S. HRG. 98-232

SMOKING PREVENTION HEALTH
AND EDUCATION ACT OF 1983

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 772

TO PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH BY IMPROVING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING AND TO INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS IN INVESTIGATING AND COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC NECESSARY HEALTH INFORMATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

MAY 5 AND 12, 1983

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1983

CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1983

Gorton, Hon. Slade, a U.S. Senator from the State of Washington

Jackson, Hon. Henry M., a U.S. Senator from the State of Washington..

Clark, Mrs. Barney, Des Moines, Wash.

Brandt, Edward N., Jr., M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of

Health and Human Services, accompanied by Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director

of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of

Health; Dr. Mortimer B. Lipsett, Director of the National Institute of Child

Health and Human_Development; Dr. William Pollin, Director of the Na-

tional Institute on Drug Abuse; Dr. Jane Henney, Deputy Director of the

National Cancer Institute; and Dr. Joann Luoto, Director of the Office of

Smoking and Health..

Ernster, Dr. Virginia, associate professor of epidemiology, University of Cali-

fornia, San Francisco...

Longo, Lawrence D., M.D., head of the division of perinatal biology, Loma

Linda University School of Medicine, Loma, Calif.; representing the Ameri-

can Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and

Gynecologists....

Sandhaus, Robert A., M.D., senior staff physician, National Jewish Hospital

and Research Center/National Asthma Center, Denver, Colo.....

Keeshan, Robert, executive producer of Robert Keeshan Associates (Captain

Kangaroo).

Cahan, William., M.D., professor of surgery, Cornell University Medical Col-

lege; attending surgeon, thoracic service, Memorial Hospital, the Memorial

Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, N.Y.; representing the

American Cancer Society

Oates, John A., M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology, Vanderbilt

University, and chairman of the Subcommittee on Smoking of the Ameri-

can Heart Association, representing the American Heart Association...

Fisher, Edwin B., Jr., Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, Washington

University, St. Louis, Mo.; representing the American Lung Association........

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1983

Judge, Curtis H., president of Lorillard, and chairman of the executive com-

mittee of the Tobacco Institute, New York, N.Y.; accompanied by Arthur J.

Stevens, general counsel of Lorillard.

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Blackwell, Roger D., Ph.D., professor of marketing, Ohio State University,

Columbus, Ohio....

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Blau, Dr. Theodore H., Independent Practice of Clinical Psychology, Tampa,

Fla..

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Sommers, Sheldon C., M.D., consultant in pathology, Lenox Hill Hospital,

New York, N.Y..

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Fisher, Edwin R., M.D., professor of pathology, University of Pittsburgh, and

director of laboratories, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.....

Rubin, Eric M., Esq., Rubin, Winston & Dierks, counsel for the Outdoors
Advertisers Association of America, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Wil-
liam K. Reagan, president, Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah..

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