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The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, September 6, 19883
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By KARI BARLOW
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! R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. soon
will begin test-marketing its new
Premier cigarette, a so-called "smoke
less cigarette," said David Fishel, vice
president of public relations for RJR
in Winston-Salem. According to
Fishel, the new cigarette will heat a
flavor capsule instead of burning any
tobacco.
1 "It will carry the same health
warnings as other cigarettes. The
composition of the smoke is a lot
simpler. The aroma is different,"
Fishel said. Test-marketing will begin
in October.
While the new cigarette will address
a number of the social aspects of
smoking, many health organizations
and anti-smoking groups are voicing
opposition.
"We don't think there is any safe
cigarette. There is no such thing as
a safe dose of carcinogens," said
Athena Mueller, general counsel for
Action on Smoking and Health
(ASH). Even though the Premier
cigarette will emit less visible smoke,
gases such , as carbon monoxide are
still present, she said.
"We are concerned that it is
misleading to those who have never
considered smoking, particularly
youngsters," said Eleanor Blackwell,
director for the Research Triangle
region of the N.C. American Lung
Association. s.
The Food and Drug Administra
tion, which has never before held
jurisdiction over cigarettes, has not
decided whether to monitor Premiers,
said FDA spokesman Michael
Shaffer.
"They (the FDA) don't have a
position on harmfulness. There are
some organizations that have petiti
oned the agency, to regulate
cigarettes," said Shaffer. The FDA is
meeting with those organizations and
expects to have a position soon,
Shaffer said.
"We have been urging the FDA to
recognize tobacco as a drug," Mueller
said. "I don't say that there is a
deliberate desire to deceive. I think
there is some implied message.
Everything implies this is an improve
ment. Otherwise, why do it?"
The cigarette will make its debut
in St. Louis, Phoenix and Tucson in
early October, Fishel said. The
cigarette was not chosen to debut in
North Carolina because of the
already large market for Reynolds
cigarettes. "
"Here in North Carolina, we have
an unusually high share of the market
in comparison to the rest of the
country," he said.
Marketing for the cigarette will 1
target mature smokers over, the age
of 25. .. . - . ,
"It doesn't address every issue of
the smoking-health controversy, but
it goes a long way in addressing a
lot of the issues," Fishel said.
Soviet trial focuses atteotioim
on coinryptioim in government
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Officials plied
Leonid Brezhnev's son-in-law with
cases of wine, rare fruit and huge
bribes, prosecutors alleged Mon
day in a corruption indictment so
long that its reading caused a judge
to nod off. .
The trial of Yuri Churbanov
and . eight co-defendants began
Monday before a three-judge
military tribunal. It is giving
Soviet citizens an unaccustomed
glimpse of intrigue and high living
in the Kremlin.
Five young soldiers from the
Interior Ministry, where Chur
banov once worked, guarded the
nine defendants. The news agency
Tass said the eyes of the senior
guard, who appeared to be about
20, "open wide each time the figure
of another bribe is mentioned."
Interest is high. An elderly
woman, asked why she was wait
ing outside the Supreme Court,
said: "We came because we wanted
to know where our kopeks were
going."
Churbanov married Galina
Brezhnev in 1971 when her father
was running the Kremlin, which
he did for 18 years.
She has been ill and did not
attend Monday's session but plans
to come later "to give moral
support to her husband," who
could be sentenced to death, said
Churbanov's lawyer, Andrei
Makarov. She probably will
testify.
Official media reported exten
sively on the trial, which is
expected to last about two
months. v
In the indictment were details
of charges that Churbanov, 51,
accepted bribes totaling 656,883
rubles ($ 1 .04 million) while serving
as first deputy interior minister.
That is equivalent to more than
270 years' pay for the average
factory worker.
The indictment, apparently
based oh interrogation of the
accused, was so lengthy that the
prosecutor and one judge fell
asleep at one point.
It said co-defendants were
among those who bribed Chur
banov and the gifts to him
included a valuable carpet, two
china tea sets, regular supplies of
wine, cognac, pomegranates,
grapes and other hard-to-find fruit
flown to him via the Soviet airline
Aeroflot from Uzbekistan.
Those items and money came
from top officials in the republic,
in Soviet Central Asia, including
some of the eight co-defendants.
Churbanov also requested and'
received construction materials
from the Interior Ministry and the
Defense Ministry provided by men
from military construction units to
build him a summer house, the
indictment said.-
He. was quoted as saying gift
giving was merely a sign of friend
ship in Uzbekistan.
Authorities say Churbanov was
the central figure in a web of
embezzlement and bribery extend
ing from Uzbekistan to Moscow.
His trial is considered part of
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's
effort to separate his leadership
from the cronyism and corruption
of the Brezhnev, years, 1964 to
1982. It signals that officials will
be held strictly accountable and ,
corruption will not be tolerated.
Gooere expected to act
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From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON With unchar
acteristic speed, Congress is expected
in its final weeks to create a new law
to combat what has become one of
the biggest and most emotional
problems of the summer of 8
medical waste that has invaded and.
shut down some of America's favorite
beaches. - : "
Intense pressure from outraged
citizens has driven Congress to hold
a series of public hearings, including
one this week on Long Island's Jones
Beach, and at least one measure and
maybe more will be passed before the
legislative year ends, lawmakers and
environmental activists predicted.
Navy medical debris washed up on
Carteret County beaches an North
Carolina last month, but officials said
there was never any danger of
infectious disease. .
N.C. Gov. Jim Martin has said the
Navy was prompt and cooperative in
cleanup efforts, and he doubted the
Navy would face any state action for
littering.
Separate measures to create a
waste tracking system and to establish
specific criminal penalties for medical
waste dumping passed the Senate
before the August recess. Similar
measures are pending in various
House committees.
"With all the publicity this has
gotten, these will sail right through,"
said John Catena, a science group
policy analyst at the Oceanic Society,
a national environmental group that
focuses on coastal problems.
. "The fact that you had one of the
hottest summers in 50 years and tens
of millions of people . . . were unable
to make use of the public beaches
really drew the issue right home," said
Andy Kass, a researcher ; at the
National Resources Defense Council
in New York.
Rep. Bruce Morrison, a Democrat
who represents part of the Connec
ticut coast along the Long Island
Sound, said another reason for the
unusual speed on Capitol Hill is the
clarity of the issue. ' .
"There's no reputable other side of
the issue," said Morrison. "No one
can excuse the presence of medical
waste in the ocean and the only way
it can get there is from illegal dumping
. . . There's not a lot of technical,
debate here. We know what we can
do. Let's do it."
Environmentalists concede that the
medical waste problem poses much
less of a long-term health threat than
other issues plaguing! the nation's
coastal waters, such as sludge dump
ing, .that have languished in Congress
for years. ' ,
f "In terms of long-term survivalof
trie ocean, it's not a serious problem.
In terms of impact on people's lives,
it is," said Andrew Palmer of the
American Oceans Campaign,
another activist group.
is "a much more visible issue. When
it closes your beach down, that makes
a lot more rumblings."
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lining in the dirty syringes, vials,
bandages and other hospital debris
that has washed ashore from Massa
chusetts to the Gulf of Mexico.
Palmer said public outrage over
medical waste has been transferred'
to other less well-known but poten
tially more dangerous coastal pollu
tion problems! ;
"We're seeing it already, and I think
that's being translated to Congress,"
he said. :
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