Game tickets in short supply By Peter Marhoefer StaffReporter Students hoping to go to the Big 12 Cham pionship game Dec. 7 in St. Louis should not' plan on receiving tickets from the UNL athletic ticket office. “We considered the championship game an away game, and the students chose Kansas State as the migration game,” Ticket Manager John Anderson said. The University of Nebraska ticket office will be allotted 7,500 tickets if the Comhuskers beat i Colorado and win the Big 12 North Division. But those will be scooped up by season-ticket holders, Anderson said. “Our demand has well succeeded our sup ply,” he said. But students might not be locked out. If the Southern Division Champion does not purchase its full allotment, more might become available to Nebraska fans. Students should call the ath letic ticket office Wednesday, Dec. 3, with in quiries, Anderson said. Students also can call other Big 12 universi ties. All Big 12 schools received a small allot ment of championship-game tickets. --;-1 Players speak against tobacco SMOKEOUT from page 1 “I’m not the biggest guy ... I’m not the fastest guy,” he said. “I knew if I wanted to accomplish my dream, I couldn’t smoke.” Johanns spoke from experience when talking about the dangers of tobacco. Johanns smoked heavily for about 15 years, he said, and wishes he had those years of his life back. “Every time you use that habit, you give away a piece of your life,” he said. Although the Great American Smokeout calls for smokers to quit for just 24 hours, Johanns said, “that was the toughest part when I quit.” A better solution is to not start smoking in the first place, he said. The elementary students jeered tobacco, said “No!” in unison and cheered Johanns for quitting his habit. Nikki Lopez, American Cancer Society tobacco control specialist for Nebraska, said although students in kindergarten through fifth grade probably do not smoke now, it is important for children to absorb the anti-to bacco message at a young age. “The tobacco industry has focused their ads toward young kids,” Lopez said. Tobacco ads are featuring younger mod els, more colorful pictures and popular trends among teen-agers, such as sports and cars, to attract young smokers, she said. And the young are paying attention to those ads, she said. About 3,000 adolescents, ages 13 to 17, start smoking every day. Laurie Sutter, health educator for theTin coln-Lancaster County Health Department, said the smoking rate among Nebraska teen agers is higher than the national average. And Lancaster County rates are higher than the Nebraska average, she said. A survey conducted last year found nearly 40 percent of all Lancaster County high school students had smoked in the month before the survey. Nationally, more than 1 million adolescents begin smoking each year, Sutter said. Tobacco-related illnesses killed about 420,000 Americans last year, Sutter said, more than motor-vehicle accidents, AIDS related illnesses and homicides combined. Bruce Anderson, city chairman of the Great American Smokeout, said adolescents and others in the community were asked to throw out their tobacco today in buckets on public school and college campuses. But not many people pitched in, he said. “I wish we had gotten more,” Anderson said. “But, overall, it went very well.” Anderson burned all collected cigarettes at 3 p jn. in the Lincoln General Hospital in cinerator, which sits next to a “no smoking” sign. And that, he said, is a good start. I_I For a limited time, you can snag a |150 rebate from Apple* when you purchase a Macintosh* desktop computer with an Apple display (if sold separately) and any Apple printer. 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