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IF you amok=, eFanees are you're agerr_ssire, hard working, extrovert- ed and', dirorced. -These charncteristics, says Harvard Universily's Dr Carl Seltzer, are more conunon in smokers than non-smokers. Dr Seltzer, who has snent. 25 years studying the er- feels af' smoking or heartt disense:,is in Australia at' the Tobacco Institute's in- vitatiou. - ' He has. he says, new medical evidence to provee t'hat, smoking h-os nn ef'.- teet on heart diseasc. Studies provin~., the re- By PATRICIA WILSON verse were "unscientific " be said,yesterday. "They have atl madh the same mistake. They havee assumed' that the ltealth charactcrostics of formcr' smokors and continuing smokers in their samples were alike," he said. Dr Seltzcr argues thatt people who give up smck- fng are inherently differentt from those who do not. ~ aft-m _ . . His research , has' shown khat those differenees were present before they, gave up smoking., Dr Seltzer hopes to con- vince the Australian me- dical, profession to re- as,ess Its attitude to snroking. H',e will meet' members of the National Heart Foundation In Can-, berra next week, f i i i ' °I have no connection with the tobacco people. I don't care if' they selt' ei- i garettcs or not. And I don't't own any, tobacco, stocks,"' he said. Dr Selfter - a doctor of' philosphy; not a medical doctor - is himself a smoker.