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Researchers Try to Separate Smoking Fact From Fiction

Date: 19940528/P
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Stolberg, S.
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Inst of Toxicology + Environmental Healt
Journal Inhalation Toxicology
RJR, R.J.Reynolds
Uc Davis
Uc San Francisco
Univ of Ky
US Centers for Disease Control + Prevent
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Coggins, C.
Glantz, S.
Gori, G.B.
Joad, J.
Pinkerton, K.
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Witschi, P.
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=Xc1L 0cC- ro years of id stalled .d be "dif-• 'ould ulti - ins taking +n fate. ugh other , recalling i the 17th = from the :Ow •from ULE, Aid 0 tration aia of tAe t;hinese system. The key to Beijing's strategy was to divert attention from human rights issues by using the blinding lights of China's booming economy and huge potential market. By doing this, Chinese officials said, they successfully broadened the - terms of the debate inside the United States. As a result, the Clinton Administration fobna ftself fighting back on many fronts, often against aome of its own - mo$t happy to go to bat for the Chinese with their powerful public rela- tions machines. "My feeling is that a few huge companies had more at stake than in the past." said Anne Stevenson- Yang, Beijing director of the U.S. China Business Council. American executives, for example; lobbied. hard^"'Mr a last-minute meeting between Clinton and Chinese Vice . lteam see CHIlVA, Ait RearchersTrytoSeparat~ esSm~l&gF~d Fr~m Fi~tioO stndW. But ft.re is 'a co11Wofi-af,p6Ii fics arrdv' _. ,- r Health: Effects of sec~andhand exposure are,,beki.ng • • 4 d tute of Taidoology a~d E'~nvl~n- ,in "~V+tnfe cauegr tmiv ~ kolcm debate'over the*•~~tingra ai beieorid". • : mor* iike a bani tthan a hiah•tech . unf veraity labotgtory. Inaidt, a rare and cuiioua . contraptfon la - C'I,EA.RING'1HE AIR. ' engaged irt a habit tt,at the surge6ii" ~ . ge~er'al vPa~rna •. fa bid, for yo~tr X o~r O~a~~ta Is ~ero~edl~arid . . S+ho~~et . . . . - colleagiiet -theit• :DA Vx.S.-~he big brQwii btWd- knakft b=N e -w* frd P c.t' hm! 4 ah~rt rratk-.aff, a oountip r~ :edence into : the ...z;offinak ivitionai, TIl1ES M9DICAL WIM`e! .Man& _,. : As aw tasacfttc: .- btofe#w R+o'rir, Okiyare eftrr ta know. :j%•. . #knu• ttie UC • dliim . . - . ~...._, ~,~..." - T'hfa ia K#nt Pfnkertron's eroa• . W LWt in 8 s.rW . . - . • • • --- - - - -- - -- ~- ---- • it .-- -- ~'~ ~y~ - -- - .~i°*'~!!~_'i(.~,1 .  .s. l ~~i" •i 'i .'C !s •_s~-~ 'Vi°ts~ 3 ~ 'tle IL -•- - ~ • -~•- - ~ .~._.. 46 1. ae L~ sm mom Wn smaiemwrm -- - ~nt ~e- or : 3; AW
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2(?482525t}4 A . A~ 5A7URDAY, MAY 21, 1444 ~A L.OS AtvCG1,F5 TTMES TOBACCO: Scientists Researching Effects of Secondhand Smoke C.atla.40111 h..r Al womb! Don .econdhand anake 11aduct arhtn,gea In the naul pas- eapCwayr~ liut load io ao! L 'ihPre . pn~ciae doae-tu lack of a Drtter t.ertm-at which It becomee dangerot~! 11 w, where doea the lhietllo~d ile? li a ltme when 'Seeondhsnd 3taoke Mblls'° tdllboardt, ve pop- pirS up acrosa Califomla, and ahe goverttrtmt has clauitled secwd- hanel smolce a a human tarctno- pn, nonumokere worry that the aN,ghteat whitl of ,rnoke could wreak Iluvoc on thek lunds and tuarta. L'igtrette eompanin are waginir a oounterattack, tnsisting lhil It l1 litlle more than a nui- aancc. ] 'flse truth, whkh Independent ) a4nUata say Is aomewhere In j between, may emerge from the r amoyinj mulchine. clenlitic trutha about sec- ondhend smoke are not euy to cume by. Sludlea ue dilh- eutl and ezpensive to con- J' r 7 ] duct, snd funding la limited. Nore• over, ethical consideratlons prevent reseuchen from subject- tns humans to cldarettc smoke, at leaat not lor daya on end. Nor can they uk peayfe to anoke 1or the sake of science. Henee the busy Davir tnwking machine. f'ivt days a week, aiu hours a day, ttx machine ia at work, blow- a inQ smoke at guinea pip and j llarroters, whose body parts will lattr be dlssected in an e!(ort to • idetttily biological reectionr t,hnl may be rimitu In humana. The +deviae--ane ol /uat two larp-acaie j• amokirtd nuschlnme In the nation outsida ot those owned by tobacco ~ cqnpaniea-smokee inoso precbe. t,y than any persan ever could, and therein lia Ila value. Thcre an tq Itwlbam Cameim a Virainls 6limr here. Rather, the '~ awokinj auchine'e hrand of ctwke . li one hw 'eopi.e have head a/-lhe lll~lr. ''llae 1ow-4gr and ~ -~~cptint Ceseirch cljarettt~m eiaClt awufeceured itutn the aame to- ~'+baach bierld, ut pmduced by the : Oniverrity of Kentucky. They , were rolled tn 19M and kcpt lm a ,`lcep freezc unbf brinw AhvTx,.r1 tn UC Davis rasesrt?ters Pater INttschl, left, and Kent Plnkerton watch their precislon smokina mechine, wfkb pvRa e4nlttq #m. *yf Jt veeek, ut hours a day snwke Fn the home-an Ita prlroa. ry vietima. Amonl the Davia tindinas. Toud- eologisl Pete: Witechl has .hown that pregtant rata o4watd to eec- oasdhand an>ake Pve birth to pupe ihat are4hed 9% lema t11ut thcn born to Wh:es nia=tlot a d?amattc neQ,x.tion, but one that e3pru a>\y is ai1ntficarlt. De. Jesse Jaad, a pedtrarician, htu desnatstrated that newborn rats expooed to aecottd• hans snookt 1s the w=b and aNer birth terl poldUve 1oa ssthnna. Pin • kerion haa found th.at the tunp of newborn ntr develop mote slowly that ara beyond the capactty of the animals to clesy." Witachi aa,ya the daaea rat be enanipulated-and must be-i1 aci- entlsty an to karn at what kveis .ecandhand sntoke becomes dan- garacue. T //''''~~''''~~ he animalr in the Davis ~egerimenta aro genoraliy e>poaed at I,OOD micro- rruma of mnoke particlef per tuMc metee of air-levela that the researchan aay an high, but can be found In typbcat smoking environmenu. such as ban. How- wv.r .n.... wAinv per cubic mcter. i{la vat studies employed e"urer of 100 micro- drama, 1.i)04 microgsams and 10,000 micro,glartve-and found no tllects even at the hiahest dose. ?re aaid. a On such mtnutiae hang the an- swen to cruciai aueetions about secondhand smoke'a health eftecla. Accordittg to the U.S. Centarf toT Disease Control and Preventi,on, as well u heaith advocacy rrouya, 51000 people dae each year from expaeure to aecondhand emoke, se.condhsnd iawke a arot® A 1hu- men cuclnogdn-a dlrlAos4lna that pvu il In t1x an fr oatopeyai radon aod a+bertoa. Dal iobaaso Indurtry at8r3ab w.y aJtr QA'a reatarch I. fLwrA ti.aauw 11011011110 overesttmate the ataotml d waoin they have bem eaqxwd 0% at ib about lfxir smoiir,f baDiL 7u aninx) tvaeareh sq aWk this dtfiate by dto.kar MAat tli- derrtio3oty canno4 Mr4Ctw(y lM teoondhan4 arnwka imaala itsbtr • artee oc, and esactly haw tpndt aa la dangerass. Rrperta tayy tt is ml aait to •urt1, what t,moken Uthair I tln61r0 ae °oHinitreltn f8otia.' 1Vtsel oottwt oQ the burr.ditlf and o Ihs ci,garatte Ia aideets". 1®oiu." Becoodhus0 eoaata-•aiu (ttfollp aa anvtfOCtDeotai tcbac01 aooke-r n.ae up mo.uy .t r• d.ijvaa smotr4lot 030 bdtidW •'Dat t>ke rrnosa eetuias. 8idaatram smole h . cotsyiea bhoe d ttarr tAtn lM afai.t• brwaldaRJM, wMais. alodin tloe, eidai Ntid atwnic, fa• 1Yr aY. fd .Y en atuiiw ier~ett aaw a~rad• atti ar.poeate. .ome toetOattM. w.,. Ni.rN U 1hw nnlrHr ne OW
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: were roiied in 1983 and keyt in a ~&eep fneese until being ahipped to a pavL, where they are omditloned /ut up to /19 Tioun at 7096 humidity • /efore beina enwked. ~' Every 10 minutea, a eteet ptruon jrete arother 1 NvInto a revodvfnti w tyUnder. A amaU aMal aoi}, tlu sort : m.md to Deat in ordinary bION-Qry- 11•.r,•(1LAfita the eiSarette with a uny red Stavr. Aa ah" be& tn erneryle, Iwo othen 1re in varlotr ttm.gea of betni uawked. 'Ttte w'Fwie mecha- ~ Tobn Is enrsaeA in e plexigtam boa * elut is yellow with amDko readdue. : Tarvtt;ll a aerla of plpea. the bcu ii oannected to thamDen where the ' antlrula ese kept. . With every puff, the cytlnder ~ alicke anotTxr revolutian and a ttd ~ tlght 1luhea, Each clgarette-tltirre - aem neve+ aaaes t}un thiee burming : at any ttme-la anoked in yree5aely ~ U aroe fattbn, one ywff a ntlnut e, , eseh puff IuUnta. Iwo aeaortde, e4ht - Vjffe in aU.'1b rrcate each putf, a :• raw= draws in 36 mlttikten ol a17+-n0171ore, no Le1. '1°nere lR, PinYerton aaye, in tm• portant nxion for ail tAis pted®ion. Sot1•apoken and lanky, the eci- enUat Ir a maater of understate• ttel'»~ nerer toins out on a lUab. "lf Ks in going tn tuAeratand the tlwchanttms lby a+htch.eoandhand mwke Wurea peopiH: he aay., ~ "we need to have weU-ooneralied conditbru." l] '14se DavU atudiee have been -vwder way for three yem-a short ~ apan In xienoe. when raearch ; aflen Lsu (or dee.da. The uni- _yer.ttY_ t+4~n4~ ~3S_P!4~uivly _"You can manipulate the aperi- .kntesteted in the eilecte oi aeoonE • menta any i+ayyau ~¢rt1 ueAcome 'fitand orroke an youn0 ebUdron, up w1th some rerulte,," Cori eom- stt4dieaahow [nfantaandtoddlerl- plcined of the reweareb at Davb '.rb.o may rufler from EronchltU, usd otber animal atudlea, "You oan aattinu usd other respitatary dtr- choae a etraln }o[ aMmal; ilut Is easee when eayokd to .ernndtsand eueceptlbk. and you can use doee. ar[wn tuay Iuurlu c71a1 tnhC lW7gD ol newborn rats develop ttwrr slowly when ecpoaed to secondhand atwke. Ae part of the experlmenta, Joad t.lnvesttpting how ner.e Qbet1 In the lun®a of gulnea pila are harmed by eaporura to aeowtidhand anokeq the dan1.p pravenU the tumgs from fendlry off otherpollu- tant,. Wft.chi b trylrt[g to deter- mine whether a partlcularly atrong earci"en calTed NNK produca lung tumot. In banvt.era eipo.ad in .eoondhand enwke. as 1M1 does In anlatal. tfiat Lreatleddlnnet amate. Few .ncb a4udlea have bcen done before. "Thla !t very be8tn- ning Kufl," Joad sald, addint. "'fhe kind of tplity tAat we are iolrvj to da absolutely could never be dm on chlldtm" 'tbbaaco Induatry critics aontetM Uaft~xl~i ~ ia~t~ for e.lgarette tnakee A.l. Reynoid., My. Ire hai dAne hb own aniasal re.eractt an rats tutd Wtid no broia0otl chtnWeri Irt tDe haut, fungt a' rewinetvy 1yate+n'11he cnA1 dam- ade doswnented In the tdtjo- .+hicb nppeared lat Yea,r In tf]e 1aum.l LshalaUon Z'arjoataa-ac- murad In the ttp of the rsW twaee, Oautn. atld, .rd .ru "ootnqsletd,y revadbk" when t}xy were m langrr aWo.ed to the anoke. Totneoo 1nduwtry ootunAtant Cio Batts Gari, alao a laodcolodid, ctlta the Davis awdlee brekvant Hu- maro. Cori tuguea, have the `Yn- triniie capaclty" to clcat tbeir bodSea of lop-level pollutants. In- cludinl a.caVAhand aaoka envlrwtmenta, such aa bs>m. How- aver, some atudlea-includlnB Wltachl'a NNH raearcn-emptoy IevelL a high as 4,flOD mlcrot(rama, .oncentratiotu that he .ckmowl- eddea arre much higher than tZioae fwtnd In the real wvrld. 7Tte.a oonoentralloni ate a ma.t- teT of pe,mt dispute. Cbggtna, the ReYnoldt toilcologtet, rnalntafns tGat real•warld concentr.Uona av- enaW only 35 mlcropami per cu- bic meter In emoktny hames. In barE, be aaye, comenlritMotn would nn o* n hil'b as l0o mtcroqranu 6.7,000 people dle eaeh year trom enwwre to aeomtdhand tmoiee. This figure ts ba.ed on eg3damloTo- my rtudler, which entaiziepaltcrrn of Ulne.a but do not prova cause znd efieci The studies irrepiicale tteoaid- bond .mo.ke in lun,g canctr and otJter canoen, he.zt di.ea.e, tad- den Infant dwtD qndmt. Mrn- t:hlUa, pneumonSa and atLma. s- Decially In childmx The U.& btvhwrnental Proeo- lion Agency. relying on the lung cancer vWernlology, 4tt declared -JENNIFEa VALUE DMD Ef ALY QUALITY! T•..•...«,•.y ,ww u1Ht:7l6iSKEllJ'e la atnaG~ORa. t~pertr tay It b nol wh to auvnx tLat pud.. eaw" at- f+c1a people In the ama wRy as activc mtokln% Thh Ie taa pro teasonu Those exposed t c nooPd- 6and amke Iet a araalla do.a- inBalina about 1% d the Undria ih.tt maokmn alsacb. At tbe wme llme, howe, er. .eoondtsrb .amke in ntuth dirtter, pariU bec:nae It tber twt to throq/h  eissraite fUtev, aald Stanton Olants, a lTC- Dan FY.nciaoo raicuc2mr. ln ME budnam d tab.aoa re- ..a., I„C•„rx ana tr.entc. Ln tl It L an elwive taqtty aome d ulo evaporate, aome oond aome attach to the tfalttj a lunWwhen lnTuled wdlk oUti net_ T he EPA Me faunck thr known human oatCln and rdne prvMDle o0 rer1A ars eaUttad at h lerela In ddettr~un taiw~e u mainatream snoke. 00m toa ements-Includhu carbon tv Ide. tmmonia, nk5otine anb tone-are more oaKentnt. n...... raisooa you the Sealy Comfort Only Jennifer givesft 0 P......4^.w.._.....Aft..a t.. _ Alb Aft!_L..J

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