European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 13, 1993 t . The star9 and stripes Pago 7 to be unruly kids Atlanta apr children who Start smoking before age 14 Are More Likely than other youngsters to Start fights Tell lies and be absent suspended or expelled from school a researcher reports. The study suggests that certain children May have a genetic predisposition toward taking risks that also leads them to take up smoking researchers said. A there is a Strong relation Between Early smokers and their behaviour a said the study s author or. Naomi Breslau of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. In a study of 1,00? Young adults Between 21 and 30, she found that 32 percent of those who started smoking before age 14 were guilty of starting fights compare with 21 percent of those who started later or 19 percent of those who never smoked. Twenty six percent of the Early smokers had a problem with absence from school compared with 16 percent of those who started smoking at or after age 17 and Only 12 percent of those who never smoked she reported thursday at a meeting on nicotine dependence sponsored by the american society of addiction Medicine. Quot that makes sense to me a said Andrew Heath of Washington University in St. Louis. A it  Surprise me to find out that those people Are the risk takers.�?�,a a a a. In a separate study of identical and fraternal twins Heath found that genetics plays an important role in people s decision to Start smoking and to continue smoking. He also found that certain personality types contributed to the likelihood that people would Start smoking although personality did not predict who would continue to smoke. Breslau found that those who started smoking earliest were roughly twice As Likely to become a nicotine  that Means their habit was out of control interfering with other activities and producing withdrawal symptoms if they tried to quit. She found that about half of the smokers and former smokers in the study were Picot the dependent. The be Havior problems experienced by Many of the earliest starters and some of the later ones corresponded with an increased likelihood of nicotine dependence Obres Lau said. Alcoholism is associated with an anti social personality and these findings suggest that something similar May occur with nicotine dependence she said. Researchers do not know How Many . Smokers Overall Are nicotine dependent but they have speculated that it could be 60 percent or More. Other people Heath said a for some reason Are Able to restrict to Cir smoking to once or twice a week or one or two cigarettes a  Breslau also confirmed a puzzling phenomenon that has been observed by others namely that smoking is less common among Young Blacks than Whites. Thirty percent of the Young Black adults in her study were smokers compared with 41 percent of the Whites. Fifty four percent of the White smokers were nicotine dependent but the same was True of Only 31 percent of the Black smokers she said. $142,500 in jewelry tourists Pompano Beach Fla. Up police arrested two men and charged them thursday with robbing two German tourists of $142,500 in jewelry and Cash after they returned from a restaurant. The victims were identified As Wolfgang Haas 37, and Karin Fuchs 23, of Darmstadt Germany. They were robbed nov. 3 by two men in the Carport of the Home in which they were staying. Police said they charged Chris Beneta tos 22, and Craig Lee Lavigne 24, with armed robbery and armed burglary. Pompano Beach police it. Charles Lane said an Anonymous source called the police department three Days after the robbery and said the two men had gone to the restaurant with the intention of finding someone to Rob. A they saw the two victims and their expensive jewelry and decided to Rob them a Lane said. A the suspects followed the victims car to their House in Pompano and confronted them in their Carport and robbed  one of the robbers ordered the couple to the ground at gunpoint and hit Haas on the head with Nis fist. Lane said both the informant and Fuchs were Able to identify the suspects from photographs. Court lab fabricated evidence Charleston . A West Virginia a High court found that a state police lab expert fabricated evidence and at least 134 convicted criminals could have their names cleared As a result. A this conduct should not go unpunished Quot the state supreme court said. _ the decision directed a county to prosecute former sgt. Fred Zain who worked at the Agency a serology unit from 1979 to 19r9. The unit analyses hair blood and semen to link defendants to crime scenes in such cases As rape and murder. A retired judge who was appointed to investigate Zains work after questions about it were raised found a shocking and. Egregious violations of the right of a defendant to a fair trial a the court said wednesday. The court said cases in which Zain testified should be reviewed by lower court judge for evidence that he fabricated or misrepresented test results