European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cigarette ads depict smoker As glamorous this is the first in a series of stories entitled smoking and you the Arti cles researched and written by staff writer Bob Hoyer will be presented Over the next 10 Days. Look for smok ing and you each Day so appealing so Cool in its Rice paper White the cigarette beckons. Wily and seductive it Coos at its Vic Tims. Caress me squeeze me smoke me it says. Everybody knows smoking is glamorous. Everybody that is except the a s1ars and Sims report millions who suffer degenerative Dis eases As the result of smoking and would like to kick the habit but can t. Old smokers know All about those coughing fits those cigarette hangovers. Our Foremost medical authorities Tell us that smoking is bad. Statistics Are presented that show smokers Don t live As Long As nonsmokers that the suffer More illness miss More work and spend a great Deal More Money on medical Bills. Yet with All the evidence against the cigarette and tobacco products in Gen eral smoking retains a glamorous at traction for Many. It retains this attractiveness because much has been done to make it respect Able. From our National beginning smoking has been Woven into american cultural fabric. The tobacco Industry spends millions of dollars yearly to counter the mounting medical evidence against smoking. Who Are we to believe in the end everyone must face the inevitable question to smoke or not to smoke on one Side we Are bombarded by advertising that exhorts us to Light up. On television and in movies we see glamorous Lead players smoking. In any Large Public gathering where smoking is not prohibited there Are always Peoples a photo by red grand this Cigar smoker apparently has a Hearty belief in those tobacco Industry puffs. Lighting up cigarettes puffing on pipes and cigars. The action of smokers is often taken As a Cue for others to Light up or for nonsmokers to follow suit. On the negative Side we All know of someone who has died of lung cancer someone else who suffers from chronic and progressive emphysema and must gasp pitifully for the breath of life. The world health organization lists cigarette smoking As the leading health Hazard. It further states that Elimina Tion of cigarette smoking would do More than any other single act to improve world health. The . Public health service issues its own depressing statistic. It says that every year More than 300,000 americans die prematurely because of smoking. At Issue Are thousands perhaps Mil Lions of lives and Many billions of Dol Lars in corporate sales and earnings and in tax  Large sums of Money Are spent to promote tobacco products tax funds Are eaten up in the fight against Debili Tating diseases which the critics of smoking say Are causally related to these of tobacco. The controversy Between the tobacco Industry a major contributor to taxes in the . And the world is drawn around this Paradox. The stakes Are huge. It promises to continued on Page 10, col. 1  authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 155 0�" Ond sunday tuesday september 20,1977 if 21855 a Candy kisses in Berlin of race As Factor in student Choice Justice dept. Asks retired air Force  Halvorsen the original Candy bomber of the Berli Airlift is kissed by 10 year old Berline Karin Amthauer at Tempelhof Central air port open House. Hal Worsen was the Pilot who began tying Candy and gum in handkerchief parachutes an dropping them to Chil Dren during the Airlift. Other photos Story on Page 3. Is Milia parched California soaked by Rains san Francisco up rain Beautiful rain poured Down on Northern California monday sometimes in torrents bringing Hope that the worst drought in the state s history May be  county North of san Francisco one of the areas hardest hit by the two year drought had nearly two inches of  City on the Northern coast also had an Inch and three quarters an downtown san Francisco got half an Inch within an  drought parched Central Valley farmlands and Orchards also were drenched. Some streets in the City and suburb were flooded by a sudden heavy downpour about 6  will take a lot More rain before the drought can be written into the record books however. Most of the state s reservoirs Are less than half filled and need Winter of heavy Snow in the mountains to bring them the Spring Runoff that . But after months of below Normal Mois Ture monday s rain was Well above the usual september amounts. We got More rain in an hour than the Normal average for the whole month of september a weather official said. The rain was expected to diminish to showers monday with Clearing by tues  could not say whether the weather patterns which caused the drought of the past two Winters Are ending. During the 1976-77 Rainy season a High pressure system off the California coast continued on Page 28, col. 1 Washington a the Carter administration monday asked the supreme court to Rule that medical schools can con Sider the race of would be students in an affirmative action special admissions program. The action was seen As a Victory for civil rights groups that had feared the Justice department position might weaken affirmative action programs mandating hiring and school enrolment of  claim that such affirmative action programs often result in reverse discrimination shutting College and employment doors to More qualified Whites. The Justice department suggested that the High court not reach a decision however on whether Allan Bakke should be admitted to the University of California at Davis medical , a White Man who was rejected for admission to the medical school in 1973 and 1974, successfully argued before the California supreme court that he was the victim of racial discrimination. Bakk claimed that he would have been admitted if not for the school s practice of reserving 16 of its 100 entering class spots for disadvantaged  said that those students selected for the special admissions program were never White and that they were less academically qualified than he. The University appealed the California continued on Page 28, col. 3 Magazine says comic books giving gis distorted View of Germany p. 8