Subject:  Industry is not all bad (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 30 Apr 1998 171551 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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The newsman was trying to get from Senator Lott some reaction or
"defense" of this kind of 'ostentatious' campaign funding ... in the face
of the scandals about campaign funding now rife in Washington.....

To the "nagging" questions of the newsman, Senator Lott finally answered
in exasperation:   "Well, this is the American way......"

That's right, folks ... The American Way......

Cheerio......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

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02:02 PM ET 04/30/98

.....NY Atty Gen seeks to shut down tobacco research arms

        
     NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco
Thursday filed a petition seeking to shut down the Tobacco
Institute and the Council for Tobacco Research USA, two
tobacco-funded research entities.
      Vacco, who filed the petition in state court in Manhattan,
said the two tax-exempt entities were created ostensibly to
provide the public with honest research and information but
instead served as propaganda arms for the industry.
      ``CTR, disguised as a legitimate research organization, and
the Tobacco Institute together fed the public a pack of lies in
an underhanded effort to promote smoking and addict our kids,''
Vacco said.
       '`By allowing tobacco industry lawyers to determine, or at
least participate in, supposedly independent research, and
influence public disclosure of its findings, CTR acted with
total disregard for the law that entitled them to form as a
not-for-profit,'' Vacco said.
        Vacco's petition argued that the two entities acted in a
''persistently fraudulent and illegal manner by using their
tax-exempt status to advance the efforts of the for-profit
tobacco companies.''
        Vacco said he filed his petitions to dissolve the research
entities after major tobacco companies said they would not
participate in proposed federal legislation to deal with tobacco
litigation and reduce underage smoking.
         The attorney general was criticized this week by health
groups and in a New York Times editorial for allegedly using
publicly funded anti-smoking television commercials as free
election-year advertising.
         The criticism focused on a $150,000 spot paid for by the
state Department of Health in which Vacco is seen lecturing
about the risks of teen-age smoking as he stands beside a
photograph of a young child.
         Both Vacco and the Department of Health have denied the
allegations.
         ^REUTERS@




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