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Show Cigarette 1 consumption is down it first time in this decade, total S onsiion dropped during 08 n79 The Utah Lung Association--rSmas Seal People-think this " S a changing lifestyle by ay . concerned for their health. recently released by f Sacco industry, ULA Executive X Franklin K. Brough noted a of nearly 172 million packs JS,m Jiy. 1977 through June- ",e0 ' nared to the previous year. fJfigSrom a regular report of S ceo Tax Council, were 28,771, ifor 1978-79 and 28,942,208,000 for ,7 An industry supported Nation, the council regularly 2s total comsumption of tabacco Sets based on tax receipts. Ci2h said the decline, coupled with JaT reports of the lowest per capita Tarette consumption in 20 years Treflect concern for health Tied by mass devotion to diet, -Lging and even roller skating. "Alter all, not smoking is the best , to avoid lung disease," Brough saia. Rrough added that he hoped the new figures also would serve as a warning to tobacco spokesmen that rising sales figures no longer can be used to obscure mounting concern about the cigarette's share in disease, death and health costs. "By accusing antismoking advocates ad-vocates of trying to 'build walls' between bet-ween smokers and nonsmokers or of being 'do gooders,' tobacco interests are attempting to combat both a dramatic change in the nation's .smoking habits, and the indisputable evidence that smoking kills," he said. Only 33 percent of adult Americans now smoke cigarettes, compared to 42 percent in 1964, Brough said, The drop has been greatest for men, from 51 to 38 percent. There's even heartening evidence that the rate at which teenagers are cajoled into the cigarette habit is beginning to decline, although far too many children still smoke, and at shockingly early ages. Brough said persuading young children never to take up the cigarette habit is a major priority of the Utah Lung Association, and that a special educational campaign is planned for October and November to alert parents and children to the dangers of smoking. |
