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Show Heart attacks now finked with smoking About 60,000 men die prematurely prema-turely in the United States each year of heart attacks associated as-sociated with cigarette smoking, smok-ing, according to a new leaflet, "What Everyone Should Know About Smoking and Heart Disease," Di-sease," just published by the American Heart Association and its affiliates. This increment of 60,000 "extra" deaths is approximately approximate-ly equal, the leaflet points out, to the estimated number of men who die prematurely of all other diseases associated with smoking, including lung cancer. Contributing to the increase in premature deaths, according accord-ing to the leaflet, is an increase in-crease in the rate of heart attacks at-tacks among cigarette smokers. smok-ers. In one study cited, the heart attack rate in heavy cigarette smokers was three times higher than that of non-smokers. non-smokers. The increased heart attack rate is accompanied by an increase in the heart attack at-tack death rate among cigarette cigar-ette smokers, averaging about 70 percent higher. In question and answer format, for-mat, the pocket-sized leaflet briefly summarizes some of the important facts obtained thus far from research into the effects ef-fects of cigarette smoking on the heart and blood vessels. The Public Shooting Grounds in Box Elder County was established es-tablished in 1923 as the first man-made marsh open to public pub-lic hunting. At present the department de-partment of fish and game owns and manages nine public hunting marshes with a total of 61,000 acres. Utah's first elk hunt in modern mod-ern times was held in 1925. |