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Thursday, April 14,1
‘This won’t hurt a bit’
The Associated Press
Veterinarian Tom Granger and assistant Kathy acupuncture treatment in Lumberton, Texas.
Somers calm Bob the dachshund during an Granger is certified to perform the procedure.
Economy shows healthy signs
as consumer prices, sales rise
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices rose moder
ately last month and Americans spent less than ex
pected at stores, easing fears of spiraling inflation and
an overheating economy.
Helped by the smallest increase in health care costs
in a decade, the Consumer Price Index increased 0.3
E ercent in March — matching February’s rise, the La-
or Department said Wednesday.
The Commerce Department reported that retail
sales were up 0.4 percent last montn, a figure econo
mists said is a sign of healthy but not worrisome
growth.
Hours after the report, financial markets did not
seem encouraged. Stock prices were lower in early af
ternoon trading after bonds failed to hang on to ini
tial gains.
Inflation has been mild for more than three years,
the best stretch in three decades. The cost of living
was up 2.7 percent last year, following a 2.9 percent
rise in 1992 and 3.1 percent in 1991.
But recent surging economic growth has sparked
inflation fears and led the Federal Reserve to increase
short-term interest rates.
The Labor Department said increases in clothing
prices and housing costs — primarily rent — ac
counted for about half of Marcn’s CPI upturn, which
was generally in line with economists’ predictions.
Before February’s 0.3 percent rise, the index had
been unchanged in January for the first time in more
than four years.
The annual inflation rate was up 2.5 percent for
the first quarter of 1994, compared to 2.7 percent for
the same period in 1993. When volatile food and en
ergy costs are excluded, the index still rose 0.3 per
cent for March and just 2.9 percent from a year ago.
The latest figures were on top of the government’s
reassuring report Tuesday that wholesale prices in
creased 0.2 percent in March and at a 3.9 percent an
nual rate for the first quarter of 1994.
Still, many economists expect the Federal Reserve
to bump short-term rates up another quarter percent
age point this spring, possibly on May 1 7 when its
policy-making Open Market Committee meets. The
central bank in the last two months nudged short
term interest rates from 3 percent to 3.5 percent.
The Commerce Department said retail sales in
March totaled a seasonally adjusted $182.3 billion, up
from a revised $181.5 billion a month earlier.
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“Once again tobacco industry
representatives have not only with
held information, but they have
misrepresented the truth,” Wax-
man said.
Spears didn’t return a phone call
seeking comment.
Tobacco is the biggest ingredi
ent in cigarettes, and scientists have
shown that tobacco itself and
chemicals in cigarette smoke are
lethal.
The government estimates that
400,000 Americans die from ciga
rettes every year.
There is growing uproar over a
federal law that makes companies
list for the government the more
than 700 additives that go into dif
ferent brands. The law forces that
list to be kept secret under penalty
of jail.
The list released Wednesday
contained 599 additives, those
used by domestic cigarette compa
nies. Foreign companies use an ad
ditional 100 chemicals, which re
main secret.
Among the more common ad
ditives: chocolate, wine and co
conut oil.
Government officials have said
13 cigarette additives aren’t al
lowed in food. Domestic cigarettes
contain only eight of those, and
Reynolds contended they’re not
harmful in the trace amounts used.
Among them:
•Methoprene, an insecticide
spray
•Ammonia
•Ethyl furoate which causes liv
er damage
That’s irrelevant, FDA’s O’Hara
said. “If it’s approved for use in
food, that means there’s been the
appropriate testing that shows it
can be safely digested. That doesn’t
speak one way or the other to the
safety of something.”
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BOSTON — Wait. Clean ::,
your plate. Mom’s advice is slid
correct: You really shouldei;
your carrots.
The release of a big study cast
ing doubt on the seemingly aw
some powers of beta carotene has
led to some understandable confu
sion. The research found that not
only did mega-doses of this vita
min found in carrots fail to protea
smokers from lung cancer, it actn
ally seemed to increase the risk.
At DeLuca’s Market on
Boston’s Beacon Hill, produce
manager Paul Sousa was as put
zled as anyone.
“This is something that’s been
good for people for so long. Then
they change their story in mid
stream. It’s hard to understand,"
he said.
Not even the people who
conducted the 1 0-year, 343 mil
lion study are sure what to make
of it. But one thing seems clear
Carrots, broccoli and other foods
rich in beta carotene are good
for you.
And while vitamin pills are not
proven to be harmful, the stud)
published in Wednesday’s New
England Journal does nothing to
support the exuberant claims
made about them, either.
“This is very specific to pills.
All of the studies that preceded
this that looked at foods showed
no suggestion of harm,” said
Kara Smigel, a dietician and
spokeswoman for the National
Cancer Institute.
"We are worried about head
lines that say, ‘Carrots Are Bad fot
You,’ ” she said.
In recent years, though, many
people have turned to vitamin
pills to boost their daily intake of
beta carotene and other nutrients
found in much smaller levels in a
healthy diet.
The latest study — though no\ t
conclusive proof of harm — is I
certainly noteworthy. It is the first
in a well-fed Western country to
look at the long-term effects of
high doses of beta carotene. In
this project, 29,133 older male
smokers who lived in Finland
took beta carotene capsules, vita
min E or dummy pills for five to
eight years.
When it was done, the beta
carotene users had 18 percent mote
lung cancer than did the others.
It is possible that the finding
was a statistical fluke, even though
the odds of this were calculated to
be one in 100. Furthermore, it
could turn out that the results
would be different in nonsmok
ers, or that somewhat lower doses
could have an effect on other
types of cancer.
‘‘When the study began, we
wanted nothing more than to pre
vent cancer. It’s a good example of
the idea that science is not always
highly predictable,” said the cancer
institute’s Dr. Demetrius Albanes,
the study’s principal author.
“Does this mean people should
stop taking vitamins?” asked Dr.
Charles Hennekens of Brigham
and Women’s Hospital in Boston,
‘‘It does not mean they should
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