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-He revealed that medical sci- : ence today can save four out ~, of 100 victi'ms of lung cancer for five years The other 9& T F Eft •Olnll lec '1 just don~t survive that ]ong . «I you smoke, be carefuli Samp On • : advised "Our facilities are Habits . 3 t swamped and we're under- , ;y ~:Smo~Cin Habit staffed. Soon we'11 be forced 'y; Doctors who Iast month ~ to advise lung cancer victims ~ ~ to go back home and arrange warned area junior high =-` '_'.`T '~`~ their affairs. It's that serious."' ; schooI students about Iung :, DT. Samp Attacks ~ Samp said there are straws cancer_ hazards of smokinb in the wind He cited figures . pla' ds L n a four-~ear sta- ;ung Caneer on incidence of lung cancer flow and coronarys among younger ti' 1 ,stical survey aimed at finding Linketl I'n A(ldress people today. Samp said that ouf whether the warnings had - the cigarette habi't is particu- : effcct. .. Iarly damaging among young ' Plans for the survey wcre an- ";s•DE PERE (PG1 -- Smoking peoplp as it poisons cells dur- nounced today byBroome Coun- Diedical Society and the eoun- can no longer be accept'ed' or ing the growth period. He re- tyty~ > s unit of American Caacer . "shrugged off as a normal habit• vealed that systemic poison- _ society. - 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 Iectures last month at all 24 pub- and West De Pere High~'heart beat effect and accele- lic and parochial high sehools Schools Monday afternoon. " Dr. Samp• medical and sci- entific director for the Ameri- can Cancer Society in Wiscon- sin, appeared at sc•hool assem- rated pulse has been record'ed fn 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 otes Local Concern surgeon and chairman of the N blies under aufipues of the ' . Brown Countv unit of the~ Dr• Samp explained that the Medical Societry's edueational project, said his committee and ~- ACS. world is full of cancen pro- the Caneer Soclety expect to Ripping du•ectly 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. letes who can afford to smoke ~ icals. "A dash of this and a By comparing the data on -x - ~ ;TI~IE FAtESS~-GAZETTE' Green Bs•y, Wisconsin November 8, 1960 10035q- 34c1 ~ ctor eens io uui By JaHN LEE e vertising of cigarette manufac- .turers, he declared that we don't have professional .ath- r-` > Iie warned against falling for; sprinkling of that, can add up smoking habits of those now ~`thitil tiilsd to trouble over a period of 1n senior high schools with that "ese pcoraesmnna an• of the junio sloeans. "The ThinkinK Man's"years." • .. .. .r high students who "Why add to the load and have heard the talks, the medi- ;'Filter." he demonstrated to~' cal and cancer societiesho e to teenageas at be Pere. "shouldj'invite early demise by becom- learn whether Che lectut+eppro- be up here - in the head?" He warned againct this commer- cial brainwash. It is aimed ing hooked by the clgarette gram had' "any lasting effeet or . habit?" he asked. students" smoking habits ln 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' •1 covered that many teenagers c `! at' De Pere are as concerned Dr. Samp said lung cancPr; about their personal health today takes as many iives 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 d'eaths as tuberculosls.i the American Cancer Society: These deaths are confined al- Dr. Samp's appearances here most entirely t'o men and a,ere arranged with school of- women with bhe smoking habit ficials by Miss F.sther Larson+n ln their bac•ki;round. , public health nut•se. The lectures were not de- '' livered to senior high school " assemblies. Announced objective of the ~ lectures, which were delivered ; by a team of inedical society ; members, was presentatlon of a[l , known facts on relatlonship of smoking to Iung 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 tobaeeo industry spokesmen. . ;~ 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; "Sha11 I Smoke?" , A medical soeiety spokesman today said the physician team was "impressed by the students' enthusiastic response to the program, particularlg during the informal question and answer period." _ ., ., _ ...~ Mrs. Jeanneret cailed the project "one of the most worth- w h i'1 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, Dr ~ . Carlton F• Bassow, Dr. James J Burnett Dr. Paul M: DeLuca, Da ,~ Edward I D'Orsogna„ Dr. Leonard J. Flanagan; Dr Donald H: a3ent ,., Dr. :vfichael J. Maggiore, Dr. Wil- liam G. MeKechnte, District Flealth- Officer Daniel P•, McMahon• Dr. Bernhardt I• WulP! aud Dr. .vtlliam3 Y~ . ~ . . ....± ;ex