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, f"elM IM TIN Ifwrs -BL4OM1NGTON, Ind.- "Absolute zero:" -Accord'ing to a Muncie pathologist, this is the *estzbt of'the American Cancer Society's education- ;,l al program to get people to stop, or at least cut down„ smoking. ."Smoking does cause cancer of the lengs,'11, Irr . .Lall G; Montgomery of the Ball Memorial Hos- pital{ told an Indiana University school andi com- ntunity health workshop yesterday, "and we have : eviderace to prove it: " Yetmany tobacco companie , s reported record . ~ sales in 1961, he added. ."We cannot get people ' ; to stop snioking." The pathologist suggested an alternative is, to keep them from ever starting. Recent "efforts ,to carry the message Into the nation's high schools met' witJi discouraging re- ;sults,'~ne noted, for *"a shocking, number of 'high sGhool, pupils, already are smoking." ~p~353~8i~ NEWS-IREE!-PRESS 'Chattanooga, Tennessee Auigust 21+, 1962 Anti-Smo{~ing ~ Drive Tr med e Unsuccessful' LO()MIlNG'POIit, Iad. (UPI) - A pathologist says the Aakr*n .Cancer Society's educational pro, gram against.gtrnQ pas been i 'completely inef ei.'c ive ~ Dr. Lall G: 16fontgomery of Ball Memorlal Hospital at Muncie, Ynd., told a community h e a l t h workshop yesterday that many too- bacco companies, reported record sales last year. "We cannot get people to stop ;smoking,"' he said, altho•igh he said smoking "does cause cancer ot the lungs and we have evidence to provelt." Montgomery said'an alternatiive' to getting people to stop smoking is to keep them from ever startr 1ng: But he said efforts to carry :this message into high schools .were discouraging because "* shocking number of high achool' :students already are smoking."