European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday november 21, 1985 give it up for great american smoke out service members encouraged to drop puffing for 1 Day of least by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau Heidelberg army health officials in Europe Are hoping 10,000 Active duty soldiers will take part in the great american smoke out today sponsored by the american cancer society. That figure represents about 10 percent of Europe s estimated 100,000 Active duty army members said capt. Leslie Brous scan health fitness consultant for the 7 h medical come. Many american hospitals in Europe Are sponsoring fitness programs and information campaigns to help those who want to quit. Brousseau said. Programs include special dental appointments Tor those who want to see what White Teeth look like which is something the cancer society suggests in its quit Srno King plans several exchanges will have Booths with doctors and nurses pro Viding health information. Some hospitals and dispensaries Are providing follow up service for those who make it through the smok cout Day. Cold Turkey lunch specials at Hospital dining facilities and amnesty bins where you can toss your useless cigarettes will also be available. The army is asking non smokers and sex smokers to adopt a smoker and help him or her through the Day. Non smoking participants can pick up adopt a smoker certificates at Many hospitals and dispensaries. Brousseau said Shell try to Esti mate the number of people who participate in the smok cout by the number of certificates medical people distribute. A spokeswoman for Safe said . Air forces in Europe does t have a com Mand wide program to encourage airmen to give up smokes for the Day but some programs will be held at local facilities. A spokesman for the Navy in London said that he was t aware of any theater wide Navy sponsored event for thursday but that local Navy commands had been encouraged to participate. The Navy has also established a special Telephone num Ber in Washington do which people interested in kicking the habit can Call for advice and encouragement the spokesman said. Two things differentiate this year s army Campaign from previous campaigns Brousseau said. One is that the emphasis this year is on giving up tobacco in All its forms and not just cigarettes. A lot of people Are using a lot of other forms of tobacco she said. The second change in the 1985 smoke out is that health officials have made women the target of much of the Campaign s literature. The trend is that More women Are smoking Brouss Caa said. We re really starting to see the results. For the tint time we expect lung cancer to surpass breast cancer As the leading cause of death among women this  Brousseau said statistics show men have had better Luck Lucking the habit than women. A recent Gallup poll showed that White 31 percent of men were smokers an additional 29 percent said they had Given up smoking. The percentage of women smoking was 28 percent but Only 17 per cent Laid they had quit. In february a coalition of anti smoking groups in Washington charged that the defense department was t doing enough to fight smoking. The coalition cited de sense department data that indicated 53.3 percent of men and 51.7 percent of women in the military smoke. That s about 20 percent greater than men and wont in the nation As a whole a coalition spokes Man said. In mid-1983 a military health policy conference made two smoking recommendations to the assistant Secretary of de sense for health affairs or. William Mayer. They recommended that the Price of cigarettes in exchanges and commissaries be raised and that cigarette vending machines be banned from bases. Mayer said that trying an outright ban on cigarettes on military bases would be unrealistic since cigarettes would be available off poet. But making cigarettes no bargain makes some sense Mayer said. Let s have a bigger profit margin that does not encourage  defense statistics put cigarette prices in the military stores 26 to 42 percent below those in nearby civilian grocery stores. The coalition cited studies that concluded that in 1982 about 21 percent of High school seniors in America said they smoked. Defense department data she total More than 52 percent of military Pentad 19 Yean old or younger smoke. The department s data also show that decaf is on rank 54 percent to 60 percent Fob listed members smoke among officers. The proportion of smokers by rank varied fam 19 percent to 28 percent. It s because you smell bad Dan the done if i m going to live. / can breathe of god. This must be scene from a Woody Allen movie. The woman of my dreams tall blonde Lithe with advanced degrees in electrical engineering and zen buddhism she s leaving me because i smell like rat. Ill change i boat As she Walki out the door. Ill clean the curtains and Start brushing my Teeth. I la write Ann Landers and us for help Only please Don t leave me and the door claim shut behind her. I Mash a butt in my Vintage world War ii bran Shell casing ashtray and gently Caress the pm soiled Slipper i d wrenched from Glori a s tender foot As she Odd try stench. I know who s done tins to me. They re everywhere Philip Morris lobbyists and Tough looking role Mode s on Well lit Bill boards. I fight but a a just one Man. Capitalists made a invt of me those inside Iau geeks. They be forced upon me this mad compulsion to  life through a Bur Ning tube. Now they be Cost me my Gloria. The next Day at work and i m ready to news up Ciau defect. The Telephone rings the Boss. Wollam yeah chief you be got the great american smoke out. Don t screw it up. Have a Nice  right  of god. It s a conspiracy. The Boss never liked me give me a cigarette. These right Wing Over energized health clowns Are trying to Force me to Trade my sanity for a Tittle clean air. Well i be got news for them. There s a lot of air out there and they can find their own. This could be political. They re testing the Domino theory. Next they la want my Jack Kerouac books they la Tell me to hand Over my bugs Bunny videos and mad dog 20-20. Well i won t do it Ril keep smoking if h tills me. Besides it s All a pack of lies. I be quit be fore. I know the Story. They say you la live longer can i Bear More Days in this world without Gloria they say your health improves. What really happens is that you Flop through three Days of agony like a beached whale you scream at any living body that dares Cross your martyred path. Then after three Days of heroic struggle you begin to feel Normal. What fun is there in that i Don t want Normal. 1 want ecstasy i want to leap tall buildings in a single bound. I want a religious experience. I want Glor Aback. And 1 can t just give up cigarettes. This takes thought. This takes planning. Some of the 20th Century s most mind jumping philosophical issues reach critical mass when one ponders giving up the self induced death of cigarette. One must strive to maintain aesthetic distance from a world that is healthy beyond All reason a world that prefers eau de Cologne sparkling White Teeth and unnaturally healthy slue tones to the natural doors appearances and diseases brought on by one of nature s own tobacco. If i continue to smoke i can justify Gloria s smoker freed on bail London a a court has freed on bail an american Salesman who insisted on smoking a Cigar in a no smoking Section of a jumbo Jet the Twa Jet in route from Athens Greece to new York made an unscheduled Slop at London s Heathrow Airport after police said a serious skirmish flared up in the no smoking area. The plane continued its journey after a four hour delay. Steven Zavaris 52, of Jackson mm., was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm to a passenger aboard the plane. Zavaris looking dishevelled and unshaven wept at us badge magistrates court when the magistrate adjourned his Case until nov. 28. The amount of bail was not revealed in court. Crash victim Dies St. Louis a a 15-year-old girl has died of injuries suffered in the crash of her school bus in which the Driver has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault for allegedly racing with a car. Cynthia Alexander of St Louis died of massive head injuries at Normandy Oito Pathic Hospital North said Hospital spokesman Cecille Whitemon. She had been in a coma since the nov. 11 crash which killed another student Kimberly Lajoyce Bogan 18. Eleven other students and the Driver Mark Trice also were injured. Trice 26, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault. He is being held in the St. Louis county jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. Model indicted Milan Italy a american Fashun Model Terry Broome has been indicted on a charge of premeditated murder in connection with the slaying of a prominent Milan Racehorse owner Judi Cial officials sail Broome 26. Of Elgin s.c., was charged in an indictment of shooting and falling Francesco d Alcuin 40. D Alessio was killed june 26,1984. Leaving me As the oppressive Workings of society s suly norms on my otherwise Jovial free spirit of a soul. The woman is just too dumb to appreciate my True spontaneity. Besides All that one has to keep sonet big despicable in his life to give up for Lent. These questions take time to consider. They could take years. If i do it right i can Ponder these profound questions until my fingers Yel Low my toes scream for blood at the cod of constricted veins my lungs collapse and my already broken heart fed up with Yean of pumping sludge and suffering through erratic 6 an. Nicotine induced jump starts beats its pathetic premature last. Ring ring.  i Gloria. This is Dan. I be done it i m going to live. I m free at last free at last i can breathe again. Wanna go jogging Wanna climb the matterhorn Wanna fed my Sweet smelling sultry breath caressing your creamy supple Marie Osmond like neck it could be Gloria had other reasons for leaving me. But i la be ready for her if she Ever changes her mind. I still have my Jack Kerouac books my videos and mad dog20-20. And 1 smell like a Brand new Man. Dan Wollam correction an article appearing in wednesday s Edi Tion concerning the retail Sale being held by the defense re utilization and marketing service office in Mainz Kastel contained an incorrect Date. The Sale is scheduled for nov. 29. A woman in a photo feature on an Arm or suing Competition in Vilseck in tues Day s edition was incorrectly identified As Wanda Lambert. The woman is Marsha Branstetter. The stars and stripes regret the error