigaretsi"