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-5- THE WASHINGTON POST Sunday. June _8. 081 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 'Walking Smokestacks' As the mother of a 15-year-old son attending Woodson High School in • Fairfax County, I am writing in re- sponse to Ellen Goodman's column "The Tobacco Lobby Smoke Screen" [op-ed, June 11.[. I, too, tind it fright- ening to realize how many young peo- _ ple are beginning to smoke cigarettes when we have so much knowledge today on the dangers of cigarette, smoking. Having quit smoking 15 years ago, I realize firsthand how dif- ticult it is to quit after one becomes addicted. Still, it is no wonder many of our children are picking up the habit when advertising makes it seem so glarhorous or macho. But most of all, I am crying out with outrage that my son and all other children are allowed to smoke in the Fairfax County high schools. A ipecial place is. provided for them, md, from ninth grade on, it is their Friday, June 26, 1981 privilege and right to go into that smoking area and slowly kill them- selves. At a time when smoking is not allowed in more and- more public and government buildings and there is a fine if anyone does, we are still allow- ing.our children, from 14 years of age and older, to smoke cigarettes at school. The peer pressure is very great, especially at school, and to pro- vide a special place for them to smoke is creating more smokers among our . children. The school ofticials are con- cerned with the fire hazard, but it is my feeling that a stepped-up security system in the school would discourage many children from smoking. Many of these children would-not be caught dead smoking in front of their par- ents, but they are walking smoke- stacks at school. • - CAROLYN KRAMER. Fairfax - THE WASHINGTON POST Culprits Among recent findings on head- aches: • Foods like chocolate, cheddar cheese, red wines, cured meats and fish, even bananas, can trigger mi- graines in some susceptible people. So can monosodium glutamate -(MSG). • SmokinA and breethin_g_~her =a emo can trigger mi-, jM25- • Too much exposure'to aim caia , do the aeme. • So can dtanges in atmaepheric ptEe&ue and Winde, eepeCiall;y the. hot, dry winds of places W[e Santa Ana or Suncoo. To locote a headac.he apecialist among the hundreds in the ~'ield, orr forr more information about easing your• aching head, tvrite: National Migrqine' Fotuutatron, 5252 N. 4iteetern Atle., ChiodBo, I4 60625. : uaIiy rle+s, reonday. June 29, 1981 PAR~Ei>aTS & CHiLDREN By SAUL KAPEL, M.D. By ~ CIGARETT'E SIPIOHING may be a tougher habit to kick than previously believed, according to research done at the University of Minnesota by psychiatrist John Hughes. He says smoking may be physically addictive and therefore is difficult to quit cold turkey. Researchers are trying to lo- cate the addictive factor in cigarettes. The findings suggest again that efforts to prevent young people from starting to slnokfe-make good sense- THE NEW YORK TIMEE; MONDAY, JUNE 29,1981, Notes on People At 121 a Man Doesn't Have Much to Complain About It was a quiet day yesterdar in Oak- ts "AN* land, Calif., for Arthur Reed except for, as he put it, "lots of interviews with those reporters who want to lmow everything.'• The interviews were on the occasion of Mr. Reed's birthday be- cause he turned 1?1 and ia said to be the world's oldest man whose age is au- thenticated Social security records list his date of birth as Jtme 28,1860. Naturally, one of the questions the reporters asked Mr. Reed was how he had managed to live so long. "They made me out of good dirt," Mr. Reed repHed. '-Tlrey took the time and made me good." Mr. Reed said be helped things along by_not smOkiIIR and not drinldn¢ after an u~'~'ittu Texperreace. 'T just ane time•and no mo,re: ' be said and added that his vices.vere °tust dancing and Ramblina." ~ ~ N N ~ N ~ ~ ~ M+Q I