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Western Carolinian Volume 44 Number 30

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  • APRIL 26, 1979/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/PAGE 7 Observer smoked over tobacco story CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—Last month, the Charlotte Observer published a 20-page report on smoking and the tobacco industry. With headlines such as "N.C.'s top crop: part of our lives but bad for health," and color pictures of healthy lungs beside lungs blackened by emphysema, the report was somewhat daring in a state where cigarette plants produce nearly SI billion cigarettes a day. Reaction to the Observer's report, headlined "Our Tobacco Dilemma," has come in varying forms. "I've gotten more mail — some of it coming to my house — from it than any other story," said Mark $ 500 REWARD for arrest and conviction of person or persons causing damage to Hardees of Cullowhee Contact: J. C. D. Bailey Franchise Enterprises, Inc. P.O. Box 1828 119 S. Grace Street Rocky Mt. N.C. 27801 1-800-682-1344 Ethridge III, an Observer Editor who headed the 34-person staff which produced the report in two months. One of the editors on the project "smoked when she started working but by the time she finished, she wasn't smoking any more," Ethridge said. The Observer's report, published on March 25, dealt with both sides of the smoking controversy. It included remarks from smokers and nonsmokers, and medical and economic data. "Reaction has been low-key," Observer editor Richard A. Oppel said Wednesday. "But I think taking all the requests for reprints along with comments on the section into consideration, reaction has been substantially favorable." Checks with pro-smoking groups turned up some negative reaction. "It's a sad state of affairs when a newspaper in North Carolina comes out against a product that brings the state over $1 billion a year," said Billy Yeargin, managing director of the Raleigh-based Tobacco Growers Information Committee, declared. "The Charlotte Observer is obviously taking an anti-tobacco stance. But let me qualify that — I've not read the entire special. I'm just commenting on what I see as the thrust of the articles," Yeargin said. Timothy Breiding, Obvserver promotion manager, said the paper has sent out more than 5,000 reprints of the report, including about 300 to individuals and 75 copies to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. "We did not send copies to the tobacco companies," Oppel said. "But we know representatives of some of the companies have read it...no one has called me from any tobacco company and our advertising department has not heard anything from any tobacco companies." On Wednesday, The Associated Press contacted R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris and Liggett & Myers tobacco companies for reaction to the report. Only Philip Morris responded. Vice president Stanley Scott said, in a statement, "We certainly don't take issue with the Observer's right to publish such a story." But he added that questions regarding smoking and health "have never been resolved. The public should not be misled to believe otherwise, no matter how well intentioned." WE HAVE BROOKS VANTAGE RUNNING SHOES $2995 SHOE GOO FOR SHOE REPAIR SPEEDO RUNNING SHORTS WHITE TENNIS SHORTS AND WARMUPS CULLOWHEE OUTFITTERS Hwy 107 293-9741
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