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~ Don'tSmoke Teeners_ Toidd ~ Dr. D a nd e I Horn, whoj Ft°pped smok~ing toitiorrow ~ers who az dy~ingg of' lung. knows more about why teen-i It would be at least 30 yearA' cancer this year?" agers smoke than any par.( before It would begin to have II He believes ent, bellevess that there is a{ any appreciable effect that progress way to protect oun ( on the lung cancer deat'h can be made, andlup to •half ~ Y g people rate:,9 from future lung cancer. the tepnagers .~ ill quit or° 1Don't seY them a bad ez •'-'How about the adult smok-.,Wpn't start smoking. ariaple by smoking. / Do gjve them the facts. Dr. Horn, social psychola gist and director of progra.-nL eval.uation for the American. Cancer Society, s u gges ts using the "remote _approach" to reaeh the teenagers. Itt runs like this: "You've heard a lot of ar s guments about s m o k i' n g cigarets, "Scientists have recentil~ found out that the smoking, of' cigarets can cause lung 'cancer. This is something that was not formerly known. Now there is not muchdoubt:" Dr. Horn har come to thc conclusion after a four-year - study of' 22,01D0 high school'l students in, Portland, Ore., sponsored by the American Cancer Society. He made his remarks at the 40th anr.ual conyention of the State Association for. Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in the Pick- Roosevelt Hotel here. • "The point is that cigaret smoking, is a, health hazard- the greater the' consumption the greater the hazard,"' he said. "Even 1f ' every feenager :rs1 TRE IDvEDRM STAR Washington, D.C: '"_- Janua:ry 5, 1962 TEEN BRIEFS A'Burnfng' Q~uestian for T eens . -To Smoke or Not to Smolte Some 90 Washington area teen-agers will get together for a verbal.', "smoker" next week end. in, Williamsburg, Va. They will take part in the first Youth Conference on Smoking and Lung Cancer sponsgred by the American Cancer Society. Carl A. Ludy of Yorktown High, Arlington, will,be ciuaia•man of the con- ferent:e whereby the been- agers and Cancer Society members can exchange inEor- mation and ideas on ways the society's educational pro- gram on smoking can be de- velbped most effectively. - The society has been try- ing to discourage young people iti the Nation from smoking by presenting facts on, the causative relationship between cigarette smoking and lung canCer. PITTSDUPECFd POST-GA'.ZETTE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania December 11, 1961. Doctor Warns of .L' un~ Canccr Pcril Teen-aaers from junior;. senior, public, privateand pa- rochiai schools in Arlington. Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties, Alexandria and the District will attend the conference next Friday and Saturday. « « « « - a .f. .a '* e. .ft .44:. `.