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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, On Tobacco use k Alcohol use Automobile - Use of hard drugs Suicide . 100.000 200.000 0 Annual Deaths (1984) f.iOiiCa UPI Graphic Woildw.iUh liv, Mult D.C. Panel Denies Garage Plan GOP Lawmakers Damned Mad District of Columbia in his congresWASHINGTON (UPI) Capitol Hill a sional votes. A neighborhood group has denied request from House Republican leader Robert Michel "I just might put myself on the House District Committee." Michel said, referring to the panel that oversees legislation relating to the district. "I'm damned mad. They're just piqued at my being a public official." In a vote, the commission decided not to support Michel's application to the Board of Zoning Adjustment to build a two-ca- r brick garage in the alley behind the Capitol Hill town-hous- e he and his wife have owned since 1972. Michel said he wants to build the garage in the alley because he was mugged six years ago when he got out of his car after parking it in the alley behind his house. for a zoning vari- ance to build a two-ca- r garage behind his townhouse and Michel said he's damned of- ficial reason for the denial is Michel's proposed thatl garage was too one-fift- h can be traced to cigarette smoke," he wrote. Specific causes of smoking-re-adultlatcd death include bronchitis, physema, lung cane r. heart disease and fires. In addition, he wrote, "Passive smokers those w ho Inhale the smoke l,f others' cigarettcs are perhaps three times likelier to die of lung cer than they would be otherwise." The proportion of U.S. adults who smoke has fallen from 43 percent to 32 percent, but 20 percent more bacco is used than when an anti-tho- r smoking campaign beg. in 1964. in addition, the use of chewing bacco and snuff in the United States has increased by more than 40 per- cent in the last two decades, Worldwide, the use of tobacco has increased nearly 75 percent over the past two decades, and in China, use jias doubled, Chandler wrote, "Seventy-thre- e percent more bacco is consumed now than 20 years ago, so without a sudden drop in smoking, Iqng cancer deuths, for ample, will almost certainly increase by 50 percent by the turn of the centu-e- y ry," the report said. Chandler accused governments of not protecting citizens from tobacco, charging that they try to rid their countries of unsafe medicines, illicit drugs and toxic wastes, but subsidize the tobacco industry. s ic fit AtamtsoM' Flrefcfr-The-wee- k " iyvss lieimd Steak Beef Family Packs Bone-i- n 3 Steaks or More CAV3 51c Lb. en s. lb. Beef LOn Groundor More Family Pack 10 Lbs. SAVS 20 Lb. $ lb. 3 mad." Although the - Smoking kill more worldwide than any other pre- cause of death, including war, famine aod terrorist attacks, ac- report recording to a tbink-tanleased Saturday.1 Despite research showing tobacco is dangerous, tobacco use remains In industrialized countries and is growing dramatically in Third World nations, warned William Chan- dler, a senior researcher at the non- World Watch Institute and au- of the report. "No avoidable condition claims adult lives than tobacco addic- tion," Chandler wrote. In a telephone Interview, he ex- plained that he included war, famine and terrorism among those condi- lions and said smoking was growing more popular in Third World nations in part because of an information lag Chinese people, for example, don't understand cigarette smoking is such a severe health threat," he said, incomes are going up in places like China, so people have more mon- to buy cigarettes. Chandler pointed out his research showed cigarette smoking alone is re- sponsible for 2 million to 2.5 million deaths worldwide each year, or al- most 5 percent of total deaths. of all U.S. deaths "Almost of Death Hpmieide A9 List Death-Caus- e WASHINGTON (UPI) and smokeless tobacco accidents 12, 1936 Tobacco Ranked First Deaths in the U.S. Due to Tobacco and Selected Other Causes in 1984. Cause Sunday. January Rrt Michel big, members of the Advisory Neigh- borhood Commission said Saturday they believed the Illinois Republican had not shown enough support for the Idaho Russets . U.S.NO.1 vw,, o risA . Yellow onions U.S. NO. 2 Fritters Apple Bakery Fresh If you mistreat your diabetes In-Sto- re it could break uur heart . Reg. 3? c?n each U 9 Pc. Fried Chicken 22 OZ. Net Weight Reg. $3.99 Margarine Albertsons Quality '"Sp--- , Quarters t 1 lb. Bath Tissue Janet Lee Assorted Colors A i i.)i.i!x''o is a disease that ailed'pari cl vear vd' il it s treated heart but w hen semethme u'u? sptia!K rnly ; vs w i cm; sdineth.ngis w rony; At the LYikics lieatmcnt c erur it II, ie treat the whole dieae Not ust the u jjlts voj !e..;:i ' r diet rhroudh .eu uni nation i erd--im' d.a'oeres I et u'.i people luw trekes hcait in,: to, v.'v.ni-'Ie u i"i e ei J ' ' , - he,. ,n., e iie 'V'i it oil ed !ne with 1 i. all us n h lid" !,e,u: eeod ai hoc cross pack - 1 'e ' , -- : , , i DIABETES TREATMENT CENTER - i hospha; Albertsons Ad Prices Effective Now Thru Jan 14th |