"Those forces that drive the female desire to be thin are very powerful: They certainly override the prospect of death coming a few years earlier some decades hence"
Arthur Crisp, lead researcher of a study on weight perception and smoking habits published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal The Globe and Mail 08/03/98

"The entire issue concerning sidestream smoke . . . has been minimized by the industry . . . If a group of terrorists decided to place a poison gas in public places there would be public outrage and prompt reaction"
William Farone, a former Philip Morris scientist turned whistle-blower in a July 13 document made available to US News & World Report

"Our sources close to the settlement talks indicate that we are still 3-4 weeks from a deal. The major issues to be worked out are, in order: 1) renegade provisions; 2) extent of marketing restrictions; 3) industry distribution concessions, and 4) money. FDA jurisdiction and look-back provisions are non-starter issues. The industry will reject a deal unless at least 40 (of 46"
Gary Black Report, 08/03/98

"They are just passing through the costs and trying to stay ahead of the judges"
Emanuel Goldman, an industry analyst with PaineWebber in San Francisco, on new cigarette price hikes AP 08/03/98

"We will have the race . . . It is in our interests to ensure that South Africa does not lose the chance to host the Formula One event."
South Africa's Sports Minister Steve Tshwete CNN/SI 08/03/98

"The ANC welcomes the approval of draft legislation by cabinet to severely limit smoking in public places, ban all tobacco advertising and impose heavy penalties on violations."
ANC 08/01/98

"[NGA's Corporate Fellows program] brings together public and private policy makers to exchange knowledge and experience and to stimulate discussion on critical issues, new trends and factors that affect business, government and citizens"
National Governors Assn printed material. $12,000 buys access for Philip Morris at the NGA Convention AP 08/04/98

"[S]mokers are entitled not to be saddled with a restrained market where all they can buy are Yugo cigarettes"
Libertarians should support litigation alleging anti-trust conspiracies, argues Einer Elhauge, Washington Post 08/04/98

"It's my goal to literally destroy (tobacco companies). They know full well that smoking is a killer but they are so well versed in the art of deception and exploiting peer pressure to lure teenagers"
New Zealand Associate Health Minister Tuariki Delamere The Press (Christchurch, NZ) 08/04/98

"We are not saying that this particular event [Formula One race] will be strictly subject to the letter of the bill [Zuma's Tobacco Products Control Amendment] if the bill is an Act of Parliament by then"
South Africa Sports Minister Steve Tshwete. Nelson Mandela will meet with Bernie Ecclestone Aug. 19 ANC News Briefing 08/04/98

"Basically, the drill is that they hire people to write these letters, then they cited the letters as if they were independent, disinterested scientists writing. Then they use that to build up a phony literature to show people like Judge Osteen as evidence that the EPA has been naughty."
Dr. Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, on the letters-for-dollars documents.

"It's absolutely, completely, utterly appalling . . . it doesn't surprise me in the slightest"
Julia Carol, co-director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights St. Paul Pioneer Press 08/04/98

"This is six years ago. Who the hell remembers those things? . . . Are you getting paid for what you're writing? We're all out there working."
Dr. Gio Batta Gori, a former top official at the National Cancer Institute who now works as a consultant to the tobacco industry.

"They have to keep the army stable. It would affect stability if the junior ranks got furious and were seen to lose face. That is why it is forbidden to publish any news of smuggling cases involving the army. Even I don't know how many there have been."
Unnamed People's Liberation Army officer, on China's worst-kept secret: that the PLA runs probably the biggest smuggling racket in the world Times of London 08/02/98

"On average the time by which a habitual cigarette smoker's life is shortened is about five and a half minutes for each cigarette smoked, which is not much less than the time he spends smoking it."
SMOKING OR HEALTH: THE THIRD REPORT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON (1977); CHAPTER 2: SMOKING, ILLNESS AND SHORTENING OF LIFE: The Smokers Increased Risk of Dying (Page 32:)

"four critical letters . . . all from people who have received support from the tobacco industry, and two . . . from individuals we already know to be energetic letter writers on behalf of that industry. Mantel has published at least eight . . . Will the letters suggest that the evidence on the two sides of the debate are equivalent, when there is overwhelming evidence that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) causes both cancer and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality? . . . We expect that (the tobacco industry's) representatives will cite their four letters in this issue of JAMA, but not the response from Trichopoulos et al, because that is what they have done in the past. Yet, despite our fears about the political use to which the resulting citations may well be put, we are publishing these letters."
Editorial, JAMA, October 13, 1993

"The municipal government expects the city to become a modern metropolis without cigarettes"
Unnamed Guangzhou city official quoted in China Daily Business Day (Johannesburg, SA)

"There are antitrust issues if [the major tobacco companies] agree not to compete in certain ways, such as not to advertise. . . If a small company plays it right, they could exploit a settlement"
Garret Rasmussen, an antitrust lawyer who isn't involved in the states/tobacco talks Bloomberg/Winston-Salem Journal 08/05/98

"Cigars Are No Safe Alternative Act"
Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA)'s legislation, introduced yesterday, which would place warning labels on cigars Baltimore Sun 08/06/98

"We can't talk about some of the things we sell at Tobacco Road"
TV station pulls cigarette store ad featuring lounge singers, monster movies and kittens Evansville Courier 08/05/98

"We have in place already formal declarations of conflicts of interest. But we have initiated discussions on the editorial board of going even beyond that. It didn't occur to me or us that people get paid for specific letters, or that they may be reviewed by representatives of the funding party."
Dr. Barry Kramer, editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute St. Paul Pioneer Press 08/06/98

"To allow plaintiffs to maintain actions that are entirely dependent upon the harm suffered by others threatens chaos for the judicial system, especially where others may (and have) filed their own actions and are capable of recovering a full range of damages, including the medical costs sought here"
U.S. District Judge Malcolm Marsh, in dismissing a suit brought by labor union funds in Oregon PM PR Newswire 08/06/98

"the same tired arguments that tobacco has trotted out against every attorney general all over the country. The only difference is that tobacco didn't have to do it. Peter Kinder did it for them."
Paul Wilson, Missouri assistant attorney general. Sen. Kinder filed a suit Wednesday challenging the state's arrangements with private lawyers

"With the prospects for a new AG settlement high, and a continuing paper trail that the courts will not permit class actions in tobacco personal injury cases, we look for further relative multiple expansion as the litigation cloud lifts, and as speculation builds that all companies will separate tobacco from non-tobacco operations."
Gary Black Report 08/06/98

"From my work at Philip Morris, I was familiar with the process of transferring nicotine to the human lung via an oxidized vegetable-matter medium. From there, it was a simple matter of applying that know-how, not to smokers, but to smokers who wanted to quit. By doubling the nicotine dosage in Nicarest, we removed any biochemical reason for a smoker to fall back on cigarette dependency."
QuitLabs CEO Charles Randle. Satire from The Onion 07/22/98

"If the Indiana Attorney General can show such disrespect for the court and its orders, why can't others? The answer is simple, neither the average citizen nor the highest attorney in the state should show such public disregard toward the court or its rulings."
The Indianapolis Bar Association has rebuked Indian AG Modisett for harshly criticizing the judge who dismissed Indiana's tobacco lawsuit Indianapolis Star/News 08/07/98

"A ruling by a federal judge in North Carolina that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wrongly declared secondhand tobacco smoke a carcinogen based on 'junk science' reinforces the long-held conviction by the oil and gas industry that many federal agencies often use unproved theories to support politically correct environmental agendas. . . . His findings confirm what America's oil industry has said for years about questionable federal policies supported by 'junk science' relating to wetlands, hazardous waste, clean air, endangered species and other issues."
James L. Stafford, president of the National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO). Other industries have a map to follow. PR Newswire 08/07/98

"A regular consumer of news and news-like programming who believed the broadcast ads by both sides would be seriously misled by the industry."
Study by Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania AP 08/07/98

"To a large extent, it seems the American people have lost interest in the subject (tobacco legislation)"
House Majority Leader Dick Armey Reuters 08/07/98

"Say goodbye to tobacco. It's gone."
National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.) Washington Post 08/08/98

"The real reason for this is (a.) we don't want litter on our streets and (b.) it costs a lot of money to clean up. . . when I tell you we get 5,000 butts a week, I'm not exaggerating. It's horrendous"
Plymouth, PA, borough administrator Clif Madrack, where butt-throwing is now subject to a $100 fine. Dow Jones (pay registration) 08/07/98

"As a courtesy to the tobacco industry, I sent a copy of the press release ... a few days prior to the (news) conference. My courtesy was repaid by their simultaneously releasing a lengthy, harsh rebuttal to the statement. I continue to be surprised by an action of a vested interest which puts profits above human welfare."
Ex-Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, whose funeral is today. Indianapolis Star/News 08/08/98

"A minority of employers don't seem to give a damn about their employees. They don't give a damn about the health and safety act. Once the till is ringing they don't care who's affected by the smoky atmosphere."
Jim Moloney, whose Mandate union organises bar staff. Bartenders and waiters in Ireland are suing their employers over secondhand smoke Times of London 08/09/98

"I don't want to tell them (Rite-Aid Drugstores) how to run a drugstore business. But when they start introducing drugs into the community, that's my business."
Richard Kibbey, president of the (Lansing, MI) Eastside Neighborhood Organization AP 08/09/98

"We believe the current tobacco environment is similar to 1986-87, when sentiment turned dramatically as the 2nd tobacco litigation wave collapsed. . . If the Administration files its own Medicare/Medicaid recovery action . . . [it] would have to be filed in federal court (have dismissed 5 of 5 labor union / health care claims). The federal government, unlike the states, shows a clear paper trail of knowledge of tobacco’s risks"
Gary Black Report 08/10/98

"What it comes down is these talks which we've been excluded from effectively are designed to work in the best interest of those parties around the table. . . Ultimately, they're interested in getting market stability for themselves and they just cannot have our best interest at heart."
Ron Tully, vice president of public affairs for Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. Greensboro News & Record August 10, 1998

"Have you smoked a cigarette (at least a puff or more) in the past 30 days?"
National Household Survey of Drug Abuse question. What does "teen smoker" really mean? American Statistics Association PR Newswire08/10/98

"How can it be illegal for one American to give another a commodity that is legally sold everywhere else in the world? I want my stuff back. The idea that Customs will destroy these cigars is heart-sickening."
Unnamed Racquet Club memeber. Some of those arrested may sue US Customs over cigar bust New York Post 08/11/98

"We want our generation to be the first to reject the ideas about tobacco"
Susan Medina, vice chairwoman of SWAT. Florida's "Truth Train" finished its tour Monday Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel 08/11/98

"They [Chimpanzees on exhibit] will smoke if somebody throws them a cigarette, but I do not approve."
Brian Boswell, the owner of the Natal Zoological Gardens Sunday Times 08/09/98

"I take particular offense when these dollars are spent to sway an unsuspecting public and when there is no counterbalance of interests who have the financial power to command equal presence on the airwa"
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who has introduced a bill to eliminate the tax deductibility of ads like tobacco's anti-McCain bill campaign Toledo Blade 08/11/98

"The study of Withers and colleagues (1) serves as a reminder that the issue of smoking remains important relative to asthma not only for scientific knowledge but for public health. Children's passive exposure to tobacco smoke remains widespread (23), and there is disturbing evidence that cigarette smoking in adolescents is increasing (24). Thus, it is quite likely that exposure to tobacco smoke will remain part of asthmatic's environment for some time to come."
IRA B. TAGER, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 8/98

"The more states they can wrap into this (settlement agreement), the better off the industry will be . . . They will try to convince the dissidents."
Robert Habush, the lead private attorney for Wisconsin Bloomberg 08/11/98

"I think this will help to send a message . . . to all the legislatures that have overlooked this little detail"
Rep. Brian P. Bilbray (R-CA) on his amendment which criminalizes underage smoking in DC Washington Post 08/13/98

"The issue of western marketing and advertisement having a lot of influence on local consumers (in Eastern Europe) is a myth. . . We are not getting more people to smoke. It is just that they are switching from local, often filterless brands to better-quality tobacco."
Rolf Bielefeldt, BAT's manager for corporate affairs Financial Times/The Journal 08/13/98

"Stronger tobacco control polices do not jeopardise output and employment but instead are beneficial to the economy"
Professor Iraj Abedian, head of the University of Cape Town's economics of tobacco control project ANC News Briefing 08/13/98

"Under these circumstances, we find that appellants have met their burden of demonstrating the trial court abused its discretion in denying their motion. . . The plaintiff, the decedent, his widow and most of the witnesses lived in Palm Beach and Broward counties or out of state, (and) no material witnesses from Duval County were identified."
Florida state appeals court judges, reversing the Maddox verdict. AP 08/13/98

"We're just real excited to work with people of the quality of Philip Morris"
Dyke Davies, vice president of marketing at Delta Dental. PM is dropping Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield's dental coverage over its involvement in the Blues lawsuit. Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/14/98

"[The Minnesota settlement's attorney fees arrangement] will make the members of the firm unbelievably rich for performing a public service. I'm stepping forward to help redirect the windfall from a handful of outrageously paid attorneys to all Minnesotans."
Roger Conant, whose lawsuit challenges the Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi fees Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune 08/14/98

"We' ll seek attorneys fees from them for this frivolous action"
Michael Ciresi AP 08/14/98

"I am satisfied that [the petitioner] has proven even beyond the preponderance of credible evidence that [his] tonsillar cancer was caused by his exposure to second-hand smoke during the twenty-six years that he shared an office with a co-employee who was a chain-smoker."
New Jersey workers compensation Judge James Boyle New Jersey Law Journal 08/10/98

"flexing their muscles"
In AG settlement talks, tobacco companies feel empowered by recent string of victories LA Times 08/14/98

"We are thus of the opinion that Congress did not intend to delegate jurisdiction over tobacco products to the FDA. Accordingly, the decision of the district court is reversed"
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Reuters 08/14/98

"Congress should get on with passing legislation that would give the FDA (authority over tobacco)"
White House spokesman Mike McCurry Bloomberg 08/14/98

"I hope this is a major wake-up call to Congress. It is time for congress to act."
Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire Bloomberg 08/14/98

"We are pleased by the court's ruling that the FDA does not have authority to regulate tobacco products, and that the agency's 1996 tobacco rule is invalid. The industry remains firmly committed to taking meaningful steps to reduce underage tobacco use."
Tobacco Industry press release 08/14/98

"[U]ltimately, when it goes to the Supreme Court, I am confident the court will affirm the FDA's jurisdiction over tobacco products"
Henry Waxman (D-CA) CNN 08/14/98

"No assurance of safety can be given for inherently unsafe products such as tobacco"
4th Circuit Court of Appeals 08/14/98

"The Solicitor General has today authorized the filing of a petition in the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit seeking rehearing en banc of the three-judge panel?s decision regarding FDA regulation of tobacco products. I am firmly committed to the FDA?s rule and its role in protecting our children from tobacco. . . . If the leadership in Congress would act responsibly, it would enact bipartisan comprehensive tobacco legislation to confirm the FDA's authority and take this matter out of the courtroom"
Statement by the President 08/14/98

"While not actually disputing that tobacco products deliver a drug, nicotine, into the body, the majority would deny to the FDA the authority to act to address this acknowledged health threat. I dissent. Tobacco products fit comfortably into the FDCA's definitions of 'drug' and 'device.' Inasmuch as cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are responsible for illness and death on a vast scale, FDA regulations aimed at curbing tobacco use by children cannot possibly be contrary to the general intent of the FDCA to protect the public health. "
Dissent of Senior Judge Hall, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals 08/14/98

"Deep Cough"
Industry informant is still unidentified The New York Times 08/15/98

"It's such a leafy plant"
Dr. Carole Cramer, a plant physiologist at Virginia Tech, on what makes tobacco such an ideal host for outside genetic material Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/16/98

"Justice and Health and Human Services are still reviewing it [a Federal Medicare suit]. It requires full legal analysis. They haven't reached closure yet."
Unnamed White House official LA Times/Winston-Salem Journal 08/16/98

"If you wanted only to bring suits that are guaranteed to succeed, you wouldn't say this is a slam dunk. But . . . at a minimum, this would certainly be a serious and perfectly responsible suit for the federal government to bring."
Constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe on the prospects for a federal medicare suit LA Times 08/16/98

"My company hasn't done any of the alleged bad deeds that the majors have done, specifically marketing to teenagers. Why should we be penalized?"
Steven Bailey, executive vice president of S&M Brands NY Newsday 08/16/98

"The larger companies are trying to create a monopolistic opportunity that would in effect force the smaller companies out of business"
Joel Sherman, president of Nat Sherman Inc. NY Newsday 08/16/98

"Smoke Only in Accord Lighter. Do Not Light."
Warning on Accord packs and boxes. The new "cigarette smoking system" begins test marketing in Richmond, VA Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/17/98

"I think it's a very fine line between being overt and trying to remain cool and hip and underground. It's kind of a Gen X razor's edge. If you're a cigarette company you don't want the 21-to-29-year-olds to have to seek you out, you have to seek them out and do things that are cool."
Liz DiPilli, a partner in Project X, a Manhattan consulting firm. Florida's bar promotions are examined St. Petersburg Times 08/16/98

"The AGs have to be concerned that the wave of pro-tobacco rulings that have swept the courts over the past several months may liberate state judges, who are elected officials, to go against the political tides and review the merits of the states' cases, which is likely to lead to increased dismissals and weakened claims. . . While many in the anti-tobacco crowd say the 4th Circuit ruling will prompt Congress to pass narrow legislation that gives the FDA jurisdiction over tobacco, Congress has neither the appetite nor the time left in this session to pass any tobacco legislation "
Gary Black Report 08/17/98

"We have misjudged the enemy"
Paul Talalay, professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Cancer-preventing drug studies are examined Lexington (KY) Herald Leader 08/18/98

"Our findings are completely independent of any influence from the industry."
Dr Keith Phillips, of Covance Laboratories (Harrogate) Electronic Telegraph 08/16/98

"While tobacco stocks have rarely moved on favorable asbestos rulings, investors should consider Cimino in the context of the growing paper trail of favorable tobacco rulings at the state level (PA, MO, NY, DC, PR), Cimino's potential impact on Engle, and that other courts reviewing tobacco class actions will increasingly reject the concept of bifurcated trials with separate phases for common and individual issues, when individual causation and damages must be flushed out separately for each class member."
Gary Black Report 08/18/98

"For the first time, our investigation shows tobacco is not the only smoked substance that sets in motion the molecular events which can lead to lung cancer"
Dr. Sanford Barsky, a UCLA pathologist and co-author of a study that found smoking marijuana or crack cocaine can cause precancerous changes in lung tissue similar to that seen in cigarette smokers

"What we have now is a really ugly stalemate"
Bill Novelli, the head of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Christian Science Monitor 08/19/98

"The only reason they [troopers conducting a sting] stopped is they got writer's cramp. It's too easy for kids to buy alcohol or cigarettes"
Lt. Dennis Bolling, the commander of the Metro South police post in Taylor, Michigan 08/20/98 Detroit News

"The law is the law. Perjury is perjury. Members of Congress, who swear to uphold the law, do not believe in special treatment or exemptions. Unless, of course, you're testifying about tobacco. . . . With Clinton, we're talking about misleading people over some hanky-panky with an intern. With the other guys, it's misinformation about a product that kills 435,000 Americans a year."
E.J. Montini, Arizona Daily Star 08/20/98

"We got our town back"
Seymour, CT resident Mary Adamowski. Seymour's law forbidding teen smoking was overturned in a referendum yesterday.

"When it comes to smoking, there's this big loophole. With alcohol, underage kids can't buy it, possess it or use it. Underage kids can't buy cigarettes, why do we let them smoke?"
John Sponauer, director of the Valley Substance Abuse Action Council Hartford (CT) Courant 08/20/98

"friend-of-the-court"
The tobacco industry has asked the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for help in arguing against disclosure of internal documents that allegedly incriminate tobacco lawyers The Wall Street Journal (pay registration) 08/20/98

"The tobacco industry will find friends wherever it can find them. It has gone to a group which has historically fought for unpopular people who have been accused of criminal activity."
James Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine advising states in tobacco litigation

"Mighty Tasty!"
RJR's new Camel campaign Ottawa Citizen 08/20/98

"They're not just funding his campaign. They're working hard to make his life more enjoyable."
Jonathan W. Pelto, campaign spokesman for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Barbara B. Kennelly, on Gov. Rowland's receipt of $140,000 from tobacco interests since 1994. The New York Times 08/21/98

"There's absolutely no indication that money he's received from tobacco interests, or any other interests, influenced decision-making"
Rowland spokesman Dean Pagani Hartford (CT) Courant 08/21/98

"So far, [Connecticut] Governor Rowland has put his support behind the money, and not on the side of public health or children's health"
Susan D. Haviland, a spokeswoman for Connecticut Citizen Action Group, which has released a report saying the governor has received $140,000 from tobacco interests since 1994. The New York Times 08/21/98

"I have to laugh a little bit. She's [Kennelly] received more tobacco support than the rest of the Connecticut delegation and the rest of the New England delegation combined. So, thou protest too much."
Gov. Rowland on Kennelly's 1987-91 tobacco contributions The New York Times 08/21/98

"I'm like a lot of people -- I got religion on the issue"
Barbara B. Kennelly, who has refused tobacco contributions The New York Times 08/21/98

"The advertising campaign by the five largest tobacco companies in opposition to the legislation is unprecedented. It is the most expensive and sustained issue advocacy advertising campaign ever undertaken on a piece of pending legislation. . . It is the first large-scale issue advocacy advertising campaign with the potential to set the issue agenda for the November elections"
Annenberg Public Policy Center Releases Comprehensive Analysis 08/06/98

"While we are very sensitive to the smoking issue - in fact, I'm a non-smoker and I don't allow smoking in my home - I still believe in the First Amendment right to free speech, and it is a legal product"
Annette Pettersen, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Connecticut. Minority targeting is examined Hartford (CT) Courant 08/21/98

"A disproportionate number of [alcohol and tobacco] billboards are in African-American communities and Latino neighborhoods - on street corners, near homes, schools, parks, churches. And the children are confronted day after day after day after day with this image. Like drug dealers, they claim alcohol and cigarettes will bring happiness, good sex, more power."
Dick Gregory

"The observation that death of SIDS is in almost all cases preceded by a significant exposure to nicotine is conspicuous and could suggest that acute heavy exposure may play a role"
Dr. Joseph Milerad, of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues in the August issue of the Journal of Pediatrics Reuters 08/21/98

"Many, many people either have a fixed opinion on smoking or have a relative who has died from smoking. That's slowing things down."
Unnamed Engle court official on jury selection Reuters 08/21/98

"XA"
King County Superior Court Judge George A. Finkle has ruled that Lawyer Lawrence G. Meyer may testify that other tobacco companies threatened to retaliate against Liggett Group if the firm didn't stop work on its "XA" project to develop a safer cigarette AP 08/21/98

"The tobacco industry should take serious note of this key ruling in the Hawaii tobacco case. Hawaii has a full range of causes of action that will enable the truth about the tobacco industry's misconduct to be shown, and ensure full recovery to the state for its tobacco-related health care costs"
Ronald L. Motley, Hawaii's national trial counsel AP 08/21/98

• In 1997, an estimated 64 million Americans reported smoking tobacco within 30 days prior to the interview. This represents a rate of 30 percent and the rate did not change between 1996 and 1997.
• An estimated 20 percent of youth age 12-17 (4.5 million) were current smokers in 1997. There was no significant change in this rate between 1996 and 1997 and the smoking rate for this group has remained relatively stable since 1988.
• For youth age 12-13 there was a significant increase in the rate of current use of cigarettes from 7.3 percent in 1996 to 9.7 percent in 1997. 230

"ecstatic"
Attorney General Margery Bronster, describing her reaction when Circuit Judge Kevin Chang upheld all counts of the state's tobacco lawsuit Honolulu Star-Bulletin 08/21/98

"I think we have the strongest case in the country to date . . . lean and mean"
Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregoire Seattle Times 08/23/98

"One of the things to keep in mind is that whenever we have been able to take our case to a jury . . . we win"
Joseph Helewicz, a vice president at Brown and Williamson.

"I wouldn't wish what I went through on my worst enemy"
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Pete Harnisch, on his withdrawal from smokeless tobacco Contra Costa (CA) Times 08/23/98

"As Thomas Edison put it, 'Harding is all right -- any man who chews tobacco is all right.'"
British historian Paul Johnson, in his new book, "A History of the American People" (HarperCollins, 1998) The New York Times 08/23/98

"We need long-term studies by epidemiologists to determine the consequences of exposure to tobacco smoke. Right now we are depending on the memory of people with cancer to remember if their mother smoked and how much."
University of Minnesota professor Stephen S. Hecht, whose study found the carcinogen NNK in babies of smokers AP 08/23/98

"At its core, this case is about who has the power to make this type of major policy decision."
The 4th Circuit FDA ruling is examined Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/24/98

"the cure, mitigation, or prevention of a disease"
FDA's restrictive labelling criteria for its regulation of tobacco. The 4th Circuit ruling is examined Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/24/98

"Ente Tabacchi Italiani"
Major changes lie ahead for Italy's tobacco industry as its tobacco monopoly is to be converted to the above joint-stock company, which will then be sold whole or as several joint-stock companies to investors. Bloomberg/Winston-Salem Journal 08/24/98

"The results demonstrate that uptake of NNK by non-smokers begins before birth . . . [The levels of NNK by-products found are] substantial when one considers that exposure of the developing fetus to NNK would have taken place throughout pregnancy."
University of Minnesota Cancer Center Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D. American Chemical Society 08/24/98

"This is fantastic. This is a perfect way to help protect the public from being addicted at a young age to a carcinogen."
Michael Green, executive director of the Center for Environmental Health, on the agreement by California's two biggest outdoor advertising firms to post free anti-smoking billboards throughout the state to settle claims they ran cigarette ads too close to schools. San Francisco Chronicle 08/24/98

" Invariably, without any single exception, these throats have been associatiod with the smoking of what is called Egyptian tobacco, though I am free to admit that cigarette smoking of any tobacco - the dram drinking of smoking as it is becoming - if pursued much longer in the sort of persistent way that is fashionable to-day will most assuredly lead to some definite mouth or throat disease associated with it"
"A Country Doctor," in a letter to The Times, August 24, 1884 Times of London 08/24/98

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
Sigmund Freud. And sometimes not, according to The Drudge Report (Parental Advisory: graphic description)
For those attempting to stay a little above the mud into which our society seems to be steadily sinking, a somewhat milder version is available at that paragon of delicacy, the New York Post

"And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke."
Rudyard Kipling, "The Betrothed"

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
Sigmund Freud. And sometimes not, according to The Drudge Report (Parental Advisory: graphic description)

"The WHO MONICA Project was set up in the early 1980s to see whether the engines driving the changes in heart disease rates were those known at that time to determine risk in individuals ­smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, and to a lesser extent, obesity. Our initial impression, - of no direct relationship overall in this study, despite reported results from individual centres- does not negate the importance of these factors to the individual and to health education"
Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, speaking for the Monica study European Congress of Cardiology Press Release

"Look, we just want to settle this lawsuit and give someone a bunch of our money. I've never seen a case so difficult to settle"
Unidentified tobacco lawyer, on a new unusual filing that may delay Texas' first settlement payment Dallas Morning News 08/25/98

"We are doing a lot of research and study on youth smoking prevention to identify the right message and the right programs"
Philip Morris VP Ellen Merlo, on the company's Leo Burnett-produced anti-teen-smoking ads Scarc News/Adweek 08/25/98

"Tobacco: Helping Youth Decide"
Secret documents shed light on industry anti-youth smoking efforts St. Paul Pioneer Press 08/26/98

"Any tobacco that's remaining in the field will be susceptible because of the large leaves. We need some rainfall, but we don't need to get hammered"
Jim Knight, North Carolina director of public information for the Agriculture Department, on Hurricane Bonnie Raleigh News & Observer 08/26/98

"Ka mate koe i te kai hikareti"
New Zealand's new warning label regulations will require a warning in Maori: "Smoking kills." The Press (Christchurch, NZ) 08/25/98

"We see this as part of his mission to destroy us"
Rothmans New Zealand director Peter Lorrigan, on Associate Health Minister Tuariki Delamere's announcement of new, larger health warnings on cigarette packets The Press (Christchurch, NZ) 08/26/98

"This is a wake-up call for physicians and women to look at body image as a modifiable risk for pulmonary lung diseases and other smoking related diseases"
Dr. Anna Day, physician-in-chief at Women's College hospital Toronto Sun 08/25/98

"Settlement negotiations between the industry and the attorneys general will resume today in New York . . . . We believe at least 40 of the remaining 46 states will embrace the new agreement. We believe the AGs will increasingly view this deal as the first step in a two-step process ‹ state settlement now; federal settlement next year. . . Many on the plaintiffs' side view a federal suit as a settlement vehicle through which to secure the marketing, regulatory, and public health provisions in the June 20 accord that are not possible with a state-only settlement -- without needing Congress' approval. . . . Prospects for a new federal settlement might presumably persuade holdout AGs to sign a new state-only settlement that many view as not tough enough -- as a sort of first step in a two-step settlement process where FDA jurisdiction, tougher marketing restrictions, and a steeper price increase would come in at the federal level"
Why The Feds Won't Rain On The Industry's Victory Parade Gary Black Report 08/26/98

"Apparently, we're down to negotiations with two companies"
Fred Olson, a spokesman for Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire AP 08/26/98

"[It would be] inaccurate to characterize Mr. Meyer's participation as a whistleblower or an eager volunteer. He's an independent-minded attorney with a distinguished public-service record who is trying to meet a number of competing demands honestly and fairly."
Dwight P. Bostwick, lawyer for ex-Liggett attorney Lawrence G. Meyer, in an Aug. 4 letter filed in Washington state court. Meyer may testify on industry pressure against Liggett's "XA" safer cigarette project. The Wall Street Journal 08/27/98

"[Other tobacco companies feared] Liggett's marketing and sale of a safe cigarette could result in infinite liability in civil litigation as it would constitute a direct or implied admission that all other cigarettes were unsafe"
The heart of other tobacco companies' fear of Liggett's XA project, according to a 10-page proffer filed by Meyer's lawyer, Dwight P. Bostwick LA Times 08/27/98

"[F]further exploration [is needed] as to whether Judge Fitzpatrick's medical condition rendered him medically unfit to sit as a judge during trial, thus requiring reconsideration of the status of (his) orders and rulings"
Tobacco industry court papers filed in Minnesota

"Defendants' continuing attacks on a now retired jurist are unwarranted and unprofessional . . . an attempt to discredit the historic results of the Minnesota litigation [and to] alleviate the pressure being felt in other jurisdictions"
Attorneys representing the state of Minnesota St. Paul Pioneer Press 08/27/98

"While everyone who smokes experiences higher risks of bladder cancer, this study suggests there may be small, genetically defined subgroups that suffer much higher risks than the general population"
Jack A. Taylor, M.D. on his study which found smokers with 2 gene variants face a particularly high risk of bladder cancer National Institute of Environmental Health Services

"It's a whole lot of history going up in smoke"
RJR forklift operator Percy Payne, on the huge Winston-Salem fire that destroyed RJR's first major plant and 2 other century-old buildings being renovated as for apartments/offices. Raleigh News & Observer 08/28/98

"I will no longer have the flexibility of pricing the smuggled foreign cigarettes"
New Delhi kiosk vendor, on the Indian government's announcement that it will allow 100 percent foreign equity in tobacco companies Bloomberg 08/28/98

"The image of U.S. oil companies is of an industry pursuing a disinformation campaign, rather like the tobacco industry hiring out people to testify about the lack of proof that smoking causes cancer"
Lester Brown, President of the Washington D.C. based Worldwatch Institute, to oil industry executives at the Offshore Northern Seas conference Reuters 08/28/98

"Our goal is to work with government, not against it - and between our different interests we have a number of positive and creative ideas to promote health"
South Africa's Freedom of Commercial Speech Trust chairman Neil Jacobsohn, which is battling Zuma's Tobacco Products Control Amendments Bill ANC News Briefing 08/28/98

"It's better to be safe than to be sorry."
Ald. Marvin Pratt, head of Milwaukee's Finance and Personnel Committee. City officials are considering not enforcing an impending ban on most tobacco billboards because they fear paying damages if they lose an expected lawsuit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 08/28/98

"Smokers in high-tax states are more likely to smoke cigarettes higher in tar and nicotine. . . Young smokers, aged 18-24, are much more responsive to changes in taxes than are older smokers, and their total daily tar and nicotine intake actually increases after a tax hike. We illustrate that tax-induced compensating behavior may eliminate some health benefits generated by reduced smoking participation. A more appropriate tax might be based on the tar and nicotine content of cigarettes."
The Compensating Behavior of Smokers: Taxes, Tar, and Nicotine Abstract, Rand Journal of Economics, Autumn, 1998

"While the renegade rift seems driven more by corporate egos than industry economics, we see some benefit to what is shaping up as a classic good cop/bad cop routine, where the split among the industry titans serves to keep the 46 politically-motivated attorneys general from becoming unrealistic in their demands for money and/or additional marketing restrictions. . . we side with Philip Morris and Lorillard on the renegade allocation issue, for the simple reason that it would result in far greater pricing stability. Ultimately, we expect RJR and BAT to recognize this, and come back to the bargaining table"
The Renegade Rift: Why RJR and B&W Will Come Back To The Table Gary Black Report 08/28/98

"The heart of our lawsuit remains"
Ohio AG spokesman Chris Davey, on the court decision which threw out consumer protection and antitrust charges, but allowed racketeering and conspiracy claims to proceed. AP 08/29/98

"Parents hate to see someone pick up their child on a ride with a cigarette dangling out of their mouth. The old, traditional roustabout carnival just doesn't work anymore."
Sam Johnston, president of Sam Johnston's Midway of Fun based in Sacramento San Jose Mercury News 08/28/98

"The allegation that tobacco companies may have promised favorable political advertising in exchange for a senator's vote on specific legislation raises concerns under the bribery and gratuity statutes. The criminal division is presently examining this allegation to determine whether any further investigation is warranted"
Assistant Attorney General L. Anthony Sutin, in an Aug. 17 letter to Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle Baltimore Sun 08/29/98

"We were very concerned. It makes it so easy for minors to get them. . . . But legally there's nothing we can do. If the small companies (succeed), then we'll just have to sue them."
Keith Love, director of communications for Gov. Gary Locke. Single Stick wins permission to sell in Washington state Seattle Times 08/29/98

"Hopfully, I won't regret that [refusing tobacco business] in two years when I have to pay my son's college tuition"
Stan Wright, president and co-founder of grass-roots advocacy company PinPoint Communications Group Albany Times Union 08/29/98

"Three hurricanes¹ eyes have passed over this field"
And that's just in the past two years: Fran, Bertha and now Bonnie have all hit Don Sweeting's tobacco farm Fayetteville (NC) Observer-Times 08/29/98

"What changes these from issue ads [which are legal] is that the industry promised if the senators voted to kill the bill, they would run the advertising. Rarely is a link between a contribution and a vote so clear"
Matthew Myers, executive vice president of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch 08/30/98

"We are not willing to let critics distort the facts of what happened in the debate. The debate was about taxes, not about public health"
Tobacco Industry spokesman Scott Williams Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch 08/30/98

"There is a willful blindness. Companies are hiding behind ignorance to not take corrective steps that would cost them money."
Unidentified U.S. investigator. Colombian drug cartels' money laundering through cigarette smuggling is examined in 2 articles in the Washington Post 08/30/98

"You have to ask yourself, could smuggling be undertaken on this scale without the knowing involvement of the tobacco companies. It is hard to conceive that a diligent company could have that much product disappearing into the contraband market without its tacit involvement at best."
Eric LeGresley, legal council to the Toronto-based Nonsmokers Rights Association Focus on cigarette smuggling in Colombia Washington Post 08/30/98

"We do not have either the resources or authority to substitute ourselves for the customs administration, border security forces or the law enforcement departments of any country. And we do not have the ability to compel any country to take the necessary steps to modify its tax, legal or trade policies to address the contraband phenomenon"
Statement by Philip Morris International.

"It's a huge problem. This movement [Straight Edge] had the potential to be a very positive thing. But that has not happened."
Michelle Areiaga, a gang specialist in Salt Lake City. Times of London 08/30/98

"fresh as the wind"
Lorillard's battle with Robert Redford over its "Redford" cigarette is addressed in a new book, TOUGH TALK by attorney Martin Garbus LA Times 08/30/98

"It's our world. Not your ashtray"
Article on Dr. Frederic Grannis' Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page in the LA Times 08/28/98

"Sure, a lot of veterans have (medical) conditions as a result of that practice [providing cheap or free cigarettes], but the VA's position is that the government cannot be held responsible for all the sins of smoking"
VA spokesman Ken McKinnon San Francisco Examiner 08/30/98

"They do it constantly, even when I am right there cleaning. There must be a million of those cigarettes out there"
Texas roadside cleaner David Harper Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram 08/31/98

"Our concern for the well-being of children is strongly held by each of us -- including me. We firmly oppose youth smoking and we do not leave our responsibilities as parents and citizens at home when we go to work each day for RJR"
Fran Creighton VP-Marketing, Camel, Advertising Age 08/31/98

"Unless Big Tobacco shows me they are willing to take more responsibility for protecting our children and improving public health, I am not interested in returning to negotiations with them"
MA AG Scott Harshbarger AP 08/31/98

"Scott Harshbarger's tough-on-tobacco rhetoric doesn't square with the ridiculous fee agreement he secretly negotiated with the state's tobacco attorneys that would earn them almost $2 billion"
Massachusetts Acting Governor Paul Cellucci Boston Globe 08/31/98

"Tobacco Dependence: Innovative Regulatory Approaches to Reduce Death and Disease"
Special supplemental issue of the Food and Drug Law Journal based on presentations and commentary from the April 9, 1998, Conference on Tobacco Dependence: Innovative Regulatory Approaches to Reduce Death and Disease convened by the Georgetown University Center for Drug Development Science and The Food and Drug Law Institute

"I like them [Florida's "Truth" ads]; they're funny. . . I'm still smoking."
Tyson Reeves, 17. Florida teens' "Truth" campaign must soon face its acid test--can they cut teen smoking? St. Petersburg (FL) Times 08/31/98

"This court overlooked, or apparently was unaware of, the fact that a trial had been concluded and a verdict returned [by the time it reversed the Widdick trial venue decision]"
Widdick attorney Norwood Wilner, in arguments before Florida's First District Court of Appeal Bloomberg 09/01/98

"I assume they'll (Justice) take a look at it [the "issue ads" question]. That's their responsibility. And they will see that there's nothing to it"
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott Reuters 08/31/98

"It's more than a coincidence that the top spending [on the tobacco industry's "issue ads"] happens to be in states where Senate races are the closest and members voted to kill the tobacco bill"
Matthew Myers, executive vice president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids The Wall Street Journal 09/01/98

"In no other year do teens' perceptions and attitudes [toward drugs] shift so markedly"
Age 13 is crucial, according to a survey by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse AP 09/01/98

"Bluntly put, in 1990's America we have created for children at the moment of entry into the first teen year a world where drugs, alcohol and cigarettes are widely available at school and from classmates. [The CASA survey] leaves parents with one critical message: we must prepare our children at earlier and earlier ages to resist the lure of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs."
CASA president Joseph Califano, Jr Reuters 09/01/98

"[Religion] is a key factor in giving our children the moral values, skill and will to say 'no' to illegal drugs, alcohol and cigarettes"
Joseph A. Califano Jr., chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) Washington Times 09/02/98

"Sound judicial policy dictates that this action must be dismissed. Standing to bring suit must be limited to those parties directly injured. . . this action is precisely the type of indirect, massive and complex lawsuit the case law advises against"
U.S. District Court Judge Thad Heartfield, rejecting all 17 claims in a Texas union health care fund suit PM PR Newswire 09/01/98

"[T]he Legislature has made clear that Medicaid records are confidential and to be disclosed only in specific circumstances . . . Because the instant case does not concern alleged Medicaid fraud or the administration of the Medicaid program, but instead concerns whether the state is entitled to be reimbursed for Medicaid payments, disclosure is not warranted"
Justice Stephen G. Crane, in ruling last week that the identities of Medicaid recipients and state employees may be kept confidential.State of New York v. Philip Morris Inc. New York Law Journal 09/01/98

"Improved maternal health care, including the prevention of smoking during pregnancy, could lead to a reduction in the rate of language and behaviour problems and a reduction in DAMP in the general population"
Professor Christopher Gillberg and colleagues at Gotenburg University, in research published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood Reuters 09/01/98

"horizontal transmission [of genes from one species to another]"
Professor Conrad Lichtenstein of Queen Mary and Westfield College in London has discovered hundreds of genes which have "jumped" from other plants to the tobacco plant BBC 09/01/98

"[Philip Morris] cordially invites you and a guest to an afternoon or evening of tennis"
Washington Post tobacco reporter John Schwartz gets an invite to the US Open. You can too. Washington Post 09/02/98

"We estimate that 10 percent of smokers per year would use cessation services with full coverage, compared to 2.4 percent with reduced coverage"
Susan Curry, Ph.D., principal author of the study into utilization and cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation services when covered by insurance PR Newswire 09/02/98

"The results of our study provide compelling evidence to support provision of full coverage for smoking-cessation programs"
Dr. Susan Curry, of the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound Reuters 09/02/98

"These payments expose the state pension funds to a risk that it is not wise to take at this time"
Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson. The state Board of Investment has voted to sell off tobacco holdings over 3 years. Reuters 09/02/98

"The real issue is whether it is acceptable under Idaho law for out-of-state businesses to persuade Idaho kids to take actions that are both illegal and harmful"
Idaho Attorney General Al Lance. Most of Idaho's Medicaid suit claims were dismissed today AP 09/02/98

"David Kessler and I are two very different people"
FDA nominee Jane Henney, to the Senate Committee in charge of her nomination Bloomberg 09/02/98

"We're talking here about an industry valued at $50 billion. The most conservative estimate I've seen is that its potential liability exceeds $500 billion. Do we want to put our people in a position where they're exposed to a potential liability of collapse?"
MN Gov. Arne Carlson Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune 09/03/98

"Girls, boys, everybody, they all smoke, a lot of them smoke. It's a bad thing. Everybody sees everybody else doing it, and they're not getting hurt or anything, and they might try. And they get addicted and they try to get other people to do it."
Teens talk about peer pressure Detroit (MI) News 09/03/98

"The bottom line is that we don't want to create a loophole for someone to enter the market and not have to bear responsibility for the health issues"
Unidentified industry spokesman Sept. 14 Business Week

"I have no intention of raising taxes. Period"
Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Ellen R. Sauerbrey has refused to endorse the Maryland Children's Initiative, which would increase the tax on cigarettes by $1.50 a pack Washington Post 09/04/98

"They have been good to them. Lord have mercy, they've been good to them"
Many Philip Morris employees nearing retirement have huge nest eggs Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch 09/04/98

" crime-fraud exception"
The Justice Dept. has filed a brief invoking the crime-fraud exception exception to B&W's claims of attorney-client priviledge in a continuing battle over documents The Wall Street Journal (pay registration) 09/04/98

"[W]e were being charged as guilty when other people were breaking the law. We're not police officers."
Steve Bauer , owner of Doll and Penny's restaurant. Vancouver's bylaw suffers a setback in court.. Vancouver Sun 09/04/98 [LINK DEAD: here's an update at Vancouver Sun 09/03/98

"It does appear that somebody has acted in clear contempt of court"
William Hendricks III, Brown & Williamson's Washington criminal lawyer and former head of the Justice Department's fraud section that is conducting the tobacco investigation Bloomberg 09/04/98

"To Stir a Magick Cauldron"
Book seen in RJR Camel ad. Wiccans, including the author, are protesting the ad's portrayal of witches (SF Bay Area) Metro Active 09/04/98

"We've had a handful of complaints, but that's not unusual, being in the tobacco business."
RJR PR rep Carole Crosslin (SF Bay Area) Metro Active 09/04/98

"[A] new AG settlement could be announced by end of next week. We believe that virtually all of the 46 states will opt in to the new PM/Lorillard agreement. Having the industry split actually increases odds of all states opting in, since it allows the AGs to receive more than half their money from PM and Lorillard, and still talk tough in demanding that RJR & B&W comply with the public health provisions agreed to by the others . . . We have heard talk that Republicans may try to clarify statutory language to effectively disallow the federal government from recovering their share of Medicaid damages received by the states"
New AG Deal Likely Next Week -- Game of Corporate Chicken Continues Gary Black Report 09/04/98

"I can't quit smoking. I've lost count of the times of I've tried. I hope this suit sends a message. The tobacco companies have got me by the throat."
Sean Maroney, one of 31 Californians who filed suit Thursday Sacramento (CA) Bee 09/04/98

"SIDS is in almost all cases preceded by a significant exposure to nicotine"
Scandinavian study which found direct evidence linking nicotine and cot deaths The Independent (UK) 09/05/98

"[P]harmacists, therefore, remain regulated by the . . . professional code which forbids tobacco commerce"
Quebec Lawyer Philippe Frere of law firm Lavery de Billy, which represented the Order of Pharmacists against Jean Coutu Montreal Gazette 09/05/98

"In fact, tobacco is a low (profit) margin product. . . Close to 80 per cent of purchases in drugstores are impulse buys"
Tobacco's attraction lies in its ability to draw customers into the store for impulse buys, according to George Hartman of brokerage Eagle & Partners Montreal Gazette 09/05/98

"I can't think of another university in the country that would have allowed samples to be handed out on the campus at one of their events"
Montana State University Vice President Allen Yarnell. The College National Finals Rodeo has pulled out of Bozeman, MT. AP/Billings (MT) Gazette 09/05/98

"If your honor was to decide against the companies, I think it is plain the headlines in every paper would say, `Tobacco Companies Found Guilty In Attorney General's Lawsuit' . . . The result is very, very severe prejudice to the defendants."
Philip Morris lawyer Herbert Wachtell, arguing against a two-trial format in the Connecticut suit Hartford (CT) Courant 09/05/98

"[Tobacco plaintiffs' lawyers & their huge fees] will, unless checked, literally overwhelm the politics of many states and many, many political races, and will cause a strategic debacle for conservatives, Republicans and New Democrats seeking to rescue their party from the special interest grip of the tort bar"
Michael J. Horowitz, director of the Hudson Institute's Project for Civil Justice Reform, worries about lawyers' money overwhelming corporations' money in our "free" election process.

"[The plaintiff's bar] has tried to stand up for the rights of individuals and will continue to do so. They need that protection, particularly from corporate America. There needs to be a check and balance."
Tobacco plaintiff lawyer Joe Rice

"I am not going to get money-whipped by tobacco and the insurance industry."
Tobacco plaintiff lawyer Richard Scruggs Washington Post 09/06/98

"[Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-Mo)] has never been promised by anyone that tobacco ads would run in Missouri in exchange for his vote. "
David Israelite, a spokesman for Bond St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch 09/06/98

"We're going to pursue this nationally"
Dennis Alexander, of the ALA's Helena, MT office on the College National Finals Rodeo/free chewing tobacco samples dust-up Billings (MT) Gazette 09/06/98

"The UMB was grossly mismanaged and was operated in total disregard of laws, rules and regulations. The bank is insolvent to the extent of Z$2,6bn and has incurred large operational losses"
A Zimbabwean newspaper claims a government inspection team has urged Roger Boka's United Merchant Bank be liquidated "as a matter of urgency" Business Day (Johannesburg, SA) 09/07/98

"These things were science fiction 20 years ago. Now, the research is opening huge new vistas for treatment."
Neil Grunberg, a nicotine researcher and professor of clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press 09/07/98

"Johnny, as your father and I have always told you about a range of activities (including sex), think about the consequences of your actions before you act. Drugs are no different. Be skeptical and most of all, be safe. Love, Mom"
A Mother's Advice About Drugs, Marsha Rosenbaum, director of The Lindesmith Center-West, a drug policy institute in San Francisco. San Francisco Chronicle 09/07/98

"We shot ourselves in the foot every time there was an agreement . . . We were divided -- that continues to be a problem to this day . . . When you talk about the tobacco-control movement, you are talking about herding cats."
Mike Cummings, a cancer-control specialist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer 09/07/98

"We are not the Congress and we are not the FDA and we cannot provide everything the industry wanted. We are trying to get very strong public health protection for our kids"
Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer 09/07/98

"Michael Cummings,., referring to the public-health community. "When the original agreement was announced, there were some who immediately challenged it and others who embraced it.. When you talk about the tobacco-control movement, you are talking about herding cats"

"The difference in tobacco deaths between rich and poor people accounts for most of the inequalities in their health."
Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics at the University of Oxford The Independent (UK) 09/08/98

"[I]t's still a 50:50 chance that if you smoke, it'll kill you. . . The fact is that the odds if you smoke aren't even as good as playing Russian Roulette"
Richard Peto The Independent (UK) 09/08/98

"If you took 1,000 young adult smokers, one will be murdered, six will die on the roads, but 500 will die from tobacco."
Richard Peto Times of London September 8, 1998

"Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice"
Richard Peto Electronic Telegraph (London, UK) 09/08/98

"What actually matters is what journalists think is real"
Richard Peto PA 09/08/98

"The message is that we are a tobacco company, and that we will invest in tobacco and believe it can be an attractive industry. With this move [shedding BAT's insurance arm], the framework will be in place for us to be more aggressive"
BAT CEO Martin Broughton The Wall Street Journal (pay registration) 09/07/98

"Where is the outrage?"
Theme of an excoriating speech by C. Everett Koop at the National Press Club Luncheon FNS 09/08/98

"This is a scandal of politicians for sale and, to my dismay, some Republicans going for the highest bidder."
C. Everett Koop at the National Press Club Luncheon FNS 09/08/98

"Those two people [Koop and Kessler] are standing on the wreckage they created and pointing at others and saying, 'They did it.'"
Tobacco industry spokesman Scott Williams Reuters 09/08/98

"Despite active industry opposition and political influences, it is urgent that the public health community determine how the California Tobacco Control Program can be modified to regain its original momentum."
Has the California Tobacco Control Program Reduced Smoking? JAMA. 1998;280:893-899

"The industry needed time to raise money"
Michael Ciresi, on the timing--close to the DFL primary--of the industry's first payment to Minnesota. Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune 09/09/98

"[B]ig-money special interests have stolen your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You cannot shop at the local supermarket or drugstore, visit a hospital emergency room, watch television, pay your taxes or even breathe the air without being directly affected by the decisions that Congress makes. Unfortunately, these decisions increasingly favor the special interests that influence Capitol Hill lawmakers -- at your expense."
The Buying of the Congress, a fascinating collection of interviews with Washington players. The Budget bill's $50 Billion-Dollar gift to the tobacco industry is mentioned often.

"The financial influence (of the tobacco industry) clouds everything. It shows what you can do when you have endless resources -- no public credibility but endless resources"
David Kessler

"At the same time, you have these same leaders in Congress putting back in a $50 billion tax credit for the tobacco companies, whose main lobbyist -- at $50,000 a month, and the biggest contributor to past campaigns on the Republican side -- was Haley Barbour. A $50,000 tax credit put in with no hearings, nobody knowing about it, only accidentally discovered after we had passed the bill"
Sen. John Glenn (D-OH)

"It appeared to have been a conscious decision by the tobacco industry to buy the Republican Party. I can understand why they wanted to buy the Republican Party, because that¹s the party that¹s in power right now, but I can¹t understand why the party decided to sell itself to the industry."
Henry Waxman (D-CA)

"The member companies of the CTMC will immediately challenge this legislation in the courts. We take very seriously threats to our basic right to engage in commerce. The price control of the B.C. government constitutes an attack on private business, not on tobacco use"
Don Brown on the plan to impose a $20 million licensing fee on tobacco companies in exchange for the right to sell their products in the province Canada Newswire 10/01/98

"The first trick is to make B.C. business believe that there are other products which fall in the same category as cigarettes. If any other business in B.C. produces a lethal product that addicts children and kills one out of two of all of its users, then such a business should listen to what Mr. Brown has to say. The truth is that no product on sale in B.C., apart from tobacco, kills when used exactly as the manufacturer intends. B.C. business should shun this industry"
Eric LeGresley, Non-Smokers' Rights Association Legal Counsel CNW / NewsEdge 10/02/98

"OWC Files To Revover Costs Paid To Smokers Exposed To Asbestos"
[Headline only; details on the Owens Corning suit not available. Bloomberg 10/02/98

"There's nothing illegal about selling alcohol and tobacco to adults and we've been engaged by the tobacco company to promote their brand"
Mark Morris, chairman of Bates North America. Bates USA handles B&W accounts and has been hired by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to buy advertising time and space for its ads AP 10/02/98

"Lung Cancer Linked To Smoking"
Can you believe we're seeing this headline today? Reuters 10/01/98

"Although the damaging effects of cigarette smoking are now well known, asbestos producers have paid billions of dollars to compensate smokers who were exposed to asbestos and the tobacco companies have paid nothing. . . It is time for tobacco to pay its fair share of these claims"
Owens Corning Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Glen H. Hiner PR Newswire 10/02/98

"[UST] has not been making cigarettes since the mid-1960s. Their responsibility for the conduct for the tobacco industry is substantially less. . . The health consequences in terms of Medicaid of chewing tobacco is also substantially less."
Washington senior assistant attorney general John Hough. UST and the Smokeless Tobacco Council have settled with the state Bloomberg 10/03/98.

"In our view, the tobacco companies distributed an addictive and hazardous product which generated enormous profits. They knew that people would get sick and the State of Missouri and its hospitals have had to pick up the pieces left in their wake"
Ken Brostron, a lawyer leading several Missouri hospitals' suit AP 10/02/98

"He was telling me he couldn't take it any more because of the smoking. I would tell him, `Buddy, you gotta do your time. You just can't leave'"
Gus Luna, a supervisor in the Department of Corrections criminal investigations unit in Douglas, AZ Arizona Daily Star 10/03/98

"the single most hateful image in all of corporate America"
A Manhattan couple fails to force the removal of an ad that superimposes Joe Camel and the word "Camel" on the side of the their landmark building AP 10/03/98

"Kool NITES"
Kool joins the New York bar-promotions scene (it joins Marlboro, Camel and Lucky Strike), helping to bring the Village Voice's quotient of tobacco ads up to an unprecedented 9 1/4 pages.

"We won't be celebrating until the big ones are down"
Mark Funk, a spokesman for the Washington Alliance on Tobacco Control and Children's Health, on Washington's settlement with UST Seattle (WA) Times 10/03/98

"The [smoking in neighboring apartments] cases that do go to court apply recent information about the medical harm of secondhand smoke to the old principle of enjoyment"
Edward L. Sweda, senior attorney with the Tobacco Products Liability Project (New York) Daily News 10/04/98

"While we accept that we lose a reasonable amount of tax to smuggling, we would dispute [the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association's] figure"
The TMA's estimate of a £2 billion tax loss is disputed by a Customs and Excise spokesman The Independent (UK) 10/04/98

"This (lawsuit) is a very expensive undertaking. Having $2 million added to our war chest is very welcome."
Washington senior assistant state attorney general John Hough AP 10/04/98

"We strongly believe that none of the agencies being considered should be devalued on the basis of work done for any marketer of any legal product, . . To do so would restrict competition and establish a dangerous precedent for the government's selection of advertising agencies for any government-sponsored campaign."
American Association of Advertising Agencies statement on the Bates USA/White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Media Campaign brou-ha-ha Advertising Age /NewsEdge (PREMIUM)

"Here's the bottom line: After eight months of living with smoke-free bars, a growing majority of California bar patrons support the change to a smoke-free environment."
California State Health Director Kim Belshe, on the release of a new survey showing increasing support support of bar patrons (65%) for smokefree bars Business Wire 10/05/98

"The 1965 Act did not pre-empt state law damages actions; the 1969 Act pre-empts petitioner's claims based on a failure to warn and the neutralization of federally mandated warnings to the extent that those claims rely on omissions or inclusions in respondents' advertising or promotions; the 1969 Act does not pre-empt petitioner's claims based on express warranty, intentional fraud and misrepresentation, or conspiracy. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is accordingly reversed in part and affirmed in part, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. "
US Supreme Court Justice Stevens, who delivered the opinion of the Court on Cipollone v. Liggett The Court today declined to reexamine its 1992 decision on warning label preemption Bloomberg 10/05/98 Stevens' June 24, 1992 decision is here

"The prospect of Benson and Hedges coffee or coffee bars across the country is disturbing. This is a blatant form of brand-stretching which comes at a time when tobacco advertising is being banned across the European Union"
Deepak Rawal, spokesman for the UK's Health Education Authority The Guardian 10/06/98

"After reviewing and analyzing the results of this survey, it does not surprise me that these results were suppressed and not publicly released. . . it would have been very difficult for the California Department of Health Services to "spin" these findings as supportive of the law."
Oct. 1, 1998, letter from Tony Fabrizio, President, Fabrizio McLaughlin & Associates of Alexandria, Va., to the National Smokers Alliance regarding the results of the Field Research Survey of Bar Establishments in California. PR Newswire 10/06/98

"This was one that I thought was right. Sometimes you have to make the tough decision"
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's smoking ban is contrary to his usual m.o., and could alienate traditional base Boston Globe 10/06/98

"Lung cancer is the ultimate politically incorrect disease"
Oncologist Gary Strauss, quoted in a powerful article on the social, emotional and medical state of lung cancer today Washington Post 10/06/98

"I guess I'm a guarded optimist. These are really complex traits, but the power of our methods, both molecular and statistical, are growing by leaps and bounds"
Kenneth Kendler, M.D., who researches the heritability of nicotine addiction at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Volume 90, Number 17: September 2, 1998. Page 1254

"Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer risk"
Researchers led by Dr. Paolo Boffetta of the IARC in Lyon, France, writing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute Reuters 10/06/98

"When all the evidence, including the important new data reported in this issue of the Journal, is assessed, the inescapable scientific conclusion is that environmental tobacco smoke is a low-level lung carcinogen"
William Blot and Joseph McLaughlin of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Maryland, in a commentary in the JNCI Reuters 10/06/98

"Celebrity Spokesman Project"
Project referred to in Tobacco Institute Documents St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press 10/06/98

"I used to be a smoker. But when I was in the Georgia Legislature, I'm proud to say I always voted for restrictions on smoking. . . It's a shock to hear my name bandied about. I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted."
Civil rights activist Julian Bond, on hearing he was considered for the "Celebrity Spokesman Project" St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press 10/06/98

"These documents reveal that for decades, the industry knew and internally acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive drug and cigarettes are the ultimate nicotine delivery device; that nicotine addiction can be perpetuated and even enhanced through cigarette design alterations and manipulations; and that 'health-conscious' smokers could be captured by low-tar, low-nicotine products, all the while ensuring the marketplace viability of their products."
Richard D. Hurt, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minn., and Channing R. Robertson, Ph.D., of Stanford University in California, in a review of the Minnesota documents JAMA 10/06/98

"Personally, given that a large part of my practice is dealing with the results of tobacco smoking, I'm disappointed to hear that many in the Labor leadership are smokers and it concerns me over the health messages this may be giving to Tasmanians. It's sending mixed messages that despite passing the Public Health Bill and its restrictions on point-of-sale tobacco advertising, they promote smoking by their personal actions."
Dr Richard Wood-Baker, Royal Hobart Hospital director of respiratory medicine, attacks Tasmania's "puffing pollies," including the Premier and the Health Minister The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) 10/07/98

"I am not in favour of repressive legislation, but am very much in favour of expenditure on public education and advertising to encourage individuals not to do it. But I don't think people should be asked to be passive smokers. . .If you mean, would I ban it in restaurants, theatres, planes, buses, trains - even my libertarian instincts would not stop me supporting the ban."
John Major , former Prime Minister and new president of Britain's National Asthma Campaign Electronic Telegraph (London, UK) 10/07/98

"We now understand why it has taken so long for this deal to surface: The parties are trying to assemble a critical mass of 30-35 AGs in a position to embrace the deal when it is announced, to send a clear message to AGs who might be on the fence or hostile to the deal that the settlement offer is final, and that it would be futile to attack the deal as not strong or expensive enough."
Closing The Renegade Rift -- Why RJR and B&W Came Back To The Table Gary Black Report

"Whether the answer lies in ventilation, or smoking and non-smoking areas, it is the people who own, run and use workplaces, or public places such as restaurants, who are best able to resolve the issue. We welcome and contribute to initiatives that prevent non-smokers from being bothered by smoking in public places. But the science, as evidenced by this new [IARC] study and by the recent court ruling against the EPA, simply does not justify total bans on smoking in public places or workplaces"
Dr. Sharon Boyse, director of scientific communications at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation B&W PR

"Brown & Williamson is back at the table"
BAT spokesman Reuters 10/07/98

"Certainly, I wouldn't want any young person to be influenced by anything like that, so I am determined that whilst I am in public life, my private habits, such as they are, will remain private and I will not indulge my weakness for nicotine in public"
Tasmanian Premier Jim Bacon The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) 10/08/98

"My father was out there, fighting tobacco in the years when fighting tobacco meant fighting everything from politicians to the media to organized baseball. The Dodgers were sponsored by Lucky Strike"
Dr. Alan Blum, who was named to the chair of family medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine Mobile (AL) Register 10/07/98

"The assumption that children are being enticed to purchase Single Stick at such a high cost has no foundation. If a child was able to purchase a Single Stick, it would be better if the child had only one cigarette compared to a pack of 20."
John T. "Jack" Wertheim, President and chief executive officer, Single Stick Inc. Seattle (WA) Times 10/07/98

"[Cartons] are more desirable [to steal] than packs. When you have more cigarettes, you have more friends"
17-year-old Randy Schrock. The San Diego City Council unanimously adopted a ban on the self-service sale of cigarettes. San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune 10/07/98

"[Tobacco cos. agreed to pay plaintiffs' lawyers' expenses of] a like kind and character as the industry pays its own lawyers and consultants."
Attorney Richard Scruggs. Post-state-setttlement lawyers' income is examined. The Wall Street Journal (pay registration) 10/08/98

"It's terrible news"
Dr. Gary Giovino, chief epidemiologist for the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, on findings of skyrocketing teen smoking rates. AP 10/08/98

"The findings from the analysis indicated that, during 1988--1996 among persons aged 12--17 years, the incidence of initiation of first use increased by 30% and of first daily use increased by 50%, and 1,226,000 persons aged [under]18 years became daily smokers in 1996."
Incidence of Initiation of Cigarette Smoking --- United States Abstract, MMWR October 9, 1998 / Vol. 47 / No. 39

"My credit's shot, my phone's been cut off for a month, I have to sell my house, I'm constantly telling my daughters they can't have what they were used to having . . . And for what? This is justice?"
Minnesota juror David Olson Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune 10/09/98

"I think they will increase cigarette prices slowly to get consumers used to the higher price increases. A sharp increase in prices could cause a drop in consumption."
Bonnie Zoller, a tobacco industry analyst with the Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation, on a report that cigarette makers would not be forced to pass along the costs of the the states' settlement to consumers New York Times 10/09/98

"[I]n conversations with the nominee herself, she indicated her support for the FDA tobacco regulations."
Brook Simmons, aide to Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles (R-Okla.), who is blocking full Senate consideration of Jane E. Henney as FDA chief Washington Post 10/09/98

"Lopsided news judgments like these provide welcome cover for tunnel-vision moral tutors like the Journal editorial writers and religious right leaders who ignore corporate misconduct and crime. "
Veteran tobacco reporter Morton Mintz blasts the Big Four newspapers for wallowing in sex scandals while ignoring weightier matters--like tobacco The Nation 10/09/98

"[The] Justice [Department] is probably trying to understand exactly how tobacco is bought and sold right now. . . They will undoubtedly do a very thorough investigation, but whether that leads to indictments down the road is anybody's guess. They probably don't know themselves at this point."
Law professor Mike DeBow. Tomorrow is the deadline for Justice's wide-ranging subpoenaes for documents and records Raleigh (NC) News & Observer 10/09/98

"I have never failed to I.D. anyone who didn't look at least 30. Yet at least one minor leaves my store with cigarettes every night. . . You can help. Encourage our lawmakers to pass laws which discourage ``shoppability'' (shopliftability) of cigarettes in stores. . . Please, help me do my job! "
Utah convenience store clerk Carl Dustin Clark, in a letter to the Salt Lake (UT) Tribune 10/09/98

"dose control"
Nicotine expert Jack Henningfield deconstructs--literally--cigarette butts found outside the King County Courthouse Seattle (WA) Times 10/09/98

"Anticipated timing of the new AG settlement has slipped to the week of 10/26. This . . . may reflect additional time needed to get a critical mass of AGs behind the deal prior to its announcement. Or, it may reflect the industry needing time to digest what has become a very complex set of renegade provisions. Our biggest fear is . . . that after the deal is consummated, state legislators will pass legislation that imposes licensing fees -- but fail to give credits to companies who signed the accord. This would effectively raise taxes twice on deal signatories, and once on non-signatories."

Settlement Update: Timing Slips Again -- Deal Complexity Increasing. The Waning Days Of Congress Gary Black Report 10/09/98

"For a Congress that has said on a bipartisan basis that it is committed to finding a way to combat tobacco use among children . . . to not commit a single penny to programs designed to reduce tobacco use would be the height of hypocrisy"
Matthew Myers LA Times 10/10/98

"If a settlement offer comes down that would give us as much money as we'd get from a jury and more injunctive relief, we'd look at it seriously"
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. Baltimore (MD) Sun 10/11/98

"Operation Mistletoe"
British customs is cracking down hard on stores that sell smuggled alcohol and tobacco in the weeks before Christmas. The Independent (UK) 10/12/98

"An Observer investigation shows that a crucial pivot in the powerfully-turning wheel of tobacco, as it set out to grind down President Clinton and his policies, was the industry's ace attorney: Kenneth Starr, whose report to Congress as "independent counsel" became the basis for impeachment"
Starr-gazers will be interested in this op-ed in DAWN Group of Newspapers 10/12/98

"OH! There's smoking in here?!"
Allergic Luise, to the somewhat astonished salesladies in the souvenir shop at the RJR Whitaker Cigarette Factory.

"virgin births"
Items that miraculously appear in bills--like Sen. Lauch Faircloth's (R-N.C.) $10 million expenditure for tobacco export promotions which is in the $250 billion defense spending bill Congress has sent to President Clinton

"Commando Mara took a drag from her Kamel then addressed the troops. 'Forget everything you ever knew about Robots. This baby don't play by the rules.'"
Kamel ad copy. Washington Post 10/13/98

"The [DC Appropriations] bill is an abomination."
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) Roll Call

"It's shocking that such a small amount of nicotine caused a response that is usually seen only when the body is in a state of extreme emergency"
Yan-Yi Peng, assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, who studied the effects of nicotine on the sympathetic nervous system of frogs. ScienceDaily Magazine 10/13/98

"Why a competitor would want to pay my legal fees made me think that something was up"
Bennett LeBow, CEO of Liggett Group Inc., testifying for Washington state. Reuters 10/13/98

"It should take no more than one hour for someone in your department to design an appropriate form. I ask whether your failure to do so is the result of incompetence or a deliberate disregard for Minnesota law?"
Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, in a letter Monday to state Health Commissioner Anne Berry, asking why the department hasn' t sent out a form to the cigarette manufacturers telling them how to make a report. AP 10/13/98

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