14The Tar Heel Thursday. June 19, 1986
THE; Daily Crossword by William Canine
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1 Donizetti Work
6 Agreement
10 Per
14 Make merry
15 Cupid ;..
16 Composer
Harold
17 Staff of life
18 Scotland
20 Tannery?
22 Baboon' enemy
23 Cupid ;v
24 Many a rock
star "
25 Teri of -"Tootsie"
28 Something for
Holmes V
30 Disprove
34 Turk, title
35 Chanticleer
for one ..
36 Loiter . .
37 Cobble .
39 Certain hide
41 Bernstein's
" Pretty"
42 Sp. month
43 Perry's "
creator .
45 Linguistic
suffix
46 Orchid tuber
47 Lake city
48 Heb. month
49 Resorts
51 Fleet ,
53 Most intimate
56 Ivy e.g. .
60 Go into
seclusion
62 Unworldly
63 Put forth :
64 And others:
abbr.
65 Pigeonholed ...
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66 Parker of
-Old Yeller"
67 Depend
68 Clairvoyants
DOWN
' 1 Spheres
2 Site of Cuzco
3 In a draw
,4McGuffey's
"First "
5 Brookside
shrub
6 Carrying bag
7 "I Camera"
8 Dog
9 Up an oak
10 Table extender
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11 Hebrides isle
12 Arab prince
13 Ariz, lake
19 All out
21 Actcr James
25 Yaw is
26 Gua m's capital
27 Honey badger
29 Alpine figure
31 Overcharge
32 Students of
the Koran
33 Tippecanoe
and too"
35 Helicopter
38 Beacons
40 Lavish
44 Tragic king
47 Substance
48 Little lemur
50 Moore co-star
52 Displays
53 Kitchen king
54 Key pie
55 Fetishes
57 Meerschaum
58 Always
59 Moscow
minions
61 Chessmaster
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Snuff
from page 8
Deschamps-Braly, the attorney
representing the Marsee family in
their $37 million lawsuit against U.S.
Tobacco Co.
The product liability suit charges .
the manufacturer with selling a
"defective and unreasonably danger
ous" product.
On Feb. 7, the Senate approved
and sent to the White House a bill
that would require health warnings
on chewing tobacco and snuff. This
bill, if approved by President Rea
gan, would also ban radio or tele
vision advertisements for these
products. It is a legislation package
similar to the one passed almost 20
years ago for the cigarette industry.
Michael J. Kerrigan, president of
the Smokeless Tobacco Council, said
his organization would back any
legislation that would require pur
chasers of snuff to be at least 1 8 years
old.
"All forms of tobacco are adult
products," Kerrigan said in a recent
interview with Newsweek magazine.
An estimated 22 million Ameri
cans use snuff, with the greatest
popularity being males under 25
years old. -.
A government panel assigned to
study the health risks associated with
snuff released one of the strongest
warnings to date against smokeless
tobacco. The panel members felt that
the use of the products greatly
increased the risk of mouth and
throat cancer.
"The human data provide convinc
ing evidence for an increased risk of
oral cancer as a result of smokeless
tobacco use," said a statement
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released by the panel.
Researcher Elbert Glover of East
Carolina University said users needed
to realize that smokeless tobacco
could be more addictive than
cigarettes.
"The nicotine level in blood is
higher in smokeless tobacco users
than in smokers," Glover's study said.
Dr. Robert O. Greer, professor
and chairman of the oral pathology
and oncology department at the
University of Colorado School of
Denistry, conducted a study that
revealed that 62.5 percent of those
snuff users he studied had oral lesions
of one form or another. His subjects
were 14 to 19 years old and had been
using snuff for an average of 3.3
years. He concluded that the dura
tion of use was one of the most
important factors in the development
of oral lesions.
Brian Mixon, a UNC junior from
Charlotte, said he was prompted to
start using snuff at age 13 because
his friends were using it.
"I'm somewhat concerned about
the possibility of getting oral cancer,"
Mixon said.But not enough to give
it up."
He said he went through about two
cans of Skoal of month and has had
no adverse effects from six years of
tobacco use.
A 22-year-old UNC senior from
Charlotte "who did not want to be
identified said he got hooked on snuff
through teammates from high school
athletics. He said he went through
almost six cans of Skoal and Copen
hagen a month.
"1 started when I was about 14,
1 guess," he said. "Some of the older
guys that 1 looked up to at my school
dipped Skoal and I started doing it
to become part of the gang." -.
Admittedly addicted to Skoal, he
said he could not draw a comparison
to drug addiction.
"From what IVe heard about drug
addiction, there's a tremendous
craving for whatever you're into," he
said. "1 donl feel any craving. I just
find myself reaching for the can
almost unconsciously. IVe never tried
to give it up, but 1 imagine it wouldn't
be easy after eight years of dipping."
As for the effects, he said he had
to have to an oral graft done to
replace part of gum that receded
when he was 19.
"It's really no big deal," he said.
"I just have to put the Skoal in my
upper lip instead of my lower lip these
days."
As for the risk of contracting
cancer, he said there are so many
ways to get cancer that he might as
well get it from something he enjoyed
doing.
"There's no conclusive evidence
that says someone is going to get
cancer if they use snuff or chewing
tobacco," he said. "All the experts
agree that a possibility of increased
cancer risk exists, but you can say
that any number of things can cause
cancer.
"There's a possibility 1 might die
in my sleep, but that doesn't mean
I'm going to force myself to stay
awake to avoid that possible end."
Mark Allard, a UNC senior from
Rogers, Ark., said he was more
concerned about contracting oral
cancer now than he was a few years
ago.
"Last year I had some problems
with sore spots on the inside of my
lip," he said. "I went to Student
Health Services and they told me I
needed to give up Skoal for a while.
"They gave me a washing solution
that 1 used twice a day, and after
a week, the spots had disappeared.
1 started dipping again right after
that, but I'm definitely more aware
of the effects of smokeless tobacco."
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