European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes James Kilpatrick no one made Rose Cipollone Light up a a a Treffe Tec Naif t nut a. .1 Rose Cipollone we see by the papers began smoking in 1941. She smoked heavily for 43 years. She died of lung cancer in 1984 Al the age of 58. A few Days ago a Federal jury in new Jersey awarded her estate a $400,000 judgment against the Liggett group makers of Lam cigarettes. In was a bum rap. A bum rap for this reason the verdict was one More manifestation of a disease that afflicts our society a disease More prevalent and More devastating than cancer or aids. Call in the Devi made me do it syndrome. Or to Label it More bluntly Call it irresponsibility for that i what it is. Cipollone was neither deaf nor Blind. We May fairly assume thai she read newspapers and magazines thai she watched television that she communicated Wilh neighbors. She was not Liv ing in a nunnery or in a Hermit s Cave. She was living in new Jersey for Pete s Sake not on some uninhabited Island. The Point is that she knew that smok ing was a Hazard to her health. She knew in in the same Way that one knows about edged tools rickety ladders and re arcaded tires. At Leasi since 1966, when her los began to carry the surgeon general s Label she held Stem warnings in tier hand. She lighted up in Defiance of Public cautions and common sense. She smoked because she wanted to smoke. The Devil did l make her do it. The advertising did t make her do in. Shedid it All by her Little old self. The trial jury waffled by concluding Fiat cipo Lonc was so percent responsible.  she was 100 percent responsible. Over the past 10 years since the surgeon general s report of 1979, an estimated 10 million people have slopped smoking. There were an estimated 30 million sex smokers then there Are an estimated 40 million now. The lady might have been among thai number. She wilfully chose to take a Hance. We have reared a generation of Whin ers and Buck passers. The Young person who experiments Wilh drugs won t admit to being stupid no peer pressure is to Tom Wicker we Kochow to vets blame. The boy who drops out of school does t drop out because he s a Lazy bum it s because of his disadvantage  nobody is at fault for anything. A whole system of no fault insurance and no fault divorce has pushed personal responsibility aside. The Devil must be a very Busy fellow. His phone rings All he Lime. 1 said some of these things the other Day in the matter of aids. The fearful disease primarily affects two groups male homosexuals and drug addicts. The virus is transmitted by anal Intercourse and Diny Needles t suggested mildly that Public compassion under these Circum stances might Welt be somewhat re strained. Tins observation produced an indignant letter from a Public relations Guy in the Devil s Home office. Who you Are he said has nothing to do with whether you Are in danger of being infected with the aids virus. What mat ters is what you  precisely. In this business of smoking and lung cancer what matters is what he smoker docs. He smokes. It is a dumb thing to do and everyone with the sense god gave a Grasshopper knows it is dumb thing to do ii is not necessary to buy All of the surgeon general s evidence of causality Lor some of the evidence is on the shaky Side. No investigator cd has been Able to induce cancer in Laboratory animals by subjecting the animals to the inhalation of tobacco smoke. Evidence of causality relies chiefly upon correlations and associations and the kind of raw data that Good statisticians regard with a sceptical Eye. Even so the statistical correlations Are impressive though it remains unclear Why some heavy smokers die of cancer Al 58 and other heavy smokers Slink up the House until they re 90. Without gelling into autopsies and detailed personal his tories we know that heavy smokers As class have Shorter life spans than non smokers or tight smokers. The data on women who smoke is convincing. Var ious statistically valid studies have old us that the smoker who quits and stays quit will reduce the hazards Lohi health. Why then did l Rose Cipollone quit Why Don t All smokers quit the answer is that she simply did l want to quit not in her heart of heart not really and truly. But to accept that hard truth in t easy. Hello Devil Cipollone  i say his phone rings All the time. Dukakis wants to re examine defense priorities it it str few from. A i i i _ n the midget Man is planned As a Small Mobile single warhead missile Invulnerable to attack from but not threatening attack against the soviet Union. Michael Dukakis urges significant reductions in the number of accurate multiple warhead missiles on both sides and retention by both superpowers of an Invulnerable retaliatory Force to deter the other from a Host strike attack. Why then is Dukakis the certain democratic presidential nominee opposed to the midget Man missile on inc face of in this appears to be a contradictory in the defense policies he has proposed in a speech the other night to the Atlantic Council and in an article last Winter in he Magazine arms control today. Dukakis spokesmen say. However that the Gover nor s position is deliberately calculated. He thinks that the Midge than would rest too much 550 billion Over 15 years is the usual estimate that the purposes it s designed to serve might be belter and less expensively met in other ways and that the Money is needed for More important defense priorities. The scowcroft commission which pro posed the mid Gilman and the missile s numerous sup porters in Congress contend thai its mobility would make it More survivable than the silo based missiles that now Are the mainstay of american land based deterrent forces. A single warhead missile moreover would be less threatening sad a less inviting target hence less destabilizing than the my with its 10 warheads or even the minus can i with three War Heads. The Reagan administration wants to build More mrs Dukakis also opposes doing so for the Good reasons that the my is both a first strike weapon and an inviting target for a soviet first strike nol Only docs the mid Gilman therefore seem to fit into Dukakis s concept of an Invulnerable retaliatory Force Bui it also appears to Square with his desire to reduce the number of accurate multiple warhead mis Sites on both sides. Dukakis however wants to decide upon the highest arms control needs and re examine the nation s de sense priorities before committing himself to the major expenditure represented by the Midge Man. A spokes Man insisted thai the governor did nol Rule out modernization of american deterrent forces for which both the my and the midget Man Are designed but believed that other options May yet prove preferable strategically and financially to the Small Mobil missile. He fears for example that going ahead with the midget Man might cause the russians to begin devel Oping even More accurate weapons to overcome the missile mobility. If instead through arms control the most accurate multiple warhead missiles on both sides could be eliminated or greatly reduced in num Ber and no further advances in accuracy Levels for pc Powers have been rid Irie for my Lone in a skim a fwd a a option the Udy utile nut str Svrace super hardening or missile silos might become Possi ppm Ron hmm blk. That is if Moscow could not be sure of delivering enough warheads directly on a silo 10 destroy in and the stationary missile within the Reed to develop a Mobile missile would be reduced. Super hardening might Ihen make silo based missiles sufficiently Invulnerable to less accurate weapons and at less Cost than $50 billion for a new missile. This sounds rather More like a wait and tee approach than a Flat and final refusal to consider the mid Gilman now or in the future. But in his arms control today article Dukakis argued also that the Cost of the missile would be better spent by investing in our conventional  such investment rewrote will do More than the midget Man to reduce the risk of nuclear War because conventional weak Ness invites conventional War and conventional War can Lead to nuclear  that s a neat formulation which seems Likely to produce a major buildup in conventional arms. Ample evidence exists however that Western forces in Europe Are by no Means so weak in conventional arms u to invite a soviet attack even if such an attack nude any sense for a regime beleaguered with Domestic problems. A buildup in conventional arms on one Side also could Lead to a conventional buildup on the other thai s the same old merry go round on which the 1u