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tiavntber 10 } 1993 ' 6s':30-7z0O- PX(8"s') RBC-TQ World' News Torzight. Pet+nr.Jenmings, anchor: NtIva another medical report tonight on the dWnqars ot saoking. xstiudy in the. Journal of •trw. Amoricam Medical Association sa'ys that in 1590, trobacE+o! was tbe biggest underlyinq cause ot' death in the Lbnitad, Sta'tesr responsible for four hundred thousand deaths~. By isrtdezlying, they meaw qoing, beyond the imaediats illnesses such as cancer or heart disease to• find out why people becrame sick in the lirst place. Tbboc+co, said the researchers, caused morre deaths tban drugs, guns, risky sex, and auto accidents combinad.

.•-~>r ~ •tll' -la- Wall, there does seeu to be a qrowing puDlic 'aaceptance of thei fact that smoking is deadly. The sentiment, however,, is only beginning to catch on in tobacco country its+elf. . ABC"s Al Dale is in North cArolina. Al Dale reporting: In much on North Carolina, saok'inq' is not just tolerated, it is appreciated. Four hundrad thousand jobs depend on tobacco, the state,s number cMe cash crop; and efforts to restrict smokinq'often mtst with undisquised,.hostility. tJnidentified Woman: Tobacco pays my bills. I would not go to.arestaurant that you could not suoka at. Dale: I look around. I donf't see a no-smoking, section.. Onide'itified Kan: W+a have one. It"s outsid+a. Dal4:- But in the past few months, things have begum to change. -tiora. than half of the state,' 's ont ~haurdr countier have adopted -some fcrm of: smoking ssstriations', forcinqi-people outside to indulge their habit. The f'lurry- of regulations resulted froni a new stata' law. This summer the state leqislatur4'.passed a relatively mild saaokinq' law that, in aflect, qi4arant+aedl saokers at least twenty percent of'the spaca in all public buildings. But the state left tbe door open for local qovernments to qo farthar in protectinQ' tMA-' - - smokers Z€oa second-hand smoka., yan Greensboro, where the Larilard Tobaoco Company is a major employer, the county health dtpartment adoptad:rules that will ban emoking in public places by the and of next year. That outraqedsany people., including county commissioners who say. they will replace anti-'smokinq members of the health board. Joe trood. (county Coamissioner) : The h.ailtb, board' tail,.d to iook'at this from an economic standpoint as wall as'a public ~ healta standpoint. Da1e: so it's likely that the regulations will be rescindisd before going into effect. That would please a lot of.people here who say that smoking is not harmful. .Rad3o Show Ca11-In: I don"t believe that second-hand sgoke, ~ stuff'.. Srad,* Krantz (Talk Show Host) t You dcn*t believe it? Call,ariz. Nab. KranXz:. Welcome to North Carolina. W.lcome to Wortti 2V Carolina, where lung cancer is not a, medical fa.ct• it+s a0' an, opinion. ~ ~ Dalex But all across the state, aven die-hard smokers Q admit that:,restrictions are coming, but not without a N tigkrt. Al. nale; ABC News, Greensboro, Nbrth Carolina. ~l N O