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Show Heart Assn. suggests avoiding smoking as New Year resolution "Resolved that I will safeguard safe-guard my heart and health by avoiding or dropping the cigarette cigar-ette habit." This New Year's resolution was proposed for adoption by teenagers today by the Utah Heart Association, which .cautioned .cau-tioned non-smoking youngsters that the best method of dealing deal-ing with the cigarette habit is never to let it get started in the first place. The Association said that young people who smoke should resolve to discontinue cigarettes; if they persist they run a real risk that their lifespan life-span may be shortened due to heart disease or other serious health problems. "Whether you are a teenager teen-ager or an adult," said the Association, As-sociation, "you should remem- Association noted. This group includes these with a family history of heart attack or stroke in middle age, high blood pressure, high levels of fatty substances in the blood and other factors associated with greater proneness to hardening har-dening of the arteries. Statistical analysis of existing exist-ing data indicates that cigarette cigar-ette smoking is associated with a yearly increase of about 60, 000 premature deaths from coronary disease among American Amer-ican men. This is approximately approximate-ly equal to the estimated increase in-crease in deaths . associated with cigarette smoking from all other diseases combined. The U. S. public spends more than three million dollars a ,day for its newspapers. ber that heavy cigarette smoking smok-ing may contribute to or ac- celerate the development of coronary heart disease or its complications. I "A number of medical stu-! dies have demonstrated a substantial sub-stantial association between cigarette smoking and illness and death from .coronary artery ar-tery disease," the Association continued. "In these studies death rates from heart attacks in middle-aged men were found to be 50 to 200 .percent higher among heavy cigarette smokers smok-ers as compared with non-smokers non-smokers and pipe or cigar smokers. "A few of these studies also offer evidence that illness and death from coronary artery disease di-sease decrease significantly among those who have stopped smoking," said the Association. Parents were urged by the Heart Association to provide an example for their children, since twice as many high school students smoke when both parents smoke as when neither parent smokes, the Association As-sociation said. It is especially important for adults with a high risk of coronary heart disease to discontinue dis-continue cigarette smoking, the |