European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T thursday August 4, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9quitting smoking found to prolong life Span by years Chicago map a people with healthy hearts who Cut the fat in their diet will live Only a few extra Days or months on average but smokers who kick the habit will add years to their lives a study found. But wait a minute before you order that hot. Fudge sundae experts Point out that if you watch what you eat you can make that extra time More enjoyable and illness free. A i would never suggest to anybody that a prudent diet or lifestyle is a bad idea a said or. Steven a. Grover the study a author and  clinical epidemiology at Montreal general Hospital and Mcgill University in Montreal. The study found that cutting saturated fat to no More than 10 percent of calories consumed As is recommended would extend the life of an average Man who is free of heart disease anywhere from 11 Days to nearly five months. The same change in diet would extend an average woman a life Between 3vi Days to just Incret two months. But quitting smoking would extend the average Many a life 2v6 years Soavi years and the average woman s life 2vi years to 3v years the study found. Smokers also were assumed to be free of existing heart  findings based on computer models of government health data from the United states and Canada were published in the August Issue of the american medical associations archives of internal Medicine. The study used data from Federal surveys and examinations of Large population samples in both countries. Quot too much fat in food particularly saturated fat can boost a persons cholesterol level clogging the arteries and promoting heart disease. Fatty diets also Are believed to promote some forms of cancer. Fra panel edges nearer to regulation of cigarettes by Don Kirkma Scripps Howard news service Silver Spring my the food and drug administration moved a step closer tuesday to declaring nicotine an addictive drug and ruling that cigarettes should be regulated. ,. With an 8-1 vote the Agency a drug abuse advisory committee issued an of Pihion saying that cigarettes and 45ther forms of tobacco Are addictive and that nicotine is the guilty ingredient. A that was a very significant statement a said Fra commissioner David Kessler. A we will now methodically determine whether cigarettes Are drugs and How they should be  a. The committee decision comes six months after Kessler told Congress that a Federal Law should be passed giving his Agency authority to control the distribution Sale and promotion of cigarettes and other forms of tobacco. Kessler indicated that if Congress fails to act he May declare that his Agency already has the Power to declare cigarettes a drug whose chief ingredient nicotine adversely affects a the Structure and function of the  in another vote tuesday the panel decided that smokers May not get hooked on cigarettes if they limit their daily nicotine intake but the committee  determine How much nicotine is Safe. The panel also unanimously said the current amount of nicotine in cigarettes causes addiction in most smokers. The votes came after 10 hours of skirmishes Between anti cigarette researchers and spokesmen for the tobacco Institute the Washington based voice of the tobacco Industry. A eighty percent of smokers say they wish they never started smoking and 70 percent want to quit a said Gary Giovino an epidemiologist at the Federal centers for disease control and prevention in Atlanta. A there Are a tremendous number of frustrated smokers out there a he added. Giovino said researchers have determined that mos smoke hating Salesman quits work wins benefits Des Moines Iowa a a furniture Quot Salesman who quit rather than put up with his co workers smoking has been awarded unemployment benefits. David Chico a former smoker had worked about a year at the store in Waterloo. Nearly All the employees smoked and the nonsmoking Section required under Iowa Law had fallen into disuse. Others smoke created Quot unsafe intolerable and detrimental working conditions attributable to the employer a Devon Hintz Miller an administrative Law judge ruled in awarding benefits last week. Store owner Jack Evans claimed Chico really quit because he was unhappy with his commissions. Chico said a i was worried about my Jhc Alth. That a Why i quit smoking in the first  smokers become addicted after they Light up six to 15 cigarettes per Day for two or three years. A grim warning that cigarettes alone will cause 250 million deaths in coming years was issued by or. Neal Benowitz chief of pharmacology at the University of California at san Francisco. Benowitz and Jar. Jack Henningfield of the National Institute on drug abuse have proposed ending the nations cigarette plague by reducing nicotine Levels Over a five year Span. Kessler does no to favor that extreme measure because 45million americans still smoke instead he favors trying to keep cigarettes out of the hands of teen agers and Young adults. Oft Tylef wholesalers direct importers Kashmir heritage your source for original Oriental handmade rugs amp Kashmiri chains itch rugs r look for Kashmir heritage at the Terrace club Bazaar Abrams Complex Frankfurt where we will offer a selection of unique pieces at unique prices. A aug 5 10 00-19 00 aug 6 10 00-19 00 l aug 7 10 00-17 00 it >5�5�e