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Show ..,..4 ft-.. "- v ., "UZ I ws if SPilOKE OUT CLEARS AIR - By BETTY C. FISHER "I certainly do want to quit," the young girl told me. "And since my birthday last week I've been making some progress. I haven't bought any cigarettes since then and each day I bum a few less than I did the day before." AND NOW she was planning plan-ning to quit "cold turkey" after ten years of smoking. This 19-year-old, who had started smoking as a child because she "thought it was cute" until the habit had begun to manage her life, stopped by the Great American Smokeout display in the ZCMI Mall Wednesday, to ask for help. The display was set up, by . "the Utah Division of the American Cancer Society on Wednesday to encourage smokers to join the national Smokeout and refrain from smoking for 24 hours on Thursday, Nov. 15. FOR THE third year, the ACS sponsored the smokeless Thursday in an effort to get smokers to quit for at least a day in the hopes that they could quit the habit completely com-pletely - before they get cancer of the lungs.. A lung capacity machine and blood pressure testing device were used during the two days to let smokers know how much affect their smoking habit was having on their health. One of the nurses who was doing the testing told of a 79-year old man who had never smoked. His breathing capacity was nearly perfect and far better ,.!han. that. of . an 18-year old "which she tested and who had rsmoked for two years. . .; SMOKERS WHO participated par-ticipated in the smokeless Thursday were urged to at- Two of trie many volunteers who assisted with the Utah Division of the American Cancer Society's third annual Great American Smokeout in Salt Lake last Thursday, included Dawn Bain, left and nurse Linda Stine, both of Farmington, shown testing the lung capacity of Salt Laker Lynn Jones. tend a stop smoking clinic and were given ACS literature litera-ture suggesting tips on how to quit. These pamphlets and pledge cards were handed out by a volunteer dressed in a turkey costume urging smokers to "quit cold turkey." He and other volunteers (many from Davis County) asked people to sign pledges to not smoke for a full day. They also gave out gum, mints, etc. at the "crisis center" along with lots of moral support. Pledge signers were also eligible to enter a drawing for a "cold turkey" given away by the ACS. THE SMOKEOUT has been highly successful all across the country all three years that the ACS has been taking this light-hearted approach toward trying to get people to stop smoking for their own health. The Cancer Society's latest statistics show that lung cancer is fast becoming the most common form of cancer in women, out-ranking breast cancer. This increase is directly linked to the increase in smoking among American women. THE CANCER Society's survey shows that women are catching up with men in the incidence of lung cancer for the first time in the surveys conducted regularly by the ACS |
