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- • e HERALD-POST El Paso, Texas April 1, 1967 STAR Minneapolis, Minn. End Seen April 1, 1967 Psychiatry Will Help Smokers Kick Habit By DELOS SMITH • I Bt1T, CONSIDERING th a t u,•i 5< ~~a. ee.tx medical men; because of their PALM BEACH, Fla., April 1.'specSal:knowledge„ have been - Medical groups campaigning more thorou^hlyconvtnced aEthe to wipe out ciearet smoking are health h'azards than any other planning psychtatric treatment group, itts not nearly the drop ~ for those smokers who want to that should have occurred. but cannot give up the habit. I Williams said many docton This drastic switch in tactics smokers were like all other cl- pvu disclosed by Dr. Ashbel C. garet smokers-they a Im p I y Williams, p~r e e i d e n t~ of the could not stop even though they American Cancer Society, in ac-,were convinced they should. knowledging that concerted ef-l T b epsychiatric treatment forts to persuade smokers to be- pvhen it is worked out will be come non~smokers on their own availableto4liem. are tallJng far sh'ort o f the goal.l p J~ Even though convinced cig ~© - '~' et smoking causes lung ar-I f ©0eancer Cp~ISR JOURNAL and other lite-shortening dia- eases, 75 per cent of smoken Louisville, Kentucky are so addicted they are power- April 1, 1967 less to stop smoking, Williams said at the opening session of the s o c i e t y's annual Science Writers' Seminar lastaighG. Youths Sinokirig More, Adults Less, Doctor Says 14 1 "Senator Warren Magnu- Ison, D-Wash., has introduced is bill in Congress requiring 1a statement on both eig- srctte paekages and adver- lising of the tar and nicotine content in mainstteamamoke 1of cigarettes." Dr. Williams forecast the By FRANK CAREY eventual extinction of "the really dangerous cigarette," PALM BEACH, Fla.-(1N- it the society's ideas are The president of the Ameri- followed. a[ un Cancer Society predicts '`/D~~~2l~'gd a that, through filters and re * `* ductions in tar-nicotine con- tent, "the really dangerous cigarette will become as ex- Groups Plan tinct as the spittoon." of Danger to Smokers But Dr. Ashbel C. Williams,Psychiatric Aid of Jacksonville, Fla., added C,... Q..,,.Lea.. "If I'm wrong, then I know .that„to my sorrow, more and more of my practice will be in removing cancerous lungs." PALM BEACH. Fla.--(UPI) -Medical groups campaign- ing to wipe out cigarette smoking are planning psychi- atric treatment for those smokers who want to but cannot give up the habit. This drastic switch in tac. tics was disclosed by Dr. Ashbel C. Williams, president of the American Cancer So- ciety,in acknowledging that concerted efforts to persuade smokers to become nonsmok- ers on their own are falling far short of the goaL Williams, a surgeon, madej the remarks Friday night in addressing the opening of the the Ninth Annual Seminar for Science Writers spon- Isored by the Cancer Society. He described the present cancer - smoking controversy this way: I Mounting numbers of Amenran adults have quit smoking cigarettes, but "un- fortunately .,- . youngsters in grade school and high schooll Even though convinced cig- continue to coutt' ... cig- arette smoking causes lung arette-caused diseases to a cancer and other life-short-I discouraging degree.° ening diseases„75 per cent ofi One of every three deaths smokers are so addicted they are powerless to stop smok-l in the United States in 1967' ing Williams said "will be from a smoking-re-I lated disease." .: „.. - "In most cases it doesn't 5 millionlvork for a doctor, merely to A toximatel 1. PP y ;tell people to stop," he added American y o u t h s between age 12 and 17 started smok• ing last year - and certain I members of that group are going to come up in their 30's with cancer of the lung or larynx due to smoking. He indicated that among adults at least, there has been a sharply growing tendency n the past 15 years to smoke ~garettes with filters. But he added: "Unfortunately, how e v e r, beople have a difficult time in most cases in finding out whether their cigarettes (ffl- tered or unfiltered) are low in tar and nicotine content. "1N MoST CASES it doesn't! `rork for a doctor merely to tell peoplcto rop," he added in re-vealing that the inter-agency committee on smoking, of which the society is aleading member, is studvingsmoking'spsychologi. cal hold on smokers to devise psychiatrietechniques for help ing smokers break thehold. The society also threw statistl- cal light on~ a halt-hidden su tribj fo i leet which is suectr wryi jokes in medical circles. Some doctors warn patients of the health h a z a r d s of, smoking,j being convinced it causes a[wstj of diseases, but find it imposs ble to stop smoking themselves. MANYD4CTORS have stopped, Lawrence G a rti nde1,I s o c i e t y statistician, told the; seminar. BasinghimseUfoa Imassive stausucs, he said14.a per cent of American physieiana smoked agareu in_1951, 18.3 per cent smoked in 1941, 31.0 per ~centia 190, and 29.3per cent in 1985... There is an ab'solute drop of 10A per cent inciguet-smoktng doctors and a re:anva drop of 123.6 per cent, he said. _ PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)-The presi- deot of the American Cancer Society said laut night that mounting numbers of American adults have quit smoking cigar rettes but that persistently puffing youngsters, including grade schoolers, p~~~ a discouraging and dangerous WVe seem to be winning battles against death by cigarettes. but we could be losing the war," said Dr. Ashbelc. Williams, a Jacksonville, Fla., surgeon: Addressing the opening of, the Cancer Society's Pth~annualSeminar for Science Writers, he declared: in a preparedre- port: . •- -, "We worry much about' alr pollution ,-(but). .. the worst and most destruc- tive pollutant of our air is the cigarette. °Animpressive and mounting number ofAmerican adults have quit smoking cigarettes, andmanymore have drastical- ly redueed their consumption of nicotine and tars. "Unfortunately, however, younkslers in grade school and high school continue to court lung cancer, heart disease and other eigarette-caused dileues to a d1s- eouraging degree.' . .: . The tobacco Industry has long con- tended there's no proof that cigarette smoking causes any disease. Statistics aimed at supporting Dr. W il- Wms" statement about teen-age smokers were offered In a separate report by Dr. Eva J. Salber of Harvard University. .,r To support hl! statement about it drop ~ In ei¢arette-smoking among American adults, Dr. Williams quoted report4 by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Amer}an Cancer Socipty, "I am against all cigarette smoking. The healthful and wise thing is to give up cig- arettea entirely. Buti if you must smoke, you abould be able to choose a cigarette low In tar and nieotiae. wntent. ; t. in revealing that the inter-t agency committee on smok-1 ing, of which the society is a leading member, is study- ing smoking's psychological hold on smokers to devise psyehiatric techniques for helping smokers break the hold.