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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1989 The Palm Beach Post SECTION Accent DAMN' IN THE END ZONE Interview smokes but true motive of tobacco industry I called my friend Earneston, executive director of The American Gaspers and Hackers Institute and asked him if he would mind answering some questions on the role of the tobacco industry in America. "Sure," he said, "if you don't mind honest, hardhitting, straight-from-the-shoulder answers. Ask away." Question: Is the tobacco industry concerned about the death and suffering it? products inflict on users? 1 I Answer: Yes, very much so. The health issue is hurting sales and therefore, profits. Also, cigarettes are killing our best customers which also eats into profits.

I must say it's refreshing, albeit appalling to hear you admit that you don't care about anything but profits. For example, I thought the tobacco lob- The Ickey Shuffle epitomizes team spirit with a kick. It's a touchdown dance that keeps fans and players on their toes. By DAN MOFFETT Palm Beach Post Sports Editor Admittedly, on the continuum of the world's greatest achievements in choreography, Rudolph Nureyev is at one end and Ickey Woods is at the other, just after the dancing bears of Ringling Bros, and Barnum Bailey. But then Nureyev isn't going to the Super Bowl.

And for that matter, neither are the Bears. Ickey Woods, the Cincinnati Bengals' 22-year-old rookie running back, will be thereat Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami Sunday, for Super Bowl XXIII. With him will come the Ickey Shuffle, which has become to the people of Cincinnati what the polka is to Bohemia. That old soft shoe At its essence, the Ickey Shuffle is a touchdown dance that is a modern variation on the old soft shoe: two hop-steps to the left, two to the right, back for a pair to the left, one more to the right, usually done with a football in hand which is spiked after completion of the footwork. Cincinnatians have been consumed by the dance since their Bengals have emerged as a National Football League power this season.

After the Bengals beat Buffalo Jan. 8 to win their berth in the Super Bowl, thousands of fans did the Ickey in the streets Riverfront Stadium. A new greeting A 150-piece high school marching band incorporated it -(into their halftime show, doing the Ickey in unison, with practiced precision. In offices, restaurants and on city sidewalks, Bengals fans spontaneously break into the Ickey as a non-verbal greeting to each other. Please see SHUFFLE4E Ron Wiggins 7 4 fr Fancy footwork 4 by is fighting for smokers' rights to enjoy their cigarettes in public.

We are. But we don't care whether they enjoy their cigarettes or not. In fact, if we could develop a cigarette that caused the smoker excruciating pain while smoking, we wouldn't care so long as they were addicted and smoked more of it. Then all this talk about freedom of choice Is malarkey. Believe me, if we could get laws passed requiring every person in the country to smoke, we'd support them in a heartbeat because our profits would be immense.

We don't really care about freedom of choice. We care about making money. That's pretty cynical. How do you think tobacco farmers feel? I know exactly how they feel. They want to sell as much tobacco as they possibly can at the highest price they can get.

If they could get more money for planting dandelions, that's what they'd plant. Are you understanding any of this? I guess I had suspected it. But I swear I just recently read some of your literature stating that higher tobacco taxes would be unfair to smokers. How many times do I have to tell you: We don't care about smokers. If taxes go up on cigarettes, consumption declines and more people kick the habit altogether.

Sales drop and profits decline. The ideal situation would be no taxes whatsoever. Or better yet, a big tax on alcohol. Why, what good would that do? Many beer, wine and liquor drinkers would drink less and smoke more. 7 If your only concern is profit, why are you putting so much research into smokeless cigarettes? We want a ciagrette people can consume anywhere without interference so we'll sell more of them and make more money.

Do you ever think of all the forests burned down by careless smokers? Or the terrible suffering and loss of life when a smoker falls asleep and burns down his house or a nursing home? Yes, we do think about it. We think the bad publicity hurts sales, and if we could keep that kind of news from the press, we'd suppress it. What if you could develop a cigarette that was good for people and made them live longer? We'd look at the profit possibilities very carefully before putting them on the market. For example, what if such a cigarette could be developed but the effect of smoking it was to cure you of nicotine addiction? If that were the case, we'd suppress the cigarette since obviously it would be bad for our industry. Recent studies show that uneducated people smoke a lot more than those with academic achievements and professional training.

Do you see profit possibilities there? Yes. We are considering putting money into defeating educational bond issues and other improvements to education. One last question. What if the government came to you and said "Look, we'll pay you more than you're getting now forever to walk away from tobacco and never look back." Would you do it? Yes. If you have some money for us, hand it over.

If not, get out of the way and let us make it the way we know how. 4 ALLEN EYESTONEStaff Photographer Mark Clayton's ballet spike against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was hailed by critics but penalized by officials. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Ickey Shuffle began last October. 'It just popped into my said Ickey Woods. 'I got up, and started going crazy.

I said, "I'm gonna do it tomorrow if I score a 0 THE ICKEY SHUFFLE 1 do the Shuffle to celebrate how happy I am. I don't do it for anyone but the ICKEY WOODS Spike At the University. of Miami, Michael Irvin was famous for his two-handed, over-the-head overture to the crowd. Gary Clark, one of the 'Smurfs with the Washington Redskins, helped develop the group high-five. Ball Here Southside Johnny goes solo Study on rape fueling submit vs.

resist debate Lyon and the 10-piece band will perform four or five songs from the new album when the group plays its first concerts in South Florida at 10 p.m. Thursday at City Limits in Fort Lauderdale and midnight Friday at De-cos in Miami Beach. (Tickets for each show are $10.) "We don't ask these same questions of people who are held up at gunpoint," Ziegler said. "But if there is a sexual element to an attack, it is not a crime. It is just boys being boys." "Whatever a woman does, she needs to be praised because she has survived," said Sandra Moody, rape-crisis coordinator and director of mental health for Clayton General Hospital.

"If she felt she could not outwit, outrun or outfight them, then we need to spend more time reinforcing that what she did A I Scott Benarde MUSIC Southside Johnny Lyon calls the recording of his latest album, Slow Dance, a "frightening experience." The album is his first solo effort without his powerhouse band, the Jukes (formerly the Asbury Jukes). The record is filled with heartfelt ballads. Purposely missing are the trademark heavy backbeat and barrage of horns for which he and the rhythm-and-blues-influenced Jukes have become known during the past 15 years. Slow songs are much more difficult to perform, Lyon says. And he wasn't used to having his voice almost naked in the forefront of every tune.

So why take the risk? "I was getting into a pattern with the band and I didn't want it to get boring. I was writing new material, but it wasn't Jukish. I wanted to sing and a band can restrict vocals," Lyon said during a recent phone conversation from Los Angeles. "I thought I could either teach these songs to the Jukes or let the songs speak for themselves and work with people who didn't have preconceptions of me. It's not that the Jukes can't play them." Lyon may have recorded an album without the Jukes, but he's not touring without them.

By MAUREEN DOWNEY Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service ATLANTA Two concerned husbands asked rape-crisis counselor Peg Ziegler to clear up the confusion over what is the most effective response to an attack: to resist or submit? "Even asking this question about rape is absurd," said Ziegler, director of the Rape Crisis Center at Grady Memorial Hospital. "It's the same as me saying to jump out of the window whenever there's a fire. I'm on the 15th floor, so it would have to be quite a fire." A new study of sexual assault that suggests victims can sometimes talk their way out of the attack has rekindled the resistance vs. submission debate. For rape counselors, the debate illustrates the misconceptions that still surround sex crimps.

The group also will perform gritty Jukes standards some of which were written with or by Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven The Fever, Trapped Again, Hearts of Stone, Talk to Me, and I Don't Want to Go Home. Southside Johnny and the Jukes are one of the mysteries of rock 'n' roll. They've got an excellent reputation as a live band but are snake-bitten when it comes to selling records, scoring only occasional, Please see S0UTHSIDE4E was the right thing if she came out alive." The author of the study, Judith Siegel, also cautioned against interpreting her results as a blanket endorsement for resis-t tance. Please see RAPE5E. Southside Johnny Lyon did 'Slow Dance without the Jukes, but the band will accompany him in South Florida this week..