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-- Medicine-- Tobacco Wars Is pass~ve smoking harmful? The campaign to ban cisarette smok- ing in public places received • bi~ boost last January when Epidemiologist Tal~eshl Hit•yam• of Japan's National Cancer Center published the retults of 14-year study of 265,000 J•panese. He found ttmt no.nsmoki~ wives of heavy tmokers had a higher risk of tier•lapin8 lung cancer than nonsmokin~ women married to men who did not smoke. But now that conclusion is being chal- lensed by an analysis of lur~ cancer deaths published last month in the .lout. hal of the National Cancer Institute. Ep- idemiologist Lawrence Crarfinkel of American Cancer Society s~udied data colJected over twelve years on 176,739 nonsmokin8 women and concluded that those wed to smokers did not run a great- er risk of dying from lun8 cancer than those married to nonsmokers. Garfinkel notes, however, that neither his study nor Hirayama's provides "def~itive informa- tion" on the effects of passive smokins. "Classifyin8 nonsmokLp.8 women on the basis of the smokin8 habits of their bus- bands is not an accurate measure of their degree of passive smokins," he says, since they may be exposed to varying amounts of smoke outside the home. ]:or his part, Hirayama notes, "There are bound to be discrepancies between pan and the U~. for the clear-cut reason that the ways of life arc dif¢rent." For ex- ample, divorce in the U~. is much more common, he says, so researchers should consider the smokin8 habits of ex-hus- bands as well as current sponses. Amer- ican women are also more likely to have jobs and work in smoky offices. The Japanese findin~ were already dis- puted by the Tobacco Institute, the in- dustry's lobbying orsanization. The insti- tute says that three U.S. statisticians who were asked to review the report discov- ered an error in how the data were an- alyzed and judged the study's conclusions "invalid." But one of the statisticians, than Mantel of George Washington Urd- versity, says that while his review raised questions about the study, it did not draw any firm conclusions. Says he: "The in- stitute has put words in my mouth." The dustup over the Japanese study is the latest round in an ongoing debate. Other studies have indicated that l~.ssive smoking can exacerbate symptoms in people with atler~ics and heart dLtea~ and impair lung functioning in healthy adults. Some resea~_h has found that dren whose pt, ents smoke sufl'e~ more respiratccy-tract illness. Only acre thing is certain: where there's tobacco smoke, T104231125

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Warning Given On: Drinking. Whi! ..Pregnafit ~ The~s.u{ge.~n "g'ene.ral'says preg- nant v/omen should avoid alcoholic beverages, a.nd beware of food arid drugs c6nt~i'aingalcohol'or Hsk en- " dangeri.hg ~t/~i~ child's h~alth. A special advisorY sent yesterday to .lO.OOO doctors'and bther health : professionals noted that:.~'; ..:: .' • The .children of SO,he women who during pregnancy consumed as little as two drinks a ..day. ~ about one ounce of alcohol - have beeh found to haye significantI~'.'decreased weight at birth. .. • Sizable increases in Sponianeous abortipns.have bden reported among women who drank as little as one ounce.of .alcohol tv~ice a'week. • Women alcoholics risk bearing'.~ childrefi with defecis knowh as fetal alcohol syndro~he.. ': ; "~ • ~ A woman who d~:inks hea~ily'is more 1.ik~ly ~'o ~dar a child with one or more ~f t~e birth defects associ- ated with fetal alcohol syndrome. ~hese include nervous system dis-" ~rders, grow.tho.defici~ies, f~acial,. affd'~ ~hr t"~hl fo~h3tiofis~ ...... The warning was issued by the act... ing surgeon general, Dr. Edward Brandt. . .- TI04231127

W.omen Wiu:ne To Shun.AlCbh l ghile Pregnant:; • .;'" " -. .'.-Y.. C. " By ~ictor Cohn " "" " '~. ~'" "," .~ W~hln~anPo~tS~ttWtl~r " ~ pletely if th@ are eithd~ pre~t'~r . ~t "considering" piegnan~,"~ -'Reag~ administration's chief d~ ~ warned yesterday. ~ Dr. Edw~d N. Br~d~ ~cre~ry for health in the De~- • "me~t of Health and H~ "qc~, i~ued a "Surgeon "Gen~rM'~ 'Advisory" stating this un~q~v~M • advice and urged ~1 ~octo~, in ~'. The warning went even "'further t~ previous, offici~ Which hav~'eithe~ p~hd ffdme~ c6rhil alcohol use duri~ pregn~@ or advbcated abstinence ~ thd "Sizable ~nd signigc~t increa~ in spontaneous abortiom" have s~n in pregn~t women who drank ~ little as two ounc~ of ~ho} tMce weekly, B~dt ~id. The~ have also ~en "si~ifi~ntly de-" " creased" birth weigh~ in babies some mothers who averaged ounce of alcohol daily. Babi~ "with decr~sed bir~h weighU ~e more' likely to have other, more ~erious problems. :.. Two standard or modest ~d-a-hal~ "sho~" of @hiskey, gin vodka contain mote than a full -ounce of pure alcohol (1.2 ounces o~ . ~cohol if the spiri~ ~e 80 pr~f,.~. . bit more if the~ are stronger)." ~:.. Brandt i=u~ the "Surgeon er~'s Advisory," first of this ~dmin. htration, as acting su~eon generM,'a p~t he holds because the pr~ident's expired nomination of Dr. C. erett K~p as surgeon general has been held up @ Ho~e refusal so far to exempt Koop, who is 64, this Public Health Service age limi~ The Brandt warning is a follow-u~ ~ an i~ue raised in the Carter ad- ~ A~C0HOL, AS, CoL 4 , Women Warned :T:o Shun Alcohol White Pregnant • " ALCOHOL, From A1 • mirfistration, when some scientbts and doct~m worried about the 6ffec~ of alcohol ~n the [et'us~i~gan u, rging 'a ~/ari4in~ J~b~l on liquo..r, ~v]ne and ~ beer bottles." - Last November a joint HHS- Tre~u~y D.ei~artme~t rep6rt r.ecom- inended ~gt~fnst h warning label, but said the gov.bmme'nt and th6 alco- holic beqffr~i~e i.ndustry ~hould con- ,~luct ~" mtijo~- campaign t~ educate the publid Oh' all alcohol dangers.- Brah~It'ye~terday mentione other practices, like smoking and poor nu- trition, tha~,can also affect fetuses. But alcohol's effects apparently are independent'.of these other dangem. When drinkii~g is "heavy," he said, ther~e i.~ greater risk of outright birth defe6ts, .and w.hen "the expectant mother is ah alcoholic, there is a risk '.of fetal ..alCohol syndrome, a grim 'duste'r'ofs~v'.ere physical and mental defects~ " ~. • " Alcohoi ~bn~umption is especially • harmful in pregnancy's early months, e.vdn.in the earlie~st stages • when a woman ma~ s~i~ be uhaware she is pregnant. This is one reason Brandt warned women even coffsid- eting pregn~cy to abs.'tain.. : Brandt urged doctors and other "health professionals ~o ~sk all preg- • nant patients, or 'those planning " preg~ancy, ahou~, drinking habits. He pointed out that alcohol is found in some drt,gs and foods- vanilla And some .desserts, for example- . and said doctors should help pa- tients be aware of these, too. Ti04231128

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Hostelrid in Deaths, S3nie Design F6a ures Cited; :." .h'~ " ' -d . " ' . . Big. Chain..Stresses 'Plan tb Improve .Safety Bed'Sh of 'Bla k:.Velv£f. By Ric~,an E. • Holiday Inns .Inc~• "~-~" the .hig'gest hotel and motel chain oh earth, BRRng itseli "the world's innkee~dr,'. ~ihe: Merhphis-b~sed c6mpany maintains more. th.an 300,000 bed- rooms in 59 'cottages.. Last year, the chain played host to more than 76 n-Lillion guests. .. Holiday .Inns is" also-a leader in hotel tires. In the p~st decade,' the chain has had a number of serious, sometimeg fatal fives resultin~ from arson, accidents and care- lessness by guests and employes. The seri- odsnessnnd.the frequency .of ,Holiday Inn fires have be~nd~proportlonately high com- peted with ~e •fire records of other, ma~or hostolrie~. Nevertheless, the company de-" fends its safety record and stresses the ef- forts it currently is making in fire. preven- tion, • Fire s~fe~y is .something that travelers recently have,been paying more attention to because of publicized disasters at the MGM Grand and Hilton hotels tn Las Vegas and at the Stouffers Inn conference center in Harri- son, "N.Y., which caused many deaths and injuries as well as spe:eta~u!,ar, .p.roperty damage.. ............. Ne Towering Infernos" ," " Ultlike ~,e high-rise conflagrations in Las Vegas. th~ woP,~t of the Holiday Inn tires- which killed 10 pe~oas In Greece, N.Y., in 19/8 and 10 in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1979- have ~ttr~ct~d ~elatively little hi~tlonal no- tic& In palt that l~ because individual death t~lls in Hollday'Inii fires have 'been lower and'In pkrt .be~au~ these fires typically have involved tWo-Stol~ "and three-story tels. not towering iufern'os. The incidence ai~d the severity of the Hol- iday Inn blazes seem to relate in certain motel<l~gn features'imd to cdmpany pro- cedures that made fires more destructive than.they might ]~ave been~-T~at conclusion arises from Ieports by fire departments. surance companies and private e~perts who. have investigated the'fires.-The reports are on file with the National Fire Protection sociation~ ~a ~afety~ group .~ quincy° whose ai%hives • are".:considered 4he .most comprehensive la the field- The NFPA maintains records on most ma~'or U.S. fires and dispatches Its own people to investigate many rifts tot the federal government- Co.~ti~ued From First Page faalitles. Conditions that contributed to 'fires, he says, are bein~ eorrectad, eveu -where no local fire-code violations were in- "volved. In addition, the company is spending -about $14 million [or sprin~ders and smoke detectors in company-owned units, and it is requiring franchise holders m install such equipment even where it isn't required by .law, Mr. Goforth says. " ~ .:" " "-* :' "- ~:" • Ho~el and motel fires are.falrly common, although most of them don't !nv~Ive casual- ties "or substantial "damage.," Tti~i U.S, Fire Admlnlstratfin estil'nates "that" th~e ~.,~ere 12,0~0 fires in the fiation.'s ~,000 hotels and tnotels in 1979, the la~-t year for which it has statistics. "The implication is that every hotel and mot.el is going to have a fire about e.very lout years," says Philip Schabnman, the associate administrator in charge of the I~FA°s data center in Washington, D.C. -. • A study "of" some recent. Holiday Inn blazes shows how fires can get out bf hand and what hap~ns when they do. .: " . " ~ The chalh's most recent serious .fire broke out shortly before midnight last Jan. ~6 in the 210-rbom, two-story motel along In- .terstate 80 in Kearney, Neb. John Bouchard, an NFPA investigator, found that an electri- cal tire spread from a ground-tioor room be- cause the door, which didn't have a self-clos- ing device, was leR open by a fleeing guest. Smoke reached the second floor Via two open stah-w~ys, Mr. Bou~chard says.. ':Then a ball .of fire went up one of the stairways," recalls Dwaine Jorgensen, who at the time was thechief of the local volun- teer • fire department. A ~-year.old "man trying" to escape down the stairs ran head-on into the fireball and was severely burned. He was the most serious casualty o! 28 in the blaze. Mr. Jorgensen says that a local code adopted in 1976 bans open stairways in low- rise motels, but it didn't apply to motels built earlier, ~uch as thd Kearney Holiday p • oor bousekdeping apparently contrib- uted to a June6, 1978, predawn fire at the Holiday Inn at the Columbus, Ga., a.irport. That fire killed Paul Lambert, who had been named ba~ketb/dl coach at AuNfi-n Univer- sity. About 50 old mattresses and box springs had .been leR on .their sides, leaning against both. corridor walls of the motel's second, floor, where the .13-year-old Mr. Lambert had hls/oom," ac.dord~g to a fire- department report. T104231130

Comb Lambert's Death zoom ~ s~ok~ l~tsoning after a ~ o~ un-. k~own origiq, spre~ from one mattrbss ,to Last July, Holiday Inns settled for million a "wrongful death" hwsult brought by Mr.-Lamb~rrs widow, Carol, acco,r.ding to "the clerk'~ 6~ce bf Jadlc~h corinth cir. ' c~R cobbin Carbd6ilaie,'-.]]l. The ~it was filed there bemuse. Mr: Lambert h~l been the: b~ketl~ll "~oach ~t :gouthe~ ~IllJhois Univ~'rstty Io~ eight years prior to'taking the :-~ Mr,'Goforth ~a~s the fire~''w~s']u~t.one~ of tho~.wel~l thing~,.:The mattress~.s were put in the hatlway the pre~ious ~aRernoon, and the next morning were scheduled to be hauled off" by a Salvage outfit.- .-. ' ..- .... • • • ,.-:.He declines'to'estimate th~ total bill for awards .to ,fir~. victims and .,their f~rn~lies over thepast ~]ecade'.:But he cont~irrn~ ]~t March a settlement '}of between" $5 ~nil- lion and $6 million" was ieached in ~m Ohio federal court i~ a negligence suit a'ga~st the company .and o'thers .a~rising f~.m the~c~n- bridge fir~ The action had be~n brought by about half..of the 82 ~ersons'inj~:ed. ani:l by the estates.of nine o[.th~ 10 ~ersons killed,.' kihited' many of the .elemen.ts• prpsen.t, in other Holiday Inn fires. Also, "it .w_as .arson, Last July, a 21-yea.r-did man was convicted : by a county-court jury on 10 counts of invoi- untary.munslaughter, "~ conviction now un- • The jury :heard evidence tha~.the" young man had sought r.e;~'enge against the.rr/otel management for calling policeto break up an argument in which he had been .inv61ved in the motel's lounge. Thei'e was testimony indicating that kt some time d~ter Ya..m. he ' ,had poured gasoline .near one-end o~ a. : greund-floor corridor add ignited it, According to the Nl~A'report .on the. fire, shag carpeting and vinyl .wallpaper fed the flames, and seen heavy smoke ~led hallways, reaching the .upper level o! the motel through three .stairways ~th~t 'wereI • Because of.the .smoke, "sheets in bed- rc~rhs on the side.of the hotel f.._a_.z~,. ,est |rein the fire looked .like black v~lvet, .-recalls David P. Deraers, who Investigated the flr~ for the ..N..FPA and who c~urrenily is a fire- safety consultant in Ldnenburg, Mas~..-- Windows That Don't Open .... ., .. Many of the 200 guests were trapped in their rooms because their only re.adily avail- able way out was through doors leading to smoke-filled corridors." Each'room ;had a' double-pa~ed window :~be.nt six Ceet high and ' .three feet wide. "The Windows had the ap- pearance o! sliding doors, but they couldn't be opened," .the NFPA ~pert,~tates. ... Guests and firemensmashed windows, but with difficulty.:Mahy"of the ~ injuries involved broken.glas~.'~People were struck by flying shards~ slashed by jagged pieces s~ll in window frames or cut when they landed on fragments aRer jumping from windows. Tea persons died of smoke inhala- Mr. Den/ers s.dys that injurie~ from Cuts might have been more severe except that ambulance cr~ws in the sonihea~tern Ohio corrtmth~ty had been trained to deal with I, That the fire.was .the result of re'son ~tm~ley "Ches]ey," a C~n¢tnnati represented plaintiffs in the zr~tter'what the'.'c~us~,':,'be says', ~.,'the con- s~ru&iun of "the'~no~l..~,.'~...~.',c..o.n~uting factor,There's notb.ing~m~;e" for~ee~le to a rooters manager~e~t:thah ~ fi~.'Behind lo~ked doors you ha~,~'dru~k'peoplesf~.oking ci~ai'e~ or people using curling irons or hot [plates,..h.e says. According to the USFA, [s~okin~ causes about ~0~'o of hotel ~d_mo: I tel fires, about twice as many as result item I C~e'~kin~ for a Fire" .' . ". _ I' :." A'deIEy in'~ming in an alarm led to the Ideathof a24-~ear'-old dight manager at the ~n~dwnl~altiin~re Holiday Im~ on May S, 1976, a fire.-department.report implies. The .. h~tel ~s ~c/~ th~ stre~ ~om - firehouse. -i • A security "gua'rd waited "X~ mlnntes be- fore notifying firemen about an eighth-floor I r~m fire,'~a fir~d@arlment report s~tes, In the meantim.e,~he yalnly searched for a I 'seniorao'~l "~x'e~u.h~v~:whlle the night man- a~'r" thng~ oE:d~dr~" ~b' alert guests. ~rhe , dight .n~ger ~n~ap~ed..~d died of a li.e.~t - ai~k .bt%d~ht,;~0n ~b,y" ~smoke inha]auon. Three oth~r persons were injured, .. " • The.chain's fird experience has we~ghea., I Im.avily on Holiday "Inns and evokes palp.lul memories for Mr.'Gofo~'th, who headed on- the-scene "command centerp'" to aid survi- vors of the Greece and ..C.,~.mbridge ~ir'es.. "We bought them clothing, eyeglasses, false teeth .- anything they" needed to "replace things leR in their rooms," he recalls. • The fires have ~noved the toml~any to up-" grade fire-safety standards. Beb.ause some units are owned ou~ight by Holiday Inns and others are'franchised, differences exist in the way the company is applying some new sh~ndards. It Is acting promptly in its company-owned inns, wIRle some upgrading of franchise units will be required only when franchising agreements are i-enegvfiated or w~ an inn ~ndex:goes one.of its l~.riodic renovations..Other .improvements at fran- chises are bein~ done now~ And any new fa- cgity au~matically ~omes under the enfire safety program. Holiday Inns s~ys i~ opens a n.ew.mote] .ahout..ev.ery five d~ys.. .NEW. safeg~r. ~ .,. ~.. ~ ....~. • .'the p~nclpal features of .the ne~ pro- • .--Sprinklers. They '~e being installed in public :'. areas., (Ipunges, ... restauranls, kitEhens) "k~d corridom :'of 75 'company- owned .in~;.~(he*'192 .dthe/s "~Irehdy have pat in'sprinklers in p.ubll~ ~d~ whe~ they midertake~majot; re~ovatlous. "i " "~ . . • .-.Smoke de~e~tors. B~, the end of this ~,eEr, ~orridors.of all Hollday ]~-~ wilt have them, They also 'will be'installed in public spaces and room~ and most company-owned and some franchised inns. -Interior stairways. Holiday Inns says that "a few years back" it began.requiring that all interior stai .rways lmve fire doors. Those without fire doors will be altered only during major reno~,ations. Thus, for "very= few" low-rise motels, th~ m~ty meun a ~'ait of "eight,10 or. 12 year~," says Mr. C-~for~. in~ h~ller than three stories have such. doors because fire ~zles usually. ~clulre them, ~i~ will ~ ~ d~ng ~0vago~ at ~ ~t d~n't now ha~ ~em. ;- •--~os~g d~. ~ ~d-19~, Ho~day ~s ~ con~d~ m~g ~em ~r ~ ~. " -'~ ::)~:." " ~" - "" '--S~ ~g. Ho~day In~ h~ ~o~ .~. ~e n~ it employ~ • ~ ye~s ~. One of ~r duties. ~ for ~re ~e~ ~d to ~'[~ar I~ ~es. The comply sa~ it pl~ ~n now "~ ha~ ~d ~n ~"'tha~ em- plog~ ~m~ia~y ~ ~ ~ ~ to'~e fire dep~nt when a bl~ .~ ~. "We'd.ra~er have a f~ ~ ~ a'de- la~ed ~e ~ck," he sa~: E~ployes ~so ~e ~g ~ ~" evacuagon:p~ures. ~te~or ~hes. V~o~ ~s of w~l- ~r ~d ~ture covedn~ ~at, when bu~, p~uce ~ ~mo~e ~e ~mg ~s, ~eg.~ts ~t ~aCe wm- do~s ~at o~n ~de en~ ~r a ~on ~t ~ugh. M~y ~h~ ~en b~It ~h @ch ~dq~ ~u~ ~e'.~M~ent ~'t re- c~s at Hp~day ~,'~. ~mb~, the ~r~s~eW .co~l~ ~d fo~er ~A ves~, sa~ "its a ~t step The ~d~e~ ~d smoke de~to~~ Im- ~t's~W." ~t he'll, "The "o~n- ~ay ~me ~ a we~s. O~n s~r- wa~ ~me up ~me ~er t~e ~ m~ple- put ~, no mat~ wh~t.". ...... ~. ~mem's .~i~on. ~ ~at hotels sho~d ~ ~ s~e ~ ~ey ~ ~ m~e to be. "~dn {rav~le~ Set ~to a car or pl~e." be ~, *'~ey automa~c~y ~me~, But ~en ~ey ch~k ~to a hotel or ~I, they ~ould ~ ~g ~m ~k. Those places should ~' safer ~ ~eir ~ homes, rd ~e ~ ~ ~vel ~des,~t not o~y ~'e~er'a pla~e h~ ~lor ~'or a ~m- ~g ~I but whe~er R h~ ~d~e~ .~d smoke detecto~."" TiCH-231131

Serious Fires* in 10 Largest U.S. Hotel-Motel Chains 1971- 1981 ROf)M.~ }TRE.'I I)E.£]'H,'; I~'JURIE8 D:IM.4(;E 1. Holiday Inns 260,000 26 29 216 $14,70{),000 2, Best Western 159,i00 2 2 7 2,000,000 3. Sheraton 108,000 9 4 63 2,300,000 4. Ramada Inns 86,000 7 3 29 2,000,000 • 5. Hilton 72,0'00 5 9 245 12,900,000 6. Howard Johnson 59,000 5 6 9 3,100,~00 7. Days hms 44,000 5 0 2 600,000 8. Quality 41,400 2 0 1 700,000 9. Hyatt 34,000 3 0 7 700,000 10. Marriott 33,800 3 0 0 1.300,000 *Death ~md/or injuJ.~ to guesls~ s~aff, firemen or police, or damage of at lesst $I00,000. Note: Totals for en{lre hotel 0~ote{ industry. 1971-8 t: 370 serious fires, 84~1 deaths, 2,645 i~d~ries, $177.3 million damage. T104231132

HAZEL For'a s.m. eke-freepost office. Mem- ' bets of the Lehigh Valley Cor~mittee ...Against Health Fraud.in Allentown, , Pennsylvania, foOtid'lh--at'~naking per- • ' ~sistent requests for no-,smoking signs .in th~ local post office eve.ntually paid . ';...~ff. They~ubmitted their Peq..uest~ on the customer service cards provided ~=~'~. by the"P.ostal Service." " :.:~""-'-' "." If ~/our Stai~ pro.hibits s~king.in retail stores but s.ome customers continue to • smoke, su'ggest that the store manage-.. ment try the following solution, which .works for the "Toys R Us" stores in the Seattle area: every fiftee~ or twenty minutes the public address system ca[- des the message, "For your protec- tion and safety, please do~not . smoke in our store. Thank.~;ou." "~ (..Fr.om Fresh Air for Nonsmokers ~ • :~.~[FANS] o.f..,Seattle, Washingtofi)' " .., ",!'.L " .. . ". .... .J '.:-:'A" fo~r-y$~i~'~l~l qu]t'smokl~'g pro~ . ~; gram at a northeastern Ohlq plant .~:. "-.%~works this'way.An employee who .quits ...~, smoking pledges 50¢ a day, After no.t • ;: :.,: smoki.ng fo.r a.year, he ?r she gets the Ideas for Activists I This column is designed "for people who want to know .what they can .do abobt the problem of.smoking and noqsmokers' rights.. It presents •ideas for you as an individual and sugges- " tions that yz~u may wish t~ p~ss along to loca.I anti-smoking organizations, in- cluding chapters of GASP and. the Heart, Lung, and Cancer societies. TO promote thejoys .of ~onsm0king, the Anchor Organization for Health. Maintenance in Chicago "sponsored a "First Annual Smok~down" at a lo- cal medical (~enter.,During the smokedbwn, people were encouraged • to quit smoki.ng for at least a dayor two. Yellow Cab Company, which operates the limousines. Four months later, he wrote again, on the official stationery of .th%Senate committee for which he • works; ahd. noted that_carbons• were b,eing sentto the pres. ide. nt pr~ temlSore of the Senate and th~chairman of the county board of supervisors. Action fol- • lowed promptly. - : ': .'...~ ' • , After. several y..ea~ of tryin~ to per- suade a member of the Philade'lph.ia City Council to Introduce ordinances pr~)hlblting cigarette advertising in or on city.buses and banning smok- ing in the Council chambers, Helen Fraser told the councillor that she was going to sit in his office until he intro- duced the measures. He finaliy prom- ised to do so, and she went to Work soliciting ~upport from the local chap- A display was set up in,the medical ters of the Americar~ Cancer Society center, and $25 prizes'we're offered f.orI . and the American Lung Association. best poster caption a~d slogan, The ........ : ..... ~...:...~;-~;:,_-,::;~ .~. Anchor Organization qan be reached When the R, J. Reynolds Tobacco at 1725 West Harrison Street, Chica- .Co~npany spbnso~red a free concert go, IL 60612. ~ ............. • . ....... ~.=,;..:~,.~. ,~.,:., .... "on public land in o~d~r to film a ~,~,;-., ~.,-:.~ "~,-~.,.. ..... ~.-=~.:'-:. • .'" ,~. "~igaret~e. a~.vertis'em.~e~ti".GASP of The-Elan" Vital Ski Cl~l~|~'~~i"~lub .... .-Massach .usetts was.there to register its $182.50 ba~k plus $817.50 from the " that also sponsors a variety of warm- . prot~st and to tell ~unwitting concert- . .~ boss---an ev,e,n $1,000. At the end of -- " ..... ~]oers what was nonig on ": the ~~c~n~ ~ar~ h~ ~r she rec_~!ves an '.eW~salnn~u~°~r~ s,P~°l~t,s for nonsmoK- . .: .. :..~.=. .... _...;~':.- • ..... -,.m.e employees wno aon z make it is ...... • ..... .'- - ~ -. • ,y ~ :-~. ~ ~ Incentives for smoking employees • -~.~--~--i(~o•m~i~y C~)lleg~,"~~"__~o-rk;,~ Persl~t~e~nt!~e~er'wrltlng by an em- =--to quit. The Rhulen Agency is willing ._ -=:~- .=~.assi~ms to her freshman composition ployee of the California State, Senate .... to help the._m__an_ageme_nt~ of_other..co~n.__~..~ : ..... ~clas~ a" ~esearch l~'~-~r- ~n" '~The .... led to'the posting bf no.-smoklng sighs - panies In the.region.-~t~~ - -: Effects of Smoking." She re~o~ts-~at in the limousines that carry travelers ching a similar..~ ..mp.Ke.:Q~ projec[ ._l.or .~ • last semester an entire family qui( from the Sacramento airport into the their employees." Write the Rhulen smoking as a result of one student's city. Alan Rosin's first letter, written on Agency at 217 Broadway, Mont/cetlo, T104231133

fo.r. its youth-oriented ads and warns that the earlier kids start smoking, the more serious the h6alth con- sequences. The other article offers suggestions o~ ~ov~ to quit smoking. "We have had nothing but favor- able ..c~m.ments," says. Dr~ .Percy Wootten, president of.the, spciety. "Tl~re I~as not beena single adverse comment:".~:~:: .. ASH Executi~/e Director John strong stand "shows that we are able to successfully carry the war d~ep into what has ge..n,e, rally been regarded as enemy t.erritory," and. that :'develop.ment..s...such as.. t_h.is. should en.courage people con- cerned about smoking who live in tobacco-growing states.".. . ..... _?: O ittingPi )l ;:r g; Life Even for Long-Time Smokers Smokers who quit will improve-their chances for life more than 50 percent, regardless of age or how long they ~moked. This is the conclusion of a ,, Califor, nia study bf n~ar!y, ..2.6:000 peo- ple ~ver a perio_d of 13 Yearsthat w~s • j~st published in the New England Jour- nal of Medicine. Th~ study was able to establish wi{h a high d.egree.of certain.ty t.hat~.. ,." ~.,- L.., • Despite all the publicity linking smok- ing to lung cancer, tl~e most serious risk of smoking is heart disease. • The average risk of dying from coron- ary disease over the 13-year.period of the study was. more than twice as • great,for'smokers as for those who "had quit. " • The average risk of dying from all causes was 1.6 times greater for smokers tha.n for quitters. • In the study smokers had the highest death rates, nonsmokers the lowest, with o,ff-again, on-again quitters and permanent quitters coming in second and third, respectively. • S~okers had the highest death rates for all cancers, not just for lung can- cer, and for all circulatory diseases, not just coronary hea~ disease. It has Ior~g been known thai persons who quit smoking improve their chances of living, but some suspected . that it was not the quitting itself Lhat was responsible, Rather, some people argued that there was some other fac- tor--per.sonality perhaps--that both lowered the death rate and helped peo-' pie to quit. But the large numberof people involved in the study, the long period over which it was cbnducted, and the use of sophistica{ed analytic Ltools, including multivariate analysis, has now established that th~ c~ss~t•(6n of smoking is the critical factor and that quitting Will help anyone regardless of personality), heredity, length of time smoking, or other factors. It is also in- teresting to note--~nd this should pro- vide some .encouragement to smok- ers-that even people who quit.and : occasionally backslide improve their chances for survival. Although ~nany people continue to find it difficult to quit, millions have already done so successfully; m.any scientists believe that this helps to ex- plain Americans" lower average risk of death from heart disease. /. T!04231134