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language,” said Dr. Bonnie
Beaver, professor of small ani
mal medicine and surgery at
Texas A&M.
Beaver said she does not
believe that the Bow-Lingual
device is accurate in its transla
tion of dog barks.
“It probably gets into the
general emotional framework,
but putting words to the bark is
strictly anthropomorphic,”
Beaver said. “The phrases 1 have
seen associated with the device
would not be considered appro
priate ‘dog translations.’”
Keith Wyly, a freshman civil
engineering major, agrees with
Beaver’s analysis of Bow-
Lingual.
"1 think that the translator is a
clever idea, but is probably not
accurate,” Wyly said.
“(Although) it is a good gim
mick to keep kids entertained.”
Still, other people remain
optimistic about the accuracy of
the new dog-translating device.
“1 am not 100 percent con
vinced (that Bow-Lingual is
accurate), but I think that there
is a strong possibility,” Etchison
said. “Technology
advanced now that it ^
shock me.”
The Bow-Lingual
Translator may offer
insight into the thoii!!
humans’ canine
skeptics concur,
dogs still remain a
people will never I
to figure out exactly^
dog’s bark means.
Anti-tobacco program results ii
decreased incidents of smoking
By Paul Recer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — In 17 states that
participated in a $128 million government
program to discourage tobacco, the preva
lence of smoking dropped nearly a per
centage point faster than in the rest of the
country, a study found.
If the anti-tobacco program was used
in all states and the District of Columbia
it could reduce the number of smokers by
about 278,700, said Frances A. Stillman,
the first author of the study appearing
Wednesday in the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute.
The study evaluated the effect of an
eight-year demonstration project called
American Stop Smoking Intervention Study,
or ASSIST, that was sponsored by NCI.
The anti-smoking project trained local
advocacy groups to lobby for passage of
higher cigarette excise taxes and to pro
mote regulations for smoke-free environ
ments. The program also mounted a pub
lic relations effort to counter an estimated
$47 billion spent by industry to market
tobacco products during the study period
and included efforts to limit underage
access to tobacco.
States included in the study were
Colorado. Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York. North
Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina.
Virginia, West Virginia, Washington and
Wisconsin.
At $128 million, the program spent
about $1.2(H) for each smoker who kicked
the habit. Elizabeth A. Gillian, a
University of California. San Diego,
researcher and a co-author of the study,
called that cost “a real bargain.”
“Most smoking cessation programs
will spend that (for each smoker),” said
Gillian. “That’s just for a few hours of a
counselor's time. When you think about
what you save in health care costs, $1,200
is a real bargain.”
Studies by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention suggest that ciga
rette smoking is responsible for more that
440.000 deaths a year in the United
States. Smoking has been linked to heart
disease, emphysema and other respiratory
system diseases, stroke and a number of
different types of cancer.
To evaluate the impact of ASSIST,
researchers used industry cigarette sales
figures and tobacco use surveys that
showed that smoking decreased national
ly by 2.41 percentage points during the
eight-year period.
In the 17 states where the ASSIST pro
gram was in action, the percentage of smok
ers dropped by 3.02 percentage points dur
ing the eight years, compared to a decline of
only 2.11 percentage points in the other 33
states and the District of Columbia.
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program, smoking among all the I
population dropped from 24.67perce:
22.26 percent; in the 17 states, it drop;
from 25.19 percent to 22.17 perceitt
in the rest of the country, it declined:' QXF(
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Stillman said the 17 states inci*Jniversi
some that already had strong at
ing programs and some that didn't.
She said the results showed that"
can reduce smoking prevalence an
enormous health and economic buri:
smoking if they put in place proveij
grams and policies.”
The impact of the program
been blunted somewhat by thi
industry. Stillman said the Federalli
Commission estimates that the
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spent about S47 billion promoting ft hares t
<> pn’ducts nationally during the pci indent
of the ASSIST program.
Jennifer Golisch, a spokeswoman
Philip Morris USA, Inc., the nai v ait for
largest tobacco company, wouldt
menl on the study. She said hercompi 1 genom
now spends $100 million a year to
courage underage smoking.
1999, she said, the company reduce;
cigarette ads in magazines by 50pei
Golisch said Philip Morris alsosupp
regulation of smoking in public
and favors regulation of the t
industry by the Food and
Administration.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska company has agreed to
pay $20 million to settle claims that it sold cancer insurance to
people nationwide but paid only a fraction of the benefits when
they got sick.
Central States Health and Life Co. of Omaha will pay $7.5
million to about 1,240 people who were denied coverage and
$2.5 million to attorneys. The remainder will go into a fund to
pay future medical expenses for the 1,400 people who filed
claims or any of more than 18,000 other people nationwide
who bought the policies but have not developed cancer.
The settlement was approved Tuesday by U.S. District Judge
Karen E. Schreier in Sioux Falls, S.D., where one of the origi
nal complaints was filed.
Central States sold policies guaranteed renewable for life
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Michael Abourezk of Rapid City, S.D. The companyrefustyogerF
pay for services associated with radiation treatment, suit
dose calculations and the use of lead blocks to
cancerous tissue from radiation, he said.
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the radiation — you can’t just shove them in front of amari
and flip the switch,” Abourezk said. “But the companyi;:
only pay for shoving them in front of the machine and Iff
the switch.”
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that the policies were sold as supplemental insurance
the company paid up to 90 percent of the treatment
some cases.
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