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Fd i Paula Green President { r. ^ Green Dolmatch Advertising, Inc. New York, New York ~ ~ • V. A panel consisting of: . LaSa1le D. Leffall, Jr., 4Q.D. ~ President-elect 4 " Americani Cancer SocietY' „. ,, . Dorald Young', !C'.D. t J' Member, American Thoracic 3oci~etyrFormer Medical Director 'j . ;~ - - _ - _ American Lung'Associaticn ~ Robert M. Daugherty, Jr., T'S.D., Ph.D. ~ ° Y a J _ Chairman - cA _-Subcommittee on Smoking American Heart Association, /John S.. Banzahf, II I Executive Director and Chief Counsel Action on, Smoking and Health" - . . . . . . .. .. , .. . . ~ _ t . .. .,. ..,-. .,_. .. . yR 4 i r ~ . _ -~ ... " r 5` 8 L3 ~~'~ . . . r '. .. . v ~-.,K . ' VJ~.. ... .. r

I J < .f. ;~aM '-! 7~ae ©~'' Q . ?a j Witnesses will include: JI..~T ,~' I..: he Honorable Wendell H. Ford ~" Democrat, Kentucky J II. A panel representing the Adtninistration: ./ Wil'Tiam H. Foege, Nt. D. ,-. Director, Center for Disease Control eMyjVjAj f jl.y~ .Y SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ~~ATINQUNCES~HEA_RING OM DETERRING C??I1I:DHOOIT SMOKING '~ ~r,v '° For Immediate Release }, ~'May Z'4'~,1 1978 CCtS~1 *GEZ~ ja:STTar ~` y ` '{ >., L ~I +'~'~ T .F"'I?e'r~ Zi . - ~ '~'snatoz Edwardi K. Ilennedy, Chairman af the Senate Subcommittee ,on Health and Scientific Research,,'announced today that the Subcommittee will hold hearings tomorrow to explore the causes of the recent stepidemic of childhood smoking, and to examine possibl!e programs to combat it. The hearings will convene at 10'AIM in room 4232 of the Dilrksen Senate Office Building. lh ~•. • :.. •. -. . . .,..- .. - ,: :. . . . . , .~•.. . Senator Kennedy announced that tomorrow's session was the first of three hearing days devoted to examining S. 3115, the National Disease Prevention andlHeaSth Promotion Act of 1'975. This legisl'ation„ which proposes the nation's first comprehensive, disease prevention program, was introduced' by Senator Kennedy om iday 19', 1978. Norman Kretchmer, M'.D. Director ~ Nationa.l' Institutes of Child Health Ise and Human Development o John Pinney - ~ ~ ~ Director OfficeofSmoking~ and Health Department of Health„ Education ,;1,,r r , and Welfare I I.' A panel of high school students from the Gonsaga r ~~ College High School, 900 North Capitol Street, Washington, . w .:' . . Df_C ~ '~... t J IV.'--, A panel consisting of:: Richa~rd' I.Evans, Ph.D~~., f Phl Professor osycoogy :. University of Houston1 Houston,, Texas / James W. Swinehart, Ph.D'. ~ Director ~ Publiic Communications CenLe, _~.P& r F el'ham___)tanor, Yew -Yor~ I~, k