I—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Feb. 13,1979
A tobacco industry spokeswoman attributed the increase in sales of light cig
arettes to advertising that claims they are safer than regular cigarettes.
Report has changed
local smoking habits
By DAVID BLACKWELL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Increased awareness of the
hazards of cigarette smoking has led
to a change in people’s smoking
habits, State College businessmen
say.
“We’ve been selling more pipe
tobacco, cigars and much more light
cigarettes. From what we’ve sold,
people are trying to cut down but I
don’t know how long it will last,” said
Bill Pettit, manager of Graham’s
store, 103 S. Allen St.
Pettit also said there has been a
high demand for a new cigarette
made from cocoa leaves and 'that
there has been a marked increase in
chewing tobacco and snuff sales.
“We are selling much more
chewing tobacco and are near double
of last year in sales of snuff,” he said.
Chuck Foster, owner of C.B.
Foster’s Fine Pipes and Tobacco, 119
S. Fraser St., said he noticed an in
crease in business since the U.S.
surgeon general’s recent report on
the effects of cigarette smoking.
“The main reason is that the
surgeon general gave pipes a‘ cleaner
bill of health,” Foster said. “Every
time a report comes out, sales go up.
This also happened in ’64 and ’68.”
Joan B. Curtis, executive director
of the State College branch of the
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have been increased calls and a
growing interest in the “I Quit”
programs offered by the Society.
“I don’t know what this is doing for
sales but it does show a general
concern and awareness on the part of
the public,” Curtis said.
Anne Browder, assistant to the
president of the Tobacco Institute
Inc., which represents the interests of
tobacco companies, said she does not
know exactly what effect the recent
surgeon general’s report will have on
smoking habits.
“None ,of the prior, efforts have,
been- successful so .we. don’t "really'
anticipate a reduction of consumption
as a result of the 15th anniversary
surgeon general’s report,” she said.
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Browder said she did not know why
snuff and chewing tobacco sales
increased but the increase in the
sales of low-tar cigarettes was
because they have been advertised as
safer.
She said she did not believe that
non-tobacco cigarettes would affect
the tobacco industry.
“They’ve tried non-tobacco
products before with little success,”
Browder said. “I don’t think anyone
can come up with an effective
tobacco substitute.”
Chinese border troops protested
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) Vietnam
accused China yesterday of massing
some 20 divisions along the frontier
between the two countries, and asked the
U.N. Security Council to step in and deal
with the threat.
Chinese military activities along the
border amount to “reckless acts which
could have dangerous and unforeseeable
consequences for peace and security in
Southeast Asia and throughout the
world," Vietnam’s U.N. Ambassador Ha
Van Lau said in a letter of protest.
The letter was addressed to Kuwaiti
Committee clears health secretary nominee
HARRISBURG (AP) Despite
questions about Dr. Gordon MacLeod’s
stands on abortions and nursing homes,
a Senate committee yesterday cleared
his nomination as the state’s new health
secretary.
The Public
Folk arts discussed today
“Folk Music, Fiddle Competition, and
the Music Industry” will be the topic of a
lecture today at 2 p.m. in the HUB main
lounge as part of the American Cultural
Exhibition this week.
Bob Doyle, a-former member of the
local bluegrass group “The Buffalo
Chipkickers” and an independent
musical agent in the area, will speak.
Journalism instructor Mary Hamilton
opened the week with a speech on “A
Progressive Pennsylvania Newspaper.”
Hamilton is doing her doctoral thesis for
Michigan State University on .the
Gazette and Daily, a now-defunct York
newspaper.
The American Cultural Exhibition is
sponsored by Colloquy and the American
Culture Club.
Other events for the week are a panel
discussion on "American Studies, the
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Tuesday, Feb. 13
Arts/Science Interface, public lecture/demonstration on “Theatre and
Technology,” 10:15 a.m., walnut Bldg.
Comp. Lit. Luncheon, 12:15, talk, 1 p.m., Hotel State College. Jaohn Kaiser and
Murray Martin, university libraries, on “Resources for Comparatists.”
Affiramative Action and Nondiscriminatory Practices, workshops and ethnic
buffet, 4-8:30 p.m., Robeson Cultural Center, Walnut.
Shakespeare film, Rigg, Midsummer Night’s Drean, 6:30 p.m., Room 101
Chambers. Free.
Phi Upsilon Omicron, “Graduate Programs in Human Services,” panel
discussion by College of Human Development faculty, 7 p.m., Living center,
Henderson.
Sports: women’s basketball, vs. Edinboro, 7 p.m.
University Theatre, 11.M.5. Pinafore, 8 p.m., The Playhouse
Meetings:
Penn State Federal Credit Union Board, members welcome, noon, Telephone
Bldg.
Alpha Phi Omega, 6:30p.m., Room 117 Boucke.
GSA Council, 7 p.m., Room 101 Kern. ,
Man-Environment Relations Interest Group, 7 p.m., Room, Sl3l Hendreson.
Wargamers, 7 p.m., Room 107 Sackett.
Circle K, 7:30 p.m., Room 311 Boucke.
Management Club, 7:30 p.m., Room 214 Boucke.
P.S.O.C. Ski Division, 7:30p.m., Room 111 Boucke.
Star Trek Fans, 7:30 p.m., Room 309 Willard.
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Health and
U.N. Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub
Bishara, this month’s president of the 15-
nation Security Council.
Ha asked that the Security Council
“consider the serious situation ...,and
take any steps it may deem necessary.”
But he did not request specific action.
China has deployed about 20 divisions,
hundreds of jet fighter aircraft, many
tanks “and other war materiel” along
the frontier, Ha said. He called it “an
extremely dangerous situation along the
entire length of the frontier.”
The protest, followed accusations by
Committee voted 11-5 to approve
MacLeod. He still needs approval by the
Senate Rules Committee and con
firmation by a majority of the full Senate
before he can take office.
Among the most vocal of MacLeod’s
critics was Sen. Vincent Fumo, D-
Liberal Arts and Career Opportunities”
at 2 p.m. on Wednesday and a lecture on
“From Protest Songs to Bob Dylan” at
12:30 p.m. Thursday.
Graduates of American Studies, an
interdisciplinary major in the College of
The Liberal Arts, will participate in the
panel discussion Wednesday. Betsy
Bowden, assistant professor of English,
will speak Thursday.
“The primary purpose of the
exhibition is a dual one,” Pete
Michaelson, president of the American
Cultural Club, said. “We’re having it to
give the students here a look at the type
of things the American Studies major
encompasses and to educate the student
body on something nonconventional.”
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warplanes into Vietnamese airspace and
had carried out 60 ground raids since the
first of the month.
. Cambodian Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, who left New York yesterday
for political exile in Peking, earlier
issued a plea “for restraint from China
and from .Vietnam in order to avoid full
scale war.”
Sihanouk, who said he was held under
house arrest for three years by the
Chinese backed Pol Pot regime in
Cambodia, called for an all-parties
Philadelphia, who said MacLeod has not
been explicit enough in explaining his
positions on abortion and the big Kane
Hospital for the elderly in Allegheny
County.
“We have not gotten from Dr.
MacLeod the kinds of answers we
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Montgomery, introduced a bill that chairman of the House Liquor Control ;£
would phase out the state-operated committee, said he thinks the state- ;~
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China is embarked upon “expansionist,
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