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TIMES UNION Rochester, NeW York October 2, 1962' . .11 Flow Influenced are yot< by what you read? Will you„ as a smoker, curtail ' the habit because.recent find- ings indicate a connectionn betweeh, smoking, and lung cancer? Or are you- exer- . cisimg your own individual freedomto decide for your- seif? „ ; A group of employes and custome: S ef George D. B. Bonbright' and' Co.,, were quizzed yesterday morning as to wltetbpr they have been, influenced by stories linkin;, smokin!g with the. smoke an avetage of seven don't know of one person, or eight cigarettes a day. who has died of lung' can- These facts found by med{ cer as a result of smoking." ical people are for the . Warren T. King of Lin- smoker who smokes over a, den Street, an account ex- pack a day. I'm not,wor. ecutive - "Smoking with stop smoking." Bruce B. Bates of l Gtos- venor Road, Brighton, a partner In the Bonbright firrn "I have not seen any concit;sive proof to date that there Is a definite tie- in between smoking and lung cancer. People dfle every day from heart at- tacks and accidents, but I ---- ~, ._.. HIGHi SCHOOL SM(~IIGERS: One-third of al'1 high-school students smoke. One boy in five begins smoking by the ~ , ~. - time he"s im ninth arade. A1mAq. ~ 30 per cent of'all girls smoke before they're_ gradu.ated_ from high school. /ad.3s3 7g~~ iews on Smoking ...~.. disease. Iiere are their answers. - Mrs. Raymond H. Sykes of Alberta Drive, Penfieid„ private secretary - "Lastt year I read ani article In a magaiine concerning t'he.,- ried about. it because I._ me is a form.of'reiaxatiian.:._ amount of' nicotine and tar don't feel! I smoke enough I did try to cut down onn content in cigarettes and to stop." the number, but gained their effect on lungs. I. Miss Barbara, L. McKay' ~ weightL Now I'm back to a switched! my brand to the .- of'-- South Union . Street, =: pack and- a- half a day . eigarette with t'he , least Spencerport, receptibnist: again." amount of nicotine and tar. "People have been smok- Harry VanBeurden of I won't quit smoking; how- Ing for years and lung can- Clinton Avenue North„ a ever." cer hasn't bothered them. Miss Jill Parker of Chest. If' the medical profession nut Street, secretary -"I ~ proved beyond a~ reasonabie doubt'that smoking was the chief cause of lung, cancer,, then I would definitely 1 ! w a + ~t !\ custbmer , at' Bonbright -- "I've always beeni a cigar smoker and I read recent--"" '°' ly that cigar and pipe , smokers are in less danger than the cigarette smoker. From what I've readl there is a definite connection be- tween cigarette smoking and lung cancer. For that reason, _I1 have discouraged my wife, who, smokes ciga} rettes. Because of' this cur - rent scare from the med- ital profession, she now' smokes only four or five a day.!,