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2 April 1993
The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del. AP -
RJR Nabisco Inc. pledged to improve cigarette sales despite pleas from some
shareholders, including the grandson of founder R.J. Reynolds, that the
company become a leader in the anti-smoking campaign.
The differences emerged
at the tobacco and food conglomerate's annual meeting here on Friday.
Five anti-smoking
shareholders, including Patrick Reynolds, failed in a bid for seats on
the board of directors.
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THERESA HUMPHREY
623 words
2 April 1993
The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del. AP -
RJR Nabisco Inc. pledged Friday to improve cigarette sales despite pleas from
some shareholders, including the grandson of founder R.J. Reynolds, that
the company become a leader in the anti-smoking campaign.
The differences emerged
at the tobacco and food conglomerate's annual meeting here.
Five anti-smoking
shareholders, including Patrick Reynolds, failed in a bid for seats on
the board of directors.
Some of the dissidents
targeted the company's popular Camel brand for particular criticism and the
cartoon character "Old Joe" Camel, which they said targets cigarettes
toward young people.
Nonetheless, Karl von
der Heyden, co-chairman and chief executive, told shareholders that, despite
declining sales in the United States, the company's overall tobacco
sales have grown 27 percent over the past two years.
Von der Heyden said the
increase was due to expansions into new international markets and growth in
established businesses in western Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America.
"We're committed
to making the most of every new strategic opportunity that arises in the
international market," von der Heyden said. "But we're also
continuing to build our core, global business around our key brands - Winston,
Camel and Salem, which provide the lion's share of sales and profits in this
business."
Camels were the focus
of complaints from the shareholders who wanted the company to participate in
the anti-smoking campaign.
"If my grandfather
saw the Joe Camel campaign, I truly believe he would be shocked, dismayed and
saddened," Reynolds said.
Reynolds urged the
company "moral leaders in the tobacco industry" and push for a
ban on all cigarette advertising.
And he suggested the
company send him on a tour to colleges and public schools to talk to youths
about smoking.
Others decried the Joe
Camel advertisements for allegedly targeting young people, but co-chairman
Lawrence Ricciardi assured shareholders the company does not condone underage smoking.
"The company
actually discourages underage smoking. We do not want underage people smoking
anywhere in the world," Ricciardi said.
The annual meeting came
a week after RJR chief Louis V. Gerstner Jr. left the company to take the helm
at International Business Machines Inc. RJR's board then took the unusual step
of naming co-chief executives - von der Heyden, who was chief financial
officer, and Ricciardi, RJR's general counsel and executive vice president.
Ricciardi assured
shareholders "we haven't skipped a beat at RJR Nabisco" since
Gerstner's departure. He also noted Gerstner remains a member of the board, although
he was absent from the meeting. In addition, shareholders approved an expansion
of the board from 15 to 16 members to include Ricciardi.
In its domestic tobacco
business, von der Heyden said R.J. Reynolds is coming off a decade of decline
in volume and market share, especially for top full-priced cigarettes. Factors
contributing to the decline were the possibility of new federal cigarette taxes
and a shift by consumers from full-price brands to lower-priced brands,
including generics, he said.
There has been rapid
growth for the lowest-priced cigarettes and "our performance in that tier
will be an important part of our overall share of retail position," von
der Heyden said.
On Nabisco Foods, von
der Heyden said 1992 was an ambitious year for new products. He said two new
lines of reduced-fat snacks are aimed at "aging Baby Boomers" who
make up one of the fastest-growing market segments.
The new snacks, Mr.
Phipps Tater Crisps and SnackWell's, have generated more than $100 million in
sales since their introduction in August.
"They're a
terrific new source of business for us," von der Heyden said.
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Theresa Humphrey
Associated Press
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3 April 1993
Los Angeles Daily News
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RJR Nabisco Inc.
pledged Friday to improve cigarette sales despite pleas from some shareholders,
including the grandson of founder R.J. Reynolds, that the company become
a leader in the anti-smoking campaign.
The differences emerged
at the tobacco and food conglomerate's annual meeting here.
Five anti-smoking
shareholders, including Patrick Reynolds, failed in a bid for seats on
the board of directors.
Some of the dissidents
targeted the company's popular Camel brand for particular criticism and the
cartoon character "Old Joe" Camel, which they said influences young
people to smoke.
Nonetheless, Karl von
der Heyden, co-chairman and chief executive, told shareholders that, despite
declining sales in the United States, the company's overall tobacco
sales have grown 27 percent over the past two years.
Von der Heyden said the
increase was due to expansions into new international markets and growth in
established businesses in Western Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America.
"We're committed
to making the most of every new strategic opportunity that arises in the international
market," von der Heyden said. "But we're also continuing to build our
core, global business around our key brands - Winston, Camel and Salem, which
provide the lion's share of sales and profits in this business."
Camels were the focus
of complaints from the shareholders who wanted the company to participate in
the anti-smoking campaign.
"If my grandfather
saw the Joe Camel campaign, I truly believe he would be shocked, dismayed and
saddened," Reynolds said.
Reynolds urged the
company to be "moral leaders in the tobacco industry" and push
for a ban on cigarette advertising.
And he suggested the
company send him on a tour to colleges and public schools to talk to youths
about smoking.
Others decried the Joe
Camel advertisements for allegedly focusing on young people, but co-chairman
Lawrence Ricciardi assured shareholders the company does not condone underage smoking.
"The company
actually discourages underage smoking. We do not want underage people smoking
anywhere in the world," Ricciardi said.
Main story: Philip
Morris to boost Marlboro.
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3 April 1993
The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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WILMINGTON, Del. - The grandson
of R.J. Reynolds on Friday urged RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. to kill off
"Old Joe Camel," the cigarette ad gimmick that critics say targets
children and teen-agers. Patrick Reynolds said that, were his
grandfather alive today, "I sincerely believe that he would be shocked and
dismayed and saddened" at the ad campaign.
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The Associated Press
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3 April 1993
The Record, Northern New Jersey
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RJR Nabisco Holdings
Corp. pledged Friday to improve cigarette sales despite pleas from some
shareholders, including the grandson of founder R.J. Reynolds, that the
company become a leader in the anti-smoking campaign.
The differences emerged
at the tobacco and food conglomerate's annual meeting here.
Five anti-smoking
shareholders, including Patrick Reynolds, failed in their bid for seats
on the board of directors.
"If my grandfather
saw the Joe Camel campaign, I truly believe he would be shocked, dismayed, and
saddened," Reynolds said.
Some of the dissidents
singled out the company's popular Camel brand for particular criticism. They
said the cartoon character "Old Joe" Camel targets young people.
Nonetheless, Karl von
der Heyden, co-chairman and chief executive, told shareholders that, despite
declining sales in the United States, the company's overall tobacco
sales have grown 27 percent during the past two years.
The annual meeting came
a week after RJR chief Louis V. Gerstner Jr. left the company to take the helm
at International Business Machines Corp. RJR's board then took the unusual step
of naming co-chief executives _ Von der Heyden, who was chief financial
officer, and Lawrence Ricciardi, RJR's general counsel and executive vice
president.
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1993, Bloomberg
Business News
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3 April 1993
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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The top tobacco
executive at RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. predicted "full-scale war"
Friday after his archrival, Philip Morris Cos. Inc., said it would cut
cigarette prices.
James W. Johnston,
chairman and chief executive of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., RJR Nabisco's
tobacco unit, made the remark to a colleague after his company's annual
meeting.
Speaking in earshot of
reporters, Johnston said, "You hear about Philip Morris? It's full-scale war.
You'll be hearing more about it."
Philip Morris announced
it will cut the price of its Marlboro cigarettes to halt erosion of the
flagship brand's market share to discounted brands. Philip Morris said it will
expand an existing Marlboro promotion, increase distibution of its discount
brands, and avoid further price increases on premium brands for now.
The Philip Morris news
upstaged anything RJR officials had to say about their company at their
shareholders meeting.
Anti-smoking activists at the meeting
accounted for almost all the comments from the floor, led by Patrick
Reynolds, grandson of R.J. Reynolds.
Reynolds told RJR
officials they should "take the moral lead" and hire a lobbyist who
would press Congress to enact a ban on cigarette advertising.
Reynolds said he was
taking a "conciliatory approach," recognizing that he couldn't hope
to end smoking in the country or persuade one tobacco company to
stop advertising if competitors continued. He suggested, though, that a total
advertising ban would provide a level playing field for tobacco
companies while eliminating media images that influence the young to smoke.
An eerie silence fell
over the audience as anti-smoking board candidate David Bresnick, a
laryngectomy patient, criticized RJR for using the cartoon character Joe Camel,
which critics have said targets young smokers.
Bresnick held a
microphone to his neck, and the buzzing, mechanically reproduced monotone
reverberated in the high recesses of the rococo Gold Ballroom.
"I don't want this to happen to anyone else," Bresnick said. "I am amazed and appalled at the recognition by the young of Joe Camel. What is wrong with you that you can't admit what everybody knows is harmful?"
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JAMES RAINEY; RICHARD
SIMON
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
1,383 words
3 August 1993
Los Angeles Times
Home
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Los Angeles'
long-contested ban on smoking in restaurants suddenly went into effect
Monday, when the city clerk's office declared that a coalition of restaurant
owners had failed in a petition drive to put the issue before voters.
While nonsmokers
declared victory and the city attorney's office said it would begin enforcing
the ban immediately, opponents vowed to go to court to seek an order allowing
smokers to continue lighting up in the city's nearly 7,000 enclosed eateries.
The petitions were
invalidated because many of those signing or circulating them were found not to
be registered Los Angeles city voters.
In the meantime, the
Los Angeles Police Department said it will respond to complaints about
restaurant smoking, but that such calls are likely to be of low
priority. Smokers can be fined from $50 to $250, while restaurant owners who
defy the law face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
"August 2nd should
be remembered as a historic day for the city of Los Angeles," said
Councilman Marvin Braude, who pushed the smoking ban through the council
in late June. "It represents the day when the people of our city said `No'
to the powerful tobacco industry."
Other anti-smoking
advocates-noting that Long Beach and Pasadena also voted to prohibit restaurant
smoking in recent weeks-predicted that enforcement of the Los Angeles
law will be a catalyst for more smoking restrictions.
"I believe other
cities around Los Angeles are quickly going to fall into place and pass 100%
bans," said Patrick Reynolds, grandson of the founder of R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. who has bucked the family business by campaigning
for laws limiting the use of tobacco. He became an anti-smoking
activist after his father, a longtime smoker, died of emphysema. "This is
a day when all Los Angeles can breathe a little easier."
And a coalition of
nonsmokers announced Monday that it will go to court in an attempt to get an
order prohibiting smoking in all public facilities including hotels. The
group said at a Woodland Hills news conference that such smoking
violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by exposing those with respiratory
illnesses to dangerous secondhand smoke.
The sudden invalidation
of the pro-smoking petitions Monday was a surprise to both sides, which
had been girding for an expensive election to settle the matter. The mere
submission of the petitions blocked enforcement of the law for one week and
could have held it up until November or June, when the matter would have gone
before voters.
Instead, the petition
campaign seems all but dead. The law took effect about 10 a.m. Monday, when the
city attorney's office received notice from the clerk that the petitions had
been invalidated.
The Los Angeles
Hospitality Coalition, the restaurant group formed to fight the ban, had
submitted 97,572 signatures to the clerk's office July 24. That appeared to be
a comfortable cushion above the 58,275 signatures the group needed to put the
ordinance to a vote.
But in taking a 5%
sample of the signatures-standard procedure under the City Charter-the clerk's
office found that less than 43% of the signatures were those of registered Los
Angeles City voters. The number was so low that the clerk was not even required
by the charter to count the balance of the signatures, said Kristin Heffron,
head of the clerk's Elections Division.
Restaurant coalition
members, who had been backed by the tobacco industry, said the clerk's
office botched the petition review.
"What we will be
requesting is a court order asking that the ordinance be stayed while all of
the petitions are reviewed," said Dana Reed, attorney for the Hospitality
Coalition. The city clerk "hired 28 temporary employees to go in and check
these signatures and they just didn't do a very good job," Reed said.
More than a quarter of
those signing petitions were not listed on the county's voter registration
rolls, while nearly a quarter more were thrown out because those circulating
the petitions were not Los Angeles city voters, as required by the charter,
Heffron said.
Reed said it was
"a terrible error" to throw out signatures simply because the
petition circulators were not properly registered.
"The courts won't
allow them to do that," Reed said. "You can't penalize the people who
signed the petition because of an alleged error by the circulator."
The City Charter gives
the petition sponsors one month to challenge the validation procedure. The
greatest threat to the law may come from Sacramento, where restaurant owners
and tobacco interests are supporting a law by Assemblyman Curtis Tucker
Jr. D-Inglewood that would remove the power of cities to regulate smoking.
Another bill, by
Assemblyman Terry B. Friedman D-Brentwood, would ban smoking in
restaurants statewide.
Los Angeles is the
largest city in the United States to ban smoking in restaurants and one
of 60 jurisdictions in the state and 70 nationwide to prohibit restaurant smoking.
Ten more California cities will consider smoking bans in the next month.
The Los Angeles City
Council narrowly passed its law after a 15-year campaign by Braude, a former
smoker. Proponents said their cause gained momentum when the federal
Environmental Protection Agency declared secondhand smoke a significant
contributor to cancer and later recommended that employers minimize their
employees' contact with tobacco smoke.
Opponents have argued
that the bans unfairly limit personal freedom and harm business by driving
smokers out of restaurants.
The Los Angeles law
applies to all enclosed restaurants but does not govern bars-even if they are
located inside eateries. Patrons also are permitted to smoke in outdoor patios.
Los Angeles police said
they have made no specific plans for enforcing the ordinance.
"We will handle it
the same way we handle any call for service," said spokesman John Dunkin.
"We will take the appropriate action, but we have to give it some kind of
priority."
While saying the
department will not trivialize the law, Dunkin added that many more serious
crimes would get priority.
A spokesman for City
Atty. James Hahn said the office has never had to prosecute people for smoking
and is hoping for voluntary compliance.
But some restaurant
owners said they do not plan on helping the enforcement effort. "I'm not
going to play policeman," said Frank Holoman, owner of the Boulevard Cafe
in the Crenshaw district.
A spot check of several
downtown restaurants Monday evening showed that word about the ban had not
traveled far. From the ultra-casual Philippe of French dip sandwich fame to the
trendy Kachina Grill, most of those overseeing the dinner service said they
were unaware of the new ban.
Marcelo Falcon,
assistant manager of historic Olvera Street's El Paseo de Los Angeles, shook
his head while a party of six puffed away over pre-dinner drinks in the
restaurant's main dining room. "I don't think the owner knows about
this," Falcon said. "Probably we'll have some business losses, but
for me, it's better because I don't smoke."
But Sammy Cheung,
manager of the Ocean Seafood restaurant in Chinatown, said the new ordinance
will spell disaster for Los Angeles eateries.
"We will lose a
lot of customers. People will go to Monterey Park," he said, referring to
the San Gabriel Valley city with a large Asian population and a growing number
of ethnic restaurants. "If we make less, the city makes less in
taxes," added Cheung, who said about half his customers request seating in
the large restaurant's smoking section.
At least one restaurant
was ready. Susan Onodera, assistant manager of Horikawa in Little Tokyo, had
caught word of the ban on an early evening television news broadcast and was
scrambling to set out the "no smoking" signs the restaurant
had had printed up right after the ordinance was approved in June.
"We have a lot of
Japanese clientele that like to smoke," Onodera said. "We'll just
have to send them to the bar or to a private room."
Times staff writer Jean
Merl contributed to this report.
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JAMES RAINEY; RICHARD
SIMON
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
1,385 words
3 August 1993
Los Angeles Times
Valley
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The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles
Times 1993
Los Angeles'
long-contested ban on smoking in restaurants suddenly went into effect
Monday, when the city clerk's office declared that a coalition of restaurant
owners had failed in a petition drive to put the issue before voters.
While nonsmokers
declared victory and the city attorney's office said it would begin enforcing
the ban immediately, opponents vowed to go to court to seek an order allowing
smokers to continue lighting up in the city's nearly 7,000 enclosed eateries.
The petitions were
invalidated because many of those signing or circulating them were found not to
be registered Los Angeles city voters.
In the meantime, the
Los Angeles Police Department said it will respond to complaints about
restaurant smoking, but that such calls are likely to be of low
priority. Smokers can be fined from $50 to $250, while restaurant owners who
defy the law face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
"Aug. 2 should be
remembered as a historic day for the city of Los Angeles," said Councilman
Marvin Braude, who pushed the smoking ban through the council in late
June. "It represents the day when the people of our city said `No' to the
powerful tobacco industry."
Other anti-smoking
advocates-noting that Long Beach and Pasadena also voted to prohibit restaurant
smoking in recent weeks-predicted that enforcement of the Los Angeles
law will be a catalyst for more smoking restrictions.
"I believe other
cities around Los Angeles are quickly going to fall into place and pass 100%
bans," said Patrick Reynolds, grandson of the founder of R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. who has bucked the family business by campaigning
for laws limiting the use of tobacco. He became an anti-smoking
activist after his father, a longtime smoker, died of emphysema. "This is
a day when all Los Angeles can breathe a little easier."
And a coalition of
nonsmokers announced Monday that it will go to court in an attempt to get an
order prohibiting smoking in all public facilities including hotels. The
group said at a Woodland Hills news conference that such smoking
violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by exposing those with respiratory
illnesses to dangerous secondhand smoke.
The sudden invalidation
of the pro-smoking petitions Monday was a surprise to both sides, which
had been girding for an expensive election to settle the matter. The mere
submission of the petitions blocked enforcement of the law for one week and
could have held it up until November or June, when the matter would have gone
before voters.
Instead, the petition
campaign seems all but dead. The law took effect about 10 a.m. Monday, when the
city attorney's office received notice from the clerk that the petitions had
been invalidated.
The Los Angeles
Hospitality Coalition, the restaurant group formed to fight the ban, had
submitted 97,572 signatures to the clerk's office July 24. That appeared to be
a comfortable cushion above the 58,275 signatures the group needed to put the
ordinance to a vote.
But in taking a 5%
sample of the signatures-standard procedure under the City Charter-the clerk's
office found that fewer than 43% of the signatures were those of registered Los
Angeles city voters. The number was so low that the clerk was not even required
by the charter to count the balance of the signatures, said Kristin Heffron,
head of the clerk's Elections Division.
Restaurant coalition
members, who had been backed by the tobacco industry, said the clerk's
office botched the petition review.
"What we will be
requesting is a court order asking that the ordinance be stayed while all of
the petitions are reviewed," said Dana Reed, attorney for the Hospitality
Coalition. The city clerk "hired 28 temporary employees to go in and check
these signatures and they just didn't do a very good job," Reed said.
More than a quarter of
those signing petitions were not listed on the county's voter registration
rolls, while nearly a quarter more were thrown out because those circulating
the petitions were not Los Angeles city voters, as required by the City
Charter, Heffron said.
Reed said it was
"a terrible error" to throw out signatures simply because the
petition circulators were not properly registered.
"The courts won't
allow them to do that," Reed said. "You can't penalize the people who
signed the petition because of an alleged error by the circulator."
The City Charter gives
the petition sponsors one month to challenge the validation procedure. The
greatest threat to the law may come from Sacramento, where restaurant owners
and tobacco interests are supporting a law by Assemblyman Curtis Tucker
Jr. D-Inglewood that would remove the power of cities to regulate smoking.
Another bill, by
Assemblyman Terry B. Friedman D-Brentwood, would ban smoking in
restaurants statewide.
Los Angeles is the
largest city in the United States to ban smoking in restaurants and one
of 60 jurisdictions in the state and 70 nationwide to prohibit restaurant smoking.
Ten more California cities will consider smoking bans in the next month.
The Los Angeles City
Council narrowly passed its law after a 15-year campaign by Braude, a former
smoker. Proponents said their cause gained momentum when the federal
Environmental Protection Agency declared secondhand smoke a significant
contributor to cancer and later recommended that employers minimize their
employees' contact with tobacco smoke.
Opponents have argued
that the bans unfairly limit personal freedom and harm business by driving smokers
out of restaurants.
The Los Angeles law
applies to all enclosed restaurants but does not govern bars-even if they are
located inside eateries. Patrons also are permitted to smoke in outdoor patios.
Los Angeles police said
they have made no specific plans for enforcing the ordinance.
"We will handle it
the same way we handle any call for service," said spokesman John Dunkin.
"We will take the appropriate action, but we have to give it some kind of
priority."
While saying the
department will not trivialize the law, Dunkin added that many more serious
crimes would get priority.
A spokesman for City
Atty. James Hahn said the office has never had to prosecute people for smoking
and is hoping for voluntary compliance.
A random sampling of
restaurants in the San Fernando Valley indicated the law would make little
difference-that they either prohibited smoking already or that few in
their clientele still smoke.
"It is, for us,
not much of a problem, I think," said Ange St. Jacques, manager of the
ritzy Bistro Gardens in Studio City. "We cater to highly evolved people
that are health conscious, more than the working people," he said. At
least 80% of his customers do not smoke anyway, he said.
At Pinot in Studio
City, manager Taylor Presnell gave an even higher figure.
"Maybe 95% are not
smokers these days," he said.
Receptionist Jill
Freiberg pointed out that a few people had made reservations a week or so ago
for the smoking section, four tables near the bar.
"We told the
customers about the ban and that we had to abide by it," Presnell said.
"They were very accommodating, very understanding, and we had no problems.
We had a smoke-free evening tonight."
At Cha Cha Cha in
Encino, one of the hottest trendy restaurants in the Valley, manager Todd West
said, "We were essentially a nonsmoking restaurant anyway." The
restaurant set aside a smoking area when it opened two years ago. But so
few people asked to sit there that it was impractical to keep it, he said, and
so smoking has been limited to the bar area, where it will continue to
be legal.
At the Oyster House in
Studio City, which attracted many smokers in the past, a waitress who did not
want to be identified rejoiced that those days are over.
"I fought for this
ban," she said. "Everyone hates me for this, but I told them, I have
a right to a safe and healthy environment. . . . I'm not afraid of being fired.
It's the law, now."
Times staff writers
Jean Merl and David Colker contributed to this report.
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Voice of the people letter.
Edward L. Koven.
261 words
14 September 1993
Chicago Tribune
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The Sept. 4 letter from
William S. Simmons, director of Smoking and Health for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co. "Data on smoking link challenged", pertaining to the
danger of tobacco smoke to restaurant workers, is typical of tobacco
company spin-control propaganda.
A five-year-old
asthmatic child can tell you about the serious adverse health consequences of
being in a smoke-filled area, including a restaurant. Scientists and flight
attendants convinced Congress of the need to ban smoking in domestic
flight because of the lethal nature of tobacco smoke. Why restaurant
workers would react differently to the 43 carcinogens and toxins of tobacco
smoke and secondary tobacco smoke in an enclosed area defies any sense
of logic and common sense.
The dangers of tobacco
smoke have been known for nearly 400 years. King James I in 1604 observed that,
"Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,
harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs." Dr. William Smith, a
professor of physiology at the Dartmouth Medical College, pointed out the
serious health problems caused by smoking in his 1885 "Primer of
Physiology and Hygiene."
And in 1986 Patrick
Reynolds, the grandson of the founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co., testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on
Health and Environment that cigarettes "cause heart disease, lung disease
and cancer."
It is time for R.J.
Reynolds and other tobacco companies to put human lives ahead of tobacco
industry profits.
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By John Sherwin Special
to The Star
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25 November 1993
The Toronto Star
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The Toronto Star
ST. CATHARINES -
Ontario's tough new anti-smoking bill is ``a dream come true,'' says the
grandson of U.S. tobacco baron R.J. Reynolds.
A reformed smoker and
campaigner against tobacco companies, Patrick Reynolds told an
audience at Brock University this week that Canada is ``a model nation'' in the
fight to ban cigarettes.
The warning labels on
cigarette packages are ``wonderful,'' he said, adding that he thinks the higher
taxes levied on cigarettes in Canada are appropriate because of the medical
costs of caring for smokers.
A former pack-a-day
smoker, Reynolds said his grandfather, mother and father all died from smoking-related
diseases.
``My only memories of
my dad are of a man gasping for breath,'' he said.
``Cigarettes took my
father away from me.''
Reynolds, 44, a
resident of Beverly Hills, Calif., said he sold his family stock in 1979.
He said he tried 12
times to stop smoking before he finally quit the habit seven years ago.
Ontario's proposed
legislation calls for a ban on cigarettes being sold in pharmacies and in
vending machines, and prohibits the sale of cigarettes to anyone under 19.
Persons caught selling
cigarettes to minors will now face stiffer penalties.
``I applaud you for
what you've done with cigarette legislation,'' Reynolds said, adding that he
would like to see the United States prohibit the sale of tobacco
products to anyone under 21, increase taxes and ban all advertising.
Reynolds, who is on a
North American tour with his anti-tobacco message, was the guest of the
Niagara Council on Smoking and Health.
While insisting that
his family supports him in his campaign, Reynolds admits there have been many
``heated discussions'' about the effect his crusade is having on the family
fortune.
The R.J. Reynolds
company makes several popular cigarette brands in the United States, including
Winston, Salem and Camel.
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Alfredo Corchado
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
768 words
6 March 1994
The Dallas Morning News
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ARLINGTON - Cigarettes
have always played a big part in Patrick Reynolds' life.
Not only was he a
pack-a-day smoker, but his family fortune was built largely from cigarette
sales.
Mr. Reynolds, 45, is
the grandson of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company,
the same company that persuaded millions of Americans to "walk a mile for
a Camel," as the ads once read.
But for the past eight
years, Mr. Reynolds has been fighting the multibillion dollar tobacco
industry, warning audiences nationwide of the dangers of cigarette smoking.
On Saturday, Mr.
Reynolds was the keynote speaker at an educational symposium on cancer
prevention and new treatments. More than 100 people attended the symposium,
which was sponsored by the Cancer Research Foundation of North Texas and held
at Arlington Memorial Hospital.
"I'm fighting the
hand that fed me because that same hand has also killed tens of millions of
people worldwide," Mr. Reynolds said during an interview.
Mr. Reynolds' father
disinherited Patrick after his parents divorced when he was 3, but he received
a $2.5 million trust fund from his grandmother. He says he has spent more than
$1 million in his anti-smoking crusade, which is inspired by one
poignant and personal fact: Mr. Reynolds blames tobacco for killing some
of his own family members.
His father, R.J.
Reynolds Jr., died in 1964 of emphysema. His grandfather, R.J. Reynolds Sr.,
died in 1918 of pancreatic cancer. Patrick Reynolds' aunt, Nancy, died
after losing a lung to cancer and then developing emphysema.
His father's death when
he was 15 inspired his anti-smoking crusade. The memory of his father
had a "profound and powerful impact on my life," he said.
Mr. Reynolds remembers
writing a letter to his father. "I wrote, `Dear Dad, I want to meet you.
For years I've longed for your presence and for your hugs . . . ' "
His father promptly
arranged a meeting, he said.
"I remember him
coughing and lying in bed and gasping for every breath," he said. "It
was very difficult for me."
Still, Mr. Reynolds,
like most young Americans, took up smoking when he was young - he was
18. Yet "the more I learned about the tobacco industry, the angrier
and the more disturbed I became," he said.
In 1979, Mr. Reynolds
divested his stock in R.J. Reynolds and in 1986, a year after he gave up smoking,
Mr. Reynolds notified his two older brothers that he would testify on Capitol
Hill in favor of a ban on cigarette ads.
He recalls the response
from his brother Will. "He said, `You're gonna do what, boy?' " Mr.
Reynolds said. His other brother, Mike, worried that the negative publicity
would drive down the company's stock price.
"We had a heated
exchange," Mr. Reynolds said, adding that he still spends Christmas with
his family, though the issue of cigarettes is a forbidden topic.
Mr. Reynolds, chairman
of the Citizens for a SmokeFree America, spends most of his time lobbying to
ban cigarette ads and vending machines. He's also lobbying Congress for a higher
tax on a pack of smokes, which is currently 46 cents.
"America has the
lowest tax on cigarettes of any country worldwide," said Mr. Reynolds, who
lives in Beverly Hills, Calif.
He is trying to
persuade Congress to approve a tax that would match Canada's, which is $3.26
per pack. President Clinton initially proposed a $1 tax on cigarettes but later
revised it to 75 cents, a move that Mr. Reynolds says was pushed by powerful tobacco
lobbying groups.
"The tobacco
industry gave record amounts to Bush and Clinton in the last presidential
campaign - and no corporation ever gave money without expecting something in
return," he said.
Mr. Reynolds also
travels the country in support of states and cities that have proposed anti-smoking
ordinances, including the one implemented in Arlington last week. Under that
controversial law, smoking is banned in the city's 600 restaurants
unless they install pricey ventilation systems.
But despite such
efforts, Mr. Reynolds notes that cigarette sales are still on the rise,
particularly among teens. About 90 percent of all smokers start by age 14, he
said, and they become addicted by age 19.
PHOTOS: Margaret Beard left
speaks to Patrick Reynolds after his speech Saturday at the Symposium on
Cancer Prevention and New Treatment in Arlington. The Dallas Morning News:
Beatriz Terrazas ; PHOTO LOCATION: Disk 32b / NB_Patrick Reynolds 5 cf
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Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders warned youths nationwide Thursday that a deadly
addiction awaits them if they start smoking.
During a
teleconference, Elders and others discussed the reasons why adolescents smoke,
its harm and how they can avoid it.
"They have as hard
a time as adults at quitting," she said. "Children can't choose their
environments. They don't know all the facts. They get this wonderful
vision" from tobacco companies of a sexy, successful lifestyle.
The teleconference,
dubbed a "booster shot" to Elders' report on smoking and
children last month, was to encourage state and local anti-smoking
campaigns.
The nation's top doctor
was joined in the two-hour talk-show format by Dr. David Satcher, director of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous anti-smoking
activists, public educators and health officials.
The group took calls
from across the country, including one from a grandson of tobacco
magnate R.J. Reynolds, Patrick Reynolds of Los Angeles. He described his
visits to schools to tell students about the dangers of smoking.
Elders report, compiled
by government scientists and academic researchers, said the average age when
smokers tried their first cigarette was 14.5 years. It said more than 70
percent of people who become daily smokers acquired the habit by 18.
The report also said a
third to half of young people who try cigarettes become daily smokers and that
at least 3.1 million people ages 12-18 smoke.
The surgeon general's
report on smoking was the 23rd since the late Dr. Luther Terry fired the
first salvo in 1964.
"Tobacco is
addictive. Tobacco kills and we don't want our young people to go on to
smoke," Elders said.
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U.S. Surgeon General
Joycelyn Elders warned youths nationwide Thursday that a deadly addiction
awaits them if they start smoking.
During a
teleconference, Dr. Elders and others discussed the reasons why adolescents
smoke, its harm and how they can avoid it.
"They have as hard
a time as adults at quitting," she said. "Children can't choose their
environments. They don't know all the facts. They get this wonderful
vision" from tobacco companies of a sexy, successful lifestyle. The
teleconference, dubbed a "booster shot" to Dr. Elders' report on smoking
and children last month, was to encourage state and local anti-smoking
campaigns. The nation's top doctor was joined in the two-hour talk-show format
by Dr. David Satcher, director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and numerous anti-smoking activists, public educators and
health officials. The group took calls from across the country, including one
from a grandson of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds, Patrick
Reynolds of Los Angeles. He described his visits to schools to tell students
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FDA Opens Door For
Damages For Alleged Conspiracy
To Addict Customers
With Nicotine
SAN FRANCISCO and NEW
ORLEANS, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Famed attorney Melvin M. Belli, noted New
Orleans class action attorney Wendell H. Gauthier and San Francisco lawyer
Robert Leif head a vast legal team which has today filed the first
international class action suit against America's major tobacco industries.
The $5 billion suit charges Philip Morris Tobacco, R.J. Reynolds and a
myriad of others with the wrongful deaths and disabilities of thousands and
thousands of people who were addicted to nicotine in cigarettes caused both by
the natural substance in tobacco and, most importantly, the intentional
addition of extra nicotine to keep victim customers addicted in order to keep
buying the product.
" ... manipulation
and dosage of Nicotine not recognized on the label of the drug or tobacco
product constitutes an adulteration and/or misbranding as defined by the
Federal Food Drug Cosmetic Act and may constitute a criminal act and breach of
duty subjecting all defendants to civil liability for all damages," states
a portion of the 14-page suit by Belli and Gauthier.
Belli, who recently
helped successfully sue Imelda Marcos for $1.2 billion, states, " ... 30
years ago I filed the first suit against these same tobacco companies in
the same city of New Orleans. We lost because we couldn't prove the addiction
of nicotine then. Now I have great satisfaction in filing this first class
action suit with Wendell Gauthier against this industry that will finally have
to defend themselves against these charges. We will prove that the tobacco
industry has conspired to catch you, hold you and kill you ... all without a
moment of remorse or self-examination."
Recently Belli has been
in discussions with Patrick Reynolds, the grandson of tobacco
company founder R.J. Reynolds and president of Los Angeles-based Citizens for a
Smoke Free America, who says, "If litigation victories help raise the
price of a pack of cigarettes, that will help cut the level of young kids
starting up with smoking, then that is just fine with us. Recently the tobacco
industry has been denying that cigarettes are addictive. Former Surgeon General
C. Everet Coop's `Report on Nicotine Addiction' states that `nicotine is as
addictive as heroin.' I believe this is a strategy by the tobacco
companies to avoid litigation and to keep present customers in denial about
their addiction."
Belli and Gauthier also
filed today a Temporary Restraining Order and Injunction to stop the tobacco
companies from destroying or altering any and all evidence which is in their
possession.
United States District
Court Eastern District of Louisiana
New Orleans, La., Case
No.
Diane Castano, Gayle
Perry and all others similarly situated
vs. Philip Morris Inc.,
R.J. Reynolds, et al.
CONTACT: Edward Lozzi,
director, Media Affairs, of Belli Law, 818-995-8036/ 08:04 EST
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PR Newswire
c 1994, PR Newswire
FDA Opens Door For
Damages For Alleged Conspiracy
To Addict Customers
With Nicotine
SAN FRANCISCO and NEW
ORLEANS, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Famed attorney Melvin M. Belli, noted New
Orleans class action attorney Wendell H. Gauthier and San Francisco lawyer
Robert Leif head a vast legal team which has today filed the first
international class action suit against America's major tobacco
industries. The $5 billion suit charges Philip Morris Tobacco, R.J.
Reynolds and a myriad of others with the wrongful deaths and disabilities of
thousands and thousands of people who were addicted to nicotine in cigarettes
caused both by the natural substance in tobacco and, most importantly,
the intentional addition of extra nicotine to keep victim customers addicted in
order to keep buying the product.
" ... manipulation
and dosage of Nicotine not recognized on the label of the drug or tobacco
product constitutes an adulteration and/or misbranding as defined by the
Federal Food Drug Cosmetic Act and may constitute a criminal act and breach of
duty subjecting all defendants to civil liability for all damages," states
a portion of the 14-page suit by Belli and Gauthier.
Belli, who recently
helped successfully sue Imelda Marcos for $1.2 billion, states, " ... 30
years ago I filed the first suit against these same tobacco companies in
the same city of New Orleans. We lost because we couldn't prove the addiction
of nicotine then. Now I have great satisfaction in filing this first class
action suit with Wendell Gauthier against this industry that will finally have
to defend themselves against these charges. We will prove that the tobacco
industry has conspired to catch you, hold you and kill you ... all without a
moment of remorse or self-examination."
Recently Belli has been
in discussions with Patrick Reynolds, the grandson of tobacco
company founder R.J. Reynolds and president of Los Angeles-based Citizens for a
Smoke Free America, who says, "If litigation victories help raise the
price of a pack of cigarettes, that will help cut the level of young kids
starting up with smoking, then that is just fine with us. Recently the tobacco
industry has been denying that cigarettes are addictive. Former Surgeon General
C. Everet Coop's `Report on Nicotine Addiction' states that `nicotine is as
addictive as heroin.' I believe this is a strategy by the tobacco
companies to avoid litigation and to keep present customers in denial about
their addiction."
Belli and Gauthier also
filed today a Temporary Restraining Order and Injunction to stop the tobacco
companies from destroying or altering any and all evidence which is in their
possession.
United States District
Court Eastern District of Louisiana
New Orleans, La., Case
No.
Diane Castano, Gayle
Perry and all others similarly situated
vs. Philip Morris Inc.,
R.J. Reynolds, et al.
CONTACT: Edward Lozzi,
director, Media Affairs, of Belli Law, 818-995-8036/ 14:31 EST
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Dow Jones News Service
c 1994, Dow Jones & Co., Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO -DJ-
Attorneys Melvin M. Belli, Wendell H. Gauthier Robert Leif said they today
filed an international class action suit against America's major tobacco
industries.
In a press release, the
attorneys said the $5 billion suit charges Philip Morris Tobacco, R.J.
Reynolds and other companies with the wrongful deaths and disabilities of
thousands who were addicted to nicotine in cigarettes caused both by the
natural substance in tobacco ''and ... the intentional addition of extra
nicotine to keep victim customers addicted in order to keep buying the
product.''
Belli also said 30
years ago he filed the first suit against the same tobacco companies,
also in New Orleans. He said he lost that case because he couldn't prove the
addiction of nicotine then but he said he now has ''great satisfaction'' in
filing the current suit. He said the tobacco companies ''will finally
have to defend themselves against these charges.''
Belli said he has
recently been in discussions with Patrick Reynolds, the grandson
of tobacco company founder R.J. Reynolds and president of Los
Angeles-based Citizens for a Smoke Free America, who says, ''If litigation
victories help raise the price of a pack of cigarettes, that will help cut the
level of young kids starting up with smoking, then that is just fine
with us...''
Belli and Gauthier also
filed today a temporary restraining order and injunction to stop the tobacco
companies from destroying or altering any and all evidence which is in their
possession.
R.J. Reynolds and
Philip Morris had no immediate comment.
An attorney for Philip
Morris Cos. said he was ''not surprised'' that Belli and Gauthier would ''jump
on the publicity bandwagon'' created by the ''erroneous comments'' by Food and
Drug Administrator Dr. David Kessler, aired on ABC's Day One program.
The program said tobacco
companies inject nicotine into cigarettes to make them more addictive. The
Philip Morris attorney said Philip Morris doesn't inject its cigarettes and
there is ''no merit to the substance'' of the allegations raised by Belli and
Gauthier.
The Philip Morris
attorney also said similar suits have been filed against tobacco firms
and the tobacco firms have always prevailed.
As reported March 25,
Philip Morris has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Capital Cities/ABC Inc. CCB
over what was alleged on the television program.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds, a unit of RJR Nabisco Inc., said she had not seen the Belli-Gauthier
lawsuit. She said that if its claims are based on what was reported on ABC's
Day One program, the suit will not be successful.
The spokeswoman said
the program claimed tobacco companies inject cigarettes with nicotine to
make them more addictive. She said the opposite is true.
She said the process
which was alleged to inject nicotine is called reconstituting tobacco
sheets. She said cigarettes made with reconstituted tobacco sheets are
30% lower in nicotine than those made with leaf.
The spokeswoman said
the company does not add nicotine to its products. She said the production
process causes cigarettes to lose nicotine.
She also pointed to a
Surgeon General's report, which she said stated the nicotine content in
cigarettes has declined 60% over the last 40 years.
She also said RJR is
considering a lawsuit against ABC.
8:39 AM
The Wall Street Journal
reported that the other companies named in the suit were American Tobacco
Co., Liggett Group Inc. and Lorillard Inc., a unit of Loews Corp.
American Tobacco
declined comment. Liggett and Lorillard couldn't be reached for comment.
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Steve Proffitt is a producer for Fox News and contributor to National Public
Radio's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered." He
interviewed Patrick Reynolds at his home in Beverly Hills.
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The ashtray may soon be
a collector's item. The nation's 50 million smokers are feeling like an
oppressed minority. Tobacco-control advocates have snuffed out
cigarettes in airplanes, theaters, ball parks and shopping malls. Many cities
prohibit smoking in restaurants and other public places.
Congress is now
considering a hefty tax increase on cigarettes, a nationwide workplace smoking
ban and legislation to put the sale and manufacture of tobacco products
under the regulation of the Food and Drug Administration. The states of Florida
and Mississippi are suing tobacco companies to recover costs of treating
diseases caused by smoking. Even the military, home of "Smoke 'em
if you've got 'em," has prohibited puffing in all but a few designated
areas. To paraphrase a famous cigarette ad: We've come a long way, baby.
These accomplishments
to curb tobacco use are even more remarkable considering the strength of
the tobacco industry. The tobacco lobby is one of the most
powerful and well-funded-in 1991, tobacco interests spent $2.7 million
on lobbying and campaign contributions in California alone. That lobby reflects
the earning power of the business-in 1992, a tobacco and food
conglomerate, Philip Morris, was the most profitable in America, with nearly
two-thirds of its almost $5 billion in profit coming from tobacco sales.
One of tobacco's
most vocal foes wears one of its most familiar names. In 1911, R.J. Reynolds
created Camel cigarettes-the fastest-selling brand in the country today. And
R.J.'s grandson, Patrick Reynolds, 45, works full time as a lecturer and
crusader against the cigarette industry-financing his ventures, in part, with
an inheritance rooted in the tobacco fields of North Carolina.
When Reynolds was a
teen-ager, his father died of emphysema. Even that didn't stop the young
Reynolds from taking up the tobacco habit. He finally kicked it in the
mid-'80s, after selling all his tobacco stock. In 1986, he shocked his
family by testifying on Capitol Hill in favor of a ban on cigarette
advertising, and quickly became a spokesperson for the growing tobacco-control
movement.
Before finding his
calling as an anti-smoking crusader, Reynolds was an aspiring actor. He
uses his thespian skills and his famous name to hold the media's attention and
keep tobacco executives' feet to the fire. He works out of a modest home
in Beverly Hills, where he talked about the tobacco industry's
impressive political power and his vision of a smoke-free America.
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Question: There has
been all this activity-congressional hearings, FDA proposals to regulate smoking,
workplace smoking bans. Have we reached some sort of critical mass in
the anti-smoking movement?
Answer: I really hope
so. I've been calling for FDA regulation of cigarettes for a long time, and now
we have an FDA administrator, David Kessler, who's saying the same thing. He
says he's prepared to show that cigarette manufacturers manipulate the levels
of nicotine in their products, and he's waiting for a mandate from Congress.
The greatest thing that
will come out of FDA regulation is that manufacturers will have to print the
ingredients on the packs-so that people will know what chemicals they are
ingesting when they smoke. Meanwhile, Rep. Henry Waxman D-Los Angeles has a
bill to ban smoking in the workplace. That would be a national ban, and,
of course, the tobacco industry is fighting it tooth and nail, with all
their power and might.
But the core issue, as
I see it, is the power of the tobacco lobby . . . . Look what they have
achieved. America has the lowest cigarette tax of any industrialized country in
the world. It averages about 50 cents a pack; in Canada, it's $3.26 a pack.
We've failed to ban cigarette advertising-cigarettes are the most heavily
advertised product in America. The tobacco industry is spending
somewhere around $4 billion a year to associate smoking with images of
health and beauty and romance. Cigarette advertising is the greatest lie in
history. They're spending $15 per person, for every man, woman and child in
this country, to promote smoking. And they spend freely to make sure an
advertising ban will never make it out of committee in Congress.
They are very much
around at the local level, too. The tobacco lobby sends slick lawyers
into state capitals to get watered-down anti-smoking legislation passed
that preempts many of the local anti-smoking ordinances we have worked
so hard to put into law.
Exporting of cigarettes
to Asia-again the special interests are responsible for that, for hundreds of
millions of people becoming addicted in those countries.
Back in the 1980s, Sen.
Jesse Helms went to see President Reagan, and said, "We've got a balance-of-payments
problem here, Ron; how come we can't sell American cigarettes in some of these
foreign markets?" So Reagan got the government to start pressing the
Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and said, "If you don't lower your
tariffs on our cigarettes, we're going to slap trade penalties on you."
Those governments caved
in, lowered their import taxes on cigarettes, and then the American tobacco
industry began a full-scale ad campaign in those countries. Partly as a result,
smoking has increased 70% around the world since 1968. So while people
think we are somehow winning the battle against smoking, we're actually
losing when you look at it worldwide . . . . But the real critical mass-the
paradigm shift-may be political. For years, politicians have been able to
accept huge amounts of money from the tobacco lobby, and vote to support
the lobby's interests, while escaping the wrath of the public. But with so much
attention on the issue of smoking, they can't still look good and vote
with the tobacco lobby.
Q: What sort of
regulation would you like to see on the sale and marketing of cigarettes?
A: Appropriate
regulation-regulation that at least duplicates what's going on in other
countries. We should have the warning label on the front of the pack, as Canada
requires. Ban advertising and raise taxes, as Canada has done. The difference
between the Canadian government and ours? It's the power of the special
interests and the money that goes into the hands of the politicians.
Another important
regulation would raise the age for purchasing cigarettes to 21. It would
require merchants to have a license to sell cigarettes, just like liquor. There
are statistics which really make the case for this-of all smokers, 60% start by
the age of 14 years old, and 90% by the age of 19. That means only one smoker
in 10 starts after the age of 19. If we can keep cigarettes away from kids
until they reach 21, we could go a long way toward eliminating the problem. So
the purchase of cigarettes must be regulated as seriously as alcohol. This
means banning vending machines as well. You can't buy a beer in a vending
machine. But vending machines are how children are getting cigarettes.
Q: What sort of a tax
would you like to see applied to cigarettes?
A: The direct medical
costs related to smoking is $22 billion a year. If you divide that by
the number of packs of cigarettes sold every year, the figure comes out to
$2.17 of direct medical costs per pack. So, at the very least, the tax should
pay for the cost of smoking.
But let me make a
somewhat radical proposal. I believe that the future of tobacco control
may lie in nationalizing the tobacco companies. This means that the
government would pay an appropriate, or perhaps an inappropriate price for the tobacco
companies and from that point forward, all the profits would go to Uncle Sam.
Imagine how much easier the job of tobacco control would be if there was
no more money spent on lobbyists. I am not a socialist. As a rule, I don't
believe in nationalizing industries, but tobacco is an exception: It's
the only product sold which, when used as intended, causes death.
Q: Where do the 54
million people who smoke fit into this debate? Don't we need to focus on them
at some point?
A: Yes, but I will tell
you candidly that we have limited dollars-and it costs a lot more to get
someone to stop smoking than it does to educate children not to ever
start smoking. It's vastly more costly to get addicts off cigarettes. I
don't think we can ignore or neglect the issue of smoking cessation, however.
And I think the tobacco industry's assertion that smokers have choice
sounds good, but how much of a choice do smokers really have when cigarettes
are as addicting as heroin?
I do believe that if
under Clinton's health-care program, employers are going to pay for the health
care of their employees, then smoking cessation programs should be
included in the national health-care program.
Q: Do you believe
people have a right to smoke and, if so, what rights do they have?
A: Smoker's have a
right to smoke, but the right of nonsmokers to breathe clean air supersedes the
right of smokers. So it is very appropriate to ban smoking in the
workplace, in public places like restaurants and airports, in enclosed spaces
where people have to breathe. But I don't believe in a cigarette prohibition.
The tobacco industry would love to have tobacco-control advocates
such as myself take the position that cigarettes should be banned, because then
they could call us zealots or fanatics , and dismiss us. I take a moderate and
what I feel is an appropriate position.
Q: What about
Hollywood? While cigarettes have disappeared almost entirely from television,
there's still a lot of smoking in the movies. Are you trying to do
anything about that?
A: Yes, and I think we
need to do something to encourage stars like Wynona Rider from chain-smoking
throughout a movie like "Reality Bites." We should encourage her to
argue with her producers and say, "Hey, I don't want my character to
smoke; I may be a role model for young women, and the last thing I want them to
do is smoke cigarettes." If Wynona Rider had the courage to do that, it
could make a difference. Perhaps she's taken an unfair beating for smoking
in that movie, but that may be the kind of pressure we have to put on stars to
make them refuse to smoke in movies.
And here's something
that's never been printed, as far as I know. I have it on very good authority
that the firm U.S. Tobacco financed a movie called "Pure
Country." In that movie, all the cowboy heroes chewed tobacco, and
it was financed by the company most responsible for producing chewing tobacco.
Q: Some years ago, you
talked about achieving a smoke-free America by the year 2000. It seemed like an
outrageous idea just a few years ago, and now it's seeming to be something that
might almost be achievable. When do you think you can put yourself out of
business?
A: I don't think I will
be out of business in my lifetime. With hundreds of millions of addicts around
the world, there will always be plenty of work for tobacco-control
advocates. I always point out that, a few years ago, we thought we'd never get smoking
off airplanes, and today we and wonder if it was really true that there ever
was smoking on airplanes. So one day we are going to look back and say,
"You mean, people used to actually smoke?" That day is coming, that's
a promise.*
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The ashtray may soon be
a collector's item. The nation's 50 million smokers are feeling like an
oppressed minority. Tobacco-control advocates have snuffed out
cigarettes in airplanes, theaters, ballparks and shopping malls. Many cities
prohibit smoking in restaurants and other public places.
Congress is considering
a hefty tax increase on cigarettes, a nationwide workplace smoking ban
and legislation to put the sale and manufacture of tobacco products
under the regulation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The states of
Florida and Mississippi are suing tobacco companies, trying to recover
costs of treating disease caused by smoking.
These efforts to curb tobacco
use are even more remarkable considering the strength of the tobacco
industry. The tobacco lobby reflects the earning power of the business -
in 1992, Philip Morris was the most profitable business in America, netting
almost $5 billion.
One of tobacco's
most vocal foes wears one of its most familiar names. In 1911, R.J. Reynolds
created Camel cigarettes - today the fastest-selling brand in the country. And
today R.J.'s grandson, Patrick Reynolds, 45, crusades full time against
the cigarette industry - financing his ventures in part with an inheritance
rooted in the tobacco fields of North Carolina.
When Patrick
Reynolds was a teen-ager, his father died of emphysema. Even that didn't
stop the young Reynolds from taking up the tobacco habit. He kicked it
in the mid-'80s, after selling all his tobacco stock. In 1986, he
shocked his family by testifying on Capitol Hill in favor of a ban on cigarette
advertising.
Before finding his
calling as an anti-smoking crusader, Mr. Reynolds was an aspiring actor.
He uses his thespian skills and his famous name to keep tobacco
executives' feet to the fire. He works out of a modest home in Beverly Hills,
Calif., where he talked with Steve Proffitt, a producer for Fox News and a
contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things
Considered. The following are excerpts:
Q: There's been all
this activity - congressional hearings, FDA proposals to regulate smoking.
Have we reached some sort of critical mass in the anti-smoking movement?
A: I really hope so.
I've been calling for FDA regulation of cigarettes for a long time, and now we
have an FDA administrator, David Kessler, who's saying the same thing. He says
he's prepared to show that cigarette manufacturers manipulate the levels of
nicotine in their products, and he's waiting for a mandate from Congress.
The greatest thing that
will come out of FDA regulation is that manufacturers will have to print the
ingredients on the packs - so that people will know what chemicals they are
ingesting when they smoke. Meanwhile, Rep. Henry Waxman D-Calif. has a bill to
ban smoking in the workplace. That would be a national ban, and, of
course, the tobacco industry is fighting it tooth and nail, with all
their power and might.
But the core issue as I
see it is the power of the tobacco lobby. It's a microcosm of what's
going on on a larger scale. The special interests have often kept from being
passed legislation which is in the best interest of the public health. So we
have to get rid of the power of the special interests.
Q: What sort of
regulation would you like to see on the sale and marketing of cigarettes?
A: Appropriate
regulation - regulation which at least duplicates what's going on in other
countries. We should have the warning label on the front of the pack, as Canada
requires. Ban advertising and raise taxes, as Canada has done. The difference
between the Canadian government and ours? It's the power of the special
interests and the money that goes into the hands of the politicians.
Another important
regulation would raise the age for purchasing cigarettes to 21. It would
require merchants to have a license to sell cigarettes, just like liquor. There
are statistics which really make the case for this - of all smokers, 60 percent
start by the age of 14 years old, and 90 percent by the age of 19. That means
only one smoker in 10 starts after the age of 19. If we can keep cigarettes
away from kids until they reach 21, we could go a long way toward eliminating
the problem. So the purchase of cigarettes must be regulated as seriously as
alcohol. This means banning vending machines as well. You can't buy a beer in a
vending machine. But vending machines are how children are getting cigarettes.
Q: Where do the 54
million people who smoke fit into this debate?
A: I will tell you
candidly that we have limited dollars - and it costs a lot more to get someone
to stop smoking than it does to educate children not to ever start smoking.
It's vastly more costly to get addicts off cigarettes. I don't think we can
ignore or neglect the issue of smoking cessation, however. And I think
the tobacco industry's assertion that smokers have choice sounds good,
but how much of a choice do smokers really have when cigarettes are as
addicting as heroin?
Q: Do you believe
people have a right to smoke, and if so what rights do they have?
A: Smokers have a right
to smoke, but the right of non-smokers to breathe clean air supersedes the
right of smokers. So it is very appropriate to ban smoking in the
workplace, in public places like restaurants and airports, in enclosed spaces
where people have to breathe. But I don't believe in a cigarette prohibition.
Q: Some years ago you
talked about achieving a smoke-free America by the year 2000. It seemed like an
outrageous idea just a few years ago, and now it's seeming to be something that
might almost be achievable. When do you think you can put yourself out of
business?
A: I don't think I will
be out of business in my lifetime. With hundreds of millions of addicts around
the world, there will always be plenty of work for tobacco-control
advocates. In my lectures I always point out that, a few years ago, we thought
we'd never get smoking off airplanes, and today we look back and wonder
if it was really true that there ever was smoking on airplanes. So one
day we are going to look back and say, "You mean people used to actually
smoke?" That day is coming, and that's a promise.
PHOTOS: File photo Patrick
Reynolds. ; PHOTO LOCATION: Disk 32b / NB_Patrick Reynolds 5 cf
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PINEHURST, N.C. AP -
Richard Joshua Reynolds III, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco
company's founder, is dead at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Reynolds died of emphysema
and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night. R.J. Reynolds III died June
28 in Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer who was not at his office Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. It
is the nation's second-largest tobacco company.
Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
R.J. Reynolds III
founded Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young
writers. He also produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a Herman
Hesse novel.
He also founded the
Sufi Institute in New Mexico. The Sufi Foundation camp is located near Torreon,
N.M., in the mountains about 40 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
The foundation based
its beliefs on the Muslim movement of Sufism that emerged in the late 10th and
early 11th centuries. About 500 of the 5,000 members annually attended a two-month
summer camp.
Reynolds' wife, Marie,
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco company's
founder, is dead in Pinehurst, N.C., at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Reynolds died of emphysema
and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night. R.J. Reynolds III died June
28 in Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer who was not at his office Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. It
is the nation's second-largest tobacco company.
Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, 60, grandson of the founder of the nation's second-largest tobacco
company, is dead.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds said Mr. Reynolds died June 28 in Pinehurst of emphysema and
congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night. His wife, Marie, died earlier
this year. They had no children.
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, the grandson of the founder of the nation's second-largest tobacco
company, is dead at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night. R.J. Reynolds died June 28 in
Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer who was not at his office on Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment.
Mr. Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
Mr. Reynolds founded
Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young writers. He
also produced the film Siddhartha, based on a Herman Hesse novel.
Mr. Reynolds' wife,
Marie, died earlier this year. They had no children.
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, a grandson of the founder of the nation's second-largest tobacco
company, is dead at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Reynolds died of emphysema
and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night.
R.J. Reynolds died June
28 in Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer who was not at his office Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment.
Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder.
No family member has
served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
R.J. Reynolds III founded
Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young writers.
He also produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a Herman Hesse
novel.
Reynolds' wife, Marie,
died earlier this year. They had no children.
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Portland Oregonian
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco company's
founder, is dead at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Reynolds died of emphysema
and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night. R.J. Reynolds III died June
28 in Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer who was not at his office Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. It
is the nation's second-largest tobacco company.
Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
R.J. Reynolds III
founded Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young
writers. He also produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a Herman
Hesse novel.
He also founded the
Sufi Institute in New Mexico. The Sufi Foundation camp is located near Torreon,
N.M., in the mountains about 40 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
The foundation based
its beliefs on the Muslim movement of Sufism that emerged in the late 10th and
early 11th centuries. About 500 of the 5,000 members annually attended a
two-month summer camp.
Reynolds' wife, Marie,
died earlier this year. They had no children.
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The Seattle Times
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PINEHURST, N.C. -
Richard Joshua Reynolds III, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco
company's founder, is dead at age 60.
His half-brother Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified last night. R.J. Reynolds III died June 28
in Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer who was not at his office yesterday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. It
is the nation's second-largest tobacco company.
Mr. Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the board of directors since the 1930s.
Mr. Reynolds founded
Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young writers.
He also produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a Herman Hesse
novel.
He founded the Sufi
Institute in New Mexico. The Sufi Foundation camp is near Torreon, N.M., about
40 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
The foundation based
its beliefs on the Muslim movement of Sufism that emerged in the late 10th and
early 11th centuries. The foundation had 5,000 members.
Mr. Reynolds' wife,
Marie, died earlier this year. They had no children.
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PINEHURST, N.C. -
Richard Joshua Reynolds III, a grandson and the namesake of R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., has died at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking. The cause of
death could not be independently verified Tuesday. Mr. Reynolds died June 28.
Mr. Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
Mr. Reynolds founded
Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young writers.
He produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a Herman Hesse novel.
He also founded the
Sufi Institute in New Mexico. The foundation is based on beliefs from the
mystical Muslim movement of Sufism.
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Buffalo News
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, the grandson of the founder of the nation's second-largest tobacco
company, is dead at age 60.
His half brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Reynolds died of emphysema
and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night. Reynolds died June 28 in
Pinehurst.
His physician, Dr.
Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred calls to a
family lawyer, who was not at his office Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment.
Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
Reynolds founded Full
Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young writers. He
also produced the film "Siddharta," based on a Herman Hesse novel.
Reynolds' wife, Marie,
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AID FOR POOR REGIONS
Returning to a campaign
pledge to put people first, the Clinton administration unveiled plans yesterday
to channel federal funds into scores of communities that the economic recovery
left behind. The plan would use existing federal funds to try to encourage new
business opportunities in destitute rural and urban America.
TOBACCO HEIR DEAD
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, died of what his
brother said yesterday was smoking-related emphysema and congestive
heart failure at the age of 60. Patrick Reynolds said in Los Angeles
that his brother, who quit in 1986 after years of heavy smoking, died on
June 28 at his home in North Carolina. ''I did not announce my brother's death
before this because I did not want any publicity surrounding the private family
services,'' he said. He said he delayed the announcement also because family
members were opposed to his announcing that smoking was the cause of
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LOS ANGELES
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company, died of what his
brother said yesterday was smoking-related emphysema and congestive
heart failure.
Mr. Reynolds was 60.
Patrick Reynolds said his brother, a
heavy smoker who quit in 1986, died June 28 at his home in North Carolina.
"I did not
announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any publicity
surrounding the private family services," he said. He said he also delayed
the announcement because family members were opposed to his blaming smoking
for the death.
"There is no doubt
in my mind that my brother died from smoking," Mr. Reynolds said.
"I spoke to Dr. Roy Duke, his attending physician at Good Samaritan
Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., and he confirmed that the emphysema was a
direct result of years of smoking."
Patrick Reynolds' father, also named
R.J., died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58. Reuter
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LOS ANGELES -- R.J.
Reynolds, grandson of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco
company, died of what his brother said Tuesday was smoking-related
emphysema and congestive heart failure at the age of 60.
Patrick Reynolds said in Los Angeles
that his brother, who quit in 1986 after years of heavy smoking, died on
June 28 at his home in North Carolina.
Patrick Reynolds said he delayed the
announcement of his brother's death because he did not want publicity
surrounding the services and because family members were opposed to his
announcing that smoking was the cause of death.
Reynolds said his
brother's doctor confirmed that his brother died of emphysema, "" . .
. a direct result of years of smoking.''
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The Wall Street Journal
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c 1994, Dow Jones & Co., Inc.
NEW YORK -- R.J.
Reynolds III, a grandson of tobacco company founder R.J.
Reynolds, died last month from smoking-related ailments, according to
his brother, Patrick Reynolds.
Patrick Reynolds, an outspoken critic
of the tobacco industry, said his brother Richard Joshua, 60 years old,
died on June 28 from emphysema and congestive heart failure. Mr. Reynolds said
his brother smoked Winston cigarettes, a Reynolds brand, for 30 years.
Roy Duke, a physician
who attended Mr. Reynolds, said in an interview, "He did have very severe
emphysema which was related to smoking."
Mr. Reynolds said his
brother is the fifth member of the Reynolds family to die from tobacco-related
sickness. Mr. Reynolds is the founder of the anti-smoking group,
Citizens for a Smokefree America.
"My brother's
death from smoking personalizes my campaign against cigarettes and
intensifies my drive to bring about Food and Drug Administration regulation,"
and a higher tax on cigarettes, Mr. Reynolds said.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds, a unit of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., New York, said the Reynolds
family has not been connected to the company for decades.
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13 July 1994
Orlando Sentinel
3 STAR
A5
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, died of what his
brother said Tuesday was smoking-related emphysema and congestive heart
failure at age 60.
Patrick Reynolds said in Los Angeles
that his brother, who quit in 1986 after years of heavy smoking, died on
June 28 at his home in North Carolina.
"I did not
announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any publicity
surrounding the private family services," he said. He said he delayed the
announcement also because family members were opposed to his announcing that smoking
was the cause of death.
Reynolds' funeral
service was July 5 in Winston-Salem, N.C., and he was buried at the Bellevue
Memory Gardens Cemetery in Daytona Beach on July 6, his brother said.
"There is no doubt
in my mind that my brother died from smoking. I spoke to Dr. Roy Duke,
his attending physician at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla.,
this morning and he confirmed that the emphysema was a direct result of years
of smoking."
An avid anti-smoker who
has testified against the tobacco industry before Congress and who
formed the Los Angeles-based activist group Citizens for a Smokefree America, Patrick
Reynolds said his brother had been in hospitals in Winston-Salem and West
Palm Beach since January.
Reynolds' father, also
named R.J. Reynolds, died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
Patrick Reynolds said most of his
brother's estate would go to charities.
R.J. Reynolds was a
philanthropist. No family member has served on the company's board of directors
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
SOONER
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Barbara Elizabeth
McCormick Tener, 77, a former resident of Shadyside and Squirrel Hill and a
descendant of several families from the Colonial era, died Tuesday of cancer at
her home in South Dennis, N.J.
Mrs. Tener was a direct
descendant of John Hart Jr., the oldest colonist to sign the Declaration of
Independence; John Hart Sr., who in the early 1700s became one of the first
graduates of Yale University and James Ewing, a general at the Battle of Valley
Forge.
After attending old
Chatham College, she was employed as a secretary for Thorp, Reed &
Armstrong, the Downtown law firm, before she moved to Cape May County in New
Jersey in 1971.
A former member of
Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside, she is survived by two daughters,
Constance T. of South Dennis, N.J. and Kathleen "Kate" Smith of New
Paltz, N.Y.; two sisters, Jacqueline B. Heyward of St. Simons Island, Ga., and
Margaret S. Reynolds of Ligonier; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service will
be conducted at a later date in Pittsburgh. Arrangements are by Radzieta
Funeral Home, 9 Hand Ave., Cape May, N.J. 00210.
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ELSEWHERE
Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, 60, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco company's
founder, in Pinehurst, N.C., June 28. His half-brother, Patrick Reynolds,
an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of emphysema and
congestive heart failure caused by smoking. The cause of death could not
be independently verified. Mr. Reynolds was a philanthropist. No family member
has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
Dr. Max Frank Baer, 81,
who was associated with B'nai B'rith for 65 years -- 43 of them in staff and
leadership positions -- of a heart attack Monday in Washington, D.C. He retired
in 1977 as the international director of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization,
which he had run since 1948.
Gary Kildall, 52, a
pioneering computer scientist who created the first popular operating system
for personal computers, Monday in Monterey, Calif. An autopsy performed
yesterday failed to determine the cause of death. While teaching computer
science at the U.S. Naval Posgraduate School in Montery in 1973, Kildall wrote
a personal computer operating system, which controlled the way the central
processing unit stored and retrieved information from a floppy disk drive. He
named the program Control Program/Monitor, or CP/M.
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13 July 1994
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
REGION
b-8
Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco company's
founder, died June 28. He was 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking. The cause of
death could not be independently verified.
Mr. Reynolds was a
philanthropist. No family member has served on the company's board of directors
since the 1930s.
R.J. Reynolds III founded
Full Sky Publishing, and also produced the film "Siddhartha," based
on a Herman Hesse novel.
He founded the Sufi
Institute in New Mexico, which bases its beliefs on the Muslim movement of
Sufism that emerged in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
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OBITUARY
Alexandra Dukakis, 92,
singer, actress's mother
By The Associated Press
MONTCLAIR, N.J.
Alexandra Dukakis,
mother of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, died Saturday at age
92.
The elder Dukakis sang
with the Arlington Philharmonic in Massachusetts for 20 years before moving to
New Jersey in 1976, where she was active in the Whole Theater Company in
Montclair.
Her daughter, Olympia,
won an Oscar in 1987 as best supporting actress in the film
"Moonstruck."
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Rocky Mountain News
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57a
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, has died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure at the age of 60 at his home in North
Carolina, his brother said Tuesday. Patrick Reynolds said his brother,
who gave up smoking in 1986, died on June 28.
"There is no doubt
in my mind that my brother died from smoking," Reynolds said.
"I spoke to Dr. Roy Duke, his attending physician at Good Samaritan
Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., this morning, and he confirmed that the
emphysema was a direct result of years of smoking," he said.
Reynolds said other
family members had been against his announcing that smoking was the real
cause of death. "So that's another reason why I delayed the announcement."
Mr. Reynolds' father,
also R.J. Reynolds, died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
* ALEXANDRA DUKAKIS,
mother of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, died Saturday in
Montclair, N.J., at age 92. The elder Dukakis sang with the Arlington
Philharmonic in Massachusetts for 20 years before moving to New Jersey in 1976.
Photo; Caption: R.J.
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St. Petersburg Times
TAMPA
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RICHARD JOSHUA REYNOLDS
III, 60, the grandson of the founder of the nation's second-largest tobacco
company, died June 28 in Pinehurst, N.C. His half-brother, Patrick Reynolds,
an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of emphysema and
congestive heart failure caused by smoking. The cause of death could not
be independently verified. A spokeswoman for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,
Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. Mr. Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
LARS-ERIC LINDBLAD, 67,
an explorer, conservationist and pioneering travel agent who took tourists to
far-flung corners of the world, died Friday in Stockholm, Sweden, of a heart
attack. He was the founder of Creative Travel Ltd. and Lindblad Travel. In
January 1966, he led a group of tourists to Antarctica. A year later, he
organized a tourist cruise to the Galapagos Islands. In 1978, he organized
cruises along the coast of China.
HAROLD MARTIN, 83, a
war correspondent who received the Bronze Star, died Sunday in Atlanta of
respiratory failure. He covered three wars for the Saturday Evening Post and
later was a columnist for the Atlanta Constitution. He co-authored Soldier: The
Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway with the Army general and wrote History of
Georgia.
A. KENNETH PYE, 62,
former Southern Methodist University president, died of cancer Monday in
Colorado. Mr. Pye, who led the Dallas school back from one of the worst
collegiate athletic scandals, died less than three weeks after resigning
because of illness. He left Duke University for SMU in 1987, six months after
the NCAA imposed its so-called "death penalty" after finding
extensive involvement by SMU in a "pay for play" scandal. SMU resumed
football in 1989.
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13 July 1994
The Toronto Star
Final
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The Toronto Star
LOS ANGELES Reuter - R.
J. Reynolds, grandson of the founder of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco
company, has died of emphysema and congestive heart failure at age 60.
``There is no doubt in
my mind that my brother died from smoking,'' his brother Patrick
Reynolds said.
A former pack-a-day
smoker, Patrick Reynolds now is an avid anti-smoker who has testified
against the tobacco industry on Capitol Hill and who formed the Los
Angeles-based activist group, Citizens for a Smokefree America.
Reynolds told a Brock
University audience last year that his grandfather, mother and father all died
from smoking-related diseases.
His brother, who gave
up smoking in 1986, died on June 28 at his home in North Carolina, he
said yesterday.
``I spoke to Dr. Roy
Duke, his attending physician at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach,
Fla., this morning and he confirmed that the emphysema was a direct result of
years of smoking,'' he said.
Patrick Reynolds said other family
members had been against his announcing that smoking was the real cause
of death.
He made the
announcement yesterday because he was holding a memorial service for his
brother in Los Angeles, he said.
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The Washington Times
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Dollar staggers but
bounces back
NEW YORK - The dollar
set another 50-year low against the Japanese yen yesterday but recovered to
close at 97.50 yen. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 3,702.66, down
0.33 points, after dropping nearly 30 points at midday. The Nasdaq index rose
2.07 to 708.90, the American Stock Exchange index rose 0.73 to 425.50, and the
S&P 500 fell 0.11 to 447.95. The yield on the benchmark 30-year bond
slipped to 7.68 percent.
Inflation held in check
Inflation remained
under control in June as prices paid to factories, farmers and other producers
unexpectedly showed no change, Labor Department figures showed. It was the
third straight month without an increase. The core rate of the Producer Price
Index, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, actually declined 0.1
percent.
Continental offers
seniors savings
Continental Airlines
said yesterday it is offering a program for people age 65 and older with
potential savings of up to 75 percent off coach fares for off-peak travel in all
50 states, as well as to Latin America and the Caribbean. The tickets purchased
under the program can be used for one-way travel, require no advance purchase
and are fully refundable. Continental also cut fares from Newark and La Guardia
to Florida to as low as $79 each way.
Schwab drops
reinvestment fees
NEW YORK - Charles
Schwab Corp. plans to eliminate the fees it charges clients who reinvest
dividend payments, a company spokesman said. The San Francisco discount broker
now imposes a fee of 3.5 percent or $3.50 - whichever is lower - to customers
who reinvest dividends of less than $250. The fees will be eliminated Aug. 15.
Food Lion irks
cigarette makers
RALEIGH, N.C. - Tobacco
industry officials are urging growers to protest the Food Lion supermarket
chain's decision to ban employee smoking at all company buildings
effective Sept. 1. "We're hoping that the tobacco growers and
supporters who shop at Food Lion will make themselves known," said Lisa
Eddington, managing director for the Tobacco Growers Information
Committee.
Mattel wins Scrabble
scramble
LOS ANGELES - Mattel
Corp., maker of Barbie dolls and other best-selling toys, won the right
yesterday to market the popular Scrabble board game outside North America.
Mattel said it received commitments to acquire more than 50 percent of the
shares of British board game producer J.W. Spear & Sons, outbidding rival
Hasbro Inc., which markets Scrabble in the United States and Canada.
RJR heir
succumbs to emphysema
LOS ANGELES - R.J.
Reynolds, grandson of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco
company, has died of emphysema and congestive heart failure at the age of 60 at
his home in North Carolina, his brother said yesterday. Patrick Reynolds
said his brother, who gave up smoking in 1986, died on June 28. "I
did not announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any
publicity surrounding the private family services," he said.
Duke Power workers quit
early
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke
Power Co., the electric utility serving the Piedmont areas of North and South
Carolina, said yesterday some 1,200 employees will leave the company under a
voluntary separation program. The departures will reduce Duke Power's labor
costs. The departing employees will get at least six months' pay, Duke Power said.
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R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, died of what his
brother said Tuesday was smoking-related emphysema and congestive heart
failure at the age of 60.
Patrick Reynolds said in Los Angeles
that his brother, who in 1986 quit smoking after years of heavy smoking,
died June 28 at his home in North Carolina.
"I did not
announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any publicity
surrounding the private family services," he said. He said he also delayed
because family members were opposed to his announcing that smoking was
the cause of death.
"So that's another
reason why I delayed the announcement. I didn't want there to be any bad
feelings at the family services," he said.
"There is no doubt
in my mind that my brother died from smoking. I spoke to Dr. Roy Duke,
his attending physician at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beac this
morning, and he confirmed that the emphysema was a direct result of years of smoking."
Reynolds said he had
chosen to make the announcement Tuesday because he was holding a memorial
service for his brother in Los Angeles.
An avid anti-smoker who
has testified against the tobacco industry before Congress and who formed
the Los Angeles-based activist group Citizens for a Smokefree America, Patrick
Reynolds said his brother had been in hospitals in Winston- Salem, N.C.,
and West Palm Beach since January.
"For most of those
months he remained extremely weak, unable to speak and able to take only a few
occasional steps for exercise," he said.
Reynolds' father, also
named R.J. Reynolds, died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
Reynolds described his
brother as "a shy and intensely private man who preferred to avoid the
limelight. His interests ranged from writing poetry to raising thoroughbred
horses. He gave generously to a variety of charities."
The funeral service was
held July 5 in Winston-Salem and Reynolds was buried at the Bellevue Memory
Gardens Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Fla., last Wednesday, his brother said. He
said most of his brother's estate would go to charities.
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LOS ANGELES - R.J. Reynolds,
grandson of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company,
died of what his brother said yesterday was smoking-related emphysema
and congestive heart failure.
R.J. Reynolds was 60.
Patrick Reynolds said his brother, a
heavy smoker who quit in 1986, died June 28 at his home in North Carolina. ''I
did not announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any
publicity surrounding the private family services,'' he said. He said he also
delayed the announcement because family members were opposed to his blaming smoking
for his death. ''There is no doubt in my mind that my brother died from smoking,''
Reynolds said. ''I spoke to Dr. Roy Duke, his attending physician at Good
Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., and he confirmed that the
emphysema was a direct result of years of smoking.'' Reynolds said he
was making the announcement yesterday because he was holding a memorial service
for his brother in Los Angeles.
An avid anti-smoker who
has testified against the tobacco industry before Congress and who
formed the Los Angeles-based activist group Citizens for a Smokefree America,
Reynolds said his brother had been in hospitals in Winston Salem and West Palm
Beach since January.
Reynolds's father, also
named R.J., died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
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R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, died of what his
brother said Tuesday was smoking-related emphysema and congestive heart
failure at age 60.
Patrick Reynolds said in Los Angeles
that his brother, who quit in 1986 after years of heavy smoking, died on
June 28 at his home in North Carolina. The funeral was July 5 and burial July
6.
"I did not
announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any publicity
surrounding the private family services," Patrick Reynolds said. He
said he delayed the announcement also because family members opposed his
disclosure that smoking was the cause of death.
"I didn't want bad
feelings at the family services," he said.
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R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, has died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure at age 60 at his home in North Carolina,
his brother said Tuesday.
Patrick Reynolds said his brother, who
gave up smoking in 1986, died on June 28.
"I did not
announce my brother's death before this because I did not want any publicity
surrounding the private family services," he said.
Reynolds' funeral was
held July 5 in Winston-Salem, N.C., and he was buried at the Bellevue Memory
Gardens Cemetery in Daytona Beach, Fla., on July 6, Patrick Reynolds
said.
"There is no doubt
in my mind that my brother died from smoking," Reynolds said.
"I spoke to Dr.
Roy Duke, his attending physician at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm
Beach, Fla., this morning and he confirmed that the emphysema was a direct
result of years of smoking," he said.
Reynolds said other
family members had been against him announcing that smoking was the real
cause of death.
Reynolds said he had
chosen to make the announcement Tuesday because he was holding a memorial
service for his brother in Los Angeles.
Reynolds, an anti-smoking
activist who has testified against the tobacco industry on Capitol Hill
and who formed the Los Angeles-based activist group, Citizens for a Smokefree
America, said his brother had been hospitalized in Winston-Salem and West Palm
Beach since January.
Reynolds' father, also
R.J. Reynolds, died of emphysema in 1964 at 58.
He said most of his
brother's estate would go to charities.
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Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, a grandson and the namesake of the tobacco company's
founder, is dead at age 60.
His half-brother, anti-smoking
activist Patrick Reynolds, said the namesake Reynolds died of emphysema
and congestive heart failure caused by smoking. R. J. Reynolds III died
June 28 in Pinehurst.
A spokeswoman for R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. It
is the nation's second-largest tobacco company.
No family member has
served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
R. J. Reynolds III
founded Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young
writers, and produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a Herman Hesse
novel.
He also founded the
Sufi Institute in New Mexico. The Sufi Foundation camp is located near Torreon,
N.M., in the mountains about 40 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
The foundation based
its beliefs on the Muslim movement of Sufism that emerged in the late 10th and
early 11th centuries. About 500 of the 5,000 members annually attended a
two-month summer camp.
Reynolds' wife, Marie,
died earlier this year. They had no children.
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@ The Hartford Courant 1994
Richard Joshua Reynolds
III, grandson and namesake of the tobacco company's founder, is
dead at age 60.
His half-brother, Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of
emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking. He died June
28 in Pinehurst.
The cause of death
could not be independently verified Monday night.
Mr. Reynolds'
physician, Robert Chin, a Winston-Salem pulmonary medicine specialist, referred
calls to a family lawyer, who was not at his office Monday evening.
A spokeswoman for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. It
is the nation's second-largest tobacco company.
No family member has
served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
Mr. Reynolds founded
Full Sky Publishing, a company dedicated to publishing work by young writers. He
also produced the film "Siddhartha," based on a novel by Herman
Hesse.
He also founded the
Sufi Institute in New Mexico. The Sufi Foundation camp is near Torreon, N.M.,
in the mountains about 40 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
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DOUGLAS GOOLD
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14 July 1994
The Globe and Mail
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WHAT a tragedy it is
when a family member dies from smoking-related diseases. What an irony
it is when that family member is R. J. Reynolds III, a grandson of the
founder of R. J. Reynolds, the second-largest tobacco company in the
United States and part of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp..
The Wall Street Journal
reports that the 60-year-old Mr. Reynolds smoked Winston cigarettes for 30
years, and quotes his doctor as saying, "He did have very severe emphysema
which was related to smoking." Brother Patrick Reynolds, the
founder of Citizens for a Smokefree America, said his brother was the fifth
member of the family - which is no longer connected to the company - to die
from tobacco-related problems.
The tobacco
industry is under siege from all sides, as never before. U.S. federal excise
taxes are poised to increase, probably by 50 or 60 cents U.S. a pack. Florida
and Massachusetts have just passed laws to enable them to sue for recovery of
funds spent to treat tobacco-related health problems. Other states are
considering similar measures. States, municipalities and corporations are
severely restricting the number of places left to smokers to puff away. Congressional
committees are grilling industry executives over allegations that their
companies "spiked" cigarettes with nicotine in order to increase
their addictiveness - and the stories are running on the front page of The New
York Times. The Joe Camel character is being taken to court for an ad campaign
that is alleged to encourage minors to smoke.
Has the industry seen
the writing on the wall and put up the white flag? It has not. Cigarette
companies, loath in the past to raise their faces above the parapet, have been
running aggressive, full-page ads in leading publications.
"Some politicians
want to ban cigarettes," runs the caption under a photo of a man smoking,
in an ad produced by R. J. Reynolds. Beside it is a photo of another man with a
glass of beer, with the caption: "Will alcohol be next?" That's
followed by a woman with a coffee cup - "Will caffeine be next? - and
finally by a man eating a hamburger - "Will high- fat foods be next?"
The text suggests books, movies and music could also "get the
treatment."
"We're glad
they're fighting back," comments Prudential Securities analyst Leigh Ferst
in a June 27 report on Philip Morris, the industry leader.
Of course, we all know
that in these health-conscious days cigarette companies are going the way of
the dodo bird - it's only a matter of time. The companies are discredited and
their products are harmful. Unfortunately, this glib and comforting assessment
is not entirely accurate.
Philip Morris released
its second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, and surprised everyone. Surprised
everyone, that is, with how good they were the stock dropped slightly, because
it had already run up in price. And what was the key to the higher profits? The
company's Miller beer division? Kraft Foods? Wrong: It was tobacco.
"Our worldwide tobacco
business has never been in better shape," said chief executive officer
Geoffrey Bible. Led by tobacco, Philip Morris made a three-month profit
of $1.23-billion U.S., which is almost double what Canada's most profitable
company Bell Canada made for the whole of 1993.
Cigarette sales rose
both in the United States and internationally, with volumes ahead a whopping 18
per cent worldwide to 187 billion. That's a lot of puffing. Marlboro, the
world's leading brand, has clearly recovered from the price cuts of
"Marlboro Friday" in April, 1993, increasing its share of the U.S.
market to a record 28.5 per cent. Obviously, cigarettes are price-sensitive.
Financial World magazine recently ranked Marlboro as the world's second most
valuable brand at $33- billion, behind Coca-Cola.
While most stock
analysts are too worried about political and regulatory risk to recommend the
company's stock, Prudential Securities argues that the risk has been
discounted, and rates it a buy.
Philip Morris appears
poised to continue with its aggressive counterattacks. Critics, including the
powerful California Public Employees Retirement System and the Teamsters,
support splitting the company into separate food/beer and cigarette units, to
segregate the liabilities connected with the cigarette business. The meeting
they had scheduled with management for Tuesday was postponed indefinitely at
the last minute.
Instead of splitting up
the company, management seems intent upon winning over dissidents through a continuing
stock buyback scheme or an increased dividend, or both.
Whatever transpires,
it's clear that this is one company that will not go gentle into that good
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St. Petersburg Times
CITY
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GARY KILDALL, 52, who
created the first popular operating system for personal computers, died Monday
in Monterey, Calif. In 1973, Mr. Kildall wrote his personal computer operating
system, Control Program-Monitor, a fundamental program that controls how
information is stored and retrieved from a floppy disc drive. To sell it, he
and Dorothy McEwen, then his wife, formed in 1974 a company that came to be
known as Digital Research. In 1980, Mr. Kildall was approached by IBM to
develop the operating system for its personal computers. He thought he had
struck a deal, but IBM later met with William Gates, founder of the then-small
software company Microsoft Corp. IBM eventually offered personal computers with
the CP-M operating system from Digital Research and MS-DOS from Microsoft. But
it priced Microsoft's version at $40 and Digital's at $240. MS-DOS eventually
became the industry standard. Gates is ranked as one of the richest men in the
United States.
RICHARD JOSHUA REYNOLDS
III, 60, the grandson of the founder of the nation's second-largest tobacco
company, died June 28 in Pinehurst, N.C. His half brother, Patrick Reynolds,
an anti-smoking activist, said Mr. Reynolds died of emphysema and
congestive heart failure caused by smoking. The cause of death could not
be independently verified. A spokeswoman for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,
Peggy Carter, said the company had no comment. Mr. Reynolds was a
philanthropist and namesake of the tobacco company's founder. No family
member has served on the company's board of directors since the 1930s.
LARS-ERIC LINDBLAD, 67,
an explorer, conservationist and pioneering travel agent who took tourists to
far-flung corners of the world, died Friday in Stockholm, Sweden, of a heart
attack. He was the founder of Creative Travel Ltd. and Lindblad Travel. In
January 1966, he led a group of tourists to Antarctica. A year later, he
organized a tourist cruise to the Galapagos Islands. In 1978, he organized
cruises along the coast of China.
ALEXANDRA DUKAKIS, 92,
the mother of Academy Award-winning actor Olympia Dukakis, died Saturday in
Montclair, N.J.
HAROLD MARTIN, 83, a
war correspondent who received the Bronze Star, died Sunday in Atlanta of
respiratory failure. He covered three wars for the Saturday Evening Post and
later was a columnist for the Atlanta Constitution. He co-authored Soldier: The
Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway with the Army general and wrote History of
Georgia.
WILLIAM SEBASTIAN
"SABBY" LEWIS, 79, a pianist who played with Billie Holiday and other
jazz greats, died Saturday in Marstons Mills, Mass.
Local obituaries and
the Suncoast Deaths list appear in regional sections.
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO;
Caption: Lars-Eric Lindblad
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The Toronto Star
There is no doubt in my
mind that my brother died from smoking. Patrick Reynolds of the Citizens
for a Smokefree America, on the death of his brother R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company. R.J. Reynolds, 60,
a heavy smoker who quit in 1986, died of emphysema as did his father and
congestive heart failure.
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Australian Financial Review
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of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd
FOR HEAD-KICKER RICHO,
IT'LL BE ALL RIGHT ON THE NIGHT
ANYONE who witnessed
Graham Richardson in Canberra's Press Gallery in Parliament House yesterday
would have concluded that the transition from political heavyweight to media
pretender was almost complete.
The former health
minister was seen looking very much the sartorial scribe- complete with the
over-shoulder fashion briefcase - even chatting with some journalists who, in
his former vocation, did not always see it his way.
Confirming that he is
now well inside the journos' tent, the former right-wing head-kicker told our
man he had even signed up with the relevant union, the left-leaning Media
Entertainment & Arts Alliance.
Richo was checking out
Channel Nine, for whom he will soon be doing a political magazine programme -
adding yet another tentacle to his budding journalistic career which includes a
column in Kerry Packer's stablemate publication, The Bulletin.
And, taking his cue
from the former great helmsman, Bob Hawke, who covered himself in pre-publicity
for his prime ministerial memoirs, Richo let it be known that his forthcoming
book will be a good read, promising that it will hit the streets on October 31.
SPRAYED OUT
IT'S not so long ago
that property developer Bob Mitchelson entertained lavishly at his historic
Bellarine Peninsula property, Spray Farm, pictured above.
From the late 1970s
Melbourne friends, such as chef Peter Russell Clark, man-about-town Peter
Jansen, Bill Roycroft and fashion designer Mike Treloar, attended his champagne
brunches, lunches and cross-country horse rides.
No more. Last month
Spray Farm, an 1851 house on 59 hectares with extensive Port Phillip Bay
frontage, was taken into possession by Ferrier Hodgson's Tony Hodgson as
liquidator for Farrow Mortgage Services.
Hodgson also took the
nearby vacant 57 hectares with planning approval for a golf course development.
The two properties,
both a short drive from Port Arlington, are set to go separately under Sutherland
Real Estate's hammer on August 6. Locals doubt that Spray Farm will achieve the
$1 million it would have sold for in the 1980s.
CUSTOMER SERVICE ... TO
A FAWLT
A NORTHSIDE Sydney
branch of a major bank, which shall remain nabeless, has a novel approach to
customer service.
Enterprising staff
appear to have adopted the motto, "If you can't meet them, lower
them", in respect to customer service.
A colleague there
yesterday discovered a portable television set at the head of the queue.
The program being shown
was Fawlty Towers.
At first mesmerised, he
then realised the choice of program served two devious purposes.
The first is to take
customers' minds off the fact they are standing in a queue waiting.
Secondly it makes the
level of service at the bank branch look positively sensational compared with
the "service" inflicted by Basil and Manuel on guests at Watery
Fowls.
The colleague said he
would rather stand for five minutes in an NAB branch watching Fawlty Towers
than risk being served in less than that time -with no entertainment, what's
more - in an ANZ branch.
TOBACCO HEIR GOES UP IN SMOKE
RICHARD J. Reynolds
III, a grandson and namesake of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co, died on June 28 at his home in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He was 60.
His half-brother Patrick
Reynolds, an anti-tobacco crusader in Los Angeles, said on Tuesday
that the cause of death was emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking
cigarettes.
Dr Roy Duke, who
treated Richard J. III earlier this year in Florida, said: "I saw Mr
Reynolds in January, and he was suffering very severe emphysema. The cause of
death was end-stage emphysema as a result of smoking."
Patrick Reynolds said his brother gave
up cigarettes in 1986 after years of heavy smoking. Their father,
Richard J. Reynolds II, also died of emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
FRENCH LETTER DAY
LE Quatorze Juillet
will not be allowed to go by without serious Gallic celebration and, not
surprisingly, the Novotel in Sydney's Darling Harbour will be the main venue.
The night begins with a "stand up and shout" hosted by Consul-General
Michel Legras with about 380 starters including former PM Gough Whitlam and
Patrick Vincent, the regional director of Laurent-Perrier champagne. The menu
will feature frogs' legs, but of course, and Roclette cheese, even if it is a
bit Swiss. Entertainment will include some singing gendarmes but not about
yoghurt, we are assured.
SAFARI SO GOOD AT THE
SUPER-EXOTIC TONGABEZI
TONGABEZI Safari Camp,
a super-exotic destination, made headlines last year when Viscount Linley
honeymooned there. But even before that, Tongabezi had its own Aussie
following.
Boston Consulting
Group's MD Maurie Koop is at the camp, as we speak. George Patterson chairman
Alex Hamill is booking his second trip. BT director Tony Aveling and ANZ Capel
Court principal John Dickson are other business types who've stayed at the
upmarket cliff-face lodge beside Zimbabwe's Zambezi River.
One of the resort's
founders, Willy Ruckzene, is visiting Sydney for a pretty solid reason: his
engagement party at Whale Beach later this month. He is engaged to Julie
McIntosh, who owns Hartley's Safaris with her brother, Craig McIntosh. Julie
manages Hartley's. Craig works at Lend Lease Development Capital.
Craig McIntosh recalls
how his call to Tongabezi fulfilled every accountant's dream. There he was in
the "dark corridors" of Coopers & Lybrand when Willy whom he'd
met at a travel show rang and suggested he manage the African camp for the 1993
season. "It was one of those 'if you want to, let me know quickly'
things," he said.
He accepted. A career
risk? No. He says his decision to take that time out of his career was
considered positive by the Lend Lease Development Capital team, "a group
of guys who look for people with outside and diverse interests".
MINE-EXPANDING
THE 80s may be over but
the speculative end of the sharemarket is steadily coming back to life.
The Mitre Tavern in
Melbourne, for instance, has started a food and wine club that meets monthly to
allow brokers, punters and sharemarket players to share wisdom and tall tales.
The third meeting on
Tuesday focused on the Victorian mining industry which, following a much-needed
cut in red tape, is now alive again.
It used to be said that
you needed 15 separate permits to open a mine in that State, which is why
almost no-one did.
Topping this week's
bill was the planned $3.5 million Peake Lands Kirwan supported-Momentum Mining
NL issue.
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Houston Chronicle
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. --
Patrick Reynolds, the dissident scion of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco
family, lashed out at the U.S. government for failing to regulate tobacco
Thursday during a memorial service for his half-brother, who died of smoking-related
illnesses.
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the company's founder, died June 28 at his home in North Carolina of what Patrick
Reynolds said was emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
He was 60.
""The
government has failed to properly regulate smoking,'' said Patrick
Reynolds during a brief memorial service held at a Seventh-day Adventist
church.
""This his
brother's death has made my campaign real personal,'' he said.
An avid anti-smoker who
has testified against the tobacco industry before Congress and who
formed the Los Angeles-based activist group Citizens for a Smokefree America, Patrick
Reynolds indicated he expects his brother's smoking-related death to
be a weapon in his personal war on smoking.
""The story
going around the world that R.J. Reynolds died from smoking will have a
great impact,'' he said during the service.
Reynolds said the U.S.
government and its ""system of special interests'' is to blame for
the nation's failure to regulate tobacco as it does narcotics.
The trading of votes
allows congressmen and senators from the tobacco-growing states to
protect the tobacco industry in return for support for health care
reform, he said.
""They're
bribing each other in Washington,'' he said.
Reynolds wants the
federal government to ban cigarette advertising and raise to 21 the legal age
at which people can buy tobacco products.
Reynolds said his
brother quit in 1986 after years of heavy smoking. At the end, R.J.
Reynolds was extremely weak, virtually unable to speak and could walk fewer
than 25 steps a day, Patrick Reynolds said.
He said his brother did
not want people to know about his illness and would not let him visit in
January.
Reynolds' father, also
named R.J. Reynolds, died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
Mug: Patrick
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15 July 1994
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Only about one in five
elderly Americans have been inoculated against pneumococcal pneumonia, even
though the shots protect against one of the most common killers of people over
age 65.
Federal health
officials announced a new campaign yesterday to encourage older Americans to
get immunization injections against the disease, which kills 40,000 elderly
Americans a year.
Federal officials said
the pneumonia injections are now paid for by Medicare and by many health
insurance policies.
Summer is the preferred
time to get the shots, said Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the National
Institute on Aging. Officials said patients may find it convenient to get the pneumonia
injections at the same time they receive their annual flu shot.
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From wire dispatches
Navy: Oust gay sailor
WASHINGTON
A Navy board
recommended yesterday that Lt. Tracy Thorne, who declared his homosexuality on
television, be honorably discharged. His attorneys said they will challenge the
Clinton administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy in federal
court. The three-member Navy Board of Inquiry announced its unanimous decision
on the fourth day of a hearing. Capt. Douglas W. Cook, the board's president,
said Thorne "failed, in fact made no effort" to dispute a presumption
that he engaged in homosexual conduct, which is grounds for dismissal.
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From wire dispatches
USAF general bounced
WASHINGTON
A U.S. Air Force
general has been relieved as commander of allied forces protecting Kurds in
northern Iraq after the accidental downing of two American helicopters by U.S.
jets, the Pentagon said yesterday. Defense Department spokeswoman Kathleen
deLaski declined to say whether the replacement of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey
Pilkington on June 26 was directly connected with the April 14 tragedy, in
which 26 people were killed.
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From wire dispatches
Stressed-out newt dies
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Space shuttle
Columbia's most prolific newt -- she had laid about 40 eggs in less than a week
in orbit -- was found dead yesterday, an apparent victim of stress. Scientists
lost not only the salamander but all her eggs and 48 other newt eggs that were
in the same laboratory tray and were contaminated by the dead animal.
Columbia's two other newts had laid about a dozen eggs in space as of
yesterday, six days into the 14-day mission devoted to research into how
organisms reproduce, develop and adapt in space.
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From wire dispatches
4 lying on tracks
killed
MANASSAS, Va.
Four young men killed
by a freight train as they lay on the tracks may have been playing
"chicken," authorities said. Police found drug paraphernalia and beer
cans near where the men were run over by a 144-car Norfolk Southern train
before dawn Wednesday. A parked car smelled strongly of alcohol.
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From wire dispatches
Scion blasts tobacco
SANTA MONICA, Calif.
Patrick Reynolds, the dissident scion
of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco family, lashed out at the U.S. government
yesterday for failing to regulate tobacco. He made his comments during a
memorial service for his half-brother, who died of smoking-related
illnesses. R.J. Reynolds, grandson of the company's founder, died June
28 at his home in North Carolina of what Patrick Reynolds said was
emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking. He was 60.
"This his brother's death has made my campaign real personal," said Patrick
Reynolds, who wants the government to ban cigarette advertising and raise
to 21 the legal age at which people can buy tobacco products.
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IN BRIEF
From wire dispatches
Motorist-death arrest
MIAMI
A 16-year-old boy with
an extensive criminal record was arrested yesterday in the robbery and killing
of a man who police say had stopped to help an accident victim. Charles Bells,
44, was on a shopping errand for his mother on Tuesday night when he hit a girl
who darted into the path of his car. When he got out of his car to check on the
slightly injured girl, he was beaten, shot and robbed by a mob. Metro-Dade
police Detective Gary Smith would not say if the boy in custody is the
suspected gunman.
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IN BRIEF
From wire dispatches
Noriega seeks new trial
MIAMI
Lawyers for Panamanian
Gen. Manuel Noriega sought to win him a new trial on drug racketeering charges
yesterday, arguing that one juror was pressured into convicting him. The
lawyers told U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler that two jurors pressured an
undecided woman to convict Noriega by telling her that the whole nation was
waiting for the verdict.
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It was an unusual
moment: Anti-cigarette advocates gathered to eulogize an heir to the
giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
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That was the scene
Thursday in Santa Monica as no-smoking crusader Patrick Reynolds
conducted a memorial service for his half-brother, R.J. Reynolds III.
R.J. Reynolds, a
60-year-old grandson and namesake of the cigarette company founder, died
June 28 of smoking-related emphysema.
"We agreed to
disagree about tobacco issues," said Patrick Reynolds, 45,
of Beverly Hills. "He didn't put me down for what I was doing, and I
didn't put him down for smoking."
Patrick Reynolds shocked his family by
divesting himself of tobacco stock, quitting smoking and then
testifying eight years ago on Capitol Hill in favor of a ban on cigarette
advertising. Since then he has spent more than half of his $2.5-million
inheritance on the anti-smoking cause.
Nonetheless, Reynolds
said he annually spent Christmas and a week each summer in North Carolina with
R.J. Reynolds. "I didn't nag my brother about his smoking," he
said. "Family members shouldn't do that."
R.J. Reynolds, who was
60 when he died at his estate in Pinehurst, N.C., will be remembered as a poet,
horse breeder and philanthropist, Patrick Reynolds told about two dozen
who attended the service.
But he admitted that
R.J. Reynolds was also "an intensely shy, quiet man who avoided the
limelight" and "wouldn't have wanted people to know he was sick from smoking."
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co. has had no comment on the death, except to note that no Reynolds family
member has been connected with the company for several decades.
Private services were
held July 5 in North Carolina. But there was no announcement of the death until
this week, when Patrick Reynolds disclosed that it had been caused by a smoking-related
illness.
R.J. Reynolds had been
a heavy smoker of R.J. Reynolds Co. Winston cigarettes until about 1988, Patrick
Reynolds said. Thursday's service was staged, he said, because "I feel
closer to some of the people here in Los Angeles than to the ones back in North
Carolina."
"My family doesn't
like it very much, but I feel it's the thing to do," he added. "The
story of R.J. Reynolds dying of smoking will have real impact. I believe
he's up in heaven now, urging me on and applauding me."
Other opponents of smoking
agreed that it might seem odd for them to memorialize an heir to a tobacco
company that they claim has contributed to the deaths of thousands of smokers.
"But this man was a
victim, too," said Robert Cherno, a member of an anti-cigarette group
called Doctors Ought to Care.
Patrick Reynolds, who displayed family
snapshots of his half-brother, said the death will make him step up his work
with his group, Citizens for a Smokefree America.
"The issue is
getting real personal now," he said.
PHOTO: R.J. Reynolds
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COLOR, TOBACCO'S TOLL: Patrick Reynolds, an anti-smoking
advocate, leads a Santa Monica memorial service for his half-brother R.J.
Reynolds III, a cigarette firm heir who died recently of emphysema. /
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SANTA MONICA, Calif,
July 14 Reuter - Patrick Reynolds, the dissident scion of the R.J.
Reynolds tobacco family, lashed out at the U.S. government for failing
to regulate tobacco Thursday during a memorial service for his
half-brother, who died of smoking-related illnesses.
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the company's founder, died June 28 at his home in North Carolina of what Patrick
Reynolds said was emphysema and congestive heart failure caused by smoking.
He was 60.
"The government
has failed to properly regulate smoking," said Patrick Reynolds
during a brief memorial service held at a Seventh-day Adventist church.
"This his
brother's death has made my campaign real personal," he said.
An avid anti-smoker who
has testified against the tobacco industry before Congress and who
formed the Los Angeles-based activist group Citizens for a Smokefree America, Patrick
Reynolds indicated he expects his brother's smoking-related death to
be a weapon in his personal war on smoking.
"The story going
around the world that R.J. Reynolds died from smoking will have a great
impact," he said during the service.
Reynolds said the U.S.
government and its "system of special interests" is to blame for the
nation's failure to regulate tobacco as it does narcotics.
The trading of votes
allows congressmen and senators from the tobacco-growing states to
protect the tobacco industry in return for support for health care
reform, he said.
"They're bribing
each other in Washington," he said.
Reynolds wants the
federal government to ban cigarette advertising and raise to 21 the legal age
at which people can buy tobacco products.
Reynolds said his
brother quit in 1986 after years of heavy smoking. At the end, R.J.
Reynolds was extremely weak, virtually unable to speak and could walk fewer
than 25 steps a day, Patrick Reynolds said.
He said his brother did
not want people to know about his illness and would not let him visit in
January.
Reynolds' father, also
named R.J. Reynolds, died from emphysema in 1964 at the age of 58.
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MONDAY, JULY 11, 1994
Bombardier Inc.
dismissed stories of a $200-million Challenger ''spy plane'' deal with China.
Company spokeswoman Catherine Chase said: ''We haven't submitted any proposal
to sell Challengers fitted with electronic surveillance gear to China. She
dismissed CTV news reports of a document showing a spy plane deal was being
considered, with Israeli spying equipment to be installed in the aircraft. The
document, said Chase, came from a meeting with marketing staff who were trying
to ''clarify government regulations and policy on exports to China.''
Leonid Kuchma was
declared the winner in Ukraine's presidential election in an upset victory over
incumbent Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma, a former missile factory director, was seen
as a gain for Moscow, as he pledged closer relations with Russia, saying
Ukraine would act as a bridge between Russia and the West. Kuchma took 52% of
the vote, with Kravchuk getting 45%.
Kim Jong-il, son of
North Korean president Kim Il-sung, who died Saturday at age 82, received
ambassadors paying respects to the only leader the Stalinist state has ever
had. The younger Kim - assumed to be taking over the presidency from his father
- was shown on South Korean television weeping before a crystal sarcophagus as
the late president lay in state in Pyongyang.
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1994
Hussein Abdirahman, a
former Somali government minister fighting to stay in Canada, told his
deportation hearing in Ottawa he had no real power under dictator Mohamed Siad
Barre. ''I was like someone in a jail because I was not in a position to
initiate anything of substance,'' said Abdirahman, a former Somali attorney
general, justice minister and defence minister. Abdirahman, 52, entered Canada
last year under sponsorship by his wife and now lives in Ottawa.
Hundreds of weary
Manitoba Indians ended a long protest march to Winnipeg after Ottawa promised
$11 million to help clean up the polluted drinking water in their northern
community. ''I think they have very much to be proud of,'' said Ralph Caribou,
chief of the Mathias Colomb band, as he emerged from a three-hour meeting with
Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin. Hundreds of people fled Pukatawagan last week
for The Pas, about 200 kilometres south, after a nine-year-old boy was
hospitalized with hepatitis.
R.J. Reynolds, grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, died of what his
brother said was smoking-related emphysema and congestive heart failure
at the age of 60. Patrick Reynolds said his brother, who quit the habit
in 1986 after years of heavy smoking, died June 28. ''I did not announce
my brother's death before this because I did not want any publicity surrounding
the private family services,'' he said, adding he also delayed the announcement
because family members opposed his saying that smoking was the cause of
death.
Germany shook off
self-imposed military fetters adopted after the Second World War when the
supreme court ruled that Bonn could join international armed missions. The
judges quelled a dispute over a united Germany's new world role by saying the
1949 constitution did not stop its troops from joining UN peacekeeping or
combat missions. At the same time, the court said Chancellor Helmut Kohl's
government had infringed on the rights of parliament by not consulting it
before sending troops to monitor UN sanctions and a no-fly zone in the former
Yugoslavia.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13,
1994
Major airports,
including the country's busiest, Pearson International in Toronto, will be
turned over to local authorities to operate on a commercial basis, Transport
Minister Doug Young said. Young said the goal is to turn the federal government
from owner and operator of most of the country's airports to landlord and
regulator. He estimated the policy, which will be developed over five years,
will eventually save Ottawa about $100 million annually in operating and
capital costs.
B.C. Premier Mike
Harcourt said he will sign an agreement to reduce interprovincial trade
barriers even though the deal does not address all his province's concerns.
Harcourt had earlier suggested he might refuse to sign the pact in Ottawa this
Monday, but he said cabinet decided to approve the deal.
U.S. President Bill
Clinton got an aerial view of flood-ravaged Georgia, where rising waters have
killed 30 people and forced thousands to flee their homes. Clinton announced a
US$66-million aid package for the flood-damaged southeastern states of Georgia,
Florida and Alabama.
Ninety-two human-rights
observers, including three Canadians, left Haiti in compliance with the
military-backed government's expulsion order. The monitors, from the
Organization of American States and the UN, left Port-au-Prince for Guadeloupe
on a scheduled Air France flight.
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1994
A missing lawyer
accused of bilking clients of more than $1 million appeared in Australian court
after Toronto police tracked his travels and tipped police in Sydney. But it
could be up to a year before John Jaffey is extradited to Canada if he resorts
to Australian courts to delay his return. A spokesman for the Australian police
said Jaffey faces several charges, including using a false passport and
unlawfully having goods valued at $1.6 million.
Ontario fired the board
of Canada's largest public housing agency after an audit unearthed financial
bungling and a serious risk of fraud and bribery. Housing Minister Evelyn
Gigantes said she was taking the ''drastic'' step of replacing the Metropolitan
Toronto Housing Authority's 12-member volunteer board with a team of
accountants, who were asked to overhaul the agency by late September.
Canada won't solve its
crime problem by deporting all immigrants who break the law, especially if
they've been in the country since childhood, Jamaican Prime Minister Percival
Patterson told a news conference in Ottawa. He suggested that someone like
Clinton Gayle, a Jamaican accused of killing a Toronto police officer last
month, is not his country's problem. Gayle, 25, came to Canada when he was
eight, but never became a Canadian citizen. He was ordered deported in 1991 but
the order was never carried out.
German troops rolled
through Paris for the first time since the Second World War, taking part in
France's Bastille Day parade. The occasion was hailed by President Francois
Mitterrand as the foundations of a future European defence. ''France today
honors . . . the European army corps, whose presence is testimony to the shared
wish of our people to build the future together,'' he said in his traditional
message to the armed forces.
Hundreds of thousands
of Rwandans streamed across the border into Zaire as the Hutu government army
retreated before a rebel offensive. A sea of people struggled across the border
into the town of Goma, some collapsing exhausted as soon as they reached Zaire,
others plodding on to hurriedly organized UN refugee camps. The head of the UN
Rwanda Emergency Office said he expected 800,000 people to flee across the
border. France, which has troops in Rwanda, called for an emergency meeting of
the UN Security Council.
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1994
Michael Blair, who
holds about 7% of Consolidated Enfield Corp.'s preferred shares, said he and
Henry Knowles will step aside as candidates for election to the the company's
board. Blair said he will support the election to the board of two independent
directors - George Montegue and Ted McDowell - to represent holders of class E,
series 1 preferred shares. Montegue and McDowell will be named as candidates in
an information circular being mailed by the company, and will be supported by
management, Blair said.
John Labatt Ltd. was
put on credit watch by Canadian Bond Rating Service because of debt linked to a
proposed $700-million investment in a Mexican beer company. The agreement
between Labatt and Fomento Economico Mexicano SA, announced July 6, ''has both
positive and negative credit implications,'' CBRS said. The credit watch ''with
developing implications'' will last until the deal is concluded, probably by
the end of September.
Chemical weapons tests
over Winnipeg, Minneapolis and St. Louis posed ''negligible'' health risks,
according to the the U.S. army branch that conducted the operations. Tests of
zinc cadmium sulphide in 1953 ''should not have posed any adverse health
effects,'' said the U.S. army's biological warfare headquarters at Fort
Detrick, Md. Cadmium has been linked to cancer, lung and kidney disorders.
Manitoba Health Minister Jim McCrae was not reassured by the report. He said he
was concerned that it was prepared by the same agency that did the testing. The
U.S. army told the public it was testing smokescreens for defence against any
incoming Soviet missiles. In fact, the Pentagon sprayed clouds of zinc cadmium
sulphide to see how well chemical weapons would disperse over cities under
different wind conditions.
A poll of Quebec voters
showed the Parti Quebecois still leading in popularity, with 51.2% of decided
voters, compared to 41.5% for the governing Liberals. The Leger & Leger
poll of 1,003 Quebecers showed the gap widening between the PQ and the
Liberals; in the same poll last month, the gap was about five percentage
points. However, the poll, with a three-point margin of error, also showed
support for a separate Quebec continued to slide, with 46.5% in favor and 53.5%
against. Last month about 48% favored separation and 52% were against it.
An audit has borne out
some of the conflict-of-interest allegations raised by Valery Fabrikant, the
former professor who killed four of his Concordia University colleagues in
1992. Two professors are being put on unpaid leave and will not return, the
university said. A third, who is now on sabbatical, won't go back to work
either. The report condemned the lack of financial controls at the engineering
and computer science faculty and said research grants ''were diverted to uses
other than those permitted under the rules.''
UN Secretary General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali recommended the U.S. and its allies provide a
15,000-strong force in Haiti after the military leaves office. The UN, he said,
could not field such a large force under its umbrella but would move in with
several hundred peacekeepers after a secure environment was established.
Protestant extremists
waging a violent campaign to keep Northern Ireland British offered an olive
branch to their IRA enemies, pledging to lay down their arms if their foes did
the same. But Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, condemned
the offer as a sham. In a statement issued in Belfast amid a spiral of violent
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A coalition of
environmentalists is protesting the Denver Regional Council of Government's
transportation plan because it violates air pollution standards for
particulates. Environmentalists from the Citizens for Balanced Transportation,
the Colorado Environmental Coalition and the Colorado Public Interest Research
Group want transportation planners to fund more car-pooling lanes and transit
alternatives to Denver International Airport. The council plans a hearing Aug.
17 to discuss a list of proposed metro-area transportation projects. The work
can't go forward with any federal funds until transportation experts can prove
they won't cause additional air pollution.
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Concert moved to arena
National Youth Day's
free concert Thursday is being moved to McNichols Sports Arena, conference
organizers said Tuesday. The concert had been scheduled from noon to 9 p.m. at
Barnum Park. But Denver police were concerned about security, organizers said.
In another development, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will appear via video. She
said last month she wouldn't be able to attend National Youth Day because of
her schedule.
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Greens submit petitions
The Green Party of
Colorado has submitted petitions seeking to place candidates on the November
ballot in the races for governor and lieutenant governor. Philip Hufford, 46,
of Denver is campaigning for governor and Krista Paradise, 33, of Carbondale is
running for lieutenant governor. The Green Party is a global movement that stands
for social justice, environmental protection, non-violence and grassroots
democracy, Hufford said.
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Thursday
Supporters of a ballot
issue asking Coloradans to raise tobacco taxes by 50CENTS a pack will
turn in their petitions on Thursday. Among those scheduled to take part in the
ceremonies is Patrick Reynolds, grandson of tobacco founder R.J.
Reynolds. The ceremonies will Association offices.
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When my older brother,
R.J. Reynolds III, died recently from emphysema caused by his smoking
addiction, the story was trumpeted by newspapers and broadcast media around the
world.
But when our father,
R.J. Reynolds Jr., died from precisely the same cause in 1964, his cigarette
addiction went virtually unnoticed.
There's some irony in
the fact that two R.J. Reynoldses, as well as several other family members,
have died from cigarette smoking.
There's further irony
in the fact that a Food and Drug Administration panel concluded this week what
research has being showing all along - that the nicotine contained in
cigarettes is an addictive drug.
It's getting personal
again.
Who exactly is to
blame?
It's easy to point to
the tobacco companies, whose billions spent annually on manipulative and
deceptive advertisements have helped influence millions of teen-agers and
children to smoke.
It's an obvious call to
point to the tobacco companies' CEOs, who testified under oath that they
did not believe nicotine to be addictive and that they would never tamper with
nicotine levels.
And, it's easy to point
to the industry's outrageous abuses of freedom of speech, such as its full-page
ads proclaiming that smoking is a matter of choice. What choice? According
to Dr. C. Everett Koop's report, nicotine is as addictive as heroin.
There looms an even
greater culprit than the tobacco companies.
Our government's system
of allowing the special interests to influence the votes of our elected
officials with campaign contributions is perhaps the greatest evil in our
government today.
New studies show that
the officials who receive big tobacco's contributions do tend to vote
against legislation to regulate cigarettes. And tobacco has been
contributing.
In recent years, the
cigarette industry has been donating millions to the campaign funds of
politicians at the federal and state levels.
In the last
presidential election, the tobacco interests gave unprecedented amounts
to the Bush and Clinton campaigns. The ranks of the tobacco lobby now
include a number of top Reagan and Bush administration officials, all of whom
have extraordinary access to those presently in power.
Corporations never
spend large amounts of money without expecting something in return.
What does the tobacco
industry hope to gain from spending millions on political contributions?
First, it has managed
to keep cigarette advertising legal, when it should have been banned long ago,
as France, Canada and other nations have done. The industry can no longer
plausibly use the freedom of speech argument to justify its ads' continued
association of smoking with positive images of health, sports, success
and being "a real person."
Simply put, tobacco
ads are outrageous lies. The attractive models on cigarette billboards are role
models that our children see daily and look up to. In fact, these ads are the tobacco
industry's greatest means of holding on to a gradually waning public acceptance
of smoking.
Cigarette ads, which
have in recent years been proliferating across the Third World, China and
Eastern Europe, are an enormous abuse of freedom of speech. They should be
banned. But the power of the tobacco lobby keeps them legal in the U.S.
It's a national disgrace.
Another result of the
lobbying and campaign contributions is that the U.S. has the lowest tax on
cigarettes of any industrialized nation in the world - proof that the special
interests have far too much influence over policy.
Our average state and
federal tax on cigarettes is 52 cents per pack - vs. $3.26 in Canada, $4.07 in
Denmark, $3.24 in England and about $2 per pack in many other countries.
With a recent study
informing us that the direct medical costs of smoking are over $2 per
pack, a $2 tax on cigarettes is the minimum which should now be considered. But
the proposed Senate and House health-care bills that will set the stage next
week for the debate on health-care reform ask for a mere 45-cent tax increase -
despite the Senate Finance Committee's request for a $1 increase.
The tobacco
lobby's influence is again obvious with its success in getting the U.S. trade
office to pressure the governments of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to open
their markets to U.S. cigarettes. Under threat of trade sanctions by us, all
lowered their import duties on U.S. brands.
Since 1968, smoking
around the world has actually increased by 73%. With today's aggressive
marketing and advertising in Far Eastern and Third World nations, smoking
rates in Asia and the Middle East are skyrocketing.
Some people might
suggest that this isn't much different from what other big industries do to
influence policy. There is a big difference.
While the cigarette
companies plaintively ask, "Why single out tobacco?" the
answer is simple: Cigarettes are the only products which, when used as
intended, cause widespread addiction, disease and death.
Other products, like
alcohol, are not necessarily harmful when used as intended. Cigarettes are, and
that's why tobacco should be singled out and regulated much more
tightly.
The core issue here is
getting rid of the tobacco lobby and the government's tolerance of the
special interests, which makes it all possible.
But it's unlikely that
incumbents in Congress will enact any true campaign finance reform soon, since
that would mean giving up the enormous advantages they've come to enjoy over
challengers. And so the status quo continues.
Only the judicial
branch might one day challenge this corruption on the part of the legislative
branch.
I shake my head sadly
when I think of how efficiently and easily the tobacco industry buys off
our elected officials.
Let's find a way to end
the system of PACs and lobbying that has diluted or thwarted our nearly every
effort at tobacco control, and is thwarting plenty of other legislation
that is also in the public's best interest.
If we don't, we will
continue to decline as a nation. If we do, there is hope. And one day, we might
really have a smoke-free society.
Patrick Reynolds is
founder of Citizens for a Smokefree America in Los Angeles.; Patrick Reynolds
is the grandson of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company.
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DENVER - Supporters of
a cigarette tax increase turned in their petitions to the Secretary of State's
Office on Thursday, claiming a small triumph over the tobacco industry
in a fight to put the issue before voters.
The Fair Share for
Health Committee turned in 102,209 signatures - nearly 53,000 more than they
need for their proposal to qualify for the November election ballot.
The measure would raise
the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 50 cents and spend the money on health care
for working people without insurance as well as educational programs to
discourage children from smoking. State and local taxes currently add up
to about 44 cents a pack.
"This issue is
enormously popular and it represents the will of the people of Colorado,"
said Marianne Neifert, president of the campaign.
Although the surplus of
signatures makes a ballot spot almost certain, supporters of the measure are
bracing for a blitzkrieg from the tobacco industry. Large tobacco
companies already have joined to fight the tax. Since the beginning of the
year, they've raised more than $300,000 - nearly double the Fair Share
Committee's contributions.
"We expect to be
outspent by as much as 20-to-1 by a veritable army of mercenary tobacco
lobbyists, high-powered lawyers and clever PR people," Neifert said.
So on Thursday,
committee members trotted out the grandson of the founder of the R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. An outspoken opponent of the tobacco
industry, Patrick Reynolds has crisscrossed the nation supporting no-smoking
ordinances and tax hikes on cigarettes. He is founder of the Los Angeles-based
group Citizens for a Smokefree America.
"My only memories
of my father were him lying down on his back, dying of emphysema caused by smoking,"
he said. ". . . I now lose my oldest brother to emphysema caused by smoking.
This is getting a little personal."
While the R.J. Reynolds
company already has put $80,968 into the fight against Colorado's proposed tobacco
tax, Patrick Reynolds could only afford to write a check for $100 to the
Fair Share Committee on Thursday.
"Financially, I'm
not a wealthy man," he said, "but I do what I can to make a
difference."
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LOCAL Denver, Colorado
John Sanko; Rocky
Mountain News Capitol Bureau
547 words
5 August 1994
Rocky Mountain News
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With the grandson
of tobacco baron R.J. Reynolds cheering them on, members of a Colorado
group that wants to raise taxes on cigarettes by 50CENTS a pack filed petitions
containing 102,209 signatures with the secretary of state Thursday.
Patrick Reynolds, an advocate of a tobacco-free
America, joined scores of others at American Lung Association offices to take
the petitions to Natalie Meyer's offices.
If the petitions have
the required 49,274 signatures of registered electors, the tax measure - which
in one form or other has been struggling to get on the ballot since 1988 - will
be placed before voters in November.
Reynolds, who sold off
all his tobacco stock in 1979, predicts that the tobacco industry
will deluge Coloradans with a $5 million barrage of ads to oppose the tax, which
would raise an estimated $130 million a year.
"The tobacco
industry is going to do everything in its power to kill it," Reynolds
said. "They're planning to spend as much as $5 million on paid advertising
against this tax. It's important not to be deceived by the cunning barrage of tobacco-industry
advertising."
Representatives of the
Fair Share for Health Committee, a coalition that supports the tax, said they
expect that the tobacco industry will challenge their signatures over
the next 30 days but said they are confident the tax measure will be on the
ballot.
Tobacco-industry spokesman
Frank "Pancho" Hays said he is not surprised by the large number of
signatures the tax advocates gathered.
"Look at where the
money came from and who is going to get it," Hays said. "That's what
it's all about, despite all statements to the contrary. Those pushing this are
the bureaucrats and health organizations that stand to gain personally.
"The biggest
contributors to this campaign are primarily hospitals, all of whom would get a
huge windfall to the profits they're already making. They're seeking to add
tens of millions of dollars a year to the bottom line.
"They're all
feeding at the trough. I think they're salivating to get at that trough."
Dr. Marianne Neifert, a
pediatrician who heads the campaign, said most of the money raised through the
new tax would go for health care for working people without insurance and for
education to prevent tobacco use.
She said state and
federal cigarette taxes in Colorado currently are 44CENTS per pack, putting it
among the 15 or so states with the lowest taxes.
Reynolds said that in
California, the tobacco industry outspent proponents of a tax measure
there by $23 million to $1.3 million.
"They ran the most
deceptive ads I've ever seen on TV," Reynolds said. "You saw an ad
with a picture of golf clubs being thrown in the back of a Cadillac and a
voiceover that ran: `Don't vote for the tobacco tax. Doctors are going
to get rich from the tobacco tax if you vote for it.'
"Doctors have
never gotten rich from treating poor people. That tax money was going to go to
indigent medical care for people who didn't have the money to pay for medical
care."
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Nancy Matsumoto
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12 September 1994
People Weekly
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Vol. 42, No. 11, ISSN: 0093-7673
Time Inc.
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO,
WHEN REality Bites star Winona Ryder was not quite a decade old, 15-year-old
beauty Brooke Shields popped up in a series of antismoking advertisements and
posters. "Smoking spoils your looks," she warned in one ad, a
cigarette in each of her ears. Winona doesn't seem to have let Shields's
message sink in quite deep enough. Ryder, 22, one of the signal actresses of
her generation, smokes like the tailpipe of James Dean's old Harley in Reality
Bites, that comedy-drama documenting twentysomething love and angst. She lights
up in front of the television, in the car, in the office, in the middle of a
kiss with costar Ethan Hawke who also smokes, onscreen and off; Reality
screenwriter Helen Childress says Ryder is a celluloid smoker only.
But here's the part
that really troubles some people: Ryder never looks dumb in the movie. With the
help of her cigarette, never is she less than pensively alluring. Hawke, to be
honest, looks pretty cool too. So does Jason Priestley, chain-smoking
when he's away from those Beverly Hills, 90210 cameras. Luke Perry can take it
or leave it. And how about Christian Slater and Johnny Depp, or any of the
other young, tobacco-stained Turks who -- to the consternation of such
antismoking advocates as Patrick Reynolds, 45, grandson of tobacco-industry
giant R.J. Reynolds -- are idolized and imitated by potentially millions of
teenagers? Couldn't Winona have considered not making smoking so
seductive in Reality Bites, he wonders. "She's a role model for teenage
girls, through and through, and she's smoking away."
Call them Hollywood's
Pack Brats, basking in each other's secondhand smoke even as the national
debate over cigarettes rages. Linked with cancer and heart disease, death,
smelliness and even what with the resulting rise in health-care costs an
increase in taxes, smoking is banned -- or at least strictly regulated
-- in theaters, offices and restaurants including those in L.A.. You can't
smoke in the White House Bill is allergic, let alone in a number of prisons.
Between 1965 the year after Surgeon General Luther L. Terry issued his landmark
warning and 1991, the percentage of American adults who smoke plummeted by more
than half, to 25 percent.
No matter; in Hollywood
movies the habit is still big. According to a 1993 study conducted by
cardiologists at the University of California, San Francisco, the number of
young smokers on the movie screen more than doubled in the past 30 years, while
adult, educated smokers have been consistently overrepresented -- there are
proportionately three times as many of them on the screen as in the national
audience. Even now, at theaters near you, Susan Sarandon is bonding with a
rough-and-tumble 11-year-old by sharing a cigarette in The Client. Jeff
Bridges, as a police bomb expert in Blown Away, also blows out smoke. And Mel
Gibson plans to star in the movie version of Thank You for Smoking,
Christopher Buckley's satirical novel whose hero is a handsome tobacco
lobbyist. "Mel likes the story because it takes on political
correctness," says Keith Davis, head of development for Gibson's
production company. "This lobbyist is a smart, charming, basically good
guy who just happens to smoke."
For adults, who have
pretty much decided whether they're going to be smokers or not, Gibson's
character might be just that. But teenagers are another story. For them,
charming -- or appealingly angst-ridden -- smokers can serve as missionaries
for tobacco. Three million of the nation's 46 million smokers are
teenagers, consuming nearly a billion packs of cigarettes a year; each day an
estimated 3,000 teens take their first puff. Indeed, recent government
statistics indicate that smoking among twentysomethings has increased.
Nudging them toward the habit are more than $4 billion a year in promotion and
adverising. Government statistics released last month show that the three most
heavily promoted brands, Newport, Camel and Marlboro, capture a staggering 86
percent of the teenage market.
That's without benefit
of TV commercials, banned in 1971, or -- so all tobacco representatives
contacted for this article insist -- cigarette companies paying to have their
product "placed" in movies, a practice they agreed to end in 1990. Although
Buckley, for one, suspects that such fees continue to be paid to moviemakers
coping with huge costs. "Any movie in which you can see a readily
identifiable pack of cigarettes, you can smell more than smoke," he says.
"You can smell a big, hairy rat."
But many in Hollywood
believe that, even with ads curtailed, images of stars smoking, whether
onscreen or in their private lives, are sufficiently dangerous allurement.
Which is why some show-business folks weave antismoking messages into movies
and TV shows. Only the occasional misfit lights up on Fox's Beverly Hills,
90210 or Melrose Place. On the new ABC teen-angst drama My So-Called Life,
15-year-old Claire Danes doesn't smoke, but the sultry boy she has a crush on
does. So does her best friend's loudmouth mother. In one episode of James L. Brooks's
cartoon series The Simpsons, greedy tobacco executives fling cigarette
packs at kids. "I don't think anyone on the show smokes who's not dying
from it," says producer Brooks. "Marge Simpson's sisters are clearly
not long for this world."
Or consider: In the
current movie Corrina, Corrina, set in 1959, child actress Tina Majorino hides
dad Ray Liotta's cigarettes. In Angels in the Outfield, associate
producer-screenwriter Holly Goldberg Sloan deliberately had the team's good
guys chew gum, while one loser character smokes. "I try to make smoking
a trait of the dark characters," says Sloan, the mother of two preteens.
"That way kids can make the correlation linking an unattractive habit with
an unattractive person."
But what about the
onscreen smokers who are appealing? Joe Cherner, head of the nonprofit
SmokeFree Educational Services of Manhattan, targets them in ads he places in
such trade publications as Variety. "Your movies make smoking seem
sexy, cool and grown up," he wrote to Christian Slater, 25, who inhaled
throughout last year's True Romance. "Thus, unwittingly, you are the tobacco
companies' best tool."
And yet Cherner who
says no star has responded directly to the ads is himself a sort of target.
After all, as anyone who has been through adolescence can recall, smoking
is cool, in part, precisely because a bunch of adults keep telling you it's
not. "Whenever something that's unhealthy is demonized, it becomes
irresistible," says Richard Klein, author of Cigarettes Are Sublime, a
meditation on the culture of tobacco.
Reynolds suspects the
psychology is more complicated. "My gut feeling about Hollywood smokers is
that many are ashamed of the fact that they're addicted," he says. In
fact, not a single one of the smoking celebrities contacted by PEOPLE
cared to discuss the topic. Are they truly enjoying their cigarettes? Mel
Gibson suggests not. "He'd love to quit," says production associate
Keith Davis, "but he can't. Like almost everybody, he has tried -- but
it's a tough addiction."
CAPTION: Activist Joe
Cherner took out this ad in Variety to chastise 90210's Perry and Priestley.
CAPTION: Before hitting
the runway, Naomi Campbell puffed away at a fashion show in July.
CAPTION: Johnny Depp greeting
a fan also lights up in his next film, Ed Wood.
CAPTION: Christian
Slater and Jaye Davidson played the smoking game at a fall fashion show.
CAPTION: Drew Barrymore
used cigarettes for sex appeal as she vamped in L.A. last year.
CAPTION: "What
would it be without cigarettes?" asks screenwriter Richard Friedenberg of
1942's Bette Davis-Paul Henreid classic Now, Voyager.
CAPTION: "We have
to appeal to stars like Ryder," says antismoking crusader Patrick
Reynolds of the actress in Reality Bites with Ethan Hawke.
CAPTION: Unlike her
beau Johnny Depp, model Kate Moss smokes only between jobs.
CAPTION: For Sarah
Jessica Parker, dining out means a table in the smoking section.
CAPTION: "The
hunky male hero is rarely allowed to smoke," says Tobacco Institute
spokesman Tom Lauria. That doesn't include hunky antiheroes like convict Kevin
Costner with T.J. Lowther in A Perfect World.
CAPTION: On ABC's
sensitive high school drama My So-Called Life featuring A.J. Langer and Wilson
Cruz, some antismoking messages are silent.
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NEWS
Penny Owen
Staff Writer
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16 September 1994
The Daily Oklahoman
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"You're going to
do what?!"
That was the initial
response Patrick Reynolds got from his tobacco heir family when
he told them he planned to publicly oppose smoking - and make a living
at it.
Since then, the grandson
of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds has told the world of the need to tax
cigarettes, keep them out of teen-agers' fingers and regulate them like any
other addictive substance under the Food and Drug Administration.
On Thursday, Reynolds
joined U.S. Rep. Mike Synar and anti-smoking advocate John F. Banzhaf
III at the 1994 Oklahoma Tobacco Use Prevention Conference in Oklahoma
City.
It was a call for
Oklahomans to follow California's lead and ban smoking in all
restaurants and to make Oklahoma the 13th state allowed to use smoking
as an issue in child custody cases.
Oklahomans need to
demand their congressmen support House Resolution 3434, the Smokefree
Environment Bill that would ban smoking in most public buildings except
those which have areas with separate ventilation systems, Reynolds said.
"These are not the
fanatical measures the tobacco companies would have you think,"
Reynolds said. "These are reasonable laws."
The anti-smoking
coalition based its reasoning on statistics that put Oklahoma near the bottom
of the war against cigarettes.
Oklahoma is ranked
first in the number of women age 35-64 who smoke - and is one of only two
states with more women smokers than men, according to the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
- Oklahoma ranks
seventh in the nation for smoking prevalence and ninth for smoking-related
deaths.
- Oklahoma ranks eighth
in the country for smokeless tobacco users.
- As for smokers
kicking the habit, Oklahoma ranks 45th.
- The cost of illness
and death due to smoking in Oklahoma is more than $1 billion; 20 percent
of all deaths in Oklahoma are smoking-related.
- 90 percent of all
smokers begin before age 20; 60 percent by age 14.
Synar, D-Muskogee, has
avidly touted the health risks of smoking and has pushed for stricter
legislation and more taxes against them to pay for health reforms.
Synar called for tobacco
- a substance with some 4,000 chemicals - to fall under FDA jurisdiction .
"There is
absolutely no reason why this product enjoys this unique status," said
Synar, pointing to the tobacco industry's freedom to manufacture,
advertise and sell its product with little restriction.
Synar said a smoking
ban would be cruel for some 50 million addicted Americans .
A spokeswoman for the Tobacco
Growers Information Committee said tobacco is a legal product, and
Americans have the right to use it if they choose.
"The tobacco
growers are just trying to earn a living producing a legal product," Lisa
Eddington said.
Eddington denied the tobacco
industry promotes smoking among teens.
Wednesday, the Oklahoma
Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission ABLE conducted an undercover
sting operation at 11 Oklahoma City stores and four southwestern Oklahoma
stores.
Its officials addressed
the anti-smoking gathering Thursday. Using a minor to buy cigarettes,
chief agent Kevin Barry said eight stores illegally sold cigarettes to him. All
were fined .
Reynolds said he has
spent half of his $2 million inheritance on anti-smoking measures. He
said he sold his R.J. Reynolds stock in 1979 and made his sentiments public in
1989.
Reynolds said he lost
his father and brother, both smokers, to emphysema. He said he smoked for 17
years .
While family members
were at first "shocked" and "embarrassed" at first, he said
they've since accepted his cause.
"My family is fine
with it," Reynolds said. "What family I have left."
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The Associated Press
385 words
27 September 1994
The Record, Northern New Jersey
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As Philip Morris made a
thinly veiled threat to move out of New York, the City Council held an
emotion-packed hearing Monday on a bill that would extend the city's already
tough anti-tobacco law to a ban on smoking in nearly all public
places.
But talk of leaving
town did not deter Peter Vallone, speaker of the council, who introduced the
Smoke-Free Air Act, from trying to protect non-smokers from what he said were
the dangers of secondhand smoke.
"This is a health
issue, not a wealth issue," he said. "People are dying!"
Philip Morris, which
employs 2,000 workers in its Park Avenue headquarters and is a major supporter
of New York-based cultural organizations, issued a statement at City Hall
denying it ever threatened to leave. But it acknowledged, "We said it was
an option we would consider if the proposed legislation passed in its current
form."
Ellen Merlo, vice
president for corporate affairs for Philip Morris, USA, said it was difficult
to justify to the firm's 100,000 employees nationwide having the
company'sheadquarters "in a city that prohibits your product in many
places."
Asked about the threat,
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, said, "I think that should be irrelevant to the
debate."
Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of
the late founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, spoke in favor of
the proposed legislation. He said, "If Philip Morris leaves New York City,
I think that New York City can take a lot of pride that a few more drug pushers
have left town."
The threat to leave
outraged Councilman Anthony Weiner, who told the hearing, "That's what we
in Brooklyn call chutzpah!"
Weiner told an audience
of 300, about evenly divided on the bill, "I don't know if that's the way
you lobby in the tobacco country of North Carolina, but New Yorkers don't
like to be threatened!"
He added, "My view
is: Go home now!"
Merlo said Phillip
Morris supports the rights of non-smokers to have smoke-free areas, but also
wants the law to respect the rights of smokers.
The city's present
Clean Indoor Air Act, passed six years ago, establishes non-smoking
areas in public places.
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By Edith Updike. STAFF
WRITER. The Associated Press contributed to this story
601 words
27 September 1994
Newsday
CITY
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Newsday Inc., 1994
The City Council's
spacious chamber was packed yesterday for the second hearing on a bill that
would strengthen the city's already tough antismoking law. And like a crowd at
a college football game, partisans cheered and jeered teams of antismoking
activists and medical experts, industry lobbyists and restaurant owners.
In supporting the
proposed bill, Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of the late founder
of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company and heir to a tobacco
fortune, spoke as a member of Citizens for a Smoke Free America, saying he
watched his father and then his older brother die from "smoking the
family brands."
But restaurant owners
were out in force, protesting that their business will fall off sharply.
"It's not just
statistics out of the air," said Scott Wexler of the United Hotel Tariff
Association of New York State, quoting a letter from a Massachusetts restaurant
owner saying business had dropped 20 percent under a similar law. Sung Soo Kim,
president of New York's Korean Small Business Association asked, "How will
small business owners {be able to} comply?"
The proposed law would
tighten city rules on smoking in public places. It would outlaw the
present system of smoking sections in restaurants, hotels and workplaces
in favor of "separate smoking rooms." Such a room would have
to have its own ventilation system and occupy no more than 25 percent of the
total space.
Retail stores that
employ fewer than 15 people and restaurants that seat fewer than 50, which are
exempt from current rules, would have to comply with the proposed law. Emotions
ran high at the hearing. Council member Anthony D. Weiner of Brooklyn was
outraged at a report that Philip Morris Cos. was considering pulling its
headquarters - and 2,000 jobs - from the city if the bill passed.
"I don't know if
that's the way you lobby in the tobacco country of North Carolina, but
New Yorkers don't like to be threatened," Weiner told a spokeswoman from
the Tobacco Institute, to a chorus of cheers. "If they say ,`We're
gonna take our ball and go home' when they don't get their way, my view is: Go
home now."
Philip Morris issued a
statement at City Hall denying it ever threatened to leave. But it
acknowledged, "We said it was an option we would consider if the proposed
legislation passed in its current form."
Ellen Merlo, the company's
vice president for corporate affairs, said it was difficult to justify to the
firm's employees having their headquarters "in a city that prohibits your
product in many places." Bars, nightclubs, pool parlors, tobacco
businesses and hotel rooms would be exempt from the law.
While most of the
legislation's supporters were in the balcony, the main floor was packed with
restaurateurs, hoteliers and other business representatives. Fred Sampson,
president of the New York State Restaurant Association, warned lawmakers that
toughening the antismoking law would harm business, and reminded them that they
once said the hotel occupancy tax wouldn't have any effect on business. Now
many of them want to eliminate it.
While some council
members said economic impact is clearly a concern others remained skeptical.
When a spokesman for
the National Smokers Alliance said restaurants and hotels are the largest
employers of people of color, and "those are the ones who'll lose their
jobs," council member Juanita Williams retorted, "We used to have to
pick tobacco, too."
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