[' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', 'LETTERS', 'TO', 'THE', 'EDITOR', ' ', 'THE', 'WASHINGTON', 'POST', 'PAGE', 'Al6', '2-18-69', '_—', 'Cigarette', 'Ban', 'As', 'a', 'Gonéertied', 'physician,', 'I', 'am', 'pleased', 'at', '“the.', 'recent', 'FCC', 'decision', 'to', 'ban', 'all', 'cigarette', 'ads', 'from', 'radio', 'and', 'television,', 'The', 'general', ' ', '.', 'Public', 'has', 'persisted', 'in', 'denying', 'the', 'true', 'con-', 'Sequences', 'of', 'heavy', 'cigarette', 'smoking:', 'chronic', 'bronchitis', 'and', 'emphysema,', 'lung', '“cancer,', 'permature', 'arteriosclerosts,', 'coronary', 'artery', 'disease,', 'and', 'cerebrovascular', 'disease', '(etroke).', 'In', 'addition,', 'elgarette', 'smoking', 'may', '‘underlie', 'several', 'other', 'cancerous', 'disorders.', 'The', 'attractive', 'setting', 'which', 'television', 'and', 'tadio', 'establish', 'for', 'this', 'malignant', 'habit', 'is', 'bound', 'to', 'influence', 'younger,', 'impressionable', 'nonsmokers.', 'Much', 'of', 'the', 'peer', 'pressure', 'to', 'smoke,', 'which', 'exists', 'among', 'teen-agers', 'and', 'college', 'students,', 'is', 'fortified', 'by’', 'scenes', 'of', 'cowboys,', 'loving', 'couples,', 'and', 'mini-skirted', 'females', 'smoking', 'butts.', 'A', 'few', 'alternative', 'scenes', 'In', '‘#', 'hospital', 'where', 'the', 'family', 'of', '3', 'dying', 'patient', 'is', 'told', 'that', 'his', 'lung', 'cancer', 'is', 'inoperable', 'would', 'give', 'more', 'appropriate', 'bal-', 'ance', 'to', 'this', '“happy,', 'swinging"', 'habit.', '¥', 'Let', 'us', 'hope', 'that', 'the', 'public,', 'the', 'courts', 'and', 'Congress', 'will', 'listen', 'to', 'this', 'most', 'justified', 'and', 'delayed', 'decision', 'from', 'the', 'FCC.', 'Not', 'to', 'Usten', 'at', 'this', 'point', 'is', 'sheer', 'idiocy.', '|', 'ALFRED', 'HURWITZ,', 'MD,', 'Falls', 'Church,', ' ', ' ', ' ']