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Syphilis sufferers want formal apology
Victims went years without treatment
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The government will formally apologize to the black men in Tuskegee, Ala., whose syphilis went untreated for years as part of a federal study, the White House said yesterday.
President Clinton will issue the apology sometime soon, said White House representative Mary Ellen Glynn.
The decision was announced as five survivors of the experiments came forward in Alabama to demand an apology. The White House did not say whether that was a factor.
"The president feels it's a blight on our record and it should be rectified." Glynn said.
The government has moved toward an apology for the Tuskegee experiment in recent weeks, spurred in part by Clinton's 1995 apology to victims of secret radiation experiments during the Cold War.
In the Tuskegee experiment, the U.S. Public Health Service withheld treatment from 399 men between 1932 and 1972 in order to study how syphilis spread and how it killed.
The men were not told they had the disease and were not given penicillin, the standard treatment since 1947. The study, made public in 1972 in a story by The Associated Press, forced changes in government research practices, but it also generated a mistrust of public health efforts among black Americans that lingers to this day.
U. S. officials never apologized for the grim research, which was the subject of a stage production and a recent HBO film Miss Ever's Boys. A class-action lawsuit was settled out of court, and the government has paid roughly $10 million to victims and their heirs since 1973.
There are 14 surviving participants, and five met Tuesday at a church in Notasulga, Ala., that once served as an intake station for the study.
Liggett Group releases cigarette documents
The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tobacco lawyers have traditionally weeded out advertising slogans that could get them in trouble in court, according to information recently made public.
It sounded similar to an invitation to cancer litigation, Liggett Group attorney Joseph Greer wrote in a 1975 memo that was released Monday. The statement was part of the company's settlement with Florida and 21 other states suing to recover the costs of smoking-related illnesses.
"This company is, in effect, admitting against its interest that a person can 'enjoy smoking too much' and, in fact, can smoke too much." Greer wrote. "The statement itself is negative and implies that an excessive enjoyment of smoking is undesirable."
Liggett, maker of the Chesterfield, Lark and L&M brands, agreed in its settlement last month to label its cigarettes addictive, admit they can cause
cer and pay $25 million now and 25 percent of its pre-tax profits for the next 25 years. The company also agreed to hand over thousands of internal documents.
Other Liggett documents show the company knew as early as 1957 that its cigarettes contained harmful chemicals such as DDT, arsenic and the pesticide malathion.
Liggett also knew in 1967 that it could manipulate tar and nicotine levels in cigarettes through the use of chemicals, the same report showed.
Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth said he expected other Liggett documents to show that cigarette makers intentionally played with nicotine levels to keep smokers addicted.
In Arizona last week, documents were released showing the industry targeted potential smokers as young as 16 years old and marketed brands especially for black, Hispanic and Jewish smokers in the early 1960s.
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