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ToDacco war
AMA wants ban on cigarette ads, vending machine sales
WASHINGTON — Stepping up
its ami>tobacco fight, the American
Medical Association on Monday
weighed new efforts to ban all ciga
rette ads. halt vending machine ciga
rette sales, put health warnings on
chewing tobacco and snuff, and bar
smokeless tobacco television com
mercials.
Doctor after doctor argued dur
ing a public hearing that more than
physicians* counseling is needed to
stop or even to slow what Dr. Robert
McAfee, who presented the anti-ad
vertising proposal, called “the rav
ages of mis social habit.**
Physicians argued that tobacco
and cancer are linked and that the
medical profession has a duty to do
something about it.
The AMA’s House of Delegates, a
960-member policymaking body,
will vote today and Wednesday on
the anti-tobacco proposals.
Asked for comment, Anne
Browder, assistant to the president
of the Tobacco Institute, the indus
try’s lobbying organization, objected
that a ban on print advertising
would violate the industry’s right of
free speech, and said such bans in
ocher nations haven’t worked any
way.
“Advertising doesn’t create smok
ers; it creates brand loyalty,** she
said.
However, several doctors con
tended at the hearing that adverds-
■ can indeed have an effect, espe-
on young Americans.
f-S. Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop, representing the Public
Health Service at the hearing, didn’t
comment on the anti-advrrtismg res
olution, but he did say efforts should
be increased to alert young people to
health dangers. ’
tobacco-related
ig doc-
believe “manufacturers
legally produced tobacco prod-
ts have tne constitutional right to
“Many people, especially boys, are
committed to smoke at age 8,** al
though they don’t generally begin
that early, he said.
The proposed advertising ban was
praised by nearly a dozen doctors,
including A. Stuart Hanson of Min-
Give the gift of a Soviet magazine
WASHINGTON — The Kremlin
has a Christmas suggestion for
Americans: Give Soviet Life mag
azine.
“Prices are going up, but if you act
now . , .’’ says a subscription card in
the Life-size'magazine, just like its
capitalist counterparts. A Givc year
long gifts that are truly unusual, and
save you money, tool**
Distribution in this country of So
viet Life and in the Soviet Union of
Amerika Illustrated is part of a cul
tural exchange arrangement that’s
been going on for almost 30 years
and that was renewed at last month’s
superpower summit at Geneva.
So what are the Soviets reading
about Americans and wha| do
Americans get to read about Soviets?
The December issue of Soviet Life
— $1.75 at the newsstand, $9.35 for
the first subscription — begins pon
derously with the text of Mikhail
Gorbacnev’s big recent speech in
France.
But it livens up with a pptpourri
section called “Panorama," which in
cludes this item, headlined “Coin
C-ache”:
“A tractor driver on the Rossiya
State Farm near Gorkv. Volga Re
gion, was plowing a field. After mak
ing several rounds, he noticed a box
made of birch bark. He stopped his
tractor to take a closer look.
“As soon as he touched the box, it
burst open, spilling out copper
coins. The coins turned out to be
five-kopek pieces that were minted
from 1/63 to 1795. The old coins
are now on exhibit at the local mu
seum of history .’’
Not much of a punch line there.
What follows is a serious article on
the stakes in relations between the
USSR and the United States that
igainst playing “Nuclear Rus-
lulette ’’
warns as
sian Roul
nesoca, who «mokmg “the No.
I public health hazard that is pre
ventable.”
Raising one voice in
Dr. D.E. Ward Jr.
tors in tobacco-rich
said they. too. see tobacco as a health
hazard but
of
ucts
advertise their products in a compet
itive manner.”
McAfee, of South Portland,
Maine, said he was “not going to get
into the First Amendment argu
ment, but “we feel this is the No. 1
public health right . . . the greater
national good that we can do at this
time."
T he 66-page magazine is hand
somely illustrated, but it is no match
for Amerika. which sells at kiosks for
50 kopeks — 65 cents.
Overt propaganda is out, but au
thors of this magazine obviously
think beautiful pictures make
enough of a pitch for the American
way of life.
Amerika is published by the U.S.
Information Agency and primed in
Manila (There had been a Beirut
plant — much closer, but now inac
cessible.) Amerika is sold in 87 cities,
trom Arkhangelsk to Yuzhno-Sak
halinsk and USIA says the 60.000
copies are snapped up.
Tropical storm expected to drop heavy rains
Associated Press
MIAMI — Forecasters said Mon
day that heavy rain in Central Amer
ica will likely be the main impact of a
late-season tropical depression, only
the seventh such December storm
recorded in the Atlantic in 100 years
but the second in two years.
"The satellite information right
now suggests that the main problems
are going to be heavy rams over
Costa Rica and parts of Nicaragua,
most likely the southern portions,”
meterologist Mark Zimmer said
Monday at the National Hurricane
Center in Coral Gables.
“T he winds are not strong enough
to cause any significant problem"
when the storm moves inland over
western Panama and southern Costa
Rica by early Tuesday, he said.
The depression, which formed
Saturday, was not expected to de
velop into a m>pical storm before
then and was expected to dissipate
once inland, Zimmer said.
At midday Monday, the storm was
centered in the Caribbean Sea about
150 miles west-northwest of Balboa.
Panama, and was drifting wesi-
southwest at about 5 mph.
“It’s very weak right now and it
appears on our satellite pictures to
be becoming somewhat more disor
ganized,’’ Zimmer said. The maxi
mum sustained winds ranged from
30 to 35 mph
If the depression surprises fore
casters bv strengthening into a storm
with maximum sustained winds of
39 mph. it will be named Tropical
Storm Larry
Experts says AIDS fear
often exaggerated
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(continued from page 1)
• The pentagon is exploring
plans to screen personnel for expo
sure to AIDS. Some private compa
nies are doing that already.
• People who are friends of AIDS
victims nave been fired from jobs in
cafeteria work.
In an Associated Press story,
Washington lawyer Leonard Schnet-
derman said laws in Texas are am
biguous about civil rights protection
for AIDS victims
The article also reported that in
Atlanta earlier this month, a U.S.
Court of Appeals recognized civil
rights protection for AIDS victims
under federal laws barring discrimi
nation against the handicap
And William Hale, the director of
Texas’ Commission on Civil Rights,
says he is prepared to take action
against anv firm, government orga
nization that discriminates against
AIDS victims.
Hale told The Dallas Morning
News that his agency feels homosex
uals deserve protection under a
Texas Human Rights Act which pro
hibits discrimination against the
physically handicapped.
Although Hale says he hasn’t had
any cases of AIDS discrimination re
ported, he feels that inevitablv there
will be plenty.
“Sooner or later we are going to
have to deal with it,” he says. “And
when we do, it’s going to be a very
hot potato."
Meanwhile, Texas health officials
are considering a maneuver which
would enable tnem to isolate AIDS
victims from the community at large.
Last week, Robert Bernstein,
Texas Health Commissioner, said he
favors a quarantine of certain AIDS
cases. Bernstein says the quarantine
would be used infrequendy and only
when the patients are deemed a pub
lic health threat.
Bernstein planned to submit his
proposal to the State Board of
Health in hs Nov. 16 meeting.
But partly as a result of opposition
from Gay Rights Groups and the the
Texas Civil Liberties Union,
Bernstein decided to postpone the
presentation until the December
board meeting.
Bernstein savs he is pleased that
his proposal has drawn so much at
tention and public discussion. When
he does go to the board. Gov. Mark
White says he will support him.
In the meantime. Bernstein says
he plans to solicit input from local
public health officials.
Dr. Fed Rea, a Bryan gastroente-
roiogist, says people with AIDS
aren t out spreading AIDS.
“Anybody who nas AIDS is too
sick to be out spreading AIDS,” Rea
says.
Meanwhile, lab owners are con
cerned that lab workers may be in
danger by handling blood products.
Concern was increased last month
when three San Francisco nurses be
came infected after accidentally in
juring themselves with needles used
in AiuS blood tests. The situation
was made worse after doctors
learned one of the nurses had
passed the disease to her boyfriend.
Dr Oscar Beck, owner of Beck Bi
omedical in Bryan, says his workers
are following careful parameters to
protect against mishaps. Beck’s Firm
does blood tests for local physicians
and health clinics.
An article in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, says
increased care in the handling of
blood samples and blood sampling
equipment will greadv reduce the
chances of spreading the disease be
yond the laboratory.
But another article in the Journal
says it is too early to tell what risks
clinic workers are taking.
Dr. William W\ McClendon says
AIDS lengthy five-year incubation
period win keep researchers gues
sing about the risks clinic workers
face in contracting the disease.
At Wadley Blood Center in Dallas
this incubation period is causing
even more problems for scientists.
AIDS incubation period means
the vims can lie dormant in the body
for up to five years. Osther says that
when tested, infected blood in incu
bation will not show HTLV-III anti
body.
Dr. Kurt Osther says even the
greatest care canfcot prevent some
AIDS contaminated blood from
reaching hospitals and clinics.
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