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No, I don't see many now.
I don't see anything, because I am always looking at television for political news, I am not looking at it to be entertained. Nor are you -- you are entertained in other ways.
Well, at any rate TV has had a tremendous effect, and the Ad Council did get this immense amount of free time for it, which is a tremendous service. I don't think they've ever done anytning where it could be traced, that with the start of TV spots the death rate changed in a major cause of death. Never.
Do you think that this is going to be a breakthrough in terms of other efforts in the medical world? Do you think it has impressed the medical personnel in any way?
I don't know. I don't think. . . You see, most doctors are not looking at TV in the daytime. We don't get it on prime time often, you know.
Well, naturally they aren't, but they must be aware of the fact that there is this vast decline in deaths.
They are aware that they have more people asking about high blood pressure, but they are not sure just how it happened, and the National Heart Institute itself
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