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EPA: smoke causes cancer
NEW YOKE (AP) The Environmental Protec
tion Agent \ will release a long-delayed report
that savs sis ondhnnd t igaretto smoke is a human
carcinogen and kills alxuit .1.000 non-smokers a
year bet ause of lung t anirr. agency officials said
Tuesday
The report, to !*• released Thursday, also con
cludes that set ondhand smoke int reuses the risk
of pneumonia and brow Intis in t hildren
The KPA Inis the power to t lassifv a substance
as a t art inogen. but it does not have any power to
regulate indoor air The release of the report,
however, could trigger an avalanche of federal,
stall* and Itxal regulations limiting smoking in
publit plates, health udvot ales said
"Having the KPA's imprimatur on this is ex
tremely important," said Hr Alfred Munzer. a
spokesman for the (audition on Smoking or
Health, whit h int hides the American I.ting Assn
cintion. the American Heart Association and the
Ament an ( am er Six ioly
"We believe this will motivate state govern
merits, lot a! governments to enat t further regtila
turns limiting smoking in publit: plat es ."
The report also could protl the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration to regulate
smoking in the workplat e. health advtx ates said
Douglas Eiillor. .in OSHA spokesman, saui the
agent v would weigh the KPA report t archills ill
its deliberations
Munzer t ailed on President Hush to use the re
port to instils an order to restrict smoking in let!
end buddings "This is far less controversial than
tin* pardons he has issued nntl would do a tre
mentions amount for the publit health," Munzer
We believe this will motivate
... governments to enact
further regulations limiting
smoking in public places
Alfred Munzer,
Coalition on Smoking or Health
said,
The report concludes that se< ondhand smoke is
a proven human carcinogen, putting it in the
same < lass as asbestos, lienzene and radon, KPA
officials said.
The report's authors said cigarette smoke
causes from -too to 7,<)<)<) lung canter deaths in
American non smokers annually, with a "host es
timate" of 3.000 cases That's based on conserva
tive assumptions. the\ said, so the actual total
could lie higher
They also said that ( igarette smoke inc reuses
the risk of pneumonia, tirom Intis and middle-ear
disorders in ( hildren The report also concludes
that i igarette smoke im reases the severity and
frequent v of asthma in children. HI’A officials
said
The KI’A has dei ided to kill a sec ond report
that links secondhand smoke to 37.000 heart-dis
ease deaths annually, said Holier! Axelrad, head
of the KI’A s indoor-air division. The report origi
nally was conceived to tie a companion to the
lung-cancer report
Kids at risk from chewing tobacco
CHICAGO (AIM Otic in
four teen-age consumer* of
chewing tnlwcco started using
it (wtwiH-n ages five and eight,
great I \ mi reusing their risk of
developing < am er. m i ording to
re sear i hers
Another 25 percent of the
teen age smokeless tohai < o us
ers surveyed began using it lie
tween ages nine and 12. said a
report in the January issue of
IVtlialrii s
Keseari tiers said the survey
of 242 smokeless lohan o users
among 2.01H sixth through
ninth-graders ill Arkansas typi
fies other states es|«s udiv ru
ral ones
Tfie authors called for nation
w ide, grade-school education
about the dangers of smokeless
tobai < o.
"I think almost anywhere
in ross the nation, our i hiidren
have access'' to smokeless to
bacco, said the lead author.
Anita Gottlieb, coordinator of
outpatient quality improvement
at Arkansas Children's Hospital
in Little Rock
The study t ited previous re
searchers who said smokeless
tobacco users are four times
more likely than non users to
develop mouth or throat can
cer.
The Smokeless Tobacco
Council, a trade group Isised in
Washington, D C., claims
smokeless tobai i o hasn't been
proven to < uuse human disease.
Bui the U S. surgeon general
warned in December that in
i reusing use of < hewing tobat •
co among youths mas foreshad
ow an epidemic of oral cancer
in coming decades.
The Arkansas researi hers
found that 12 percent of souths
in their studs had used smoke
less tobat i o at least twit e
Sixty-four of the users, or 2I>
pert ent reported starting when
thes svere five to eight sears
old. Another t> 1 users, or 2fi
percent, started when they
ssere nine to 12 years old
"The earlier they started, and
this is what I found really st ars
the more likely they svere to
lie using on a regular basis as
they got older," Gottlieb said
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