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THE BATTALION
Infant Deaths Linked To Cigarettes
WASHINGTON <A>) _ New evi
dence linking cigarette-smoking
to stillbirths and newborn infant
deaths was cited Wednesday in
the seventh annual government
report on smoking and health.
The 381-page document, which
for the first time does not men
tion the surgeon general, sug
gests “the strong . . . association
between cigarette smoking and
higher late fetal and infant mor
tality among smokers’ infants.”
The report said several recent
studies have demonstrated a
“statistically significant relation
ship between cigarette smoking
and an elevated mortality risk
among the infants of smokers”
and that the risk increases pro
portionately with the number of
cigarettes smoked.
And, the report adds, “new
evidence suggests that, if a wo
man gives up smoking by the
fourth month of pregnancy she
will have the same risk of in
curring a fetal or neonatal loss
as a nonsmoker.”
Studies have shown that “the
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BASKETBALL MENTOR Shelby Metcalf and his assistant Jim Culpepper call one
of several Ag-gie huddles during a come-from-behind victory game over Texas Lutheran’s
Bulldogs Wednesday night in G. Rollie White. A&;M finished the game with 96 points to
TLC’s 77.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rules that included half a dozen Two more antiwar events have
WASHINGTON—Black defend- close votes on so-called “reform” been scheduled — a march and
ants have a constitutional right proposals. symbolic signing of a peace treaty
to question prospectjyp , jurors — and an interfaith religious service
about possible racial, prejudice, HOUSTON—Fire Chief C. R. called an “inauguration of con-
the Supreme Court ruled" unani- Jake Cook was subpoenaed Wed- science.”
mously Wednesday. nesday by a Harris County grand
The decision reversed the mari- J ur y investigating the Houston
juana conviction of a bearded Fire Department. AUSTIN—A key item of House
Negro civil rights worker in Flor- Cook was ordered to produce Speaker Price Daniel Jr.’s “re-
ence County, S.C. records which the subpoena said form” program met opposition in
were “removed from the files and committee Wednesday as two
not delivered” earlier. members questioned the need for
AUSTIN—Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby a one-term limit on Daniel and
easily won his first test of power WASHINGTON Despite indi- a h future speakers.
in the Texas Senate as senators cations that a cease-fire may be Reps. Jim Vecchio, Dallas Dem-
voted 25-4 not to take away the near in Vietnam, plans for war ocrat, and Ray Hutchinson, a Dal-
lieutenant governor’s authority to protest activities during the las Republican, both challenged
appoint committees. presidential inauguration week- the one-term limit bill at a hear-
The decision came after a two- end continued to spread Wednes- ing before the House Rules Corn-
hour debate on permanent Senate day. mittee.
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fetus of a smoking mother may
be directly exposed to agents
such as carbon monoxide within
tobacco smoke” at levels which
produce stillbirth in animals, the
report said.
Experiments with animals sug
gests that the mother’s milk may
contain nicotine and nitrosa-
mines, the latter powerful carci
nogens, which pass through to
suckling young.
The offspring of smoking
mothers are nearly twice as likely
to have a low birth weight at de
livery, the report said, but they
grow faster the first six months
because “a toxic influence” has
been removed.
The report said clinical stud
ies involving healthy, young men
have shown that cigarette smok
ing impairs exercise performance
“especially for many types of
athletic events and activities in
volving maximal work capacity.”
Pipe and cigar smokers ex
perience death rates “slightly
higher” than those of nonsmok
ers but “substantially lower”
than those of cigarette smokers,
the report said.
The reason, it said, are that
pipe and cigar smokers either do
not inhale or do so infrequently
or slightly.
In the first official study of
the health hazards of smoking
the relatively new little cigars,
criticized by some as cigarettes
in disguise, the report said “it
is reasonable to conclude that
smoking little cigars may result
in health defects similar to those
associated with smoking ciga
rettes if both are smoked in the
same way.”
Dr. Merlin K. DuVal, who re
cently resigned as assistant
health secretary of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare, told Congress that new
research confirms that cigarette
smoking is a major cause of lung
cancer and chronic bronchitis and
contributes to chronic broncho
pulmonary disease, cardiovascu
lar disease and other ailments.
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