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1 • e HERALD-POST El Paeo, Texas April 1, 1967 STAR Minneapolis, Minn, End April 1, 1967 Psychiatry Will Help ;Smokers Kick Habit By DELOS SMITH I BUT, CONSIDERING t'h a t u,•i 5< ~- ee.tx medical men; because of their PALM BEACH, Fla.,,April 1.'spedal: knowledge„ have been . . - Medical groups campaigning more thorou^hlyconvtnced oEthe to wipe out ciearet smoking are health hazards than any other planning psychiatric treatment group, It is not nearly the drop ~for those smokers who want to that should have occurred. .. ." but cannot give up the habit. I Williams said many doctor-- - . I This drastic switch in tactics smokers were like all other cl- pvu disclosed by. Dr. Ashbel C. garet smokers-theyy a I.m p 1 iy lvilliams, p~r e s i d e n t~ of the, could not atop even though they -. American Cancer Society, in ac-,were convinced they should. knowledging that concerted ef-l ~ T h epsychiatrit treatment iforts to persuade smokers to be- pvhen it is worked out will ba.Icome non~smokers on their own availableto4liem. , Iare tallJng far sh'ort of the:goal.jp J~ Even though convinced cigar-~ ~- et smoking causes lung cancer COURIER . JOURNAL and other lite-shortening dis- -- - eases, 75 per cent of smokers 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" I W riters' Seminar last nighG. . ~ "IN MOST CASES itt doesn't! }vork for a doctor merely to tell ~peoplcto ctop," he added in re- vealing that the inter-agency committeee on smoking, of which thee society is a leading member, is sntdvin~gsmoking's.psychologig cal hold on smokers to devise psychiatrietechniques for helpl ling smokers break the hold. The society also threw statistl-'; Ical ligh't on~ a halt-hidden sub-1 )ect which is subject for wryi jokes in medical circles:. Some doctors warn patients off the health h a z a r d s of, smoking,j being convinced it.causes a hostj of diseases, but find it im t~poss ble to stop smoking themselve>•_I MANYD4CTOR.S have stopped, Lawrence G a r.ti nde1,I a o c i e t y statistician, told the; seminar. Basing.himseUfoaimassive stausucs, he said'14.a per cent of American physieianss smoked agareu in_19b9, 38.3 per cent smoked in 19e1, 31.0 per ~cent in 19t1, and 29'.3 per cmt ia '1983.. . . j There is ann ab'solute drop of . .IDA per cent in..ci.garet-smoking . ' doctors and a re:anva drop of l2s.g per cent, he said. Youths Sinokirig More, Adults Less, Doctor Says PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)-The presi- dent of the American Cancer Society said laut night that mounting numbers of' American adults have quit smokiitg ciga• rettes but that persistently puffing youngsten, 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. Ashbel C. Williams, a Jacksonville. Fla., surgeon: Addressing the opening of the Cancer Society's 9th~.annuaLSeminar for Science Writers,, he declared: in a prepared re- port: . - - •,- -, "We worry much about' air pollution ,,(but).. .. the worst and most destrur tive pollutant of our air is the cigarette.. °An~.impreuive and mounting number of-American adults have quit'smokingt cigarettes, andmanym~ore have drastical- ly reduced their consumption of nicotine and tars. "t7nfortunately, however, younksiers in grade school and high school continue to court lung cancer, heart disease and other cigarette-caused dileues to a d1s- eouraging degrea.' The tobacco Industry has long con• tended there's no proof that cigarette smoking causes any diiease. Statistics aimed at supporting Dr. Wil- Wms" statement about teen-age smokers were offered In a separate report by Dr. Eva J. Salber of Harvard University. .,r To support hL1 statement about a drop ~" !n ct ar tte-smoki A e n a ma ' g g m m g encan adults, Dr. Williams quoted repott4 by the US. Public Health Service and the Amer}an Cancer Socipty. Seen of Danger to Smokers 14 1 "Senator Warren Magnu- Ison, D-Wash., has introduced ia bill in Congress requiring Ia statement on both eig- -arette packages and adver- tising of the tar and nicotine content in mainstteamamoke of cigarettes." Dr. Williams forecast, the By FRANK CAREY eventual extinction of "the Ireapy dangerous cigarette," lPALM BEACH, Fla.-UN-:if the society's ideas are The president of the Ameri- followed. a[ un Cancer Society predicts '~`D11,2,t..2l~'gd a that, through filters and re- * * v-~* ductions in tar-nicotine con- ,tent, "the really dangerous cigarette will become as ex- GrOups Plan i tinct as the spittoon." But Dr. Ashbel C. Williams,psychiatric Aid of Jacksonville, Fla., added. ,, "If I'm wrong, then I know jfor Smokers •that„to my sorrow, more and ,more of my practice will bell in removing cancerous lungs." Williams, a surgeon, madej the remarks Friday night in addressing the opening of the the Ninth Annual Semiitar for Science Writers spon- Isored by the Cancer Society. He described the present wncer-smoking controversy this way: Mounting numbers ob American adults have quit i smoking cigarettes, but fortunately . . youngsters in 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 tacs 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- Iers on, their own are failing far short of the goaL grade school and high schooll Even though convinced cig- continue to coutt' ... cig- arette smoking causes lung d dt'seases to a'cancer and other life-short- e O W O arette-caus discouraging degree." ening diseases„75 per cent ofl One of eve three deaths smokers are so addicted they rY are powerless to stop smok- ~+ in the United States in 1967' ing. Williams said- "will be from a smoking-re-I tlated disease." .: „.. -" "In most cases it doesn't' i millionlwork for a doctor, merely to' Approximately L5 ) ;tell people to stop," he addedl J American y o u t h s between age 12 and 17 started smok• I Iing last year - and certain i members of that group are going to come up in their 30's with cancer of the lung or laryns: due to smoking. Hee indicated that among adults at least, there has been a sharply growing tendency in the past 15 years to smoke cigarettes with filters. But he added: "Unfortunately, how e v e r, beopUe have a difficult time Itt mose casea in finding out whether their cigarettes (fil- tered or unfiltered) are low in tar and nicotine tAntent. in revealing that the inter- 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 psyehiattic techniques for heiping smokers break the hold- "I am against all cigarette smoking. The healthful and wise thing is to give up cig- arettes entirely. Buti if you mtut smoke, you abould be ab6e to choose a cigarette low ~1n tar and nfeotiae.eontentl