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<text id=91TT0591>
<title>
Mar. 18, 1991: No Smoking During The Drill
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 18, 1991 A Moment To Savor
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
No Smoking During the Drill
</hdr><body>
<p>By David Ellis/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
</p>
<p> Les Zuke, director of communications for cigarette giant
Philip Morris, was calmly addressing planners of the company's
Benson & Hedges blues festival in New Orleans when an
unexpected visitor entered the room. "You are killing my
people!" the woman shouted, turning over tables and ranting
that advertisements and promotions aimed at minority smokers
are immoral. After 30 seconds, order was restored, and the
stunned p.r. staff learned that the outburst was only a drill.
Zuke had paid a New York actress $5,000 to stage the
disturbance to help event organizers learn how to handle the
real thing. "I felt this would be a very dramatic way for me
to make points about the issues that face us in the tobacco
industry every day," he said.
</p>
</body></article>
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