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DONALD ML PAYNE 10T~ii DISTRiCT, PSEW' .1ERSEY COMMITTEES: EDUCATION AND LABOR ELEMERTARY.SECONDARY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION LABORSTANDAROS SELECT EDUCATION FOREIGN AFFAIRS AFRICA GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HUMAN.RESOURCES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAU RELATIONS 4C ottgrt!99 of tfje Mniteb *tateg 3boua of Rtprtoetttatibeg 0 agfjingtott, "0104 20515 0 August 24, 1990 Mrs. Janice Marshall New Jersey Department of Health Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control Smoking Contr.ol~ Program 3635 Quakerbridge Road CN 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369 Dear Mrs. Marshall: WASHINGTON OFFICE 417 CANNON 1-IOUSE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON. DC 20515 (2021 225-3436 DISTRICT OFFICE FEDERAL BUILDING 970 &1OA0 $TREET, RooM 1435 NEwAR K., NJ' 07102' (201( 645-3213 I am writing to you to express my strong support for the New Jersey Department of Health's application to the National Cancer Institute to develop tobacco control activities to. reduce the prevalence of smoking. This project, called the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST) for Cancer Prevention,, represents a joint planning effort between the Department of Health and the New Jersey Division of the American Cancer Society. I applaud the project's objectives to reduce the incidence of smoking among adults and to reduce smoking initiation among youth. The thrust of ASSIST is to increase the capacity for existing organizations to enhance their role as smoking prevention and cessation agents. Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of death in our society. Yet, smoking is responsible for more than one out of every six deaths in the. United States. I believe that the ASSIST program has great merit and will meet a; crucial need to reduce smoking-attributable cancer morbidity and mortality. This program is vital to the health of New Jerseyans and Americans. I strong4y support the application of the New Jersey Department of Healt-h for this valuable and much-needed project. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance to you. With kindest regards, Respectfully, Donald M. Payne Member of Congress