Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 16, 1990 TAG: 9006160320
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK LENGTH: Medium
The report, a "technical compendium" of the latest research on passive smoking, has not been released. Documents with information on its contents were obtained by The Associated Press from the Tobacco Institute and from the office of Rep. Thomas Bliley of Richmond, Va.
Bliley and the Tobacco Institute, an industry group, have pressed the EPA to revise or withdraw a chapter linking heart disease to passive smoking, often referred to as "environmental tobacco smoke," or ETS.
The chapter was written by Stanton Glantz and William Parmley, both professors in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Parmley is a past president of the American College of Cardiology.
Elissa Feldman in the EPA's indoor air division said the technical compendium is still being revised and would probably not be released until later this summer.
Glantz presented many of the chapter's findings May 21 at a scientific conference in Boston, but he did not disclose that they were included in the EPA's passive-smoking report.
Robert Axelrad, director of the EPA's indoor air division, said Glantz had been given permission to discuss his findings as long as he did not mention his connection with the EPA.
He noted that the technical compendium was not a determination by the EPA of the risks associated with passive smoking, but a collection of state-of-the-art summaries of research on passive smoking.
"It will contain disclaimers that the views of the individual authors do not represent the views of the EPA," he said.
by CNB