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Township of Mt. Olive June 18, 1990 Mrs. Janice Marshall, MSN, Coordinator New Jersey Department of Health Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control Smoking Control Program CN' 369 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0369 SUBJECT: American Stop Smoking Intervention Study for Cancer Prevention Seven (7) Year Project Dear Mrs. Marshall, I am writingt in full support of your efforts to develop, tabacco control activities to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality by reducing the prevalence of smoking.. Local health departments, such as ours, are in a unique position both to observe the prevalence of smoking•and the devastation and pain caused by this addiction. The need for concentrated efforts on behalf of smoking prevention can be documented on a daily basis at our health screenings. our statistics show that more young women are smoking thus endangering their lives and the lives of their children. We also see by networking!with smoking cessation clinic leaders, how difficult it is for smokers to quit anastay quit. Health departments can enhance your efforts by becoming the conduit through which, networking! channels are built, ordinances are enforced, and pressure to conform is placed-on establishment owners and vending machine companies. We have established a liason with the Morris County American Cancer Society Chapter and work closely with them to promote lifestyle changes and to increase the awareness of the public regarding the warning signs of cancer. I am certain that by building.upon such networking efforts that the smoking prevention effrorts of the New Jersey State Department of Health will be successful. Please feel:free to call upon the Mount Olive Township Health Department in your well focused efforts. Sincerely, Frank G. Matteo Health Officer FGM.: my lf gm2'. 065 cc: Dr. Ronald DuBow, M.D. Board of Health Members David W. Alvarez, Esq., Board of Health Attorney P. O. Box A. Route 4v.. Budd Lake. New /ersey 07828 Telephone 201• 691-0900