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2 Friday, January 19, 20(11 New Tobacco Strain Boasts Low-Nicotine Alternative By Rachel Nyden Staff Writer Anew type of tobacco that is virtual ly nicotine-free has been developed by Vector Group, a parent company of Liggett Group Inc., that will provide smokers with anew way to quit. A spokeswoman for Vector Group, who would not give her name, said the company is developing this idea to give smokers a nonaddictive option. “Initial tests with focus groups have shown that (low-nicotine cigarettes) smoke and taste just like regular ciga rettes, but we believe it will have the least amount of nicotine as any ciga rettes on the market right now," she said. She added that in addition to giving smokers anew choice, the lack of nico tine eliminates the risk of nitrosamines, which cause cancer. It is unknown when the new tobacco strain will reach market since it still needs approval from the Food and Drug Administration -a process that can take years. Star-Studded Bush Gala Features Ricky Martin The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Festivities lead ing up to George W. Bush’s inauguration began Thursday with a star-studded show at the Lincoln Memorial. Bush obviously relished the event, smiling, flashing a thumbs up sign at entertainer Wayne Newton and promising to give the country “a fresh start.” Before laying claim to the presidency this weekend, Bush, with his wife, Laura, as well as Vice President-elect Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, min gled with celebrities including Latin singer Ricky Martin. Bush took to the stage toward the end of the show and, in an unspoken acknowledgment that he had won the presidency despite losing the popular vote, thanked those who didn’t vote for him. Carolina Women’s Basketball vs. Oklahoma THIS SUNDAY @ 3pm Jan. 21 at Carmichael Auditorium The game wiH beared on ESPN2! & Hardees sports shorts ***** V W Students A l acuity Admitted I RiH wflD! Jed Rose, director of the nicotine research program at Duke University, said studies involving the reduced-nico tine cigarettes have shown that they help smokers quit. He said the tobacco has been tested two ways - by allowing smokers to gradually switch from their regular ciga rettes to the low-nicotine ones or by abrupdy making the switch with the aid of a nicotine patch. “Either way, about half the sample could make the switch,” Rose said. “This shows the habit component is impor tant, and smokers can switch over if they are motivated to do so.” He said the low-nicotine cigarettes are an efficient means of weaning peo ple off smoking, but he added that smokers still found it difficult to quit completely. “We’re hoping to test a more gradual weaning process to get them to slowly move to the low nicotine cigarettes,” Rose said. Low-nicotine cigarettes currendy on the market work by reducing the amount of smoke inhaled and the “Wherever you come from, whatev er your political party, thank you for taking part in this great tradition of our country,” Bush said. “My administration will serve all Americans and this inau gural is for all Americans to enjoy. “I am honored to serve and I am ready to start,” he said. Organizers had anticipated a crowd of 75,000 people, but the cold and an intermittent drizzle apparently kept many away, although police gave no official crowd estimate. Bush and other members of the incoming administra tion sat under a canopy that protected them from the elements. Martin was the headliner for the show, set on a stage built on the memo rial’s steps. After Bush spoke, Martin sang one of his signature songs, “Cup of Life,” swiveling his hips to the salsa-style music. State & National amount of nicotine smokers consume - causing smokers to overcompensate by smoking more cigarettes. But, according to Rose, the new low nicotine cigarettes will alleviate this problem. “Since nicotine isn’t in the tobacco to begin with, (smokers) get a good amount of smoke and don’t feel the need to compensate by smoking more ciga rettes,” he said. Patrick Reynolds, founder and presi dent of tobaccofree.org, also said the reduced-nicotine cigarettes seem like an efficient tool for fighting tobacco addic tion. Reynolds is the grandson of local tobacco tycoon RJ. Reynolds. He founded tobaccofree.org after his father died of a smoking-related illness. “A nicotine-free cigarette is a clear step in the right direction,” he said. “One wonders why the larger compa nies haven’t made a nicotine-free ciga rette already.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Campus Calendar Today 3 p.m. - MCAT Prep Group (Section 2), offered by the UNC Learning Center, will meet in 204 Phillips Annex. The course fee is SIOO. To register, call 962-3782. Monday 5:30 p.m. - A meeting will be held for writers, cartoonists/artists, graphic designers and advertising for Bounce Magazine, anew humor magazine dedicated to amusing and enriching the UNC community with satirical com mentary on current events. For more information, e-mail bounce@unc.edu. 8:30 p.m. - Annual budget orien tation sessions will be held in 304 Dey Hall tonight and Jan. 25. Any student group interested in the annual budget must have a represen tative at one of the orientations. ahr Daily (lar Urrl Friday, January 19.2001 Volume 108. Issue 141 P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill. NC 27515 Han Dees. Editor. 96*2-4086 Advertising & Business. 962-1163 News. Features. Sports. 962-0245 Yogurt Is our menu! TJ Downtown Chapel Hill • 942-PUMP 106 ULI. Franklin St. ' Next to He's Not Here) North Durham • 286-7868 Northgate Mall (% to Carousel. ' Mon-Sot Tlqm.! I:3opm',Sun l2pm-lf :30pm HLUu Htuhrwfli fuu tatart PRESENTS... fyv* ftftM AiiAiLabl€ 969.JU&9 Ashcroft's Fairness Questioned Bush's nominee for attorney general is receiving partisan support, sure of the backing of one Senate Democrat. The Associated Press WASHINGTON - A black Missouri judge said Thursday that John Ashcroft “seriously distorted my record” to block the judge’s appointment to a federal court in what Senate Democrats claimed was a bid for political gain. “The question for the Senate is whether these misrepresentations are consistent with the fair play and justice you all would require of the U.S. attor ney general," Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White told the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now President-elect George W. Bush’s choice for attorney general, Ashcroft was a Missouri senator seeking re-election when he engineered the party-line 1999 defeat of the federal nomination for White, the first black judge on Missouri’s highest court. That vote, the first defeat of a district court nomination on the Senate floor in 40 years, has become a focus of Democrats and civil rights groups opposed to Ashcroft’s confirmation. Republicans argued that Ashcroft had based his objections on legal dis agreements with White, not politics or race. On the third day of the hearings, which seem likely to lead to Ashcroft’s Dilbert© THE ’’EXACTLY” CAAN hi LI | WE ALREADY vntio TrsFA i ioki'T I SELL TEN MILLION 2 ~ ri SoT I OF THESE PER YEAR. j EXACTLY// WOULD BUY THIS | S I KIND OF PRODUCT. ™ EI ” BR TTLR. i | 7 THE Daily Crossword By Stanley B. 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Good at 1704 E. Franklin only. 929-8881. Located next to Staples. Please present coupon when ordering. One coupon per person, per visit. Not good with any other offer. No! a cash substitute. Expires 1/20/01 confirmation, Democrats and Republicans called character witnesses and representatives from women’s, civil rights, law enforcement and crime vic tims’ groups. With no sign of a break in Republican support for Ashcroft and one Democrat, Georgia’s Zell Miller, committed to voting for him, opponents raised the possibility of a filibuster. Ashcroft’s sharpest critic, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was con sidering that long shot move, which would force Ashcroft’s backers to get 60 votes in the evenly divided Senate to put him in charge of the Justice Department. Meantime, the White episode filled the old Senate Caucus Room with drama as the jurist recounted his rise from poverty and then a former pros ecutor graphically described a quadruple murder “I was not going to let the color of my skin or ignorance or the hatefulness of others hold me back.” Ronnie White Missouri Supreme Court Judge that led to one of White’s most contro versial opinions. White described growing up in segre gated St Louis in an unfinished base ment. He was bused to a school where white children “would throw milk and food at us and tell us to go back to where we came from.” “This racism only strengthened my determination. I was not going to let the color of my skin or ignorance or the hate fulness of others hold me back,” he said. 22 Hawaiian hi 26 Shoe pad 27 Mark with blotches 28 Itty-bitty bite 29 Eyelike 30 Preventive measures 32 Outstanding brilliance 34 Drop feathers 1 Pack down 2 Hind part 3 ''Rule Britannia" composer 4 Stage sides 5 Simple shed 6 Descending wind 7 Landed 8 Flinch 9 Snacked 10 In the sack 11 Location of Louis XlV's palace 12 Building exten sion 13 Hwy. with a number 21 Boring tool 1 p R p p p p p 12 1 13 SHS 20 21 ■■23 ■OT Hips - 26 27 28 29 35 " 40 41 I *3 ■■44 ■■4s 46 4^ 5^TM| 58 59 60 61 64 W6T 67 (Eljp Sailg (Ear Bppl Some civil rights groups accuse Ashcroft of racism. Democrats who served on the committee with Ashcroft have all denied he’s a racist, though Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and others have called him racially insensitive. Instead, most Democrats seemed to back the view of Kennedy, who told White that Ashcroft “tried to use your record on death penalty cases to help win his hotly contested Senate seat in Missouri against Governor (Mel) Carnahan.” Ashcroft repeatedly attacked Carnahan’s commuting, at Pope John Paul ll’s request, of a death sentence. But Ashcroft was defeated even though Carnahan died in a plane crash shortly before the election. Carnahan’s widow now holds the seaL White said he was “surprised to hear that he (Ashcroft) had gone to the Senate floor and called me ‘pro-criminal’ with a ‘tremendous bent toward criminal activity,’” White testified that as a judge, he had voted to uphold the death penalty in 41 of 59 cases. In 53 of the cases, White said, he voted with the majority of his colleagues on the court, most of whom were appointed by former Gov. Ashcroft. White was the lone dissenter three times, he said. (C)2001 Tribune Media Services. Inc. 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