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-He revealed that medical sci- ence today can save four out '+ ~, of 100 victims of lung cancer for five years The other 9&d Eft . To Fin leC '1 just don't survive that ]ong If . . ` «I you smoke, be carefuli Samp On•Habits To advised "Our facilities are . 3 t swamped and we're under- i ~:Smo~Cin staffed. Soon we'll be forced y; DoCtors who last month to advise lung cancer victims gHabit ~ ~ to go back home and arrange warned area junioc high '~t their affairs. It's that serious."' ; school students about lung Samp Attacks ~ Samp said there are straws 'cancer_ hazards of smoking in the wind He cited figures . pla' ds L n a four ~ear sta- ;ung Caneer on incidence of, lung cancer now and coronarys among younger ti' 1 ,s6ical survey aimed at finding Linked in A(1dreSS people today, Samp said that ouf whether the warnings had the cigarette habi't is partieu• : effcct. Iarly damaging among young Plans for the survey were an- DE PERE (PG) - Smoking people as it poisons cells dur- nounced today byBroome Coun- - can no lon en be acce t'ed' or tyMedical Society and the eoun Ing the growthg p period. He re- ty's unit of American Cancer . shrugged off as a normal habit, ~'ealed that systemic poison- _ Society. - Dr. Robert J. Samp explained ing• due to smoking has been The two groups co-sponsored to student audiences at East noted in unborn babies. A lectures last month at all 24 pub- and West De Pere High~'heart beat effect and accele- lic and parochial high, schools Schools Monday afternoon. . " Dr. Samp, medical and sci- entific director for the Ampri- can Cancer Society in Wiscon- sin, appeared at school assem- rated pulse has been recorded in the county. An estimated in foetal stage due to traces of 13,500 seventh, eighth and' cigarette byproducts absorbed ninth graders heard the talks. by the expectant mother, he EDUCATIONAL PROJECT said. Dr. Mark H. Williams, chest Notes Local Concern 'surgeon and chairman of the blies under aut pu es of the' . Medical Society's educational Brown County unit of theI Dr. Samp explained that the project, said his committee and ~- ACS. world is full of cancer-pro- the Cancer Society expect to Ripping directly at the 'ad-. ducing • materials. He cited draft a questionnaire on smok- l' chemicas used in food produc- ing habits, which will be di's- tion and processing, cosmetic tribut'ed' to~ both junior and sen- dyes and'even detergent chem- ior high school students. -- 4 letes who can afford to smoke 1 icals. "A dash of this and a By comparing the data on ean add up smoking habits -x - ~ ;TI~E FAtESS~-GAZETTE' Green Bsy, Wisconsin q November 8, 1960 10 0 35q- 3~'~ 1 ctor eens uui By JOHN LEE e vertising of cigarette manufac- .turers, he declared that we ,;; : don't have protessional .ath- r-` > He warned againa t falling for; sprinkling of that, of those now ~"thitild to trouble over a period of In senior high schools with that ese pcora tesimonials an•" of the junior high sloeans. "The Thinkin Man's"years. students who K ' have heard the talks, the medi- ;'Filter:' he demonstrated to '"~y add to the load and cal and cancer societies ho e to teenageas at be Pere. "shouldj'invite early demise by becom- learn whether the lect'ureppro- be up here - in the head!" HP warned against this commer- cial brainwash. It is aimed ing hooked by tlte clgarette gram had' "any lasting effeet or . habit?" he asked. students' smoking habits In fu- In quest'icn and answer pe- ture yEars."' primarily at the susceptibie riods which followed the as- . teenage market. Samp said. sembly talks, Dr. Samp dis- 'Failities Swamped' •~ covered that many teenagers c ! at' De Pere are as concerned Dr. Samp said lung cancer; about their personal health today takes as many lives each' and the future well-being of year in America as do all aut'oI the community as is the medi- accidents: it accounts for twicei, cal and scientific director for as many deaths as tuberculosis.i the American Cancer Society. These deaths are confined al- Dr. Samp's appearances here most entirely to men and were arranged with school of- women with the smoking habit ficials by Miss Esther Larson+. in their background. , public health nurse. The lectures were not de- " livered to senior high school " assemblies. l: Announced objective of the _) lectures, which were delivered ; by a team of medical society ~; members, was presentation of all , known facts on relationship of smoking to lung cancer. ~ AfAJOR CAUSE Many national health author- ities have pointed to smoking as ' a major cause of lung cancer, ;; but they have been disputed'by tobacco indust'ry spokesmen. . 44 ~ The physicians were . ac- ; companied by Mrs.- Roberta Jeanneret, executive director of the cancer society unit, who showed a series of color slides and distributed a cancer society pamphlet; "Shal1 I Smoke?" ,.-r,ki~ A medical soeiety spokesman today said the physician team was "impressed by the students' enthusiastic response to the program, particularly during the informal question and answer period." ~ Mrs. Jeanneret called the project "one of the most worth- w h i'i e educational programs ever conducted in B r o o m e County by the cancer society group." Both s p o k e s m e n thanked school administrators for "outstanding" cooperation. Physicians who took part in the talks were: .' Dr, Stewart, M. Aronowitz D r , r ~ Carlton F. Bsssow, Dr. James J Burnett Dr. Paul M. DeLuca, Dr. ,~ Edward I D'Orsogna„ Dr. Leonard J. Flanagan; Dr Donald H: ,. Gent, Dr. Michael J. Maggiore, Dr. Wil- liam G. McKechntc, District Health- Ofticer Daniel P„ McMahon, Dr. Bernhardt I. WulR aud Dr. .vtlliams Y~ . ~ . . ....± ;ex