[' ', 'RIRI', 'News', 'Report', 'January', '15,', '1998', 'eee', 'MY', 'PO,', 'D928', 'Source:', 'Wall', 'Street', 'Journal;', 'January', '15,', '1998', 'By', 'MILO', 'GEYELIN', 'REYNOLDS', 'SAYS', 'NEW', 'TOBACCO', 'DOCUMENTS', 'NO', 'SECRET', 'WINSTON-SALEM,', 'N.C.,', 'Jan', '14', '(Reuters)', '-', 'R.J.', 'Reynolds', 'Tobacco', 'Co,', 'responding', 'to', 'the', 'release', 'earlier', 'on', 'Wednesday', 'of', 'confidential', 'company', 'documents', 'pertaining', 'to', 'its', 'marketing', 'practices,', 'said', '“in', 'no', 'way', 'have', 'we', 'attempted', 'to', 'keep', 'these', 'documents', 'secret.”', '“Our', 'documents', 'reflect', 'the', 'social', 'attitudes', 'of', 'the', 'times', 'in', 'which', 'they', 'were', 'created,”', 'the', 'cigarette', 'maker', 'said', 'in', 'a', 'statement.', '“While', 'attitudes', 'toward', 'smoking', 'have', 'changed', 'over', 'the', 'past', 'several', 'decades,', 'Reynolds', 'Tobacco', 'Company’s', 'position', 'and', 'policy', 'have', 'remained', 'constant:', 'that', 'smoking', 'is', 'a', 'choice', 'for', 'adults', 'and', 'marketing', 'programs', 'are', 'directed', 'at', 'those', 'above', 'the', 'legal', 'age', 'to', 'smoke.”', 'The', 'company’s', 'statement', 'came', 'shortly', 'after', 'U.S.', 'Rep.', 'Henry', 'Waxman,', 'D-Calif.,', 'released', 'a', 'number', 'of', 'documents,', 'which', 'the', 'long-time', 'tobacco', 'foe', 'said', 'were', 'evidence', 'the', 'industry', 'has', 'targeted', 'its', 'marketing', 'at', 'children', 'for', 'decades.', 'Also', 'on', 'Wednesday,', 'House', 'Commerce', 'Committee', 'chairman', 'Thomas', 'Bliley,', 'R-Va.,', 'announced', 'he', 'has', 'asked', 'top', 'tobacco', 'executives', 'to', 'testify', 'before', 'his', 'committee', 'later', 'this', 'month', 'about', 'the', 'proposed', 'settlement', 'between', 'the', 'industry', 'and', 'states.', 'Source:', 'RTf', '1/14/98', '9:42', 'PM', 'WHITE', 'HOUSE', 'SEES', 'FAVORABLE', 'TOBACCO', 'PACT', 'OUTLOOK', 'WASHINGTON', '(Reuters)', '-', 'The', 'White', 'House', 'Wednesday', 'disputed', 'reported', 'comments', 'by', 'Senate', 'Majority', 'leader', 'Trent', 'Lott', 'that', 'Congress', 'was', 'unlikely', 'to', 'enact', 'a', 'tobacco', 'settlement', 'this', 'year,', 'and', 'said', 'the', 'legislation’s', 'prospects', 'were', '“very', 'favorable.”', '“Our', 'conversations', 'on', 'the', '(Capitol)', 'Hill', 'have', 'indicated', 'to', 'us', 'that', 'the', 'prospects', 'for', 'tobacco', 'legislation', 'are', 'very', 'favorable,”', 'White', 'House', 'spokesman', 'Mike', 'McCurry', 'told', 'reporters.', '“A', 'growing', 'majority', 'of', 'Congress', 'seems', 'to', 'agree', 'that', 'as', 'a', 'matter', 'of', 'public', 'health', 'policy', 'we', 'need', 'to', 'stop', 'kids', 'from', 'smoking,”', 'McCurry', 'said.', 'Lott', 'was', 'reported', 'in', 'Wednesday’s', 'Washington', 'Post', 'as', 'saying', 'odds', 'were', 'now', '70-30', 'against', 'passage', 'of', 'the', 'legislation', 'and', 'that', 'President', 'Clinton', 'was', '“undermining”', 'its', 'prospects', 'by', 'proposing', 'to', 'spend', 'revenues', 'from', 'it', 'before', 'passage.', '“The', 'president', 'has', 'shown', 'no', 'leadership', 'on', 'it', '(the', 'tobacco', 'settlement)', '...', 'he’s', 'complicated', 'it', 'with', 'cigarette', 'taxes,”', 'Lott', 'told', 'the', 'paper.', 'McCunry', 'said', 'Lott', 'had', 'mischaracterized', 'Clinton’s', 'views', 'on', 'the', 'revenues', 'and', 'said', 'Lott', 'should', 'show', 'leadership', 'on', 'the', 'issue', 'if', 'there', 'was', 'a', 'concern', 'over', 'the', 'legislation’s', 'prospects.', '“If', 'he', 'doesn’t', 'feel', 'optimistic', '...', 'he', 'ought', 'to', 'do', 'something', 'about', 'it,', 'which', 'is', 'to', 'get', 'things', 'going,”', 'McCurry', 'said.', 'SSeS', '17', 'RJR000000001', '1022268', '70051', '9380', 'F6L8', 'ZEeLes']