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Mr. Synar. Thank you very much. Now, you, on page 10 of your 

 testimony, attack Dr. Connolly, a Massachusetts public health offi- 

 cial who has testified before this committee. You say he has an al- 

 ternative motive. 



Mr. Taddeo, how much do you get paid by U.S. Tobacco every 

 year? 



Mr. Taddeo. I have a salary of $400,000. 



Mr. Synar. Your salary as Executive Vice President of the to- 

 bacco parent company is $400,000. 



Mr. Taddeo. That's my salary, yes. 



Mr. Synar. We're not able to find out what else you're paid. 

 Would you like to volunteer what other things are in your incentive 

 package? 



Mr. Taddeo. My bonus last year was a little over $ million. 



Mr. Synar. So your salary last year was $1.4 million approxi- 

 mately, correct? 



Mr. Taddeo. No. The salary was $400,000. The total compensa- 

 tion was a little over $1.4 million. 



Mr. Synar. Also, we have learned that you hold 167,200 shares 

 of U.S. Tobacco Corporation stock, which closed yesterday worth 

 about $4 million. Is that correct? 



Mr. Taddeo. I still owe some money on those shares, yes. 



Mr. Synar. Would you say your annual salary of $6 million alter- 

 native motive may be just as strong of an ulterior motive as Dr. 

 Connolly's? 



Mr. Taddeo. I don't know what the question is. 



Mr. Synar. All right. Mr. Taddeo, a North Carolina study found 

 that long-term users of oral snuff were 50 times more likely to de- 

 velop mouth cancer than non-users. More than 40 percent of the 

 patients are dead within 5 years of diagnosis. I have behind me — 

 I'm going to put it on the chart — a photograph of mouth cancer re- 

 sulting from moist snuff and chewing tobacco. 



Do you still deny that oral tobacco causes mouth cancer? 



Mr. Taddeo. Oral tobacco has not been established as a cause of 

 oral cancer. 



Mr. Synar. Thank you. All right. Ms. Brenda Dawson, the Vice 

 President of the Tobacco Institute, has stated on many public occa- 

 sions that the tobacco companies have never tried to stop any ef- 

 forts to keep cigarettes from minors. 



Mr. Campbell, you have maintained that the tobacco industry 

 wants to enact strict measures banning cigarette sales to minors. 

 I think you went through a number of questions with Mr. Bliley 

 concerning this. 



First of all, we have with us here today a petition for a ballot 

 initiative paid for Philip Morris in California, to try to counteract 

 some of the stricter local smoking restrictions in California. 



I also have with me a State-to-State analysis of current State 

 legislative trends, where it says that in 1994, the Tobacco Institute 

 has initiated a major push to seek enactment of its own model bill 

 on cigarette sales, and they list a number of States. 



My question is how can you contend that you have done nothing 

 to try to keep laws from being enacted to enforce against minors 

 when you issue these types of petitions that would override and 

 preempt stricter city and county smoking restrictions? 



