OTHER NEWS - Feb. 10, 1992

Judge Orders Secret Tobacco Files Opened: Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who presided over an earlier groundbreaking suit against the tobacco industry, ordered secret tobacco industry information turned over to the plaintiff in a smoking case, saying it provides damaging evidence that cigarette makers have lied about the dangers of smoking for decades. Sarokin ordered the files of the Council for Tobacco Research, an industry-funded research group, be made available to Susan Haines of Philadelphia, whose father died of lung cancer. The Haines lawsuit names the Tobacco Institute, an industry trade group and four companies--R. J. Reynolds, Lorillard, Liggett and Philip Morris. Haines charged that the tobacco industry committed fraud by knowingly concealing the hazards of smoking while actively misleading the public about its risks.