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Friday, February 1, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
COFFEE CALL
AND CAJUN FOOD
Daily Lunch and Dinner Specials.
Hot French Donut - Gourmet Coffees
Late Nite Studios Welcome!
In the Louisiana Purchase, 328 & Louisana. *832-CALL*
Saturday, Feb. 9
8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
Liberty Hall
Costume Contest/ Prizes
KU STUDENT BIOETHICS CLUB presents:
"Children of Cocaine"
Tuesday, February 5th
Kansas Union- Jayhawk Room, 7:30 p.m.
For more information call:
Shawn 842-7060 or Suzanne 749-0549
Presented by the Student Assistance Center
JAYHAWK
GOLDEN CUE BILLIARDS CLUB
- SPRING SEMESTER LEAGUE NOW FORMING!
8-BALL MIXED TEAMS
BCA RULES
LEAGUE TOURNAMENT AT END OF SEASON
BANDUET AND TROPHIES
- THE GOLDEN CUE CLUB WILL ALSO PROVIDE
PERSONAL INSTRUCTION
PRO SEMINARS
CHALLENGE TOURNAMENTS
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
RICK WOODBRIDGE, 832-0705 OR THE JAYBOWL, 864-3545
1ST MEETING . FEB. 4, 7:00 P.M. IN THE JAYBOWL
Sunday Student Specials
A lot of steak. A lot of gravy. But not much dough.
Try Our Chicken Fry
Chicken Fried Steak
Includes potato or rice pilaf.
Perfectly complemented by
our famous Salad, Hot Food
and Dessert Bar.
11 a.m. - Close
Sunday Night Special
Stockade Burger, Fries & Drink
CDC reports smoking down deaths increase
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — More U.S. citizens are quitting smoking, and more are dying — now more than 400,000 a year — as the habits of the 1950s and '60s take an increasing toll, federal health officials said yesterday.
Those numbers reflect a steady trend, CDC researchers said. Back in 1965, the calculated toll from smoking deaths was 188,000.
The national Centers for Disease Control reported that 434,175 U.S. citizens died from smoking in the year 2000. Another attribute attributed to smoking in a 1985 study
"The problem is, we are now paying for what happened 20, 30 years ago, when large numbers of people smoked in large amounts," said William Roper, director of the Atlanta-based CDC.
"Even though the percentage of Americans now smoking is lower than in the past, the burden of the practice is coming clear," he said.
That burden includes more than 100,000 annual deaths from lung cancer, the leading cause of smoking-related deaths, Roper said. The CDC reported 111,985 smoking-related lung cancer deaths for 1988, up from 106,000 in 1985 and 38,100 in 1985.
Smoking also resulted in 48,896 other cancer deaths, such as mouth cancers and pancreatic cancer, in 1988; 201,002 deaths from cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease or stroke; 78,005 deaths from respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema, among other causes.
"It takes 10,20 years for the cancer caused by smoking to result," he said.
The CDC also said that 3.825 U.S. citizens died from lung cancer caused by others' smoking, or passive smoke. But the CDC's statistical formulas do not yet include passive smoking deaths from heart diseases, which a recent study estimated at 37,000 a year.
Roper said health officials hoped the increasing death toll from smoking would turn around, given recent trends toward stopping smoking.
CDC researchers estimate that about 29 percent of U.S. citizens smoke, down from 30 percent in 1985 and 40 percent in 1964, the year of the landmark surgeon general's warning against smoking.
"We have seen a reduction in smoking percentages for several years now, and I hope that by the year 2000 . . . we are going to begin to include more actual numbers of smoking-attributable illnesses and deaths," Roper said.
"But that is heavily dependent on behavior patterns right now, and we are anxious to get the message to young people, especially young women, who tend to make up the largest percentage of smokers."
CDC surveys show that women are slower to give up the habit than men and that people younger than 44 smoke more than older people.
They say it's your birthday
Timothy Miller/KANSAN
Denise Svaglic, Wescoe Terrace Cafeteria employee, rings up the purchases of Heidi Wheeler, Lawrence graduate student. In celebration of Svaglic's birthday yesterday, Wescoe cafeteria employees decorated her cashier's stand with streamers and balloons.
Jury rules man stole rare books
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — A defendant described by prosecutors as an odd man who wears his underwear a long time was found guilty yesterday for the theft of millions of dollars from libraries and museums.
A federal court jury deliberated about four hours before returning the guilty verdict on four foulty counts against Stephen Blumberg.
Blumberg, 42, had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to all charges, including one of possessing 21,000 books stolen from libraries and museums in 45 states and Canada. The other counts related to thefts of musical instruments and stained-glass windows.
Blumberg, who had been free on bond, was immediately taken into custody by federal marshals. His sentencing was set for April 26.
Earlier in the day, summing up $6^{1/2}$ days of testimony, a defense attorney pursuing the insanity defense said Blumberg lived in a time warp and was driven by delusions to steal rare books from all over the country.
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Defense psychiatrists said Blum-
 Defense had a family history of mental
illness, but Dr. Blum's work is
had schizoid tendencies.
Reade acknowledged that Blumberg was odd and had a bad family life. "But just because your mother is schizophrenic and your father is depressed doesn't mean you are mentally ill yourself," she said.
Much was written during the trial of Blumberg's unkempt appearance. He wore the same sweater and pants throughout, changing shirts once. Several defense witnesses said he smelled bad.
But prosecutor Linda Reade sided with a government psychiatrist who said Blumberg was simply angry not insane.
"Mr. Blumberg doesn't like to take baths and he wears his underwear a long time, but that doesn't make him mentally disturbed." Beade said.
"He's dealing with reality," she said. "The delusion is a fantasy of the defense. It isn't there. Mr Blumberg is a thief of historical proportions. This man stole the cultural history of America, but he is nothing more than a thief."
Defense lawyer Ray Rosenberg said insanity was the only explanation for Blumberg's actions. He said he had been "the victim" on his $72,000 annual trust.
administered by his father, and could have joined the family real estate business.
"Instead he lived almost as a street person who was absorbed by Victorian history, who lived in a time warp, a secret world," Rosenberg said.
He said that Blumberg never sold any of the stolen books.
But Beadle said many of the books had nothing to do with the Victorian age, some being rare books from the very crudale of printing and others dealing with how to disarm a burglar alarm.
"They were collected to preserve and protect them from what Mr. Blumberg believed, in his delusion, to be a plot by the U.S. government, joined by the Masons and Jews and others, to keep the masses downtroden and without knowledge of their history," Rosenberg said.
Former accomplices testified that Blumberg planned the insanity defense as a way of avoiding prison.
"If he were intent on establishing that defense, why did he tell the government's psychiatrist) that he didn't have any mental disorders?" The government can't have it both ways." Rosenberg said.
The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People Presents
The Velveteen Rabbit
Adapted by James Still from the story by Margery Williams Directed by James Still
2:30 & 7:00 p.m. Saturday,February 9,1991
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
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