
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 27, 1990                   TAG: 9006270056
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHICAGO                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. TRADE POLICIES HIT

A dramatic increase in smoking worldwide has been fostered by U.S. trade policies that ignore the health problems associated with tobacco, says a report in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Globally, increasing tobacco use is responsible for almost 2.5 million excessive or premature deaths per year - almost 5 percent of all deaths" and U.S. trade policy perpetuates the problem by trying to develop overseas - especially in Asia - a market that is drying up at home, said the report by the AMA's Council on Scientific Affairs.

The report recommended urging the AMA to lobby the U.S. government to alter tobacco trade policies and imposing foreign-language health warning labels on cigarette packages for export. - Associated Press

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