European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes wednesday May 16. 196b tobacco Farmers scorn Koop report surgeon general rejects criticism , . Api a spokes Man for the nation s tobacco Farmers blasted the . Surgeon general on Mon Day and said his report in sparing Otine to addictive drugs like Turpin and cocaine was nonsense think it is just another Salio in the political War against tobacco and does t rec a thing 10 do with said or fisc letter managing director of the tobacco Cinn Virv information commit tee inc. It s politics As usual from the anti tobacco crowd lamer called surgeon general c. Everett Koop a political animal called his Repon Patent nonsense and said. He s crowd the line of common Lester s organisation is a coalition of j4 growers4 or tips in North Caro Lina which produces Aboul iwo thirds of the nation s tobacco. Re. Reynolds tobacco co in \vinstnn-5afcm. North Carolina s largest maker of Cipr cites. Would not comment on the report and referred All Calls to the Tuha Ccu Institute in Washington. Slate agriculture commissioner Jim Graham was out of town and unavailable for summent. Koop s report previously disclosed research into a presentation lumping nicotine with heroin and co Caine As physiologically addictive sub stances. Careful examination of the data makes it Clear that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco Are Koop wrote in a preface an extensive body of research has shown total Nico Ine is inc drug in tobacco that causes addiction. Sen. Terry Sanford d-., said that Koop s comparison of tobacco a legitimate and Legal substance to insidious narcotics. Is a direction of Friendly fire at american Farmers and business men. Perhaps should t be Sanford said. This is the administration that declares War on drugs and then counsels people to just say no " "1 concur with recent statements that we have never heard of a smoker robbing a convenience store a Gas station or a Little old lady to obtain Money to Pur Chase said . Jenkins North Carolina farm Bureau president. There have been numerous news re ports of such robberies to obtain monies to satisfy addiction to marijuana heroin or Lester said the tobacco Industry won t suf tar from being mentioned with drugs such As heroin and cocaine because. I m not sure that you can create a More difficult social stigma for tobacco than Al ready is its Lester also said it was erroneous for Koop to conclude that children Are buy ing cigarettes from vending machines. Almost All of the vending machines thai Are nut there Are supervised by adults Lester said. They go for up scale restaurants and bars they take surveys and find out that the number of Young people that buy cigarettes from vending machines is less than i percent Washington a rejecting the reactions of critics. Surgeon general c. Evyrell Koop said tuesday he Hopes his report comparing nicotine addiction to hard cure narcotics use spurs Congress local against smoking. Koop also said he Hopes smokers will say they Don t want to be part of an addictive society i Don t think people like to he known As addicts Koop said on Abc to s today program. Koop. In a fils Page report that Drew fire from the tobacco Industry but applause Artim health groups declared monday that nicotine addiction is Simi Lar to the physical dependence on narcotics such As heroin and cocaine. The report called for a new cigarette warning Label saying nicotine is Addic Tive a Call followed up by action by sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j-, who introduced a Bill to add such a Label to those thai now take turns on cigarette packs. Koop rejected criticism that linking cigarettes to illegal narcotics undercuts the nation s War on drugs i Haven t mistaken the he said. My enemy kills 350,000 people a Jena All those other enemies do Aboul 12,000 and alcohol Aboul 125,00 1. I think we re Way ahead on lie said monday thai 4.000 people die annually from opiates such As heroin 4,000 from alcohol in combination with other drugs and 2,000 from cocaine. The controversy Over the new report mirrored the juror around Koop i Decla ration in 1986 the non smokers health is threatened by other people Moke. That report led to increased efforts to restrict smoking in Public buildings Ana Federal legislation against smoking on airline 1 Iguls of two hours or . In the today Inlet View Laid he Hopes the new report his just As Brand an Impact both on Laws and on people who think that we will two things Koop said. People who smote will say. I Don t want to be part of the addictive society and 1 think it s on to do something Good for the smoker Loo because the non smoker is now going to recognize that the smoker really is hooked and be More sympathetic to said Laws and the lax status of to Bacco need to be brought into line Wilh the recognition his office has Given me nicotine should be labelled a con trolled substance like heroin said Koop hut Wilh inc favored status that Otine and tobacco have enjoyed in this country since before the revolution Well never do that but i think we can Takt Steps to or chem voting people from becoming hooked be fore they re Indulis he said. "1 would i be surprised to see some action Wilh regards o age and smoking. I would Hope that the 43 states Hal already have Laws that protect children minors from buying cigarettes would enforce those and i would t at All be surprised to see some changes in excise Tarn both at the Federal and slate he said. Stopped from making suicide jump an unidentified haitian Bre menling to u up Tivoli to an the Nln Jow ledge of is hold in Charleston . She remained on the r More than it hour monday As police tried to coax her Back into the hotel room. Finally officers Here Able o open inc window grab the woman Luxl pull her from the ledge. Television Crews barred from pre Summit briefing Washington a while House spokesman Marlin Filz Walcer refused to allow television coverage tuesday of a pc Summit White House briefing saying that television distorts Fitzwater was responding to a request to admit jell vision Crews to ail on the rec ird briefing being Given by a Dzanic Ridgeway the assistant secret Are of state for european affairs. The briefing is one of a series being held in Advance of president Reagan s May id june i meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Goi Bachch in Moscow. Most have been held under background rules which do not permit the briefer to be identified. After turning Down the request for television cover age Fiti Waier said that he would be willing to take the request up Wilh Ridgeway and that he would consider a request to permit radio coverage. The spokesman was also asked Why he docs not routinely permit television cameras in his own on the record briefings As spokesmen for the state depart ment do. They have More courage than we do he replied. It is too High a risk for me. You can t talk on camera you can t discuss issues you end up with a Verv suited kind of conversation and also 1 Don l think Preis spokesmen ought 10 become television personalities. You open yourselves up to All sorts of problems unique to the powder of television he said. It distorts information and portrays information that is different than real after several television reporters protested his Deci Sion Fiu water turned to his staff and said a should have gone to background like we did All the
