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r t.Highland, New York r ~~t~~,'April 28, 1960 S *EN•AGE SMO,KN18, . t INSSDSSED tN , ~ i'L;HEALTH CLASSES ' ~ A& R. Moran, Coordinator ot lWih and Safety Education for +~Ulster County Schools, announced t tttat BOCES area schools are pre• ;sH.sentlng Information on the effects t[ the ' smoking habit to high s:+ichool students. Outeora and Wall• kill Central' Schools will complete ~theti• health iastruelion before the i'sFaster vacation, and the other 1'ic8ools willi continue this import- anf apecfal program upon their ~ '. r'•jlbrough the cooperation of Mr. Paul T. Runge, Director of Sec ` J ondary Education at Onteora, two ' bmldted students were Fresented of retention of knowledge and its wtth scientific facts on the rela- practical application to every day (v1 : tlonafiip between the' smokiag living. ~ 1 1 habit and lung cancer by tbetr Available Informatioa endicates ~teachers in science and health }}I that while the death rate for all classes. The aound film strip "To{Purpoaes during the last 30 years ~ Smoke Or NotTo Smoke?",. a/bas decreased, the lung cancer I pamphlet entitled 'iShall I 1 rate has mounted rapidly. There f4, SmokeQ" and a chart "More Ctg-Iw'ere 2,SOO deaths from lung can. t~J arettes-More Iamg Cancer" sup-~cer in 1930; 11,000 in 1949, and it ~ plied by the Ulster County Cbap- is estimated there will be 36,000 ,~ . ter of the American Cancer So• for 1960, according to the Amer- v were used in the classaooms. ican Cancer Society figures. There ~ss Carolyn. Moore and Mr.'Is no doubt tLat this:major health ~. Vincent DeAngelis, Physical i Edu, proSlem needs the attention of alI `' cation and Health teachers andief us. Mr.-Brian Brent, the Biolog~i Prevention is the hest protec- teacher at'tLe Wallkill High School tion. The best way for our teen- are presenting the same progranxiage population to avoid becoming to their students. The classroomllung cancer'victims Is to not take approach to the teen•age smoking up smokeing. Once the habit is problem - is the best, because itldeveloped„ It Is difficult for most allows for the best possible degreeipeople to give up smok9ns. flEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN New York, New York .June 3, 1960 , Find Regul ar Smoking By 26°lo in High School marar.... t,t•..We•a: Cancer Society. LOS ANGELES. June 3.-' Although no connection be• Twenty-six percent of.the stu-Iltweenlung cancer and' teen- dentain United'Stateshigh school5 are regular smokers andnearlyth'reed times that number have experimented with smoking. agesmoking habits wass drawn ~rom the survey, it will'be used spart of a study to deter- fnine if such a relationship doeos exist. The trend is forb'oysand pnly28.2percent of thestue girls to start smoking at, a dents questioned never have 0 younger age, even while in smoked. grade school. The survey showedthat of `,' These figures were revealed the 1197 studennts classified as ~%today In a nationwide survey regular smokers. - those who ''.-of 4329 high school students by smoke just about every day- 't.Eugene Gilbert and Co., aa prL ihat 24:,i percent ofthem. vate youth surve yorganiza. smoke a,packor more ofciga- tlon, made for the American tets dally:, DEMOCRAT Sherlttan, Texas ; ,tuly 19, 1960 "`THAT IS THE QUES"I'ION. A half-hour film- etrip. "To smoke or not to smoke'',, Is being made availi;bie by the American Cancer Society to high sehooLs, Parent-Teacher groups, civic and ehureh ; of•ganizations. The strip presents the evidence linking cigarette smoking tvith lung cancer. The object is to teach the child before he becomes an addict. ~. L.: DISPATCH Coiumbus, Ohio FJune 21+, 1960 Facts About Smokinb Provided f or Schools A new half-hour film-strip presentation, "Tb Smoke or Not to Smoke:" is now avail- able to: all' Columbus junior high schools for use in the POST r Waterford, Wisconain t June,8 1960 c t+n~~ ~~+~)ltl ., , r~ 'ancer Society To Tell Teeners About Hazard of Smoking A widespread program to I.nform teen-agers on the relattve health ..-baurde ofclgatette smoking has ~. been launchea by the American , Cancer Soetety, Wiaeortslm D1vWon 4t'~ was announoed reoently.. .~. . 1he program fncludes a filmstrip kit for akasa room tsse which 1s tie- Ing made available to school and youth groups through the or8anlacd ty ~ -:~ Gbun~ Uttits of ~ the Society. The program Is prompted by the rapid hacreaae in huig cancer and the many atatlattcaf and . empirical studia ihifh.have been reported m reCQnt. ._ years and months concerning the '-oorrelation between heavy agarette tmoldng~and fimg cancer. ~. ' 1,; '. Speaking forr the Wiacondn Dlvi- . . t: atbnt Paul M, Ctmnlaghaar4 M. D. Appleton, Chalrmatt of the Public '! Infomnatlon Committee eald. "t3Lne f~ clgarette smoktng la a peceonat ha 1" l- bft: the Amerl¢an Cancer t3oelety .' feels that the answer to the problem ~ ,.'ts one of ea3ueatton.: It has aleo be- come . oome apparee.t'that the.grest.esc. ~ ~-~hope for advancement llea In reachihs Individuals attdte time they are ..idhd hbi otmaerEng starting taat Therefore, theItltentltled,.. "Ib ~R. Smoke or Not to Smoke" ib s ialhted at the teen-age population. It tttl- lfus a"teactting rathertttan prearh: ktg" approach ~ and' seeks too offer ~I tll available dkta exLsttng today in , . regard to.theheaNh Intpllcatloaa of ~ ' the smoking tiabit. The materiala are offered aGnot cost tb®choots and 'N, youth groups by Ceuttty Units of, the . American Cancest3ocS`ty and, are made possible by support reoMVed during the anatual April Crusade for ttatde." The aim of'the current'"1'o Smoke or Not to Smoke" piesentation is to teach'teen- agers the facts' about smok• ing: The film-strip reviews fall, Franklin County Unit oG:eridence linking cigaret' the American Cancer SocietyIsmoking with lung cancer. has announced. , In addition to providing ' Chaney D. Ross„In discuss-lthe film to the 83 Franklin ' Ing the American Cancer So- County junior high schools, clety's approach to the prob- th'e society is offenng it to lem of teenage smoking;,said: PTA groups, civic and chureh "We are trying to teach organizations. i the ehlld before he becomes an addictl." . : ..a~,..-. - .