Page 14 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1978
Taking ‘pill/’ smoking too?
FDA warns it ? s dangerous
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Food
and Drug Administration Tues
day ordered the nation’s druggist
to tell women using birth control
pills not to smoke because it sub
stantially increases danger of
heart attack or stroke.
The warning will be carried in
a brochure and a leaflet which
must be given each patient every
time a druggist dispenses the
pill. The rules take effect April 3.
“The use of birth control pills
by healthy women who do not
smoke doubles the chance of suf
fering a heart attack,’’ the FDA
said. “But the combination of
birth control pills and smoking,
especially heavy smoking, pres
ents a far greater risk of heart at
tack and other circulatorv dis-
“Pill users who also smoke are
three times more likely to die of
a heart attack or other circulatory
disease than women who take
the pill but do not smoke, and
are 10 times more likely to die of
a heart attack or circulatory dis
ease than women who do not use
the pill and do not smoke,” it
added.
Drug committee encourage
physicians to be selective
Vol.
10 P
By TERESA HUDDLESTON
Final goals for the drug abuse
prevention plan in the Brazos Valley
area were discussed Tuesday by the
Regional Drug Abuse Advisory
Committee.
Debbie Calaway, regional drug
abuse coordinator, presented her
goals to the committee in a two-
phase plan. One deals with preven
tion and education of drug abuse
and the other with treatment and
rehabilitation.
One of the committee’s goals is to
encourage physicians in the Brazos
Valley region to be more selective in
prescribing habit-forming drugs.
They want to make physicians aware
of the extent of the drug abuse prob
lem by having data more available
and by encouraging physicians to
limit the number of patients on pro
longed drug therapy of the habit-
forming type.
Another committee goal is to in
crease awareness of accidental
poisonings of children in the Brazos
Valley area hy making data on their
drug overdoses available to the pub
lic through the news media. This
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Firm profit
on hot cheti
United Press Intematioml
HOUSTON — It’s getting 1
and harder to write a badi
these days. And a few firms art
ting richer and richer makingit
der and harder.
One of the newest is Gre
Houston Checking Service
doing business as Texached
filiate of Telecheck Servicesli fl
nationwide firm operating!
metropolitan areas.
“We provide to the me|
a service hy which they cam
pletely get out of the bad it I
business,’ says John Chaney,«|
check president and chiefi
holder.
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present a check to a merchanlf J
with one of 106 acceptable fora
identification. The merchant!I
Texacheck and gives them'I
name, identification andtheai
of the cheek.
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we receive the call, we’ll goW
him with either approval ord
proval. On an approval, ifthatei
is returned as a bad check, well
that check from the merchant{
our warranty limit.’’ ■. ,
Chaney says the warranties*^
— depending on the business!
individual contract — but “it’sH!
cally a $400 per check wamj
They rare making money.
How do they do it?
“We are accessing a large I
puterized date file of bad i»° n ^
writers,” Chaney says. “Ourliffrith
ceeds half a million ptoykl rea
tionwide. We will not approvej
body’s check who is in our <
“It cost us millions of d
build that data file. We’re relyi
that to reduce the cost of badckj
to merchants and consumers,
“A major account — whidi|
remain nameless — lost t
$250,000 last year in bad f!| n > ith
The cost of our service plus cl*
that they do not call in — ii! ts t(
case, that is other than highriff' 661
should be reduced to SIOO.OO® 160 !
But Chaney says tightened*“ e _
tection against bad checks,
percentage of Which surface in«' cl ^ r
growing areas like Texas, willf 5 ™
everyone money. ‘ li
“Everybody who spends I
pay for the cost of bad chechl
says. “The American BankiM
sociation estimates it costs aWl
annually per head in the b|
States.”
Electronics have made Texacl
and other firms, including loot]
Telecredit in California,
Chaney said.
“Five years ago, the big
probably had no alternatively a
said. “They probably had acaI '»r a l>
“The big reason that we’reat» er (
do this — and we couldn’t
any great sophistication 10ye^! a sed
— is the electronics industt)!^ t
helped us with computers. Papg,
“You couldn’t have instant | v j c ^
access to half a million records 1 ' ^ s
until just recently.” i ce( j
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Chaney says that
Texacheck’s reputation is fi ' ® Se '
lished, just the decal logo 01 s.
store window will keep professi
bad check writers out. kJv
And it’s big business.
“We have 600 subscribers
June 1 startup, ” Chaney says^
does not include most of the
department stores. ' Chaneye?
those later.
Where does it all lead? E' Citi 26
ally, Chaney says, to a cashl^mdatei
ety. “It’s a step toward eWiintyc
funds transfer, which is
ficult to put a date on. Butit : Amaj
the merchant will no longern p t
concern himself about a bad\Ll
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