European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday february 24.1986 smoking cuts women s Edge in longevity researcher says Pittsburgh a women arc losing their life expectancy advantage Over men because of the growing number of female smokers not because of increased stress a researcher said saturday. The life expectancy of men and women will be about the same in the next 40 to 50 years said Gus h. Miller director of studies on smoking inc., a non profit group. Firstly women Are smoking More. Secondly men in the older age group have teen quilling smoking at double the rate of women so they Are living longer he said in at Clephone interview. Miller 61, a statistician and one time smoker studied statistics compiled by the National Center for health statistics for american men and women who died after age 30 Between 1920 and 1983. He found that women lived an average of one or two years longer than men in 1920, a ratio that climbed to a High of 7.8 years in the late 1970s. The longevity difference has fallen steadily since then and stood at seven years in 1983, the latest year for which accurate figures Are available. Miller said. The average american Man lived to be 71.7 years old in 1983, while the average woman lived to be 78.7. Smoking is the Best explanation of the longevity differences he said. Increased rates of mortality closely Cor respond to the smoking habits of men and women Over the past  Miller discounts theories that attribute the widening longevity ratio at least until the 1980s, to a genetic inferiority among men or hormone Protection among women. He also does not accept the explanation that women s emergence in High pressure jobs has shortened their life expectancy. Stress is not the answer he said adding that he s comparing male smokers in High pressure jobs with their non smoking male counterparts. Black men and women for example lived to about the same age in 1920, Miller said. But once Black males began smoking in greater numbers after world War ii the Gap widened and peaked at 8.8 years during the 1970s, he said. Smoking in America mate Fermata 60% 20 0 in portent \. Smoker a to / former note re a.1964-66 70 75 "80 155 estimate Chogo Tutu Ottrok son. Of on for 30 10 0 1964 Mem pc. Luj. 66 7 Huttt 5mok��rn  _ Moke t i 1 i 1 i 1 ii 1 i 0 75 1� Najj is the longevity difference Between Black men and women stood at about 8.2 years in 1983. Putting these two comparisons together none of the other theories can come close to explaining it he said. Miller whose latest findings were reported in the february edition of the new York state journal of Medicine previously studied More than 10,000 people Over age 30 who died during the 1970s. He found that non smoking males lived an average of 12 years longer than smoking males and that non smoking females lived an average of 16 years longer than female smokers. In a study published two years ago. Miller reported that women whose husbands smoked cigarettes died of cancer at nearly twice the rate of those whose husbands did not smoke. He also found that non smoking wives who worked out Side the Home and thus were exposed to cigarette smokers had a higher incidence of cancer than non smoking wives who remained at Home where no one smoked. Halley s Comet once More in sight after being hidden by Sun s Glare los Angeles a Halley s Comet hidden from earthbound viewers by the Sun s Glare since Tate january has been sighted again by professional astronomers officials said saturday. It is actually far enough away from the Sun that with the right tricks you can see it said Chris Clark night research assistant at lick Observatory near san Jose Calif. But he said it probably would be several More Days before viewers who Aren t professional astronomers can see the Comet reports filed with the Halley s Comet computer bulletin Board at Arizona state University in Tempe show the Comet has been spotted by the naked Eye binoculars and telescopes by astronomers around the world since feb. 15. Storms in Northern California have prevented any re cent sightings from lick Observatory Clark said. The Comet disappeared from View late last month As it moved to the Side of the Sun away from Earth. While not actually blocked by the Sun Glare from the Sun made views of the Comet from Earth impossible except to Astron tracking Halley s Comet. March 15-Aprt to 1986 ?ar-1 Sci for a prob dog who drank anti freeze receives litter mate s kidney Columbus Ohio up Oden a mixed Breed dog who ruined his kidneys by drinking anti freeze is Home again after receiving a new kidney in a $12,000 operation. Oden who received the kidney from a litter mate was released from Ohio state University veterinary Hospital where he underwent the operation. He is owned by Martha Johnson of Gambier. Dogs As do humans have two kidney but need Only one to survive. While Oden received a new kidney he also kept his own damaged kidneys veterinarians said. Doctors said the Bill will be about $12,000. The veterinary school received about $1,000 in donations and Oden s owner will pay about j 1,500. The remainder will be absorbed by the school As a re search and teaching expense. Omers using telescopes equipped to filter out the Glare. It also was observed by an ultraviolet Detector aboard the Pioneer 12 spacecraft orbiting Venus. One of the first optical sightings since the Comet emerged from the Sun s Glare was made at Dawn feb. 15 by astronomers Richard West and h. Debe Hogne Accord ing to a report filed in the Asu computer by Brian Manden of the Central Bureau for astronomical Tele Grams in Cambridge mass. West and Debe Hogne used a Telescope at the european Southern Observatory in Chile. The astronomers also were Able to spot the Comet with binoculars and with the naked Eye said the report by Manden whose Agency serves As a Clearinghouse for astronomical observations. Another naked Eye sighting feb. Is was reported by t. Lovejoy of Brisbane Australia according to the computerized bulletin Board. Other telescopic sightings were reported by astronomers in Houston Geisel Japan and at table Mountain Observatory near los Angeles. Binocular sightings have been reported by scientists at Merida Venezuela Harare Zimbabwe and Sendai Japan. The next period for Good viewing will be March 8 to 21, when the Moon is absent from the pre Dawn sky. The Comet reached Perihelion its closest approach to the Sun feb. 9, then began its return trip to the outer reaches of the solar system. Halley s Comet orbits the Sun about every 76 years. It will make its closest approach to Earth about 39million Miles on april 10. Stateside lottery Winner plans to Send some Money to Kin in Vietnam Kansas City to. A two yearn after he slowed away on a fishing boat to escape from Vietnam Nguyen Long Hoang has won $100,000 in the Missouri Iam very Happy Nguyen 22, said in the Little in. Glish he has Learned since arriving in the United states from a refugee Camp in Malaysia. He is employed at a chandelier company in Kansas City Kan. Through a fellow worker acting As an interpreter Nguyen said he Hopes to Send some of the Money he won tuesday to his parents seven Sisters and two Brothers still living in Vietnam. There s no Freedom there he said. Los Angeles county population on a Roll. Should continue los Angeles a los Angeles county s population surged by up to 658,000 people to As High at 8.135 million in the last six years accelerating a growth rate that lagged in the 1970s, according to the most recent government tallies. The Rise is largely due to higher birthrates George Marr chief of the county s population studies said. Los Angeles county s population. Is on a Roll Marr said. The growth is sustaining itself and should continue through the remainder of the 1 980s, at  abortion sterilization policies dropped by Catholic hospitals Hartford Conn. A three Catholic hospitals have dropped from their employees health insurance poli cies coverage for abortions and sterilizations at the re quest of archbishop John f. Whealon officials say. The simple fact of the matter is that these procedures Are not in Accord with the teaching of the Catholic Church the Rev. Thomas Barry director of pro life affairs for the Hartford archdiocese said. There s a grow ing awareness on the part of the Catholic Church in the United states for the need to give Concrete witness to our pro life  2 More roaming Buffalo killed in Montana s special Hunt Gardiner Mont. A two More Buffalo that roamed outside the protective boundaries of Yellowstone National Park have been killed by Hunten in Montana s special Bison Hunt state wildlife officials said. The Hunten shot two Bison cows in the Eagle Creek area Between Gardiner and Jardine just North of the Park fish wildlife and Parks department spokesman Don Bianchi said. Fifty to 60 Buffalo were outside the Park Bianchi Laid but the rate of Bison movement outside the Park has stowed. During the real cold weather the Buffalo started mov ing but with the warmer weather there s not so much movement he said. Since the Buffalo Hunting season opened dec. 1. 16 animals have been shot by Hunten in the state s first Buffalo Hunt in 25 years. The legislature authorized a Buffalo Hunting season because state livestock officials feared that Park Bison with brucellosis will infect nearby cattle and cause them to abort their calves. Brucellosis also can cause contagious und ulant fever in humans. Dog saves toddler attacks poisonous Snake near child Humble Tern up a Doberman pins her has saved n toddler from a poisonous Copperhead Snake lurking near where the child was playing. General an i8-month-old Doberman alerted the Chim i Mother. Candy Gaudin by Barking then attacked the Snake the woman said. The incident occurred shortly after noon As 14-month old Kenny Gaudin and Bis sister Sarah 5, played in the Yard of their Home near Humble. The Mother alerted by the dog s Barking and Kenny s crying found the child sprawled facedown near a Wood ii she grabbed the child and seconds later the dog Bur rowed beneath the logs and returned with a wriggling 18 Inch Long Copperhead. The dog dropped the Snake and Gaudy killed it with a Rake