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The Cryptoquip is a simple substitutlon cipher in which each enthualasm and good will, ©1978 King Feawrea Syndicate, Inc, _ letter used stands for another, If yau think that X equals 0, it — erase will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words, and words using an apostrophe can give you clues to locating vowels, Solution is accomplished by trial and error. secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Are your problems too heavy to handle alone? Let Abby -help you. For a personal, unpublished reply, write: Abby: Box 69700, Los Angeles, Calif. 90069. Enclose a stamped, evar i sell-addressed envelope. DEAR ABBY: I don’t know which way to turn. My husband started having a cocktail before dinner every _ night. Then it was two. Then doubles. Now, he sometimes gets so drunk, he falls asleep at the table, (Thank God our children are grown and gone.) Dean Abby. anything to him about it, he becomes hostile and even abusive. He never used to be this way, Abby. When he sobers up and I tell him what he has said and done, he can't believe it. Then he begs me to forgive him and promises it won't ever happen again. But it does. I've suggested Alcoholics Anonymous, but he insists he isn’t an alcoholic. It’s a mystery to me how he can function so well in his business. When he's not drinking I couldn't want a more wonderful, loving, caring, considerate husband, but his personality changes completely when he drinks. How can I help him, Abby? He’s getting worse, DEAR READERS: If statistics on emoking bore you, skip this column. , ¢ then 76 percent of those who amoke today began It’s No Longer Smart To Smoke Cigarettes By Abigail Van Buren © 1078 by Chicaga Tribune-N.Y. Mews Syod. Inc, EA Ae ey ore et title eohol, ‘am! .” by Jo ; smoking belore, the ie 2. And 4 Percent of current Keller. It's written in plain, everyday language and is by . ‘far the best thing I’ve ever read about how to deal with a Between 1968 and 1874, the number of teen-age amokers drinking problem (yours, or that of someone you care for). Now he has taken to drinking on weekends, and ifI say | DESPERATE WIFE: increased by 60 percent—from $3 million to 4.6 million. Write to: Since 1968, the percentage of teen-age girls who smoke §~QonRATION CORK hes doubled. 2.0. Box 9650 Every day, 4,000 teenagers become cigarette smokers. There are approximately 100,000 children under the age of 18 who smoke regularly. If at least one parent and one older albling emokes, a teenager is four. times ae likely to smoke than if neither More than 53 million Amerjcans smoke cigarettes. In 1075 alone, they spent $14 billion on 620 billio oreties. ighty perceut of all adult emokers would like to quit. In 1960, about 65 percent of U.S. physicians amoked. By 1975, only 21 percent of physiciaxs amoked. In the United States, 39 percent of adult m ‘percent of adult females amoke cigarettes. Over 37 million people (one out of every six Americans alive today) will die years earlier than they otherwise SAN DIEGO, CALIF. 92109 Ask for the booklet, and please enclose $1 to help defray the-cost of publishing and mailing. If you can't afford $1, they will send you the booklet anyway. (They are a nonprofit organization.) . Good luck and God bless. And please let me hear from n You again. 1 care. DEAR ABBY: We have received an invitation to an anniversary celebration for 25 years of marriage —to three aleg and 29 different wives! The firat is deceased, the second divorced and the third is the present wife. The invitation reads: “Don't try to understand me—-just love me.” What is your opinion of this type of celebration? PUZZLED would because of emoking. Heated fa than 870,000 e than A deat Eel King waa Implics mor DEAR PUZZLED: If your friend wants to celebrate the The offspring of women who smoke during pregnancy total number of years he has been married, that's his may be stillborn or developmentally deficient because of privilege. But jt can't be properly considered a “25th their mothers’ heavy smoking. j wedding anniversary” unless all the 25 years of marriage Recent experiments: have shown that bables absorb were spent with the same spouse. nicotine before birth, with clear effecta on their respiration _ If you love him, don't try to understand him; he's just and other vital signs. doing his own thing. : Thave learned from talking with heavy smokera who ere eo severely hooked that they have given up trying to quit, — that they etarted emoking when they were teenagers becaues it made them feel “big” and grown-up. And even after conclusive evidence wae found to confirm the theory that smoking contributes to cancer and heart trouble, they didn't really want to quit because smoking “relaxed” thent. -Others aaid they continued to amoke because every time they quit, they galned weight. There are numerous suggested methoda for kicking the DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are middle-aged and were watching our weight. We do all right at home, but our troubles begin when we're guests in someone’s home—especially when they serve midnight “snacks” after cards, etc, We count our calories all week, and then the hostess puts all this stuffon the table and pushes it onto our plates, saying, “I've worked so hard, you've GOT to eat thial” Or, nicotine habit. They range all the way from hypnosis tapering off to attending “atop smoking clinics” where a jar containing a pair of human lunge consumed by cancer and preserved in formaldehyde fa passed around. According to those who have “trled everything,” the best way to quit is “cold turkey.” ‘It's never too late to quit, But this ia a plea to those of ou out there who donot smoke. Please, please don't start. not for your own sake, for the aske of those you love end those who love you. P.S. All the above statietics were provided by Miller, special assistant to Secretary Joseph Califano, the IF ‘ou don’t eat it, I'll have to throw it out!" e have come home stuffed and uncomfortable because we couldn't get out of eating. We tell ourselves, “Never again,” but the next weekend it's the same story. Any suggestions? KICKING OURSELVES IN HINSDALE DEAR KICKING: Don't blame your hostess. Tell her in ABBY Sdvance that you're dieting and ask her to please have, some carrots, celery of fresh fruit for you to nibble on. (Or Laura A. You could bring your own.) 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