European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V Page 18 the Sta Fife and stripes columns cigarette victims deserve compensation by Ellen Goodman in the past two people 1 was close to died of lung it goes without saying that these two were both cigarette they had bought their first Lucky strike or Camel or Chesterfield As teenagers in the they had smoked thousands of Cartons of dozens of brands two packs a three packs a Day until they one of them tried to quit 20 another had in the Hospital because he want allowed to smoke around his oxygen i dont say this to disqualify myself from writing about but rather to As a i have to ask this who is to blame for these two or for the other americans parents who died of smoking related diseases last year the daily the medical even the cigarette these smokers carried warn Ings about the lethal dangers of some studies documented the link Between smoking and ill we rent these Consumers responsible for what they inhaled didst they kill themselves what about the tobacco Industry year after the people who write for the tobacco Institute go on rebutting the medical trying to convince us that cigarettes Are not the companies have spent billion a year in advertising to entice especially Young to dont they Bear any responsibility for manufacturing and marketing such a lethal product these questions of responsibility personal and corporate will be argued in the courtroom this Spring by dying smokers their survivors who Are suing tobacco juries in new Minnesota and West Virginia will decide whether people who lit their own cigarettes can turn around and collect payments from the companies that manufactured they will decide whether a manufacturer who denied any smoking can turn around and claim that a Cus Tomer smoked at his own the Spring rash of cases is no it comes out of the present antismoking climate and out of recent changes in the liability in the last few courts have ruled that a product is unreasonably dangerous when the risks outweigh the such a they have has to carry very explicit the courts had looked at at Why not go after the most dangerous drug of All the Law was All ready to be applied to says Richard a professor at northeastern University school of he started the tobacco products liability pro a group of doctors and lawyers working on the strategy for suing tobacco they believe that smokers Are not fully to blame for their smoking int a free but an Addic the warnings carried on the cigarette packages vastly understate the dangers of smoking and ignore those of at the same the ads proffer counter messages of health and Daynard says the suit strategy is the latest ammunition of frustrated Public interest groups against the to Bacco we would prefer to have kept the epidemic from says but this compensates the it produces a lot of very de tailed publicity on just How bad cigarettes and if the Cost of litigation could raise the Price of cigarettes to or a pack it would reduce consumption in the next group of potential these cases Are not going to be easily smoking is an but there Are millions around who have kicked the few of us Are comfortable regarding the smoker As a helpless victim of the but the tobacco Industry does have a full measure of guilt for the epidemic of smoking for the billion a year medical in most Consumers can recover some damages from the manufacturer of a Dan Geruus product even when they were partially to blame for their own at the very makers should share the Cost of the the threat of suit might even Force the tobacco Industry to do something truly to Stop denying the link Between smoking and lung heart the least compensation owed to the survivors is the Slang is the garlic in your spice rack by James Kilpatrick nearly 50 years have passed since Eric the Oxford published his dictionary of Slang unconventional six revised editions followed the first six years after partridges Macmillian is publishing a massive eighth thumbing through the a word Lover is bound to be impressed by the sheer inventiveness that Marks our Mother at a Partridge and his successor Paul must have rounded up or entries for this probably 10 percent of the if 1 am not have some scatological it is a testimony to mans eternal interest in woman to note the awesome volume of Slang that has to do with As Beale notes in a Slang is both ephemeral and terms creep into popular enjoy a Brief life and pass out of the lexicographer has to snatch from the winds of speech whatever he can get As a Gale of words goes etymology its often Are baffled by Slang what was the origin of or or 23 skid because Slang is primarily the seasoning of rather than of we hear and understand Slang words before we can savor them in a dictionary of Slang performs two useful services for the the first is to permit us to use Slang accurately the second is to warn us when not to use Slang at if browsing through Partridge enriches our Vocab ulary even if the browsing turns up words that cannot be used in polite company so much the at partridges eighth will be a luxury item for most libraries and publishing because it deals largely with British As distinguished from Ameri can its value will be limited for american for Partridge defines Moonshine As smuggled and entirely overlooks such americanisms As rot gut and Tiger the British lexicographers evidently know nothing of for such terms As bean grass foul Ball and horse hide find no in to say someone blew it Means that someone missed an Opportunity in Partridge it Means that some one informed the browsing an inquisitive american will look in vain for goof mamas Model setback and All of these terms appear in the dictionary of american Slang compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner and published by this remains a reliable the Best advice i can offer on this topic is to treat Slang with great Slang is garlic on your spice to indulge in a Slang word that has not achieved widespread understanding is to risk confusing your read in the current bulletin of the american society of newspaper a writer asks a question about Edi tors How come so Many of them tend to be geeks the Only Geek in my vocabulary is the sideshow Freak who bites Heads off but this is not the kind of Geek the author had in there is a More serious risk you May deeply offend Many of your readers who have lived relatively sheltered and unsophisticated therefore use these exotic words sparingly and Only for special in serious avoid colloquialisms and Slang there is a time and place to refer to an old Man As an old or even As an old something but pick your time and place with Universal press Syndicate what nov today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 1 Fountain fare 5 parisian pal 8 refrain syllables 12 norms 14 cuckoos 15 Singer Barbara 16 Western state 17 print units 18 desire eagerly 20 Singer Lena 23 Dagger 24 Border on 25 part of Fri 28 poetic contraction 29 walks in water 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