"It is an honor to be recognized for our overall commitment to the
Hispanic community through this comprehensive assessment of our diversity
initiatives ," said Comcast Executive Vice President David L.comcast. With 21.
The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment
Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, OLN, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS
Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a
majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the
Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball
team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia. Comcast Class A
common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market
under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively."
According to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, it is estimated that for
every 10 percent cigarette price increase, youth smoking rates are reduced by
6.
"A cigarette tax increase would have a tremendous impact on the health of
Illinois residents, particularly women, children, and minorities, groups that
have, historically , been hardest hit by the effects of tobacco use," said Matt
Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco -Free Kids.8 billion in direct health-care costs and $1. "Using just $.

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"Comcast
continues to increase our commitment to the Hispanic community by partnering
with local organizations, offering a growing array of Spanish language and
Hispanic-themed programming, recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and
through our aggressive supplier diversity initiatives. Specific areas of focus included Board
and leadership representation; recruitment efforts; retention and promotion
through incentives , employee support groups and executive training; marketing
and advertising to reach Hispanic consumers; community outreach benefiting
minority groups and supplier diversity.com/magazine.com) is the
nation 's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products
and services.00 per pack on
cigarettes, which would generate an estimated $456 million in new revenue.
Coalition members also are urging lawmakers to allocate 25 percent of the new
tax increase revenue for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, with the
remaining 75 percent allocated for school construction and transportation in
Illinois.5 percent, adult rates by 2 percent, and total cigarette consumption rates
are reduced by 4 percent.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only
a fully-funded, comprehensive approach to tobacco control will effectively
reduce tobacco use across all groups, including men, women, children, ethnic
minorities, and uninsured smokers.5
billion in Medicaid," said Diana Hackbarth, PhD, RN, Chair, Illinois Coalition
Against Tobacco.

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PHILADELPHIA , Comcast Corporation
(Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) was named one of the 2005 Top 40 Companies for
Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine, for the company's overall commitment
to the Hispanic market. Cohen .7 million high-speed
Internet customers, and 1. Health Savings Could Exceed $3 Billion

NORTHBROOK, Ill.
"Cigarette use has an extremely broad and permeating impact on society.25 of the tax increase would generate $114
million, which represents 65 percent of the spending recommendation by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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, used more than 30 variables to identify and rank the top 40
companies, of which Comcast was ranked #24.hispanicbusiness.5 million cable customers, 7.

Smokers may suffer from and eventually succumb to the health effects of their
habit, but our communities will continue to suffer from the long-term economic
ramifications smoking has on our nation's health-care system," said ACCP
Illinois Member and lung transplant surgeon , Wickii Vigneswaran, MD, FCCP,
Loyola University Medical Center.1
billion."
Led by the ACCP, CRTT includes the American Cancer Society, American Heart
Association Greater Midwest Affiliate , American Lung Association of Illinois,
American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago, Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids, Chicago Asthma Consortium, Healthy Schools Campaign, Illinois Academy of
Family Physicians, Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco , Kane County Regional Office of Education,
Legislative Education Network of Dupage, and People for Community Recovery. The CDC estimates that Illinois needs to
allocate $65-179 million annually for tobacco control, but the state's fiscal
year budget was only $11 million."
For more information about CRTT, please contact the American College of
Chest Physicians at (847) 498-8306.

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Hispanic Business Magazine Names Comcast One of the Top 40 Companies for Hispanics

HispanTelligence(R), the research arm of Hispanic
Business Inc."
Hispanic Business contacted the top 400 of the Fortune 500 companies, and
measured each company's commitment to Hispanic hiring, promotion, marketing,
philanthropy , and supplier diversity.
For more information about Hispanic Business Magazine's 2005 Top 40
Companies for Hispanics, or for a complete list of honorees, visit
http://www.

About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: http://www.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally
involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable
networks and in the delivery of programming content.

New Illinois Coalition Supports Cigarette Tax Increase

, The American College of Chest
Physicians (ACCP), an international medical society with over 650 members in
Illinois, along with more than a dozen Illinois-based public health,
education, and environmental groups, today announced their support of a
statewide increase on cigarette tax. The newly formed Coalition to Reduce
Tobacco's Toll (CRTT) is calling for a tax increase of $1. "By making it more difficult for smokers to
afford cigarettes and supporting their efforts to stop smoking , we will,
ultimately, see long-term health and economic improvements within our
communities. "The cigarette tax increase
proposed by the coalition would decrease the number of Illinois adult smokers
by 87,800, prevent nearly 150,000 Illinois children alive today from becoming
smokers , and would lead to overall health-care savings of more than $3.
"Tobacco use is still the number one public health crises in Illinois,
costing the state more than $3.

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