European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 1968 the stars and stripes Page 5 Strong or confine gum helps some kick smoking Boston a chewing double strength Nic Otine gum appears to significantly improve smokers chances of kicking the habit if they Ore heavily addicted to cigarettes a new study concludes. Doctors in Denmark found thai heavily dependent Unkert were five times More Likely to stay Oft cigarettes for two years if they used the High dose gum rather than the Standard variety. In i hair study they tested gum hat contains 4 milligrams of nicotine twice the nicotine intensity of Nicole Ltd gum the Brand sold by prescription in the United states. When the smoker is highly hooked on nicotine he does much better if he gels 4 Milligram gum said or. Philip Tonnsen who directed the study at Gen loft Hospital in Copenhagen. Mar Rel Dow pharmaceuticals plans to ask the food Ani drug administration for permission to sell a 4 Milligram version of Nicole Etc in the United slates. Nicotine gum is intended 10 satisfy smokers craving for nicotine while they break their tobacco habit. When the strategy works smokers arc eventually Able to Slop chewing the gum As Well. However Itie results of studies of the gum s effectiveness have been mixed. Some have shown thai it helps while when found no advantage to using the gum. Or. Jack Henningfield of Johns Hopkins said the danish study supports the idea thai the gum May not work if it fails to give people enough nicotine. The ground that in Breaks is so obvious that you would assume Hal in had already been established Henning fold said. This is that bigger doses work belief in people who Are More dependent. Believe it or not that has not been shown in a clinical trial until now. John Pinicy Cucu chive director of the Harvard Institute for study of smoking behaviour and policy said that just As with any other drag different people need different doses of nicotine the significance of the 2 Milligram gum is that it works As Well Ai it does he said. In the latest study published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine smokers also received group counselling to help them break their habit. Tonnesen said his study shows that physicians can treat smoking and they Don t need to Send a Licals to psychologists for help with their problem. In Ibe study 173 smokers filled out questionnaires about their smoking habits and cravings. A tier scoring their answers he doctors divided them into iwo groups those highly dependent on smoking and those with medium or Low dependence. Note with intense habits were randomly assigned to use either 2 Milligram or 4 Milligram gum after two years 33 percent of those who got the 4 Milli Gram gum were still off cigarettes compared with 6 percent of the smokers who got the maker gum. Those with lower cigarette dependence were As signed 10 receive either 2 Milligram gum or placebos. After two years 28 percent of those who chewed nicotine gum had broken their smoking habit com pared with 9 percent of people who received Placebo gum. Education chief flooded with aids Booklet requests Washington a Secretary of education William a Bennett wednes Day said he has ordered t million More copies of his aids education guide to meet a flood of request from educators worried about the deadly virus. The initial Supply of 850,000 copies of aids and inc education of our Chil Dren has been depleted and Bennett s department has a backlog of requests for 434,000 More. Bennett has bickered with surgeon general c. Everett Koop Over what Chil Dren should be taught about aids. Ben Nett has warned thai condoms can re Duce but by no Means eliminate inc risk of contracting  Dennett began offering parents and teachers his free guide three months go. In still has a Long Way to go to catch up with the surgeon general s report on  Public health service spokesman Jim Brown said 12 million copies of Koop s report have been distributed since late 1986. Bennett s guide combines a Dis Cussion of medical fads about inc Dis ease with suggestions on How la protect children. It emphasizes the leaching of morality and sexual restraint As the Busl safeguard the department of education is furnishing 131,000 copies to a medical Jour Nal medical aspects of human sexual Ity to mail to family physicians nationwide. Among Bennett s publications the aids Booklet is second in demand Only to a schools without drugs guide. Some 1.8 million copies of die anti drug manual have been distributed since fall the aids epidemic. Risk groups am remaining about la sum i  Cawi Dib Timma by Roig i 9" i rate of Incasa h toys tons of herein in Row out by a in  changing or Tea of dmdlo1mngtlw� Pune a Ting Ratoft a in Ura Aandal 81 aids or Tenn 25 the Figuir Era of late sept wow a Ach b oar pfc Anbini to nol i a to 100 Aid to Loim Dong 1936. People want help Bennett said. Drugs and aids strike a nerve with everybody. They Are not the kinds of is sues which people arc prepared to say Well Lei s leave thai to our authorities to our experts they want to find out about those things for  Bennett mailed 30x1,000 copies in no vember to principals school boards superintendents and it a presidents along with a idler inviting them to while him for More. Principals school nurses and other educators have written Back requesting hundreds and in some cases thousands or copies. Eileen g. Weld the Community relations coordinator for Rose tree Media which is transmitted primarily through the Exchange of contaminated body flu ids or blood. Most victims have been homosexual or intravenous drug Abus Ere. Bennoll Laid the 1 million new copies of the aids Booklet with be available in several weeks. They Cost 18 cents each to print plus roughly the same amount to distribute according 10 an aide Michael Jackson. That would put he total Cost Over 1600,000. Some of inc Money May come from Block Grant funds the department nor Mally disc Ribbles 10 states. Individual copies of aids and iced cation of our children Are available by writing consumer information Cen Ter department de Pueblo co 81009. Inoue defends sending . Old to jews in France Honolulu a sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii in an interview published thursday defended his role in persuading Congress to approve j8 Mil lion to build schools in France for jews who emigrated from North Africa. Inouye said in a Story in thursday s editions of the Honolulu advertiser bal he supported the Money for the schools to help the jews preserve their cultural identity. The measure included in a s600 Bil Tjon spending Bill approved by Congress last month has been criticized by the slate department and by other members of Congress. Rep. Harris a Fawell r-iii., said he 18 million included in the state depart ment s budget for Refuge pcs shocked and angered me Asil did Many of my constituents. The North african jews who have settled in France arc not considered Refu gees by the stale department the United nations or the French government. Most arc French citizens Ana have lived in France for More than a decade. Many have prospered. But Inouye said their religion Lan Guage and culture is inc thread thai provided their  Inouye chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations pressed for the s8 million in a House Senate con Ference committee according to House members. School District in Media pa., asked for 4,000. We d like to Send one Home with each child she explained. Hawaii school superintendent Charlest Toguchi called the guide excellent and asked for 300 copies to Dis tribute to secondary teachers. Wyoming requested 5,000 copies to distribute to All teachers in the slate. A new Orleans principal asked for 500 or As Many As you can  a Naranja fla., principal asked for 700, saying this information is so vitally important that i believe mass distribution is necessary acquired immune deficiency syn drome has struck 49,743 americans and killed 27,909 of Ihm As of dec 28. There is no known cure for the virus Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 8, 1948 the United slates and British military governors meeting in Frankfurt presented to the germans proposals for a German administration with far greater Powers in the Biz onal area. 30 years ago . 8, 1958 the White House disclosed thai president Eisenhower planned to switch to Jet plane travel. The president had been travelling on the Columbine Iii a Piston engine Craft. 20 years ago today. Jan. 8, 1968 America s first adult heart transplant a tical 54-Yeamjid retired Sec worker Mike Kasperak awakened in his Stanford University medical Center room in satisfactory condition after having undergone surgery the Day before. J0 years ago today. Jan. 1978  american world airways said in would propose budget fares knocking up to 60 percent off the Price of a regular Economy round trip to London from Washington Detroit and Boston