European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday may1994 research on smoking kept secret report says new York apr from a major tobacco company show that executives knew in 1963 about the hazards of cigarette smoking and decided against telling the surgeon general the new York times reported saturday. A a executives at Brown amp Williamson tobacco corp. Chose to remain silent at a time when the surgeon general was preparing a report saying that cigarettes were a health Hazard the newspaper said. The executives chose to keep research results secret to Stop work on a safer cigarette and to pursue a Legal and Public relations strategy admitting nothing the times said. In More than 100 documents letters and cables from the 1960s, the officials spoke of the hazards of cigarettes and stated plainly to one another that nicotine is addictive the newspaper said. In one document the times said the company a general counsel said Brown amp Williamson a research had found that cigarettes caused or predisposed people to lung cancer contributed to heart disease and might cause emphysema. The statements contradict the tobacco Industry a Contention Over the last three decades that it has not been proved that cigarettes arc harmful or that nicotine is addictive. Researchers formerly with other tobacco companies and Industry experts said that inc debate within Brown amp Williamson was echoed within each of the other major companies and that some of the documents and arguments within that company were shared with executives of other companies through the tobacco Industry research committee and later the Council on tobacco research the newspaper said. In recent months the food and drug administration said that it would consider regulating cigarettes. To establish control the Fra must show that nicotine is addictive and that tobacco companies intentionally exercise control Over the amount of nicotine in cigarettes j a a a a a a. A officials at Brown amp Williamson which makes Kool Viceroy and other brands refused to comment the times reported. The companies did Send a letter to the newspaper saying the documents were a stolen by a former employee of a Law firm doing work for Brown amp Sammy Blum 7, holds a Marvel masterpieces trading card depicting a smoking Nick fury comic Book character. Was in Houston a the amazing spider Man Blaze and the rest of Marvel comics superheroes and villains have finally met their match the son of a fervent anti smoking activist. The comic Book giant is eliminating cigarette and Cigar smoking from its Marvel masterpieces trading cards because of a complaint from 7-year-old Sammy Blum. Sammy wrote to the new England journal of Medicine which printed his letter last week. A i collect Marvel masterpieces a Sammy wrote. A so do some of my friends and my Brothers. I found five characters out of 100 cards that were smoking a Sammy listed the offending characters both heroes and villains Blaze gambit Kingpin Nick fury and red Skull. A Why do they make cards for kids that show people smoking a Sammy asked. The boys father family physician Alan Blum is chairman of a Houston anti smoking group called doctors ought to care. He travels the country protesting smoking ads and cigarette company sponsored sporting events. In a reply printed below a photocopy of Sammy a let Ter Marvel entertainment group president Terry Stewart whose company owns such characters As a men Captain America and the amazing spider Man announced that it would eliminate smoking from future trading cards. Marvel spokeswoman Pamela Rutt said the company tries to depict its characters with human sometimes their behaviour is not what you a Hope it would be. We certainly do not promote smoking or present it As a behaviour to emulate a she said. But she said Sammy a letter a really did open our Sammy approached his father after noticing the characters use of tobacco said Sammy smother Doris. \ a it was brought to his fathers attention and he said a Well Why done to you write a letter and Well mail it to a medical journal Well Sec what Doggone it they accepted it a Doris Blum said. Her husband could not be reached for comment. Rutt said the company had no plans to reconsider its occasional use of cigarette smoking characters in comic books a but its not really impossible that it might come smoker guilty of killing diner who complained from wire reports Martinez Calif. A a woman who was a ordered to stub out her cigarette after lighting up in a nonsmoking Section was convicted in the Shotgun slaying of one of the restaurant patrons who voiced complaints. Daphne Luster 22, was convicted thursday of. Second degree murder assault with a deadly. Weapon and possessing a firearm. Luster was with five children including her 3 be a Rol d d Aughter a 11 he d Ennys Resta u a n t i n s an Pablo when she got into an argument with Rachelle Hou s ton an d fou r other Home n a t a n of he r table e because she was smoking in the nonsmoking Section according to police reports the group complained to the manager who asked Luster to put out the. Cigarette. Police said Luster left the rest a r an t but ret it m de a to Uhd 3 a. M. O n s e it. 25, armed with a Shotgun and a crossbow. Luster fired one shot at Houston a car As she drove away hitting her in the head. A girl finds gun in play area Pittsburgh a an 8-year-old girl attending a birthday party found a loaded pistol while crawling through a bin full of toy balls at a Chuck e cheese Dixon handed the weapon Over As soon As she found it in the Ball crawl at the suburban West Mifflin restaurant said her Mother Nancy. A children jump dive fight and Roll All around. And they have these Little toes a an angry Nancy Dixon said. A it makes you wonder if there had been some Impact would it have gone off a rapper dealt new charges los Angeles a rapper tupac shakur was charged Friday with two probation violations for allegedly carrying a concealed weapon. Shakur who was convicted in March of Battery and possessing a gun could face a la year jail term and a $3, 300 Fine for the probation violations. 11 i s the e third time w Ith i n a be a r that the e 22-Yea a old entertainer has been prosecuted by the City attorneys office. The first two cases ended in convictions which led to Brief jail terms and Shakura a being placed on probation. City attorney James Hahn said shakur violated h i s prob at Ion apr q 29 the n to ice found a so a d e d semiautomatic pistol and marijuana in his car Gacy reprieves denied Chicago a convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy was denied Relief three times Friday in various court attempts to delay his scheduled execution. The us. District court the Illinois supreme court and Cook county circuit court each rejected motions filed by Gacy a attorneys on various issues All with the goal of stopping his execution from proceeding As scheduled Early tuesday. 3 charged in counterfeiting Tampa Fla a three men have been charged with trying to pass off $4.1 billion in counterfeit japanese government Bonds. The Case is among several around the country involving the work of a japanese counterfeiter caught and imprisoned in Japan in 1983, according to a secret service agent Rick Mcclelland. Charged thursday with Bank fraud counterfeiting and conspiracy were William woo am Cho i 5 9, and h is 2-y ear old son s a m be i Cho i both of St. Petersburg and Joung Joon an 56, of Taejon South Korea. . Must pay $41 million new York a jury awarded $41 million to the family of a pregnant woman who died after an ambulance to carry her Down three. Flights of stairs because one Crew member had a bad Back. The City conceded negligence in the 1986 death of Beverly Stevens 38. Thursdays verdict followed a trial to set damages. Stevens died of complications from her ectopic pregnancy in which the embryo develops outside the uterus several Days after she was misdiagnosed at a City Hospital. She was three months pregnant and weighed 155 pounds when the emergency medical service Crew refused to carry her to the ambulance. Stevens doubled Over in pain could not walk. The Crew left and she died about an hour later according to Dinkes amp Morelia the Law firm representing her widower and four children. J
