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To the Editor: In 1996, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates resolved that "all physicians, health professionals, medical schools, hospitals, public health advocates and citizens . . . divest of any tobacco holdings (including mutual funds that include tobacco holdings); and specifically calls on all life and health insurance companies and HMOs to divest of any tobacco holdings."¹ Just before this call to divest, we noted that insurers, including some of the largest owners of health maintaince organizations (HMOs), invested heavily in tobacco.² Prudential owned tobacco stock worth $248 million; MetLife owned $15 million; Travelers, almost $90 million; and Cigna, $75 million. Four years later have insurers heeded the AMA's call? And what of the mutual funds that many physicians rely on as the cornerstone of their financial planning?

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In November 1999, we ascertained shareholdings in publicly-traded tobacco firms. The data, derived from filings with the Securities and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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