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`%Cbarlestbn, West Virginia • tJuae 21 1960 , 'AlARMING INCREASE IN DEA 7HS' ,ancer-Snioking Lin '- The west virginia 1Xtbercnlo- cancer, the risk of luttg cancer crippling lung diseases as chronic ' sis and Health Assn. today made~incTe"ing with the number of bronctiitis and emphysema." •-.k' ^ tfgarettaa constmted. ., . NTA directors a 1 s o claimed am yesteraay CT F10 publia a warning by Its national 1ltberoobaia Aasociatim a! hc The aseociatim, which includes association that cigarette amolt- (~ .ll re.spii-adbry diseases in ite (ng increases the danger of lung pogrna, pointed otd that smok- tng appeate to ne a ract.or aiao Thomas A. Deveay Jr.. e:ecu- In ucb crippling lUng diseases a+ ; 6amdsitis and empMysema, the ttve secretary of the state organi- `. latter a condition in which the zation, said the findings were he- , hag loeea it elasticity and breath- ing distributed among parents, ' Jog becomes increasingly difficult. teachers and' physicians, • .::- Approvedtiy ttte.governing body..••These. people," he erplained, al the NTA's medioal section, the "have a special opportunity and American 'Prudeau Society, the a duty to warn our youth about "statemetst based its wariung on the facts and dangers of smok- mreer points: "there is an' alarmiag before the c garette habit be. hig increase in deaths from lung comes firmly established.' earrtceri'• "cigarette smoking is a The findings were first reported major cause °f 1 mg ca°¢er"' asd b board of directors of the th y e ~ ~ of 1- cancer increases National Tuberculosis Assn. with -the manber d agarettee . . satoked." It pointed out also that "There is an, al9rmingincrease ; the risk of ltng cancer in redwa- in deaths from lung cancer," the ". r ed, when smoking is giyea up. , board reported after completing '`, AlQ»ugh research is ia, pt•o- its investigations. "Cigarette ki if lu `ress,.. "ooo prsenk metiwd of tmest- smongs a major cause ong !ng teliacco or of filtering the areoke haa been proved to reducee the harmful effect of cigarette snailoitg,^ the statement' con- timttes. "Up to now, titme harm- fSil effects can be avoided onl,y by no saoldng:oigarettea." ...3.. In releasing the statement, ent+,,treavixta, and physiciauin paxtiavlar' towwrn , ar youth od oer Society,, the U.S. Public Health Service, . and the American Putilic Health Associairoa . The NTAA statement urges per• .• aging diiector of ine.NTA, pointed :cut that similar werning have b=n isxied byth'e Amarican Can- , ,. James E. Perkins, M. D., man- -. that lireethii'tg polluted city aii•may. also conatitute a risk oilung csocv. tbese faets befcte the cigarette . smoking ba>Sit baa become estab~ bahed.,•. TheNTAstatement recognize (bet there is no siugle cause for ltlli Mmg caocen and suggests AIS POLLUTION CITED that "the present m a t h o d of Deveny said the board de• tre2tiAg tobacco or filtering the dared, however, there lis tto sin- smoke apparently has not les -;' gle cause for alli lung cancers. sened the harmful effects of cig- "Hreathing polluted city air may arette smoking up to now." , also add to the risk of' lung'can- The NTA findings were dis-"; cer."' ,, tributed among members of the Charleston last year, following state organization through its of- a survey made by the U. S. Pub 'fIcial bulletin. li'c Health Service was reportedl Deveny said the 40th annual ' to be the second dirtiest city in meeting of the association would ~~~~, be beld in Morgantown Sept. 7-g. Deveny said no itgures arel~e fall~ term of the West Virr ginia University School of Medl-' presently available to comparelcine marks the beginning of a 45e death rate from lung cancer1th'ree-year seminar of pullnotusry and pollution density. +' Idiseases being sponsored by the He added Eh a t studies had jvolunteer health group. shown that giving up smoking had reduced the risk of lung can- eer. He addled:: "Recent studies show ttiat' clg- Contributions ftorn county TH societies and individuals h a v e raised~ $19,596.11, ofl the $30,000 the. medical education program arette smokine ie a f rt Iwl~u --' Drive Against medicel Eianchof'the r'TA:°He chided the cigarette manufacturers Use of Fags for playing up the addition of filt- _er tips to cigarettes at the same timeth'at they deny that cigarette An educational campalgn direct- smoking does aity serious harm. TRISUlYEI . ', ed.aGyoung people in particular to "our nati^_nal and state associa- C13aIltlte, Kansas arouse them . in the. `.-alth tiazard: tions . are urging . all local associa- represented by cigarette smoking tions to join in the campaign to May 27ir 1960 was urged at the 58th Annual alertt young people to the danger Meeting of the National Tubercu- off cigarette smoking;" said lllr_: losis. Association in Los Angeles. Wood~ 1'sCT week,. according to word: re• "A statement (ssmcd by NTA ceived by Mrs. Margaret Wood, a•arnsof the 'alarmiogincrease chairman of the Neosho County Health and Education Committee in deaths from lung cancer' and of the Tulierculosis and Health~As• calls cigarette smoking , major sociation: , , ~ cause eE.lungcancer and a factor In such crippling lung diseases as Att attack on the cigarette indus-. chronicbronctiitis and ernph'yse- tt•y for their advertising tactics ma. The statement tttrther, says was made by Roger S. Dlitchell, that the only way known at pres- 1:1. D., of the Colorado Foundation ent to avoid the harmful effects ql for Research in Tutiercvlosis, Den- cigarettesmokingif "by notsmok-ter, and Immediate past president ing cigarettes." . ,., ,