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CHART 2 



rWQMAS ^ JULEV J. 



ConfirtBS of the Bratcd States 



fiODst of TUjnrtBOitanws 

 IDaihlnguii. BC 2051 i-iw? 



May ^A. 1»94 



303< I|l>n>l 



'••M««» kill 



Tha N«w York T;n>e3 arti=:« fi.led with ir.acc-racy waa fror.c 

 page r.sws while chV correction w«« in tmy print burled Insid* the 

 newspaper. As Paul Harvey woMld »ay: 'And now for th« cmI scory' 



She JfeUr J|ark Stme$ 



W«W yOWf, SATVKOAY. MAY il. im 



Editors' Note 



A front-paRt article on May 7 re- 

 ported thai iiuernal dwuments 

 showed evidence of a debate among 

 tobacco industry executives in 19C3 

 on wholher to disclose what they 

 knew aboui ihc hazards of cigarcitos. 



While the documents do provide 

 evidence of such i dcbole. several 

 paragraphs of the article, including 

 one paragraph on the front page> de- 

 scribed part of one official's report 

 incorrectly. 



The article quoted the fjcncral 



counsel of the Brown & Williamson 

 Tobacco Corporation, Addison Yea- 

 man, as saying iho company's re- 

 search showed that cigarettes con- 

 tributed to lung cancer, heart disease 

 and emphysema. 



In fuct, Mr..Ycaman was not de- 

 scribing Brown & Williamson's own 

 research but was predicting what the 

 Surgeon General would soon say m 

 the first major report on the hazards 

 of smoking. 



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