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Show prSGpKMlft Dear Ann Landers: Maybe I'm a nut but my blood pressure zooms about fifty points when I see my wife smoke a cigarette. I am not opposed to smoking on moral grounds, but some women look terrible when they smoke and my wife looks worse than most. The cigarette just dangles in the corner of her mouth like the house man in a 2 1 game. When the smoke curls up into her face, she squints her eyes and the mascara runs. Nora smokes filter tips. Sometimes she abscntmindedly lights up the wrong end of the cigarette,, and the house smells like the wind is coming from the packing house in Omaha. 1 don't want to get into a thing with Nora about smoking, but I wish she'd quit. Do you think 1 have the right to ask her? Nora's Mate Dear Ann Landers: My brother's wife Olga lights one cigarette off the other. I have seen her forget she has one going in one ashtray and she lights another one. My husband and I do not smoke. We find Olga's continual smoking a nuisance. Last night we were playing cards and Olga was, as usual, smoking up a storm. I said, "Please blow it over there. I don't want your lung cancer." She replied, "Second-han- d smoke is harmless. You're getting crotchety." I say a person does not need to inhale smoke to be harmed by it that being around smoke can be damaging. What do you say, Ann? Choking in Sioux Falls Dear Choking: Never mind what I say, here is what the Interstate Commerce Commission said when they ruled Dear Mate: Of course. And she has that smokers must sit in the back of the the right to do as she pleases. If a woman bus. "Second-han- d smoke is an extreme doesn't mind discoloring her teeth, foul- irritant to humans, particularly with reing her breath, smelling up her hair, set- spect to its effect upon eyes and breath-in- g. ting fire to a few hundred dollars every Furthermore, Dr. D. M. Cousin of year, burning small holes in her clothes and the furniture, and finally, if she Paris at a recent European council on chooses to ignore the evidence that there smoking said, "Nonsmokers can inhale is a link between lung cancer and ciga- smoke equivalent to one pack if they that's her business. spend a day in a smoke-fille- d rette smoking-we- ll. room." HOW TO I W X. QUIT M SMOKING WITHOUT PUTTING ON POUNDS-HER- E'S FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM WEIGHT MATCHERS MENU PLAN FOR WOMEN Breakfast: 1 egg or 1 ounce hard cheese or 2 ounces fish or lA cup cottage or pot cheese 1 slice enriched bread May be taken at any time of day: Any unlimited foods beverages, vegetables, etc. "Unlimited Vegetables mushrooms asparagus mustard greens beet greens broccoli parsley . pickles cabbage cauliflower pimentos radishes celery rhubarb Chinese cabbage sauerkraut cucumber endive spinach escarole squash (green) green and red pepper string beans kohlrabi ( French style ) watercress lettuce mung bean sprouts Limited Vegetables Select any one of the following vegetables and use at dinner only. Only one serving, or cup, permitted. Vary your selections from day to day. artichokes parsnips bamboo shoots peas beets pumpkin scallions brussel sprouts carrots squash (yellow) tomato eggplant (mature) tomato juice (take green beans at any time; limit okra ' to 1 2 ounces daily) onions turnips oyster plant TRY THESE BEVERAGES Bloody Mary 1 cup tomato juice Dash Worcestershire sauce Dash lemon juice Salt Pepper Va teaspoon white horseradish Mix all ingredients in tall glass. Pour over ice . Limited food you are allowed 12 Luncheon: ounces daily. 4 ounces fish (canned or fresh) or lean Sober Ox on the Rocks meat or poultry or cup (6 ounces) Beef broth over ice, with a dash of Worcottage cheese or pot cheese or 4 ounces farmer cheese or 2 ounces hard cestershire sauce. Sprinkle with celery salt and serve with a lemon slice or cheese or 2 eggs All you want of unlimited vegetables4 wedge. Orange Water Ice 2 tablespoons concentrated orange juice Dinner: cup water 6 ounces cooked lean meat or fish or V teaspoon sugar substitute poultry Combine ingredients. Freeze in refriger1 limited portion vegetable4 ator tray. When frozen, put into blender All you want of unlimited vegetables container and turn on high speed just Must be taken at some time during day: long enough to break up ice. Serve at A total of 3 fruits (one of them orange once. Tastes just like the water ice that or grapefruit) Italian vendors used to sell in my child2 cups (16 ounces) skim milk or butterhood. Count as 1 fruit. 1 skimmed milk or Reprinted from Weight Watchers Cookbook. Copycup (8 ounces) 1966 by Jean Nidetch. Permission of the pubright lishers, Ilcarthsidc Press, Inc., Great Neck, N.Y. 11021. evaporated milk 1 slice enriched bread (LHJJEDHHEI11 Pregnant women who smoke may endanger their unborn child. Women who are pregnant and smoke one to two packs a day have significantly more stillbirths than women who don't smoke. In one study of 7,500 women, spontaneous abortions and premature births were almost twice as great for smoking mothers compared to nonsmoking ones. Some researchers also suspect that traces of nicotine found in the milk of mothers who smoke adversely affect the nursing infants. More of the babies born of smoking mothers also die within the first month. Into the Bloodstream Women who smoke 1 1 to 20 cigarettes a day show high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood. So do their babies. In fact, children born to smoking mothers show an almost chronic intoxication from carbon monoxide. The more an expectant mother smokes, the more carbon monoxide she absorbs. Carbon monoxide forces oxygen out of the red blood cells and cuts down the supply of oxygen in the mother's body and delivery to the fetus. One study indicates that when a pregnant woman smokes two packs a day, it is the equivalent of blocking off 40 percent of the baby's oxygen supply. Babies of mothers who smoke may in fact be born addicted to nicotine and suffer withdrawal symptoms in the first few months of life, according to British doctor, Dr. George Nicholson. "Nicotine which has entered their body through the mother's system is still circulating in their blood, and they suffer withdrawal symptoms. It takes about three months for the nicotine to work out of their systems," he says. "In the meantime, they sleep badly and won't settle down like a normal child born to a nonsmoking mother. They are always restless and craving for attention or food." Nicotine introduced into the mother's bloodstream impairs the heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen supply, and acid balance of the unborn infant. Studies with pregnant monkeys show that nicotine quickly seeps through the placental barrier and enters the developing fetus. Nicotine may also cause placental blood vessels to narrow and thus diminish the supply of nourishment and oxygen to the unborn baby. Staying Unhooked Another troubling fact. The highest percentage of smokers who quit but do not stick to it are young women between the ages of 18 and 35. In this child-beariage, 24 percent of those who had quit smoking in 1966 had started again by ng 1970. Babies deserve a better break. BADhia SftHfigftG |