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MORNING S"GTN Baltimore, Maryland September 19,, 1962 WARNING GIYEN' `, i •-, IAGAIIIST SMOKING Two Doctors See Hazarfis. In Using Cigarettes . . Asheville, N.C.. Sept. 18(8/ - Peoplb shouldn't smoke ciga= rettles. . . . That, in essence, was the mes- aage of two doctors who spoke • today at the.aecond! advance sem. inar of ~ the joint meeting of the Southern Tuberculosis Conferenci and the Southern, Thoracic Soci- ety. pr. James C. Crutcher, of thc Veterans Administration Hospita - in Atlanta, said: "If one takes iunmunizatioals G prevent certain diseases such a poliomyelitis or _ measles, if on offers diet to prevent coronar `artep+ disease on the possibi' ity that this may have som• effect in fifteen to -twenty.year: then at' the same time it woul seem that one should impress upon the American public th hazard§ of cigarette smoking."' :1 Dr. Crutcher said 11mg cance ia the.most common cause of car cer death in males over the ag; .of'45- He added, "There' ts an awc some responsibility upon the mec ical profession ... to point out th unmistakable associatlon at 4ea: between heavy cigarette smokin. and cancer of tbe lung." ' "Awesome Responsibility" Dr. Ross L. McLean, also c Atlanta, said smoking is one c the main causes of' chronic bror chitis and pulmonary fibrosit diseases of the lungs. Dr. McLean said'there has beei a "shocking increase in, mortal ityrates'" among patients suffer ing emphysema, swelling cause .by, ; air or gasses: •"Etnp}iyserna;' he said, "i probably now more prevalen than is lung cancer and tuber culosis combined. Next' to hear disease it is the cause of mor social security disability allow aaces than, anlr other disease."' POST Houston, Texas July 1'r', 1962 Plains for School Course On . ~ S'olking Ef f ects , Is Planne i I?Ei*TPOh7-l1P44'-Plhns are being; fQrmulated for a state-v4de!, course in Texas schools on ismok•; ing, and its, relation 'to caneer„ an official of' the State Depart• ment of Public Health said Mon= day. "If they can see what smok- ing, causes . . what it does; ;then, they might' not start smok; ing," saidi Dr W. S. Brumage: ."And it has got to be made a part of' the .5chool child -, like accident prevention." . Dr. Brumage, director-of"ther health ~ dppartment" s division -of, 2-week workshop for registered nurses on care of 'heart patients. Dr Brumage said interest is gaining about the proposedl pro-" gram but "it will be a year or two before there Is anything def-• irrite done." The officipl said'the project would be handled, by teachers and' plsysicians. Time for it might be set aside from physical education courses or it might possibly be included in science courses. He added that it would be ~ taught "not frong a moralistic cancer and heart disease;, wasl, point of vtew,"' but strictl~~ from in Denton .for the cipening of aC physical effects.