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Pennsylvania to
participate in
anti-huff program
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pennsylvania will be among six states
that will participate in an anti-huffing program for teenagers who
use inhalants to get high.
The experimental program was to be announced Tuesday in
Washington, D.C., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, and will
provide schools with information about inhalant abuse.
The Alliance for Consumer Education and the American
School Counselor Association are sponsoring the program.
The organizations estimate that nearly half of parents mention
the abuse of inhalants — more commonly known as huffing —
when discussing drug abuse with their children.
About one of every five students has abused inhalants by
eighth grade, according to the Alliance for Consumer Education.
Though deaths are relatively rare, huffing can cause brain, heart,
lung, kidney and liver damage.
Pennsylvania was chosen in part because the state’s new driv
ing under the influence law addresses huffing, according to pro
gram spokesman Edward F. Tate III.
“We wanted a state that had an awareness of the problem and
a strong interest in it,” said Tate.
C. Stephen Erni, executive director of the Pennsylvania DUI
Association, said the group supported the addition of inhalants to
the recent DUI law revisions. The group is scheduling workshops
to teach law enforcement officers how to detect inhalant abuse,
“Unless the suspect is vomiting or there is a strong chemical
odor, inhalant abuse is hard to spot,” Erni said.
Ohio, Virginia, Texas, Alabama and Alaska will also partici
pate. As many as 90 percent of elementary-school children in
Alaska have at least tried huffing, according to some estimates,
Tate said.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Preventable obesity deaths on the rise
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are sitting around and
eating themselves to death, with obesity closing in on tobacco
as the nation’s No. 1 underlying preventable killer.
The government is offering constructive, even lighthearted,
advice to fight what it calls an epidemic of expanding waist
lines. Americans will be told in a new ad campaign they can
lose midsection “love handles” and double chins one step at a
time if they eat less and exercise more.
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Pakistan tests missile
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By Paul Haven
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —
Pakistan on Tuesday test-fired
the most advanced missile in its
arsenal, capable of delivering a
nuclear warhead deep inside
rival India.
Although advance word to
India averted a crisis, the launch
of the Shaheen 2 is a vivid
reminder of the stakes at play as
South Asia’s traditional enemies
try to cement a fragile peace.
The missile has a range of
1,250 miles, meaning it could
easily hit Bombay, New Delhi,
Lucknow, Jaipur and other
major Indian cities.
“Pakistan today successfully
carried out the maiden test fire
of the Shaheen 2 surface-to-sur
face ballistic missile,” a military
statement said.
Pakistan made certain to
inform India in advance, and the
test was not likely to damage
relations that are rapidly
improving. India’s external
affairs and defense ministries
declined comment on the test.
The timing seemed more
linked to internal Pakistani poli
tics, with President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf facing anger at home
over an investigation into a
black market run by rogue
Pakistani scientists that alleged
ly sold nuclear know-how to
Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Many Pakistanis feel the sci
entists have been made scape
goats and accuse Musharraf of
jeopardizing the nation’s nuclear
program under pressure from
the West.
The president, a key ally in the
U.S.-led war on terror, announced
plans to test-fire the Shaheen 2 at
the same Feb. 5 news conference
in which he pardoned Abdul
Qadeer Khan, the father of
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