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Show Seal Campaign Reaches 77 Per Cent Mark tUa nlo nf The 1972 Christmas Seal Campaign has reached the 77 per cent mark, Lyman F. Smart, president of the Utah Tuberculosis and Respiratory Res-piratory Diseases Association As-sociation announced. The December 28 report re-port shows a $3,519 increase in-crease over the end-of-year report in 1971. The goal of the 1972 fund drive is $95,000. Contributions thus far total $73,526 in Utah, Mr. Smart said. The fund drive ends on March 31. "It is still timely for Utahns to answer their Christmas Seal letter with a contribution to aid the fight against respiratory respir-atory disease," Mr. Smart said in a mes- sage to the people ot Utah. "To the nearly 30,000 Utahns who have made a contribution to the 1972 Christmas Seal Campaign, Cam-paign, we express our thanks and appreciation," apprecia-tion," he added. The 56-year-old health organization has led the fight against respiratory disease including tuber-culosis, tuber-culosis, emphysema, Its work has also been foucsed upon those en-virnomental en-virnomental factors which cause or make respiratory disease worse cigarette smoking smok-ing and air pollution. Amonp many Christ mas Seal financed pro. i' jects, the association's U' present work program Z includes a smoking and health education project for women, the sponsor-ship sponsor-ship of the Emphysema "z-Club, "z-Club, a project to dev. elop TB education mat-erials mat-erials in the Navajo Ian-guage Ian-guage and culture, the -operation of Self-Care Classes for respiratory disease victims, the establishment of lung -disease diagnostic and Z, treatment facilities in rural areas, a research project into the socio- i cultural aspects of em- ' physema, and profes- ' sional education pro-grams pro-grams to teach doctors and nurses modern ' methods in the care of chronic lung disease. I |