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, , <: "-:• bement'; on the subject. Fran. 15, Ken said: 'They want to be O yS D r o p H a bit ' all my triends were smokmg. "Kids who smoke feel like R3ta• 16, of Cleveland Heights, adults when they have a cigar- said. Rita also smokes a pack ette in their hand" Norman By SUE STROM a umiversiry neignu, ou~spoa; ,..~, v.e~.vwy .r.a.i /.. '• The onbv time some teen-arers don't smoke' is when e,,;.., . -=, . . - - -- ~„ ntv.~ A pret•t• 17=year-old Heights compares to the He':ghts-Hill- ers., "7aughed 'at;" with almost 30 high school smokers in the Reights- they don't smoke. That' s sillyi at an early'age, and a~ strong. Hiilcrest area. _ I get, along fine without smok- feeling that they must conformi ing:" PY•ari s parents are smok- to their crontemporaries' or be, s ability-all' have been thrown out the window by con- U' I want a dgarette and I]ust esoen . ept urge to appear, saY' 'No.' A]ot of girls think 'grown-up and sophist6cated' by firmed tleen,age smokers, this reporter found in talks they won't be popular because adopting.adult ha~ta and dress '---`~ Considerations of the health, oost, ; Social, undesire-Mver. do. Plenty of boys ask me . htt the . twodrives,-ot most' adT t • ""I don't have money for' cigarettes." I have never smoked. I hope I '1D?e two boys seem to have High School student, who has crest area In population, lncome. Addie„ 15, of' University, atarted to smok ~eat 14, ~ 'b'een smoking'fortwo~years cap+ level„oocupations.cf parents-and Heights., whose._nsrents smokc: got ~'. up; suled the teen-age attitude with;' Acliotastic- 'achtevemente of se¢- said: "It in an, unnecessary and to a pack and jwt quit: "I play '1mee on1yy time I actually dop'rr ondw'yy school students. Newton bad habit It isn't good for your~sketbali. I gotr.hortwinded.' smoke is whra I don't havd is a mutdle to highlincome area health, and l,teen-agers aren't so I saw the film on smoking and dgarettes.^.. with excellent schools and a high nervouss they' h'avre tosmoke:, I lungcaneer, andd decided it scholastic average•with thema, wasn't worth It, particularay. IIeea atartedd toamoke. "bt-ser no reason to smoke."' - T ~~~ , k p` comprehensrve studtes ma e o d f teen-age smokers in the U.S. Sue, 27, Clevelandi Heights, letic team at Heights: I was Thr, studies, one made In Port- ~~n smoking 18 month[ getting short of breath. A~th, p tend to bear out' the onZy two or incent ve to abandon rtt general,condusiotB. "I wanted to be on an ath- (continued) one day." mgarettes than girds: Motives smoke or has abandoned the Remarks "th the small sam- were not considered in the study: nabit. His' reason is the single pling obtained~by the Sun~Papers ~e fragmentary interviewa of' effective deterent to smoking ent conflttn- these I the Sun Pa n smoke?" than,g~, but more g(rls smoke "had no trouble giving it up." an i a lot of ktds smoke Ileen is "sonry I ever took it In the upper grades. Boys are Why did he give up smoking?' because It Is something to isang up," but has been unable tq heavier smokers earlier than Norman's answer is ldenticali on to."' give up smoking. "I stopped for ~~ ~t more boys' give up with'; every boy who refuses. to Sherry. 16• at,Heights,.atart.d. . yp venaf answer,, given to theThe. Newton studq-showed ,Ifeights;said he tried cigarettesGaryadded:. 'Tll tetl'' you question: "Why did you start to that' boys start earlier to smoke during the past summer and EOfnething; It is a bad habIt d I th' k eepup m;bas- n eo t~ cause~W myfriends did it:' 11his;, jorntYoty studentai Fomg- on~ to.. No Troub'te Quitting 1S' of University ketballP' _ ical almost uni- college. Norman 'too is the t latid, Ore., four years' ago and She stnokes for loctal r~sons, ~ettcs mean more to me than~ the other in suburban Newton, but Is emphatic that though her cigarettes." Mass-, surveyed the entire high mother smokes 'iqy parents Ken, 16J at Heights High, alsoo school populations ot' those donSt like it" She smokes about doesn't smoke because of his i e,.,,,~ a pack and a half a 1 week: Interest In sports. He and I Nor- a~ "Cigariette in my hand when ~ teen-a rs and a half aweek and has been ~d 'Th l k i b ey oo diculoos ut r ,.,, the tryi r11 el1 / 1 ntere;st I n folks would~rathert h e me youy can't ben an adW[tjpst by, ,. smoke in the house than out. smoking. O•ae'~ ParrQ/~I~I OW ~/ h'er fatherr smokes. growing up..Smoking is not one ~  At least one teen-a¢er, is ve- of them," he said. r Her' mother is a non-smoker There areer ways ot ., oth Ba.ton,8abqrb Felt Ridiculous mananalyzedlthe rage to smoke without She "felt rtdleutoub;; ' Newton. a stfburD -qf Boston 0 on

to smoke at age 11 when she a lived. in Philadelphia where -'everybody in the siroth grade ; smoked." Her dad won t allow her to smoke in the house. One Enjoya It: .bnly one: teen4ager said she smoked because "I enjoy it." ' Elvery other one smoked "be• ^^ cause everybody does it." Teen+ ; age smokers in restaurants tend to eat together: Non-smokers eai together, and the majorityy of smokers said that they first 1 st'arted to smoke "when I ate ;• out with other kids who' smoked."' • Not one parent approves, but ! all' seem powerless to ~ stop their - ', `children from smoking. To limit ,,,them, many parents. forbid' smoking in the house: Pre-World War II there was a social stigma attached to high ;,school girls who smoked. It was more acceptable among boys.. Now the daughters of mothers who would have thought them- •selves "not nice" 22 y,ears ago; •find' it more acceptable socially and morally if' they" do smoke. Why' the change? The teen- ,agers had! an _4-nsnqer: Money. There is more of it. Pressures:. "We do everything earlier-darte -smoke." Buying Cigarettes• Where do 1'3-L4 and 15'-year- 'old kids get cigarettes? , In the Hillcrest anea a boy • was pointed out, "He can buy' anything-cigarettes, beer, anv= thing youi want. He can get it- . for you.". Mainly, they patronize ma- chines and supermarkets. Sev- eral drug stores were named 'where children under 18 "have no trouble in getting cigarettes" over the counter. What does the law say? Spe- cifically the Ohio Revisedi Code makes it a mit;dcrnearnar f!mrr anyone to "gixe or furnish tio a ~ person under 18 years of age a cigarette, cigarette wrapper or substitute for eitherr or a cigarr or tobacco:"' The fine for the first offense is not less t'han, $25 nor more than $1 00 or imprisonment for nott less than two or more than .30 days or both. Subsequent of- fenses are fined not less than $50 nor more thani$300 with not less than five days nor moree thani 60 in jail. Law Enforcement Cleveland Heights Presecutor Louis Orkin says the law wiill be "enforced upon complaint,"' but has never hadl occasion to. ;Bet a complaint. He also saidl. °A store owner is: responsible: for vending, machines on his property and may be prosecutedi if childreni unlawfully patronize tlhe. machines."' The law applies to store proprietors, managersi,. parents who give_ their childreni cigarettes, other teen-agers who furnish cigarettes to their younger school mates. The pass- ing, of money is no consiHeration„ Orkin said. Next week: What do ' thee schools do about cigarette smok- ing on school grounds? What doo the Newton and Portiand, stud- les •;how?,