The Nation - News from April 28, 1987
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop charged that the tobacco industry is focusing advertising on young people to try to replace older smokers who have quit or died. Koop, opening a 2 1/2-day anti-smoking conference at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, also predicted that someday plaintiffs will win a product liability suit against cigarette companies. Brenna Moran, spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute, denied that cigarette makers are trying to get young people to start smoking.
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