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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1995)
Lawmaker Tobacco study targeted third graders, others WASHINGTON (A I’) Secret research documents show Philip Morris trac keel hyperactive third-graders ns potential future customers and gave electric shocks to college students to see if it would make them smoko more, o congress man charged Monday One company report concluded smokers crave nicotine more than food, he said Rep. Henry Was man, I) Calif., unveiled sine ks of docu meuts from the world's largest tobacco c ompany on the House; floor, c ontending they illustrat ed unethical and possibly ille gal researc h into nicotine. "Philip Morris has targeted c hildren and c ollege students, the youngest segments of tin market. for spec ini researc h projects," s.iid Wa.xman. who said he uncovered the docu moots during a congressional prohe of toliac co "Those documents make i! cr\sl,»I clear that vve need regu lation of tulm< i o to protei t our children from becoming addict ed to a life-threatening drug 1 hope they will dissuade mem tiers of tins hotly [Congress from any legislative effort to block that regulation. VVaxman said. lilt- food and- Drug Administration and the Whitt House are ilisi ussing wavs to curb childhood smoking, including banning cigarette vending machines and adver tising attractive to children. Tobacco-state lawmakers are mobilizing to block such regu lation. but did not immediately react to Waxman's statements Philip Morris did not respond to repented calls for continent But Philip Morris chief William Campbell testified before Con gress last year that tobai cu is not addictive, and the company three weeks ago announced a massive anti-teen smoking cam paign that includes ending its practice of mailing out free ciga rette samples Waxtnan said his documents prove Philip Morris knew over a decade before the surgeon gen eral did that nicotine is addic i than fief ion live He read a 1969 company report for Philip Morns board of directors that concluded smokers need lht> 'pharmaco logical effect" of tobacc o. Com pany scientists wrote ttint the craving was so great, it "pre empts food in limes of scarcity on the smoker's priority list YV, i xman was more con corned about the resea rt h pro |ects targeted to young people, saying some particularly those involving shfxkmg college stu dents and injecting people with nicotine, appear unethical and possibly illegal Cable-knit sweater nets $100 bar tab for this Hemingway look-alike M \ WI ST. Fin (API ■ It took fiv«* years of trying Now, Bill Fountain haa finally proved himself, winning the main title, the SUM) bar tab and a t hance to go inano n mono with the big man's own spar ring partner. Fountain ont-machoed 9“ other contestants to win this year's Ernest Hemingway look alike contest After four unsuccessful attempts, he credits his new cable-knit sweater with helping him win Saturday It resembles one the Nobel laureate was often pictured wearing with bis white heard and fishing cap while he lived in key West "It's the first year l wore the sweater, and now Em in the fra ternity." said Fountain, 47, executive director of West Palm Beach s downtown develop ment authority “The biggest prize is that you get to act like Ernest Hemingw ay for a year " That, plus the bar tab at ■Sloppy Joe's, Hemingway's favorite local watering hole, a box of Hemingway cigars, and a front-end alignment for bis t ar He also got a chance to put on boxing gloves and exchange some fun blows with Heming way’s sparring partner, 79-vear old Kermit "Shine" Forbes Cleaning Out Your Office? Please contact Campus Recycling at 346-5275 to schedule pickup of large quantities for recycling. Remember to drop off unwanted office supplies at the Reusable Office Supply Exchange in 182 PLC. Contact 346 1529 for more information University of Oregon Campus Recycling Program k«'v W oil's annual Hemingway Days Festival ended Sunday Hemingway lived here throughout most of the 1930s. ( rafting ( lassies such as Green //i//s of Africa, For Whom the Hell Tolls and To Hast- anil Have V -f Kidnapped man shoots carjacking abductor CORA I. SPRINGS, Fla (API A man who kept two handguns in the trunk of his i ar shot and killed a cargK ker who had l<h ked him inside, police said Monday Haul Britt*. 53. was confront ed by a gunman nt a carwash and forced to ( limb into the trunk of his own l.evus, Sgt Jeff Mnslan said The kidnapper drove off But, apparently fearing llnte had a cellular phone, he stopped and opened the trunk The victim f ame out with two handguns that he had stored in his trunk." Muslim said lie ordered the susptn t several times to lie on the ground, firing two warning shots " When the carjai ker real hint for his pocket Brile shot him in the lower abdomen, Muslim said ( ar 1 too Reese, 21, died .it ,i hospital. An m complice who had I wen driving a station w>);on behind (ho two (nod to run ovor Hrito Hrite shot at the vehit lo, and tho drivor spoil aw,tv An olfic or arrested Reese's roommate. Mario Dannie Sikes. I’, m a vehicle matt hing tho wagon's dost rtption Without elaborating, polit o said Reese "had an extensive record of carjacking in Florida and South (Carolina" and was wanted in Paint Roach Counts on a robbery probation viola lion Inventory Clearance Sale! Gifts & more! UNIVERSITY 895 E. 13th Ave. Open: M-F 7:45-6 Sat 10-5 Sun 12-5
