European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4 the stars and stripes january 1965 surgeon general reports to new Council nearly one in four men has quit smoking Welcome by Frank Carey Washington api sur Geon general Jitner Terry Laid nearly one out of four adult men has riven up Cigar Ette smoking since he surveys by Public health service show smoking among women has declined to a smaller degree but the lint time on record in which the trend has been if smoking habits bad continued at the level of three years there would be about million More smokers than there actually Are Terry said in an address to the recently formed National in Ter Agency Council on smoking and re attributed much of the de Cline to the health service re port of a year ago that labelled cigarette smoking a Hazard to associated ii with Sev eral diseases and mild ii far outweighs All other factors As a cause of lung forced to face showdown on debt United nations up the United nations for months Hai been borrowing time to solve its financial now the moment of truth is the general Assembly is due to return from recess it will have several Days to find a agreement or a meaning Headon collision of the United states and could result in 1 loss of the russian vote and a probable soviet walkout j crushing defeat for the american stand on the principle of financial responsibility or 3 possible collapse of the United nations Ai a consequence of either or both suggestions thai the Assembly reopening be postponed to afford More time to work out a Compromise have been patently a majority feel the Issue has to be once and for the 1m4 general Assembly was postponed originally from mid september to partly because of the elections and partly because of the financial it was again delayed until 1 in Hope of finding a Way out of the Money it has been in recess since at the Root of the crisis is the insistence of the United slates and Many other members that financial support of peacekeeping operations is a collective responsibility of All the position is based on article ii of the which states null Al in Len n the payment of its financial contributions to the organization shall have no vote in the general Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds amount of the contributions due from it for proceeding two full court of Justice at the Hague in the gave an advisory opinion that peacekeeping costs members of the soviet bloc have opera of Conte la the the soviet argument is based on article m of the which to Man and effective action by the United on for the maintenance or International peace and in racing out its duties Imper this i i Ana agree mat in carrying out its duties the Security Council acts on their Coss Fortt it it March unit determine to i than two Awe to december Only because of essential business was hot most business had to be Smydo itejs0 s test Junu because number of Aith u ule debate concluded the Assembly will be immobilized unless the Issue is settled in the december the agreed to pay into a Costa operations of the Cost of  p1 Down u j Moran of voting and Nnapp Catton of article the United Stiles refused this de the a ninth service cigarette in oking remains a National an in Ter Agency spokesman said it accounts far at least and possibly As Many As american deaths each Terry conceded that his preliminary evidence on reduced consumption does not tally with the trends indicated by tobacco warehouse shipments and tax these Point to a resurgence of cigarette smoking after a pronounced decline last the surgeon general said the decline found by the health service and other evidence directly Challenge the charge that nothing has really happened and that the smoking Hanis of the nation Are Rutht Back where they were before last years report by his advisory the inter Agency Council is not an official government its members include representatives of the health service and of u Federal and private agencies interested in health and among them the american cancer Terry said a nationwide Sam pling fast fall of Ameri can households found on the basis of a preliminary analysis number of male cig Arette smokers in the Popula Tion dropped from n per cent reported in both Itu and 1m1 to ii pm the some the percentage of women smokers dropped from 31 per cent to about 28 per the surgeon general said other studies conducted by the Agency in the past year Indi Cate that Many smokers have become uneasy about the relationship of cigarette to millions of adult cigarette smokers Are ready to be fully convinced that the ume has come to change their smoking there were these other developments at the session it Lurlne Long an advocate of smoking control charged Congress especially tobacco state congressmen with default of responsibility for falling to act so fir on pro posed legislation calling Tor Strong and meaningful Regula Tion of the cigarette Label ing and advertising and for massive educational bout i the United nations Treasury is running lower and at the moment there is not enough on hand to meet january Balta the Public health service endorsed proposal that to Bacco companies voluntarily dispense with cigarette Adver Tising and concentrate More heavily on producing tobacco pipe smoking and Cigar smoking As a Means of vastly reducing hazards from Cigar inter Agency councils Emerson who recently resigned from an advertising charged that the tobacco through its present advertising of u encouraging people to kill wine out of 10 sold they favored More Public education on the health hazards of cigarette for both adults children out office sold they were opposed to the of featuring athletes and celebrities in Clear Ella out of including seven out of 10 said they believed that a statement on tar and nicotine Content should be required on each cig Arette Terry said a separate study among senior dental and osteopathic students has revelled compared to the Genera male population of comparable senior med ical students show far lets tendency to Lake up cigarettes per cent As against St and among medical students who Lake up the there is a far greater tendency to said that in groups which hold health have the and understand the health implications of the the cigarette Hall is the experience of a in demonstrates that a deeply ingrained personal habit can be changed where the facts Are made widely i might add so most of this has been accomplished through the mass communications i doubt that any health message has Ever reached so Many in so Short u he also declared that additional data from three Long Range studies by other groups a study of Ameri can War strengthen the evidence that people who Slop smoking Are greatly Bene even if they have smoked for Marty a Public health service spokesman gave this explanation for terrys estimate on the decrease in the number of male smokers 1mj various surveys indicated that a fraction Over 17 per cent of the male population Over 31 already were exam of ers of newest Survey Indi Cates an additional 7 per cent in this age group have become a smokers since he the total percentage is now about 31 per or about one in by tame he i or 19 per cent of women ire now a smokers of  j or Fler cent who quit since in Paris Paris up president Charles de Gaulle of francs has Given to Roll out the Welcome mat for president when Johnson comes to Europe probably Lite Dill Gaulle wants it to be known he will be a Welcome guest in de Gaulle has decided it it Lime for him to sit Down and talk with Johnson about nil own ideas on How relations with and specifically with should develop during the rest of this the fact that Johnson gracefully accepted de Gaul Les position that their meeting should take place in Paris Ana that he would be coming Here specifically to Sre de gauge removed the last roadblocks on the French Aldo for such As he advances in is now Gaulle concerns himself less with Day today de lulls of International relations and of them More and More in their Broad he is working of a blueprint for the which he Hopes to expound to de Gaulle likes to recall that at the height of the cuban mis Siles crisis he was the first of americas allies to pledge All out support if it came to a nuclear but de Gaulle feels deeply that uie partnership must to one of he sees As the two partners the United states on the one hand and Western Europe on the with the Atlantic Alliance As the link be tween but he is passionately deter mined that there must be Equality Between the he believes Europe should have full responsibility for its own its own Economy and its own foreign he wants Europe to be rinds with and Allied to the United but he insists it must be Independent in every that is the essence of the drop san edition