C3 - Wednesday, July 14, 1982 - North Shore News NINE YEAR OLD Clay Long (left) and Joe Hoskins set up their roadside stand outside Clay's home on Keith Road in North Vancouver, where they had made $3.08 each the last time they were open for business. (Terry Peters photo) CANDY IS DANDY..... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) — Smoking as few as two high-nicotine cigarettes can smother the fires of sexual arousal in men, Florida State Universtiy researchers say. In a laboratory” ex- periment, men who smoked two cigarettes with a high nicotine content, then watched erotic movies had an immediate and marked decrease in sexual response compared to men who smoked two low-nicotine cigarettes and another group that did not smoke. Dr. Richard Hagen, an associate professor of psychology, said Thursday his experiment dealt only with short-term effects of nicotine and should not lead to conclusions linking smoking to impotence or other long-range effects. Hagen and graduate student Joseph D'Agostino devised the test to determine the short-term effects of smoking on sexual arousal. Between March and June, the researchers attached electronic devices to 42 male volunteers between the ages of 18 and 44 to measure their sexual responses, heart rates and pulse volume. The men, tested in- dividually, then were shown two segments of erotic movies. Between the films, one group was instructed to smoke two high-nicotine cigarettes. Another was given two low-nicotine cigarettes and members of a control group were given a piece of candy. The candy and low- nicotine Cigarettes produced no significant changes in the men’s responses to the second X-rated movie, but the group smoking high- nicotine cigarettes had a distinct change, they said. “Smoking two = high- nicotine cigarettes not only resulted in significantly decreased response measurements, but the time it took to achieve maximum arousal also increased,” the researchers said. The subjects were assigned to groups randomly and for consistency were given their instructions by tape recorder. Hagen said medical and psychological literature has had many case studies of THE PATIO SHOPS super summer sale SPECIALISTS IN OUTDOOR FURNISHINGS Chains @ Tables ® Lounges @ Cienbretlas © chaise aod cba pores 1575 Marine Drive, Weat Vancauver V7V 1H9 925-1101 2082 West 41st Avenue. individual men whose sex lives apparently were af- fected by smoking and he himself once treated a male patient whose sex problems disappeared when he quit tobacco. But Hagen said the new study apparently was “the Smothering the flames of sex first that has taken the question into the laboratory.” Hagen said he and D'Agostino next hope to devise a test measuring the long-term effects of smoking on sexual response. Saving the trees PEKING (UPD - Every time someone lights a match, China’s timber shortage gets worse. Rather than watch the country’s precious wood suplly go up in a flicker, “we have to find another way to meet the need,” for matches, Radio Peking said Thursday. The official broadcast suggested China's next generation of matches likely would be made of paper, straw, wheat and cotton stalks and discarded sugar cane. The waste material, dipped in a bit of wax, make good burning matches, 1t said. The State currently Vancouver V6M 1Y8 261-4116 allocates 400,000 cubic meters of timber each year to matches but the supply is far from adequate to meet the demand, it said. China’s population of | billion is the world’s largest, and many of them are keen smokers. Psst, Have I got news to make you lose! Let the BODY WRAP™ CREME reduce the worry time you waist over your waistline in a scientifically proven process, trained technicians can literally take off un- sightly inches from your abdomen, thighs, upper arms and other parts of your body. In the siim- conscious '80’s why worry about measuring up too much. Lose unsightly inches the safe effective way with the BODY WRAP™ process. Con- tact us today and reduce your worrying and your waistiine. the Wea Sensible eating habit: end an intelligent exerci? program ore recommended tor best astsined rests. @®Ariington Laboratories, Ltd., 1981 980-9419 vA. r SB 2nd took Studios | © Skin Care * Make-up Artistry * Designer Wigs ; ™ mail Opening Th ursday July 15th Kaisers| Weiner | Hamburger $1.29 Rolls 99¢*/doz. MASTER | 120 Phillip St., N.V. (below Welch) 984-1484 Rolls 99¢Idoz.