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Jump to full article: Reuters, 1999-06-17
Author: Deena Beasley
Intro: A spokesman for the American Lung Association, Norman Childs, said, ``Tobacco companies are responsible for illness and death worldwide, if they are spending money to ameliorate some of those problems, that is positive.''
Even so, he suggested it would be far better for companies such as Japan Tobacco, which is 67 percent owned by the Japanese government, to change marketing practices and help keep people from starting to smoke in the first place.
``If the aim is to provide a vaccine so that people can take it and keep on smoking, we would be against it,'' Childs added. ''Lung cancer is just one of the many health problems caused by smoking.''
Officials at Seattle-based Corixa could not be reached for comment.
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Tobacco companies are responsible for illness and death worldwide, if they are spending money to ameliorate some of those problems, that is positive. . . If the aim is to provide a vaccine so that people can take it and keep on smoking, we would be against it.
American Lung Association spokesman Norman Childs. Quoted in <i>Corixa Partners With Japan Tobacco On Cancer Vaccine</i>
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