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MIDDLE _AGED MEN a`~a` ~an men in some other „amoking labsQ in the long run, parts of the worid Cholesterol with such comments as "I plus such other factors as over- ,can quit by.then:' and high blood pressure`! ,.etght w~ . . or a high degree of risk~+ :~"Long-Range Reasons AUTIQNED ON FT , he said ~ in the matter of heart disease, 'f -f But the presentation that Is V111, most.eHectivelncurbingamok- --.Dr.Statrtietnoted that cho- i`\ :Iesterot was "amenable to alter- ~g arguesfram~the Iong-rarige ,''~'ation," meaning that It could point of view, that more 1111 HeartAttacks LinkedtoDiet be reduced in the blood. By :,nesses come In middle age and proper diet, he said, the fatty~• death comes• earlier for smok- as Well as Overweight and substance could be reduced up ers, according to Dr. Daniel .,>;a20.per cent in most.persons• . Horn,. program~evaluatlon di- High Bloo& Pressure Dr: Jean Mayer of the Har- rector of the Cancer Society, :: vard Sch'ot ofPubliHealth Htd t th Ai - • - .o,ce reporeoemercan said that lnterpreting statistical ; Fublie Health . Association. . material in relatlon to heart ' Of five possible types of~ Dre- ~_'SMOKING IS ALSO CITED'diaease was difficulk He noted -~sentatonthis one cut there •; that some studies showed a.car- -,.- ~" Olatfon between overwe:ght and ~~cruitment rate of smokers at- .idren to smoke mere girlstakf .~ . beart disease, but.others did not... ( in half, from 13 to 27 per up the practice than lt nothing Health Parley Is Told That However: he saitld that cen- most i erally it uldi be "tair" t cent, In one achool' year, he o , wa Chol2sterol in Bload Can saythat such a corre[a~an ex- , said, . Be Cut Up to 20a/10 Isted„but that obesity was but Girls also derided the Iong- .'' one factor, _ range reasons for refraining~ ,Dr..EdWard D.~ FMis, senior -. frotnsmoking.yetthtsapproach Ialinieal investi gator of the was a B y DLIIHHAY II.LSO\ Mount Alto Veterans Adminis- gain mosG effective. It cut axa,imTn..e.:ea•nme,I tration Hospitatin.Washington, , the recruitment rate among. "' ATLANTIC CITY, Oct,.23- called high blood pressure "a ' girls to one-thizd;, Irom~ 6.4 to The ~~middle-aged man whois major causeof heart disease." -' 2.1 percent.. . . .. ... lean: takes exercise, avoids too Remedial Methods Cited ..However-the.lmmediate ap- •h much fatt in his diet, does not ;,?aroach w'aa equallyeffeetive sfeoke-and keeps.hisbloodpres-He said, howeven that a re- :<. • wlth girls. That smoking re- ., sure idownn apparently has a cent study "leaves nodoutit';o duces their "kissabil[ty" was a good chance of avoiding a.t}eart that methods for controlling - attac4: blood pressure at Ieast in theverymeaningfu] argument, Dr. r,., No one actua!ly saidSt thatt less severe.cases, have come ob ," Horn said ln an Intervie~w:.. td These reductions in theschool , wayoay at the closing ses- age and are available to any.. i sion of the American~ Public physician who cares to use smokingpopulation"mapsaem , Health Association's eighty-sev- them.^ . l small." Dr..Horn acknowledged. . enth ~ annual meeting. But It Dr. E.~ Cuyler Hammond, dl- ° "yet ff carried out cumulatively aeented, to be the general con- rect _Fo re Re-for four years, it would mean clusiorn of a panel of experts search Center of the. American~ . that about 20 per centof' our high school students who would otherwise become regular amokersby graduation time, would nott doo so," he reported to the association meeting. were from eleven~ cityy high schools and five Cathollo high schoo.ls~ 1n. Portland, Ore., and, five highschoolsh in the urban, ; areas, Just outside that city. A:, - total of 22,000 students were_ involved In thee study:. '-r"':g; In New York,, a spokesman~ for the Tobacco Industry Re- search~.Committee, representing cigarettemanufacturers,c re- marked that the American Col- lege of Chest Physicians' board, of regents recently agreed that -'The wording ot the most ef- "a tremendous amount, of re- fectn^e presentatlon aald some- earch" remains to be done to thing like this, Dr. Horn said: ascertain: thecauseof this ."You'vee heard a lot of argu. ~isease (lungg cancer) " and cited mentsaboutsmokingclgarettess other theories as too itseauses but we have something new to : The Industry spokesman said say. We have just found out he would'not comment on the ahat the smoking of cigarettes Cancer Society study itself, but - eauseslung cancer. We did not tndlcated that Dn. Horn+spara-- use to know this, but now therephrase of the strongest deter , Isn't much doubt. Here 1ssomesent argument (''We have 1ustt of~~ the evidence ,... .. fot;nd outt that thee smoking.of , appear to have in theirr blood myy life on the hypothesisthat'":'hlnkaboutltbeforeyou~de- cigarettes causes lungCaneer"/-; moree cholesterol, a fatty sub- such a conclusion is incorrect." cide-whetherornottosmoke:' diaagrees wlth the other pll9sIl . .. . , - • Besides the immedlateand clans findings, wh2 dis^.ussed the prevention Cancer Society, spoke on.smak-and control'.ufheart d:aease.. Ing in relation to heart disease., . Solid fatt in the diet; bot$ He said he looked onAhee pres- 'ani.malandl vegetable. Is the entevideneeas follows: basic cause of thee high~ toll "We are dealing with a poi- of heart disease in middle-aged son-nicotine-which ias known, ~• American men, according to'? rft to have an acute effect upon , J~lfiill~ Sti;mler, director o7 the heart andcirculatorysys- the Chica~8`S'oard ofHealth's tem+ Peopte who partake of a )feart Disease Control Program. mixture of this and other pol- Dr..Stamler said that heart sons, lncludingcarbon, monox- •, attacksannuallystrike 940 ide, have a higher death rate Americans out of every 100,000 from coronaryarterydi5ease - and that about a third:of these uan, do abstalners. The death casesare fatal. Coronary dis• ratetnereases with the dosage." ease,,e he added,accountsfor a "Fromthis," he asserted, third oball deathsin~men 45to •onemlghf well conclude thaf 64 years old,, nigarette smoking,lncreases. the , Reduction Is Possible nisk ot death from coronary. Middle-aged American men, artery disease. I would not'bet :',$y Robert C. Toth ATLANTZC CIIY. Oct. 21.-The American Cancer Society '•'Adayannounced some of'theruuits of a study aimedd at.flnd- - mg the bast way to dissuade young people from smoking: ' h[ n~.The survey found that both boys and girls ih hlgh schoo 'answer likechildren when questloned about, smoking•` but~ react in adult ways to logical '4ieasoning an the sublect.. i~• !~' . Boys, for example, tended to 16 `saythey don't smoke because 1t costs toomuch, lt interferes , with their wind, orsimllar im- i~-V •`y st medtate reasans, They dismiss Kqttl.ckly the arguments that say How I4 Was Worded long-range approaches•a8eid7. ptentloned. three others Vwere~ rled Ia the study. Onegavd" ~oth aides of the amoking-~ cancer controversy. Another simply told students Sn"tal authoritative way that tbeT'4- ahould not smoke Ard the 1sttl~ tried to make the student take'~ the "don't smoke" message hame, . nna so play the role q2 , an adult by making the auQ- gestion to theii•parents--. AsiYth~A group: as controla,.-. were not "educated" fn 'anyi' way, except to record bow.J. many Souths normally take up smoking- rrr, Unexpected Flcding f ,~ Dr. Horn reported the fol lowing as an unexpected find-':~ Ihg. When parents forbid chil. ` had been said. MoreShan that,:-: 1f the parents "strongly dis='." approve," but let the girl her- ~ self makee thedecision,,.the chances are better that she will not begin to amose Dr. Horn said. ,f?kVs "I leave these negativlstic fm- Plicatlons to the.imaginatlon of all men who are Interested 1n the feminine psychology.°..Dn Horn commentedt;~~t~ j~ The students in the study