Salt Lake Tribune | 2002-02-17 | Page 8

A8 TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, February 17, 2002 Biotech Cigarettes, Low in Nicotine, May Soon Be Approved for Sale in the U.S. 32 ge»Pemaivania. Towa and Hawaii. About twoTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS site WASHINGTON prices and production through Fromce- real to corn chips, Americans consume a variety of products made from genetically engi, neered crops. They soon can add cigarettesto the list new com smctcallylined the useof quotas, whichentitle the owners to market a given amount of leaf each year. Penalties on nonquota to- growin the handful of states Vectoris setting up production that havequotas,suchasNorth ake it uneconomical to Carolina aoe ts and Kentucky, elsewhere. so The companygrew the crop _nonite farms in Pennsylvania. TNSPIRING CHILDREN TO ACHIEVE be low innicotine. A new Agriculture Depart- ment study thirds of the crop was grown on several dozen Amish and Men- confirmed the low wince _ levels of nicotine, the chemical that gets smokers hooked, in the biotech tobacco and found that the crop poseslittle risk to the environment ( } f ) ee? Challenger’s teaching methodshelp children succeed. Tobacco from crops grown At Challenger your child will be challenged not to simply store facts and on department-supervised test plots last summer is going into the cigarettes made by Vector Group, parent company of Durham, N.C.-based cigarette maker Vector Tobacco. The company has asked the ideas, but to be able to explain whya particular fact or idea is important, and how it fits with otherfacts and ideas. Understandingandbeing able to explain the whysand hows build confidence, and resultin a muchbetter understandingandretention of the subject matter. It also makes learningfun. Agriculture Departmentto remove restrictions on where and Challenger students become excited about learning and achievement, and howthe tobacco can be grown, and the agency probablywill go they become confident, capable thinkers. That's why they average above the along. 90th percentile on the StanfordAchievementTest. Thetobacco was geneti aeauene a he Please Join Us for an Open House! Seena eae ced Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at the Orem and Holladay Campuses [Ak Chadlenger,yourchild will he emcee steals who sksoeso) cane and developingthe strength oftheir minds. run andit couldflop, We think theodds are that it is goingto be Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at the West Jordan Campus Thursday, February 21, 2002 at the CottonwoodandSalt Lake Preschool Campuses aeonSain =n from 10:00 .4.M. 11:00.4.M. andfrom 1:00 ext 2:002 the brokerage firm Jefferies Thursday, February 21, 2002atthe Salt LakeElementary Campus and Company Inc. b ; Vector, which makes Eve- : 3 seneric from 9:00 4.M. 11:00 4.M. and from 2:00 pa. To find out more, call a Challenger Schoolnear you, and schedulea tour for you andyour child. 7:00 pM. Orem (Preschool-7) 730 North 300 East [phone] Holladay(Preschool-Kindergarten) 4555 South 2300 East(801) 278-4797 Trott said people who have fl at jutcoteald wheretalet the biotech cigarettes begin- mlnin(besprig Or Waa Plan now to reserve a spot for your child at Challenger Schoolforthe 2002-2003schoolyear. Our open enrollment period has begun, andwill continue until classes are full. & @ ¥ Salt Lake (Preschool-8) 1325 South Main Street [phone] Bh + 7 y g CHALLE NG I d R =e SscHOOL Cottonwood (Preschool-Kindergarten) 1260 East 8600 South [phone] ta Se EEEoe Sandy Preschool (Preschool—Kindergarten) 10685 South 1000 East [phone] Call a school near you to schedule a personaltour at your convenience. cigarettes. rnment approval would makethe tobacco one of Sandy Elementary (1-8) 10693 South 1000 East [phone] West Jordan (Preschool—1) 2247 West 8660 South [phone] Becaust YOu KNOW THE VALUE OF EDUCATION ©2002, Challenger Schools + 801-569-2700 + Toll-free 1-888-748-1135 + www.challengerschool.com the first biotech crops to have a consumer use. Gene-altered soy, the most commonbiotech crop, can be sprayed with weedkiller without killing it. Other cropsresist pests. Tobacco industry critics fear low-nicotine cigarettes could encourage more smok: ing. “A nicotine-free cigarette could still deliver very high levels of harmful toxic subid Matthew Mey: ident of the Campaign icco-Free Kids. Many tobacco farmers and Vector's rival cigarette manu facturers are concerned about the product, too. Growers say the biotech tobacco could get mixed with conventional leaf andjeopardizeU.S. exports. “It is a big issue. It has the potential to change tobacco and tobacco production and the production controls that we have hadon tobacco for many ” said Larry Wooten, a partner in a tobacco farm and presidentof the North Carolina Farm Bureau. “Many of our farmers are not awareof the serious implications that this has.” The government traditionally has controlled tobacco Vietnam Rebuffs Panel’s Criticism ee * Of Religious Policy S THE ASSOCIATED PR HANOI, Vietnam Viet nam has rejected charges from aU government commission thih it suppresses religion, calling the accusation a gross interference in the country's internal affairs. Foreign Ministry spokes: woman Phan Thuy Thanhsaid Saturday that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom slanderedVietnam by distorting the status of religion in the nation “It is necessary to reaffirm that Vietnam hassofar never tried, imprisoned or put any religious figure under house arrest for religious reasons,” Thanhsaid. 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