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Study predicts secondhand
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sec
ondhand cigarette smoke will
cause an estimated 47,000
deaths and about 150,000 non-
fatal heart attacks in U.S.
nonsmokers this year, a study
says. That’s as much as 50
percent higher than previous
estimates.
The figures are projected
from an analysis of 1985 data
that showed heart disease
caused by other people’s smoke
killed 62,000 people that year
and caused as many as 200,000
heart attacks.
The study said that the re
duction since then is due to a
decline in smoking and an in
crease in restrictions on smok
ing in public places.
The findings, to be published
this week in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiolo
gy, appear amid a public rela
tions campaign by the tobacco
industry. In a series of full-page
newspaper ads, Philip Morris
and R.J. Reynolds have raised
questions about links between
secondhand smoke and lung
cancer.
The new study focuses on
heart disease, which it said is a
more serious problem.
“Heart disease appears to be
by far the major mortality risk
from passive smoking,” the
study concluded. “Practicing
physicians would do well to
warn their at-risk heart pa
tients to avoid smoky rooms.”
The study was conducted by
A. Judson Wells, a consultant
to the U.S. Occupational Safety
and Health Administration and
a volunteer with the American
Lung Association.
Earlier calculations, includ
ing one by Wells himself, had
Smoking and
medical costs
Smokers spend about $50 billion
a year, more than $2 for every
pack sold, in medical
costs associated
with cigarettes.
Hospitals Doctors
$26.9 $15.5
billion billion
Nursing Prescription Home
homes drugs health care
$4.9 $1.8 $900
billion billion million
Taxpayer bill
$21.6 billion, or 89 cents per pack.
Source: Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
AP/C. Sanderson
estimated that secondhand
smoke was responsible for
32,000 to 37,000 heart disease
deaths a year in nonsmokers.
Brennan Dawson of the To
bacco Institute in Washington
noted that a 1986 U.S. Sur
geon General’s report on
smoking failed to find a link
between secondhand smoke
and heart disease.
“Nothing that’s been pub
lished since then would cause a
change in that,” Dawson said.
However, researchers
studying the problem argue
that a wealth of data on such
a link has been produced since
the surgeon general’s report.
Wells said that in his new
study, he used 1985 figures to
allow comparison with an Envi
ronmental Protection Agency
study that used the same data
to show that secondhand smoke
causes about 3,000 lung cancer
deaths a year in nonsmokers.
Wells’ figures were based on
a mathematical analysis of pre
vious studies showing the risks
of second hand smoke.
He said his study employed
a new method devised by the
EPA for its lung cancer report.
He is the first to apply the
method to heart disease.
After calculating the num
ber of heart-disease deaths
blamed on secondhand smoke,
he arrived at the number of
heart attacks by simple multi
plication. “There are three
times as many heart attacks as
there are heart deaths,” he
said.
There are no figures avail
able yet to confirm Wells’ 1994
projections.
“This is a much more sophis
ticated analysis than anybody
has ever done before,” said
Stanton Glantz of the Universi
ty of California at San Francis
co, who had done one of the
earlier estimates.
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The following incidents
were reported to Universi
ty Police Department
from July 21 to 29:
Criminal Trespass
Corps Area Steam Tunnels - Two individuals
were found leaving the steam tunnel opening near
dormitory 9.
Psychology Building - A brown and maroon
leather wallet containing $50 and several credit
cards was stolen from a second floor office.
Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center - A
Hewlett-Packard 48SX calculator was stolen from
the lobby.
Parking Area 85 - A gray truck cover was stolen
from a vehicle.
Disorderly Conduct
G. Rollie White Coliseum - A woman walking
on the second floor hallway greeted a man who
passed her. As she walked away> she saw the man
was exposing his genitals.
Burglary of Habitation
Eppright Hall - Travelers checks valued at
$1,000 were stolen from a second floor room.
Public Intoxication
Mosher Drive - An intoxicated individual was
arrested and then jailed.
Driving While Intoxicated
Various campus locations - Two motorists were
arrested.
Criminal Mischief
WX Row - A passenger side window of a 1994
Ford Tempo was shattered.
Chemistry Building - A window on the north
side of the building was broken.
Evading Arrest/Public Intoxication
University Drive - An intoxicated pedestrian,
who attempted to escape apprehension by running
from an officer, was jailed.
Misdemeanor Theft
Various campus locations - Three bicycles were
stolen.
Anthropology Building - A victim reported the
theft of a goniometer, which is a device designed to
measure the curvature of ship timbers.
Rating games people play
By Ellie Hudson
The Battalion
A video games ratings system
will allow parents in Bryan-Col-
lege Station to decide the appro
priateness of games for their
children.
The Houston Chronicle re
ported Saturday that video
games will carry ratings for age
levels and content. The age cat
egories are: Early Childhood (3
and up), Kids to Adults (6 and
up), Teen (13 and up), Mature
(17 and up) and Adult Only (18
and up).
Video games will be rated ac
cording to their content violence,
sex, language, and other.
Computer games have a sepa
rate rating system, which only
measures violence, sex and nu
dity and language content.
Arthur Pober, coordinator of
the video games rating systems,
said the industry wanted to cre
ate an easily understandable
symbol with reliable content in
formation.
“I think parents will get a
clear picture of the product they
are picking up at a store and
whether they want to buy it or
not, based on the label,” Pober
told the Chronicle.
Jane Sell, a professor of soci
ology at Texas A&M, said she
didn’t know what effects the rat
ings would have on the market,
but said that she appreciates
the system.
“As a parent I would appreci
ate that kind of information,”
she said. “ I think that parents
will use it.”
Scott Strasser, a customer
service representative at 2-Day
Video in College Station, said
that Sega, a video manufactur
er, began putting ratings on its
video games at least four
months ago.
2-Day Video requires proof of
age for those rentals with a ma
ture rating. However, Strasser
said the ratings on some games
do not deter rentals.
“Most adults seem to get
them for their kids,” Strasser
said. “A lot of the people don’t
even realize they (the games)
have the ratings on them.
“I’ve actually had to turn peo
ple away. Then the parents
come back an hour later, mad
that I didn’t rent the game to
their kid.”
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University Drive - A traffic stop resulted in the
identification of a motorist with a suspended li
cense.
Warrant Arrest / Possession of Drug Para
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Hensel Park - A traffic stop of a motorist result
ed in his arrest on an outstanding warrant and
the discovery of drug paraphernalia in the vehicle.
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