"Scientists" Shill for Tobacco — Transcript

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1. 0:00all of us have heard a great many
2. 0:01negative speculations about the possible
3. 0:04Hazard of tobacco smoke in the
4. 0:06air the time had come to put some
5. 0:08information from some real medical and
6. 0:10scientific experts on the record to help
7. 0:13the Congress and the public in their
8. 0:14final judgments my name is Dr Kenneth
9. 0:17Moser my name is Norman Heimer I'm Dr
10. 0:20suzan mooy of Indianapolis Indiana
11. 0:23Americans are in the grip of a new
12. 0:24disease a very serious disease two
13. 0:27diseases as a matter of fact the disease
14. 0:29I'm refering refering to is uh is
15. 0:31usually transmitted by misdirected
16. 0:33efforts so-called consumer Advocates
17. 0:37certain books newspaper headlines and so
18. 0:39forth the diseases I'm speaking about
19. 0:41are smoke a phobia and cancer
20. 0:46phobia smoking is after all a ritual
21. 0:49that welcomes strangers provides
22. 0:51companionship in solitude fills empty
23. 0:53time marks the significance of certain
24. 0:56kinds of occasions and expresses
25. 0:58individual identity and personal style
26. 1:01the data are not there I am not the one
27. 1:04to say that if you want to make an
28. 1:05emotional judgment on an issue that it's
29. 1:07not one's prerogative but at least you
30. 1:09ought to tell people that that is what
31. 1:11you are doing in God we trust others
32. 1:14must provide data and what we need is
33. 1:18good scientific Data before I'm willing
34. 1:21to
35. 1:22accept and submit to the
36. 1:25proposition that smoking is a hazard to
37. 1:28the non-smoker