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BABE RUTH Babe Ruth League, Inc. INTERNATIONAL HEADOUARTERS: NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE OFFICE: 1770 Brinswick Ave., P.O. Box 5000. Trenton. NJ 08638 Phone 609•695-ta35 Fa+ 609.695-2505 211 Donelson Pike. Surte 7 P.O. Box 140090. Nasnv,lte TN 3721,. Phone 616•883-1Q7~'r Fax 616-883•166- July 9, 1990 President !'Chief Executive Officer RONALD TELLEFSEN' Vice Presfdent/Secretary-Treasurer ROSEMARY SCHOELLKOPF Commissioner. Mrs. Janice Marshall, MSN Coordinator NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Division of Epidemiology & Disease Control ROBERT P.' FAHERTY. JR. Commissioner Smoking Control Program CN 369 JAMES O. STEWART Trenton New Jersey 08625-0369 Public Reiations/MarKeting Director , JOHN W.KRAMER Administrative Assistant SUSAN Y. WEISSMAN Dear Mrs.. Marshallc International 8oard of D+rectors. Chairmen of the Board BILL SMITHI Chlcka3ha. OK Executive Consultant ROBERT M.CURRAN Ltverpool NY, BOB'DICKSON Aleaanaria. IN ALLHN'L. ELLIOTT 9urrey.B.C.Canada MARION ELLIOTT rdanreca, CA GEORGELALLY Norwoaa. MA JIM' LEMP Cneyer.ne. WY. LARRY MAGERS Jamestowrw NY FLOYD MARKHAM, Portiantr. OR; ERNEST P PAPAZOGLOU Lynn MA~ RONALD G SCHHID Haywar0. CA HARRY'SMITHI -aamdton Suuare NJ. DAVID E. STONE r:reoenc. MO NORMAN TRAVIS 3wnnqton Co JAMES WAGONER Fon Smnn AR WILLIAM E WHITEHURST Gmton NC The threat of tobacco indticed;cancer is prevalent throughout our society and is all too often the result of misinformed or uneducated: youth. Speaking for Babe Ruth League, Inc., I feel very strongly that the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study for Cancer Prevention is necessary in the State of New Jersey and would receive our full cooperation and support. Babe Ruth League, Inc. would be happy to assist the project by publishing appropriate anti-smoking and/or tobacco chewing information in our quarterly publication, BULLPEN, which enjoys an international circulation of welL over 28,000. I am confident that the New Jersey Department of Health, the New Jersey Division of the American. Cancer Society and the involved state and local coalitions will see the (ASSIST) program. through in a thoroughly professional manner. In closing, although lung cancer has been and contimues to be the most visible form of cancer contracted by the misuse of tobacco, I urge you not to underestimate the seriousness of oral cancers created by the sustained use of chewing tobacco. I wish you tremendous successs in this most important endeavor. /` f • _ ~ ..K. _. 1. / . _r Ronald Te11ef sen President/CEO BABE RUTH LEAGUE, INC. RT/tc A Non-ProAS Tax-Exempt Orgamzatron.lor 6 thrv 18 Year Oid-Players.