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Smoking Linked ts Health Hazards .An educational campaign d'irec- jed at young people In particular r: to arouse them to the health haz- ard represented by cigaret smok- ing was urged at the 56th annual! „meeting of the National Tlibercul- osis association in Los Angeles last week, according ta word received by Harold Wolf, chairman of the Brown County Tuberculosis and Health association. ( . . . . An attack on the cigaret industry for their advertising tactics was made by Roger S. Mitchell, M.D., of the Colorado Foundation for Research.. in Tuberculosis, Denver, Colo., and Immediate past presi- dent of the American Trudeau so- ciety, medical branch of the NTA. He chided the cigaret manufactur- ers for playing up the additton.of filter tips to cigarettes at the same. time that they deny that c•igaret smoking does any serious harm. .... "Our national and state associ- ations are urging all local associa- idens to join in the campaign to alert more young people to the danger of cigaret smoking," says Mr. Wclf. "A statement issurd by NTA warns or the 'alarming in- crease in deaths from lung cancer' and calls cigaret smoking a major cause of lung cancer and a factor in such crippling lung diseases as chronic bronchitis and emphy- sema. The statement' further says that the only way known at pre- sent to avoid the harmful, effects of cigaret smoking is °by not sm.ok- igarette Srno!~iig ls Factor In Produein ancer Of The Lun Groups Warn Smoking Can 'Cause Cancer PLEASANT' HILL, May 14 "-Dr. Clifford Feller said to- ~; day the National Tuberculaiff ~ Association and the American 1'1 Cancer Society have joined '~ in warning that cigaret smok- ing can cause lung cancer. ~ Dr. Feller, member of the Contra Costa Tuberculosis and ~ Health Association, said the ~ two groups pointed out in a statement that smoking also appears to be a factor in such N`, diseases as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The latter is a condition in which the lung " loses its elasticity and breath- ing becomes increasingly dif- ficult. . T h e statement continued saying, "No present method of treating tobacco or of filter- ing the smoke has been proved to reduce the harmful effect of cigaret smoking." Dr. Feiler urged parents, teachers and physicians to stress these findings in order to discourage youngsters from smoking before it becomes a babit. _ Smaking cigarettes inereasch the risk of developing lung can- cer and appears to be a factor ih such damaging lung diseases as chronic bronchitis and emphyse- ma. . .:. 4:, Dr, William R. Martin, past president of the Middlesex Tub- erculosis & )iealth Association, underlined the statement made yesterday by the National Tuber- cul•osis Association that smoking "s cigarett'es is a threat to health. "'There has been an alarrrur-g increase in deaths from lung cancer. In ,Massachttsett!s. al- most 1,31)Q people died of lung cancer in 1957," stated Dr. Mar- tin. He explained that there is no single cause for all' lung can- cer, but cigarette smoking is a major cause and the risk increa ses with the number of cigar- ettes smokcdl Polluted: air may be an added cause. ;.' The risk ot lung canccr is re- duced when smoking is given tip. "Parents, teachers and phy- sicians have the opportunity now and the duty to warn our youth of these facts before the cigaret'te smnkini; hahit hos be- come cstablishrd," said Dr. Mar- tin. 9'hr Middlesex Tuberculosis & llealth Association is concerned with the need for controlling all respiratory diseases, a major cause of death, illness and dis- ability. (This statement was approved by the American Trudeau So- ciety, the mcdical section of the National' Tuberculosis Associa- ionL It is similar to warnings iss- ued by the Americon Cancer So- ciety, the U. S. Public Health' Service and the American Pub- lic Hcalth Association.) 100354343. .