EDITORIAL Making cigarettes is becoming a drag It am t easy dualin nicotine Those lovable dispensers o! death cigarette ni.mnl.n 1 ir>*rs have fieen having tin awfully rough time of it late [ he surgeon general just lambasted the industry tor its advertising, the nationwide restaurantchains of Arby s and McDonald's announced that they would become smoke-free and the Department of Defense has made moves in tin* same direction All things considered, the past few weeks have been bad ones for the makers of cigarettes Hut by far. the news that deserves the most attention is the investigation two weeks ago on AIH1 I V s Day One, which revealed that < igarette manufacturers have been deliberate!v tinkering with the amount of nio, tine in their product, i hey have fioth rornoveti and added nicotine in the tobacco to their cigarettes, man ip dating the addictive drug so that eai h individual ciga rette c arries an identical dose a dose that lust Imp pens to be the tight quantity to get a smoker hooked c)fcourse, to tiie < yiut ai observer, this revelation ku tl susiiK ions tha’ werehorn a long time ago Soft drink and i oft'-e mail'd." oners (save been toying with < alfeine sutiila: m.iliner fo* years yviiv should i :y:a:••?!•• mak ers be any different ' Hut there s more to in- gained from tins discovery than the mere i ham e to see such suspicions vei ified I he realization that the lobac co industry can prodm e a less addu 11\• c igarette or a mo:" addii live one for that mallei opens the door for the f ond and Drug Admin .is! rat ion to step in and regulate ni< otine for the drug it really i-. Idle I D.Vs reasoning, up to this point, lias been th.it nicotine was an intractable part of the tobacco leaf Nicotine was seen as an unfortunate extra that t ame along with the greater joy of smoking, not as the sole rea son for the habit's existence Therefore, the FDA has not regulated it Now that it is clear that i igarette manufacturers can ami do manipulate the nicotine present in each t iga retie, the FDA may eventually require that each < igarette h< v dl be tin- lor cola of Igarette-, Win yvd! be til" M )p ' It has not vet been shown whetle1: a completely nico tine free cigarette can be made F \ ell it it 's possible, it's hard to imagine why anyone w-uld use such a prod uct. it not to satisfy an addiction. Of course, that's what they said about non-alcoholit beer Oregon Daily eexhecu: fV>v> f> Emerald T.'t-' I*,,., IO •ul ".'Hr! ;M , M .U) " f < '•!<« d ■ i '’*• V ' y tlu' ' J 'f'« Sjmme! f’y th# OflQCit D.l y ,«’f. J«pr*fK>e ’ > u- the Un v*M*.ity •».* S i • **'*'{if»* c*l the A%so. Pri* v*. I, **•?», *» 0*0 S«* -.'.»£ *• Mjoflgmg Editor Editorial Editor Graphics Editor freelance Editor Associate Editors Edi!or*in-Chief , .1 .*» A • V* • Sports Editor i»■..• Editorial Editor >*•»« • t- t, Photo Editor M*> A •*- Supplements Editor Night Editor hi ) p y_v'r* -st«* SLaM?*? i*. »t* ' e 1 At i t e»5 * i i JuC4tion, Adm>/'.:s!’3t•” Pic Shard! K.» , Soto .1 M«*' - News Stall Mi •<.» t H, »h«!tr* A ’ » » - •’>* A • r.j, ijvs Mag DedOHV A-iy Davenport Cara l cnrrv,v?6 M.t .i I *e*.la Ma'* ■ Sural1 iterwv v m*mv * >• M. • »•* v.r- . •« g i «**r>j Ma*.u* M*«.vxJ Trista N>. ♦* t usabet^ Hew* •.';?•• a *C>oti •• Reeve*. l .i Sa - a 1K ott ' .v ‘>ti5phaf' e S*$$on S - I « St**'1**’ • f* S we* ••.**• M* '«•»* ’N'nCiV Agoi.»r he* W* Ar-f V*- C * General Man ay® i . H -** t Advertising Director Mr* A.»*»- Production Manager M * Advertising M i wt’ " • ** *• M®’’ ' ' • '*"• 1 1 ’*" * r* • , Mi*. M »*■ M M,» • .»**• I he >«*•, A •••<*■ Classified m**. », U« vr*' v :»* .* - Distribution A •, »*., y » •*" Business haf* 4'bo • ^ -J* « Production LV*‘ Ai >U »' .vW' •? .i "'.i* « A>‘ - * r>; ^ ' * • y*> Brad • IS*. St-fc > M* ry* ■,w •' •*♦' Rc *rvJ N.»f Th*njv»i*t -tyton Vtw Fkwvooni *460511 Display Advertising *460712 Business Office *46-5512 Classified Advertising *46*4*43 LETTERS Don 't be fooled fiewari I• I f.»Iadvertising! ,is , .call at i booth ill ,! M! • M... • asked 'i i! i • -\ • ! jui kml up 'll' to; m in- said It w oil I lost you nothin There was in it, a bonus ut a free I shir! All ot this to; ;us! signing one [him e ot paper' i doubted that, so I examined the paper more i losely The man obviously dis liked tins i lose si rutin) and tried to hurr\ me into signing it u ithout reading it I ignored him and found that 1 m tually held a Masted ard appin ation Then I saw Annual let $JI) (waived first war) in small print So I guess the man's gramma! ii a I erf or was t orrei t a iter all tilling out tin- form wouldn't ■ ost me nothing hi tai t. it'd ■ ost ■ i s.-i more than nothing start ; tig in I mi. | could [dan! gu trees on nit ow n for less than that' So go on and hug a tree lint don't sign anything you haven't read first Lori Rosales English No bad jokes In \ikhl Okimoto's letter to the editor (OUI March 1). she misrepresents the content and the intent of the Oregon Coin itirntntor to meet her vision of ra( ism H\ representing tier per sonal understandings as fact, bv lepeatmg unsubstantiated rumor and In stmplv making facts up, she makes an incoherent and untrue atlas k on the members of the Co/mnenfof,>r. their person a 1 beliefs, lives and the purpose of the |uurnat Okimuto rinds satire of unao thentu. multicultural food serv ed under heat tamps to be a liirei t attai k on an entire cul ture Apparently, writing amus ing material about the so-called Menu an food at TacaTune somehow insulted all Mis[>amcs most ol whom have never heard of nor have am interest in eating a Mom-I-Tv We can only sigh in relief that we abandoned our original Trench Fry satire. After forming some entirely iii.ua.urate and unresearched attoi k-. on the ( i inmentiitor\ i oiltent she an uses the t.niu auntotm las a whole) of staring at people of (olor as tiles [lass tile .iffi. e While working in .i 1 I t square foot oflu e. plataid near the end ol a dead-end hallway in a hidden region of the IAI1 . am living being passing our open door is an unusual, il not wel come, sight In all fairness though, we are equal-opportum !s st.tiers and a letter will arrive soon front some angrs Norwe gians who made the mistake ol s\alkmg past our office In an attempt to plat.ate Nikki Okimoto. the Oregon (.'nm/nen tutor will avoid jokes about fast iood. land pun liases and current events II! filet t. we will use no :iiiiinr at ail and we will attempt to igrt-e with everyone in the world And we pledge to stop our infernal staring Owen Brennan Rounds Ed Carson Scott Camp Board of Directors Oregon Commentator No defense I reati adjunct professor Richard Clark's Man ii 7 rebuttal, m the ffegrsler (.'nun/, to the had press he has received concerning his prm In e of selling bis pat k ets to Ins aspiring journalism school Students I have no disagreement with ( lark's claim that lie had a right to profit from his work Hut, in ms s less Ills profit was ext essive and Ins argument that published works bs professors are more expensive is spurious As an attorney, Clark should have smelled a t onflict of inter est He should have gotten a dis interested third parts involved from day one in the process Although students were not required to bus his packet, they knew that sin c ess in his prepara tors grammar class is. in most cases, essential for passing the language Skills Diagnostu I est And that passing the I.NDT is required for admission into the School of lournulism. With that m mind, most students wifi bus anything that they think will aid thi'in in passing the test Clark said hi' was not aware of am law prohibiting the sale eo ple who are in lov e and biologi cally capable ol producing i hildren will therefore refrain from sex and have no desire to raise children It is similarly fool ish to think that everyone capa ble ol hav ing children wants to have them or will refrain from having sex that is not intended to produce a child Kei reational sex is simply a matter ol rubbing c ertain nerve endings on, in or w ith something. If what one is rubbing against is part ol another person, the sex i an he labeled homosexual or heterosexual, but there is really no need People will naturally want to have sex with the person they love and will find a wav to make it work The most prob lematic sexual behavior is vagi nal intercourse, lor the very rea son that pregnane v is a likely result Contusion about this is no exc use for tolerating or ern our iigmg a ( lunate in which some people mav not even he affec tionate Manuel Suarez Eugene