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Page 6
The Battalion
Tuesday, January 19,1993
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smoking's
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTEREY, Calif.- The na
tion's most ambitious anti-smok
ing television ad campaign has
tened the decline of cigarette
smoking in California and cost the
tobacco industry $1.1 billion in
lost sales, a study shows.
An earlier study showed that
the $28 million, 18-month cam
paign increased the rate at which
smokers quit smoking. The new
study is the first to look at the
campaign's effect on cigarette
sales.
"We have proof that it is a cost-
effective campaign," said the
study's author, Stanton A. Glantz
of the University of California,
San Francisco.
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Before the campaign, cigarette
consumption was falling by 46
million packs per year in Califor
nia, Glantz found.
During the campaign, cigarette
consumption fell at a rate of 164
million packs per year, triple what
it had been before.
When the campaign was sus
pended, the decline in cigarette
sales fell to 19 million packs per
year, Glantz said.
"We have evidence that an ag
gressive campaign can reduce to
bacco consumption significantly,"
he said.
The study was presented Sun
day at an American Heart Associ
ation conference on heart disease
prevention.
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Seven dead, seventy injured
in commuter train collision
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The TV ad campaign was man
dated by a referendum passed by
California voters in 1988 that in
creased cigarette taxes by 25 cents
per pack and required that 20 per
cent of the tax money be used for
smoking cessation programs.
The campaign included com
mercials that depicted the tobacco
industry as greedy and coldheart-
ed.
Dr. Thomas E. Novotny of the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said the study was a
convincing demonstration of the
campaign's effectiveness.
Some had suggested that the
tax increase itself was responsible
for the decline in cigarette con
sumption, but Novotny disagreed.
GARY, Ind. — One commuter train sideswiped
another at a narrow trestle Monday, ripping open
cars "like a big razor blade" and killing seven peo
ple, an official said. Nearly 70 were injured, two criti
cally.
"The glass was flying. It was a tremendous im
pact," Margaret McNeill, a passenger in the front car
of one of the trains, said as she walked uninjured
from the crash site.
"We hung on and there were people flying
around," said Jane Mitchell, another uninjured pas
senger.
Passenger Abir Khater described the chaos after
impact: "There was panic and people were saying
'get out, get out,' and other people saying 'sit down,
just sit down.' "
The eastbound and westbound trains collided
shortly after 9:30 a.m., said John Parsons, spokesman
for Northern Indiana Commuter Transit District,
which owns the Chicago-to-South Bend rail line. The
cause of the crash was under investigation by the
National Transportation Safety Board.
About 100 people were on the trains, a two-car
No. 7 eastbound from Chicago and a three-car No. 12
from South Bend, Parsons said. Gary is about 30
miles southeast of downtown Chicago.
The trains crashed where two tracks overlap in a
gantlet west of a trestle that is too narrow for two
trains to pass.
It was unclear if both were moving or one was
stopped waiting to cross the trestle.
The front cars were mangled and the metal on one
side ripped away. Passengers were thrown to the
floor. Seats were ripped from their moorings.
"The walls were ripped open, creating an effect
like a big razor blade," Gary Fire Chief Ben Perry
said.
Perry said seven people were killed and 69 in
jured, two critically. Perry initially reported eight
deaths but later said one victim apparently was
counted twice.
Several of the dead were decapitated. Perry said.
Rescuers passed stretchers through gaping holes
in one of the cars to remove the dead and injured,
some of whom had been trapped in the wreckage.
Rescuers used ropes to steady themselves up and
down the embankment next to the tracks, which was
snow-dusted and slippery in the 20-degree weather.
Some of the injured were pulled from the train by
hook-and-ladder fire trucks and taken to a makeshift
helicopter landing area in a parking lot.
Tax increase to assist state communities
Waxahachie votes to improve water systems, police stations, street drainage
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN - Voters in several Texas towns
headed to the polls over the weekend and ap
proved several tax increases, including a half-
cent sales tax hike in five cities. A similar in
crease was rejected in three towns.
New measures include a tax reduction in
Edgecliff and four bond proposals totalling
$9.2 million to improve libraries in Arlington.
Waxahachie residents voted for bonds to im
prove water systems, the police station and
streets and drainage, but they shot down plans
to upgrade a recreation complex and another
to build an auditorium-civic center.
In a recall election in Ranger, Ronnie
Ainsworth retained his post as mayor and
Benbrook voters decided not to merge the in
dependent Water and Sewer Authority with
the city of Benbrook.
Also, the Alanreed school district was elimi
nated by a vote of 52-38 in the tiny West Texas
town.
Bedford residents voted to elect their munic
ipal judges instead of having them appointed,
and C.D. Chumley was elected to the Balch
Springs city council.
The half-cent sales tax jump was approved
by voters in Lubbock, Euless, Hurst, McKin
ney and Waxahachie.
A low turnout in Crowley, a Fort Worth sub
urb, decided against the increase, which would
have paid for a new library and industrial de
velopment. Jacksonville voters rejected it too.
Voters in the Dallas suburb of Colleyville
turned out in record numbers, but they went
to the polls to defeat the plan. They also over
whelmingly refused to raise their city property
tax by six cents per $100 of assessed value.
Colleyville city secretary Jean Harris said
the 3,847 ballots cast were almost 1,100 more
than the previous record.
A citizens group called the Colleyville Facts
is taking credit for generating the high interest
in the election.
"There's no question that this is a mandate,
loud and clear, from the people of Colleyville,"
said group spokesman Russell Kendzior.
About half of the 2,000 Edgecliff residents
turned out in support of their rollback plan,
which reduces taxes from 33.76 cents to 23.9
cents per $100 valuation.
Mayor Bob Wershay said he was disappoint
ed because he hoped to use the extra money to
provide round-the-clock police protection.
"We are disappointed, but the people have
spoken," he said. "In my opinion, the citizens
are the ones that lose in this."
Arlington libraries will get their boost to
build two new branches, spend $1.4 million in
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The Cowboys were an escape
from this sort of idiocy, because as
long as they were winning, it
didn't matter.
But more losing followed.
It seemed that as the Cowboys
went, so went the city of Dallas
and the rest of the Metroplex.
Last Sunday the team from Dal
las seemed to be at the same
crossroads that they had come
upon 11 years earlier.
Whether they knew it or not,
the Dallas Cowboys carried the
hopes and dreams and even some
of the fears of hundreds of thou
sands of people onto the field
Sunday as they faced the monster
who had started a long painful
downfall more than a decade be
fore.
And God probably wasn't
watching His team, nor had His
son ever been a coach or His
grandson a quarterback.
But the final vision of Sundays
game, as crystalline as leaded
glass, is Dallas 30, San Francisco
20.
And for at least one day, par
adise was found again.
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accepting applications now
call 214-556-9932
(preparatory classes begin February 3, 1993)
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renovations, get a new bookmobile and two
portable kiosks and buy $2.9 million dollars
worth of new materials.
"We now have an excellent long-range de
velopment package," said Arlington library di
rector Betsy Burson. "I think it will make a lot
of difference as far as quality of life goes in Ar
lington."
Waxahachie city manager Bob Sokoll said he
was glad voters approved $13 million dollars
for local improvements and the extra half-cent
tariff to pay off the bonds.
He added that he wasn't surprised to see the
addition proposals to spend $2.28 million dol
lar fail.
"They voted for the necessities," he said.
"It's probably a sign of the times right now."
The ’ If-cent sales tax was to be used for
various masons.
In Lubbock, the additional money is target
ed to lure a military finance center and 4,000
jobs.
The money in Euless will bring $1.2 million
for projects to benefit youths and senior citi
zens.
Hurst will have $2.5 million more per year
to alleviate a property tax burden.
McKinney's money will be used to lure new
businesses to the city through marketing and
low interest loans.
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