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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15No Smoking During the Drill
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- 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.
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