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DAILY CHRONICLE, DoKalbSycamoro, III. Thursday, March 8, 1984 9A enercal ffcaefs smoking cand your iL. inon, 1.0.,. ic ricin. nhnn rvn-pnt tndav The A leadine life insur- ers, and men with low in- who have auit is rising about 35 percent today.

The toeolfh 2,000 people 4,000 ers ers cars untaihted by to rs deaths. By the late 1980s, June cancer is exrected to ance company report shows that the average life expectancy for a 32-year-old man who does not smoke cigarettes is 79 years, compared with 72 years for a 32-year-old smoker. Only one-third of smokers gain weight when they give up cigarettes. One-third actually lose weight as a result of combining a general fitness program with their efforts to quit. Who smokes? In general, men with college educations, white-collar occupations and high-income levels are less likely to comes.

However, women who work are more likely to smoke than housewives and women in households with low family incomes. Blacks are lighter smokers than whites. Eighty-two percent of black smokers go through a pack or less aJday, compared to 66 percent of whites. Thirty-four percent of white smokers, though, consume more than one pack of cigarettes per day, compared to 18 percent of all black smokers. Cigarettes are the cause of more than one-third of all fire deaths.

In 1QRI cicanettes ienited over bacco smoke. Increasingly, hotels and motels around the country are setting aside rooms, wings and floors for non-smokers. In 1982, the first-motel for nonsmokers opened in Dallas, Texas. Guests checking into the Non-Smokers Inn must sign an agreement not to smoke or to permit others to smoke, upon penalty of a 100 cleaning charge and an immediate departure. More than half of present smokers would like to see smoking allowed in fewer places than it is now, despite the fact that there are more and more restric-tinns nn nlaces where oeo- OKe.

and caused JU5 minion in property damage. Nearly 18 percent of fires in one and two-family dwellings are related to smoking. The trend to nonsmok-er's discounts on life insurance over 325 companies today offer cut rates on annual premiums has extended to other forms of insurance. Nonsmokers often can expect to pay less for disability insurance, automobile accident policies, and homeowners' policies. An airline serving the Southwest, Muse Airlines, is the first to ban smoking on all flights.

The regional carrier also nas nnKea up with a car rental service which guarantees nonsmok AprnrHino tn information recently published by the American Cancer Society, over 19 million American smokers attempted to give up cigarettes in 1982. For those who may have tried to but didn't succeed, the ollowing general facts on smoking and health will be informative. About 75 to 80 percent of all lung cancer cases are found among cigarette smokers who represent less than one-third of the adult population. Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death among men. In the last 30 years, there has been a 400 percent increase in women's lung cancer steadily.

From 1978 to 1980, the ranks of former smokers increased by 1.8 million to 33.3 million. Smoking is a primary cause of drug interactions. Effects of medication taken by a patient may be increased, decreased or cancelled by smoking. Diagnostic tests may give seriously inaccurate results in smokers. The risk of developing lung cancer is 10 times greater for smokers than for nonsmokers.

Those who smoke two or more packs of cigarettes daily are 15 to 25 times more at risk than non-smokers. Smokers of low-tar low-nicotine brands of cigarettes have a lower lung can-cer risk compared to smokers of nonfiltered, high-tar cigarettes. However, the risk for these smokers is still much higher than that for nonsmokers. More men than women smoke but the percentage of adult U.S. smokers has dropped from above 50 percent 20 years aio 10 Helmsley has good instinct Store AND LIQUORS percentage ot adult iemaie smokers rose to a peak of 33.7 percent in 1966; since then it has fallen to about 28 percent.

During the 1982 Great American Smokeout, 41 percent of the nation's female smokers and 31.8 percent of its male smokers participated. Nicotine, a psychoactive drug found in cigarette smoke, reaches the brain of a smoker within six seconds of being inhaled this is twice as fast as mainlining heroin. Teachers, doctors, dentists and pharmacists are groups that have shown high quitting rates. A large number of the divorced and unemployed smokes. Sixty percent of divorced men smoke; about 50 percent of divorced women do.

About 57 percent of unemployed men smoke. Smokers who have quit are least likely to back-slide if surrounded by spouses and friends who don't smoke. II-IMF. Hillerat 2 1022 W. Lincoln Old Milwaukee Old Milwaukee light 24 pack rQ 12 oz.

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Quitting cold turkey seems to work better than tapering off, in the experience of most ex-smokers. The number of smok- top agents. It was the selling of the St. Tropez, New York's first condominium, that brought Leona one of her earliest challenges. Its enormous success was particularly gratifying to her and, from there, she went on to become president of her own firm, Sutton and Town Residential.

According to Harry, he began to hear about Leona wherever he went. And he was so impressed by what he heard that he requested a meeting with her, after which he offered her a job as a senior vice president of Brown, Harris, Stevens. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse," Leona states quite simply particularly three years later when they were married. Forming now what can only be described as one of real estate's most successful duos, the pair seem to complement each other very well in both private and public life. The Helmsleys spend most of their free time in their home atop the Park Lane in New York, and enjoy every other weekend at their homes in Connecticut and Florida.

No matter how their days are spent, Harry and Leona always end their working day together, and enjoy swimming and dancing to relax. They carry their theme of togetherness into business, as well, but in the end it is Harry who maintains the final vote. "Harry is brilliant," exclaims Leona. I suggest but he decides." As president of the largest privately owned hotel chain in the country, she is involved in the daily operations of the hotels as well as with the approval of arche-tectual and interior designs and in the selection of new properties, with Harry. Her aim is to establish a Helmsley quality of hotel service which would be standard in all of their hotel properties.

Despite the fact that most of the hotels have their own individual character, she hopes the unifying factor will be a singular quality of personalized service, so dis-tinctive that no matter where the guests stay he or she will know it is a Helmsley hotel. "We're launching a new advertising campaign based on a very personal theme which will state, in effect that the new Helmsley hotel group is not an amorphous, corporate chain, but one in which we are personally involved," says Leona. Shoppe 63,000 homes, killed over Co smoke than high school graduates, blue collar work GOL? jpljpgBs MJ 1 TV I 1 Latex Semi-Gloss A 0 "57 (o) (0) IcffflvS CS335fe VragF FAMOUS Spred Satin9 Latex Wall Paint YJP Ohm GALLON tpA( TlD REG. 6.99 I Beautiful, flat finish ri Scrubs clean, stays 01j A CX f9tm Easy water C'J clean-up xr- gallon lp6J jreo.m9.99 Resists grease, dirt, moisture I "1 I Applies easily -dries quickly Matches sPred Satin colors. "tJ "46 Locations In 8 States" v4 Just West of The Wafer Tower 1515 W.

Lincoln DeKalb Phone 756-8575 In today's hectic world, the woman who can manage a successful career and a fulfilling private life represents the ideal to which any career woman can aspire. An example of this is Leona Helmsley, whose career encompasses the domain of the entire Helms-ley-Harley hotels and whose private life is centered around husband, real estate mogul Harry B. Helmsley. Leona enjoys the distinction of being president of the Helmsley hotels and its Harley division, the only woman chief executive of a major hotel chain in the country. Equally impressive is her role of spokeswoman for the hotels, which brings her most into the public eye.

She has set impeccably high standards for all of her hotels and her personal advertisements are based on the important details that will make her guests feel at home. It is her gracious touches such as well-lit magnifying mirrors in the bathroom, convenient parking and luscious, hors d'oeuvre in the bar, that are among the great enticers to stay at her hotels. But more important than any single facet of any hotel is the woman herself. It is Leona's charm and style that can be credited with the success of the Harley hotels. Built originally by Standard Oil of Ohio, and known as the Hospitality Motor Inns, the name Harley is a contraction of Harry and The chain presently numbers 27 hotels including their flagship, the Harley of New York, an 800-room extravaganza built by Harry and furnished by Leona.

The Helmsleys have spent in excess of $30 million redoing the chain, Leona's pet project, since its purchase, and Leona can be given the credit for its success. It is the same business instinct and sense of style with which she presides over 31 hotel properties, including the magnificent Helmsley Palace, that first led her to become a top real estate broker in the latter part of the 1960s. After leaving college Leona pursued a career as a fashion model. Some may remember her as the Chesterfield (cigarette) girl. Her illustrious career began with an office job in a New York real estate firm.

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