European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday apr 18, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 7 airline smoking ban starts saturday new York not the no smoking Light will slay on for Good starting saturday on about to percent of the airline flights within the United Laws. The april 23 ban. Involving virtually All trial scheduled for two Houn or Kis will affect More americans than any other single smoking restriction. Supporter and opponents Eipel some confusion and resentment but surveys of airline passengers show that an overwhelming majority supports such a ban. And the experience of american and foreign amen that have banned smoking suggests that on the. Whole this restriction will be enthusiastically accepted. The question seem to be whether tile Law which expires in two years will soon include longer nights. North West airlines has already announced that it will prohibit smoking on All Domestic flights even those of almost six hours claiming its Advance reservations have jumped As a result calling the response nothing Short of phenom  Congress ordered the Rule in december after two dec Ades of pressure from consumer and health groups and warnings by the surgeon general of the unite states and the National Academy of sciences about the dangers of secondhand smoking in an enclosure like an airline Cabin. The tobacco Industry Calls the new Law an intrusion on individual rights and argues that most people or satisfied with the current separation of smoker and non smokers. It contends that scientific evidence on tobacco smoke on air planes does not warrant a ban. A violator faces a civil Fine of up of 11 ,000. Anyone who tampers with a smoke Detector in a plane s lavatory could be fined up to 12,000. All flights that Laic two hours or less Cicel travel club and charter rips and flight to foreign destinations will be affected. If a Long flight is broken into segments As is common each leg of ices than two hours is covered by the ban. Most of the half billion american airline passengers carried annually would be affected according to he air transport association an Industry group. All told almost 30 percent of american adults Lew in air planes last year. While More than 40 tales and More than 300 municipalities have adopted some restriction on smoking and the largest Federal agencies limit smoking in offices no regulation affects so Many people. Airlines will encounter hostility from a few smokers caught unaware or angry about the smoking ban said John . Executive director of action on smoking and health which started a drive to curb smoking in 1969. But after a while he said people will gel used to it just As they did after the beginning of smoking and no smoking sections on air planes in 1973." also effectively supporting the new Rule Art the sheer Humbert of airline passengers who do not smoke or do not like to smoke aloft. While about 30 percent of american adults smoke the figure is far lower among the most affluent and educated and people i White Collar occupations said Lori a. Crane a re search analyst at Irie Urcla Jonson cancer  Are the people most Likely to Fly. And Fly often. Recent surveys by airlines have found that fewer than 10 percent of their passengers Are smoker and thai fewer prefer to sit i a smoking Section. Also the number of smoker continues to  findings have inspired other countries to ban smoking. Air Canada banned it on flights of two hours or ins a year ago and Canadian airlines International extended the ban to All Domestic flight. The Canadia government prohibited smoking on All flights Shorter than two hours in december at the same time thai Australia banned in on Domestic  major airlines in the soviet Union Sweden saudi Arabia Hungary and South Africa forbid smok ing on Many night. A California ban applying to Intra state flights tool effect in  new ban has produced a few unpleasant Inci dents. Air Canada reports cases in which people trying to Light up in the lavatory set off smoke alarms. Ca Nadian airlines reports one Case in which a passenger dismantled a lavatory s smoke Detector he was met on arrival at Bis destination by an airline official and a police officer. Two major California airlines us air and american report no serious incidents on their nights in the four month under the California ban. School will allow irs to steal tax payment n1cev1lle, Fla. A the Rocky Bayou Christian school says it Wilt Lei the internal Revenue service steal four Yean of social Security taxes it has refused to pay on ground they violate religious Freedom. The non denominational school of More than 300 students agreed Friday to place nearly s90.600 in a Bank account that the irs can then seize said school director Bob Crete. Since we Are not going to write a Check for that amount they re going to steal it grate said. Neither Sidecar tolerate continuing this  the school has refused to pay so Cial Security contributions for its employees since 1984, claiming the Levy amounts to a tax on god. The iks withheld efforts to Force col Lection until the . Supreme court last month refused to hear an Appeal in a similar Case involving the Bethel Baptist Church of Sellersville a. We have an obligation to proclaim the authority of god. We re being asked by human government to do what god would forbid grate said. We can l pay the  social Security Cost focused on undocumented workers a farms and ranches but no one was arrested at his work place on saturday Carter said. Those who agreed to return to Mexico and had no criminal records were put on buses late saturday afternoon. The 15 who did not return to Mexico Are being held at the ins detention facility in Al Centre and Are expected to appear before an immigration judge this week. School officials take Strong action after fowl play fa1rv1ew Park. Ohio a the assistant principal thought it a deed most foul when student pranksters released 25 clucking chickens in a school auditorium while a theater troupe recited shake Speare. Twelve Fairview High school students received 10-Day suspensions for the prank Friday during the performance of Shakespeare on Broadway and West Side Story by the Cleveland opera on tour. They May feel it was a prank but or do not consider in humorous said assistant principal Charles Kulik it Dis Turbed a very Fine program and was no a in Good till. To the trek the student would let Loose live Chicken. It s a very embarrassing  the performer did t real ii what was happening until Kulik interrupted to Apo Logue to the troupe and dress Dow the seniors Betsy Clark in assistant in the opera s Lour department said she did t believe the chickens had ruined the performance. They did Well under the pretty bad circumstances she said. I saw differ ent teachers trying to catch the chickens. One teacher caught one and headed out the door with it the Kidi juried i Juling and clapping and the pen Onnen could t figure out Why they were laugh ing and applauding right in the Middle of a serious Shakespeare