European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 9, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5passive smoking Hazard confirmed wives of puffers endangered study says by Jane e. Brody the new York times a three year study of non smoking women in five metropolitan areas has fortified earlier conclusions that secondhand smoke increases a spouses risk of lung cancer. Taking into account other possible influences on a woman a cancer risk the study found a 30 percent higher risk of lung cancer if the women a husbands smoked. That risk Rose with the number of cigarettes and years of exposure said the study the largest of its kind. It also revealed a similar increase in cancer risk associated with other sources of passive smoking in adult life such As work and social settings. That finding runs counter to contentions of the tobacco Industry that the hazards of secondhand smoke outside the Home arc exaggerated. It suggests that frequent exposure to cigarette smoke from sources other than ones spouse is at least As dangerous As having a spouse who smokes. While smoking cigarettes oneself presents by far the greatest risk of cancer the environmental Protection Agency and other researchers have estimated that 7 percent of lung cancers May result solely from passive smoking. Cigarette smoke has also been linked to heart disease in non smoking adults and such respiratory disorders As asthma and pneumonia in children. The new study published in the first Issue of the journal cancer epidemiology Bio markers amp prevention is considered More definitive than previous investigations because it involved More cases and considered More factors that might have confounded previous analyses. A we took great pains to minimize the potential sources of error and Bias a a said or. Elizabeth . Fontham director of the study. A total of 420 cases of lung cancer among women who had never smoked were Analysed. Their exposures were compared with those for 351 women with Colon cancer and 780 women in the general population. Unlike the last major report on the hazards of passive smoking the new study found no increased cancer risk from exposure to household smoke in childhood. The previous study published in september 1990 in the new England journal of Medicine described a doubling of lung cancer rates among non smokers who had lived with parents who smoked. It was conducted in upstate new York. The authors of the new report said these Peoples primary risk might result from prenatal exposure to their mothers smoke a Factor not taken into account in the new York study. The new report was prepared by Fontham of the department of pathology at Louisiana state University medical Center in new Orleans and 11 co authors. Pathologists examined diagnostic material to be sure the women had lung cancer and to verify the Type. Greater care was also taken to assure that the women had been lifelong non smokers. The data represent the first three years of a five year study begun in december 1985 under a Grant from the National cancer Institute. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 9,1982 a the Justice department announced a settlement of its 7-year-old antitrust suit against american Telephone amp Telegraph co., which will require the telecommunications giant to give up its local operating companies within the next 18 months. 20 years ago Jan. 9,1972 a army officials said the defense departments Campaign against drug abuse among service members is succeeding. While heroin addiction continues to Rise among civilians in Many . Cities the army has been Able to reduce the number of addicts they said. 30 years ago _ Jan. 9,1962 a president Kennedy said he considers Federal Aid to Church schools unconstitutional and will do All he can to get action on his education Bill. The Bill omits Aid to parochial schools. 40 years ago Jan. 9,1952 a the United nations rewrote its proposal on prisoner exchanges. But the korean armistice talks in Panmunjom remained deadlocked with the North korean communists exhibiting Little willingness to negotiate. World War ii 50 years ago today 9 Jan 1 9 4 2 the japanese Force massing for the attack on the Bataan Peninsula opens its offensive with probing assaults on the american and filipino defenders. In Malaya the 9th and 11th Indian dive dig in at Seremba port Dickson Tampin and Malacca while other British troops withdraw southward. In Europe the soviets launch an offensive in the Valdati Hills Northwest of Moscow. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith a publishers inc. World almanac Book of world Nat ii Bison books corp19s1 after the shooting onlooker Craig Tama holds 14-month-old Dana Awkal As he talks with Cleveland police cmdr. Joseph Sadie. Man shot after killing wife in Law Cleveland apr a gunman killed his estranged wife and brother in Law in a courthouse office tuesday and was shot by a sheriffs Deputy As he tried to leave with his baby daughter. The gunman identified As Abdulla h. Awkal 32, was hospitalized in stable condition. The girl 14-month-old Dana Awkal was not injured. Killed were the girls Mother latife Awkal 22 and latife Awkal a brother Mahyoub Abdulaziz 24, police said. The shooting occurred in the family conciliation services office of the Cuya hoga county courthouse. The Agency mediates Domestic disputes and offers counselling to families. The gunman a entered the room and shot them both a police cmdr. Joseph Sadie said. A the grabbed the child from her  deputies confronted the gunman holding the girl in a hallway. A the turned around with the child and stuck a gun to the child a head to hold the officers at Bay a Sadie said. A the then took the gun and put it to his own head threatening to blow his brains out if they came any  another Deputy approached the Many a Blind Side and told him to put the weapon Down. The Man turned his gun toward the Deputy who shot the Man Sadie said. One of the other deputies grabbed the child As the gunman fell. She was placed in the custody of the human services department. Man s candidacy rests on a Fine line Edwardsville 111. A Michael Antonovich a future in politics hinges on where he and wife sleep. Antonovich has petitioned to run in the March 17 primary for democratic precinct chairman in Madison. The problem the Boundary Between Madison and Granite City cuts through a Corner of the apartment he shares with his wife. State Law makes the location of a family a sleeping quarters the deciding Factor in establishing where the family votes. Antonovich 27, told the Madison county electoral Board on monday that he sleeps with his wife in a second Story bedroom on the Madison Side of the line. But the attorney for the City of Madison contended Antonovich a wife Jennifer and the couples 15-month-old son use a downstairs bedroom that lies in Granite City along with a Kitchen and half the dining room. Quot when they want something i live in Madison. When i want something they say i live in Granite City a Antonovich said. A Granite City says i live in Madison. I can to vote at All. If something catches fire i done to have a fire department. I done to have a police  a decision by the Board is expected by today