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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Negotiating like a coun- (
try but voting like a religion, the Vatican man- \
aged to chip away at abortion language at the J
U.N. population conference. 1
But it failed to block worldwide recognition
that abortion is a fact of life that governments ]
must deal with as an issue of public health. ]
That was a setback to the Holy See and to 1
Pope John Paul II, who has been leading a sin- '>
gle-minded moral crusade against abortion. 1
The Vatican also suffered damage on the 1
diplomatic stage. It infuriated many diplomats
and U.N. officials with its vigorous fight in con- 1
ference rooms to keep more liberal abortion lan- <
guage out of the 20-year plan to curb population
growth. i
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WASHINGTON (AP)?A panel of top sci- v
entists urged Congress Tuesday to allow the n
government to aggressively regulate tobacco - ^
from capping nicotine to banning cigarette vending
machines - as a way to fight teen-age smoking.
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The report by the prestigious Institute of j
Medicine was strong support for the Food and tl
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co industry.
vvTobacco needs supervision and regulation e
right away," said Dr. Paul Torrens, a University
of California at Los Angeles professor who n
co-wrote the report. "This is a dangerous, ad- Si
dictive substance that is widely and freely avail- <j
able to teen-agers around this country."
The government says more than 400,000 K
Americans die each year from diseases attrib- w
uted to smoking - and 70 percent of smokers
start before agel8. Anti-smokers and government
scientists say as many as 3,000 teen-agers oi
a day become regular smokers, hooked on nicotine
after experimenting with just a few ciga- b
rettes. Sl
The Institute of Medicine spent 18 months
studying how to battle teen smoking and con- p
eluded that current school education programs
and state laws prohibiting tobacco sales to youths h
simply aren't enough. a
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ected in Tuesday's final session to specific points promoted as a method oi
n sections on reproductive rights. -Language that family
The Vatican also got limited support from 10 matters should conform
Latin American countries, including Argentina, ethics and religion.
Peru and Ecuador. They withheld agreement on The Vatican didn't e
phrases in the reproductive rights section but cess to contraception and
accepted the abortion passage. Brazil, the world's doms to fight AIDS, kno\
largest Roman Catholic country, did not side that front. But it refuse
with the Vatican. guage and said the Chui
Yet in eight grueling days of bargaining here, both issues remained ur
the Vatican and its Catholic allies won numer- The key paragraph o
a us battles, including: emments to deal with "i
-Recognition that parents should be involved jor public health concern,
in teen sex counseling. phrasing could legitimiz
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re only solution - led by a Public Health Ser- -Federal funds help sti
ice agency, probably FDA, that would strictly operations to catch stores
igulate tobacco and limit the nicotine allowed minors.
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lat, and has asked outside scientists to deter- believes is politically viabli
line at what level nicotine becomes addictive. ria of the Tobacco institut
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isisto the plan wont outlaw'tobacco. tolerate a $2 tax because!
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"We are not prohibitionists, we are not ban- , Officials of the Instit
ing cigarettes," Torrens said. "We are simply know'ed8ed lts Pla"w0^
aying children should be protected from ad- Nothing comes free, i
ictive substances." a law professor at the Un
xThe focus on youth is critically important," a Pubbc bealth s1
Messier agreed Tuesday. "It's critical we do all be implemented."
e can to prevent kids from getting hooked." Lauria insisted that cij
The panel also recommended that: ?>e^ children and that mos
- Congress increase the 24-cent federal tax are in areas not frequente
a cigarettes to $2 a pack. But the Centers for Dis<
-Merchants obtain a state license to sell to- vention last month
acco, which would be suspended if the store discovered that cigarette
ells tobacco to minors. Camel, the Marlboro Man
-All public places, from restaurants to shop- of Newport account for 8(
ing malls, ban smoking. market, compared with 2
-Congress repeal the federal law prohibit- sales,
lg states from regulating tobacco advertising And a CDC study foun<
0 states can ban billboards and any advertis- 51 percent of cigarette ver
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"We toned down that paragraph," said the ba
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negotiator, the Rev. Diarmuid Martin. "It's very tj0
negative on abortion," he said. q3
The Vatican also objected to the establishing
of a woman's right to "regulation of fertility,"
saying that could include abortion. ' 011
The onlv maior reference to abortion in the
last U.N. population en
document from 1984 ruled out abortion promo- de
tion as family planning. ' ill
"By 1994, the world itself had gotten caught ty,
up in the abortion debate to a much greater extent,"
said Vatican delegate James McHugh, a ,
U.S. bishop from Camden, N.J. "This conference
could not have been held without reference to
abortion."
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t go along with the reproductive health secns
on moral grounds, said Moorthy Kanchi,
ribbean director for the U.N. Population Fund.
That refusal to budge could make life diffiIt
for the Vatican in the future, observers said.
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will it created in the international communi,
Kanchi said.
But Vatican officials vowed to maintain a strint
voice in world affairs.
"We do not feel marginalized, isolated or reted,"
McHugh said. "We are a church. But we
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