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9. San Antonio, Tex. EXPRESS December 8,, 1967 Smokin" ;, Disease Linkled 1laSHI`'CTUv t U'1 '1'he.iern+ h; \ • Ir •.,rr -H up At .i"' 1:1. In, a relmrt In t;.mgress last Veterans ,admtnitinr.iltni; ,;iid hn,lni,~l : .Iul}.; it dP,crtlxd smoking asl Thursday it has had tn dnuhlel ThN V.\ has a tnnv-tandint; ..thP mn.~l important of thei this year its facilities tnr trr at-'tpolicv nf disrouraging smnktng, ment of emphysema, a dtsa-;hy its hospital patients and! re-~Icauses of chronic non-neoplasttici bling and'deadly lung disease. ltr es donations of cigarettes; 1IPulmonary diseases in tfie Unit-j At the same time the 1':1 ha:ti but patients still may purchase;ed States," and added. "ifl stepped up its cifort> to dihcnur-~jarettes on their own from greatly increases the risk nfll age patients in its hospitals l5hops in or near the hospitals. ~dying not only from chronicj from smoking: i In a letter Oct. 30, the V:4bronchitis but also from~ pul-1 The VA said' "smoking, whichlsaid, Engle urged the adminis !monary emphysema."' provides a specific pollution of,tration's 5,000 physicians to "re-I Dr. N. Stanley liincoln of lhej the air in the lungs, has been view our existing prngrams" oflVA medical staff said in connee-, clearly established as one education ag~+inst smoking and,tinn with '1'hursdav s announce- cause" of emphysema, a pro-,"to take such n1her action as'm^nt that research shows smok- gressive loss of lung ftrnetion' necessary to convey the mes;,in,- has "a rloutile-edged! effect! which frequently results inisa;e clearly and earnesth•." on thP lun2s," death. I The U.S, Public health Scrv-I It not onla- irrilaths them, he The ~'A's~ chief inedical' direc-I ice estimates that emphysema said, but it al5o slh«:s down the tnr, Dr. H. ltlart'in ~in~ Engle, tiaid; in the past few yearti hasi.movement of the cilia,, hair-lik speciall units for the diagnosis emerged second only t'n heart !structures that cnnvev fnreig and treatment of emphyscma disease as a cause of dii;ahtlit} j'naattters out of the hmes