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: , F% f'h t ~ . ..r: tt~. NEW YORK MI.RPttJFt , aex York, Nex York Aoyember 12, 1962. ~ . , _ t$ ~ ;, 0 r~~~~o~~ini~~~ & ~4anc~~er:~ ,~ -' ~"f 71 e~en~rs to Gef Sfory Z1tie most often-asked ques- which Is safe has been de• tions about smoking and< its termined ".,Trhe booklet addedt relation to lung cancer are 'Even those who smoke a answered' In a booklet the few cigarets a day shouv a ! American Cnncer Society be• Mgher death rate than non - gins distributing today to the smokers, and most smokers ' riation s high schoois. t lt i th l canno m emse t ves to a The society, which in 1960 few cigarets a dhy." n began efforts to . persuade ' teen-agers to avmid' tobacco, •W. S. PfrepdPln~ will send out 100,000 pamph• lets. Tb date, about 4,000,00o Report on, Smoking copies of a leaflet for teen+ . agers entltled "Shall I Smoke?" WASBINGTON. Nov. 11 have been distributed to,about (AI'i•-The newly appointed. lialf: the eountry's seeondg¢y Surgeon~ Generai'§ Advisory Echools. Committee on smoking, and ADiONG THE hLOST' fie - health has started shaping b hat ma th f ll ~' y e e est set u uentQ . asked . uestions .is q ~' ~ r,f answers ever provided on whether a peisua who smokes this controversal' subject , cigarets, but avbids Inhaling, It ~iii b x ~~ e si to eig~nt . "= Is safe from thcf disease. • months before the 10 m b - em er -'Becent stndies shom* that committee completes its re ~ lung, cancer death rates 1n, port, but when i!t comes, Sur- ' ' , crease with tlie amount of Gl Lh geonenerauter I, T'erry . cigaret smoke lntialed,"' the -said todav, "I expect it to be ~.: booklet says. But' sonie atnok- the most comprehensive ever ers may get lung cancer andd to be produced orr, the subject )nont'h cancers even if they of smoking and heaith." do not Inhale." A PRI3fARY' AIM of' the To the question bbout group i-- to determine whether whether there is a"safe" -um'- smoking' is a cause of lung ber.o2 algarets one can s: oke, cancer,. but Its studies; are to the answer, was that "no mini- eover a much wider, range aa.ra a.r.:~r.t of smokdn;¢ than this. /oa353 TO WASHINCWN DAnY NEWS Washington, D.C. November 12., 1962 Wirrn Stulents on C%narets` } ~ h s~ _rsvfi s4 NEW YORK, Nov. 12 scientists and doctors also (UPI) - The American C,hn- cer -Sociiety today began dis= tribution of a question-and+ answer booklet warning high school students against the 4angers of cigaret smoking. `OMe fact that cigaret smoking causes lung cancer has been proved beyond & reasonable doubty" the society said' in the first of the 12- page booklet's 50 answers to questions "most frequently asked"'by teenagers. An initial run of 100,000 copies is being, sent to high schools for classroom use, ac~ cording to the society. . A Government - sponsored study on the effects that smoking has on health will begin with "an extensive re- will scrutinize material' writ• ~ ;i. ten on "possible contributing factors such as air pollution+ ~; industrial i exposure, radiation and alcoholi ' * An announcement of the " :~ course to be followed ~ by the Sqrgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Heaith was made yesterday by the U. S. Public Healtlt Service in Washingtonl ' l 00 353110AB view"' of all scientific litera- ture on the subject. T"ha select group of 10'