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<h3>Lawmaker Assails Charge vs AMA on Tobacco. —</h3> Chairman Harold Cooley (D, NC ) of the House Agriculture Committee has labeled an "outrage" a statement by Rep. Frank Thompson, Jr (D, NJ), implying that tobacco state Congressmen and the American Medical Association had made a deal whereby the AMA would oppose the labeling of cigarettes as harmful to health and the Congressmen in return would oppose the pending "Medicare" legislation. Cooley said such an implication not only is untrue—"it is fantastic, and it is an outrage to this House." Cooley said he had no prior advice that AMA was to testify at all in the Federal Trade Commission hearings on the proposition of placing some kind of warning label or tag on each package of cigarettes. "I doubt if any member of this body from a tobacco producing state was aware of AMA's position in this matter until an account of
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