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Show tyh School Survey Yields hort On Nation 's Smoking and their parents' smoking habits. More than a year later, a random sample of 336 students and 319 mothers were interviewed. THE researchers discovered there are twice as many non-smoking mothers as fathers, 34.8 to 15.8 per cent. But the proportion of smokers smok-ers is about the same for both parents par-ents because nearly one quarter of the fathers have given up tobacco, compared with only 7.8 per cent of their spouses. When the male 11 per cent who smoke pipes and cigars is subtracted subtract-ed from the total of the smokers, more women are. smoking cigarettes than men. The most common amount smoker smok-er by parents is between one and two packs a day. More men enjoy over two, and more women wo-men smoke fewer than one. The study shows that Catholic fathers and sons and" Jewish mothers moth-ers and daughters are the most numerous nu-merous cigarette smokers. Catholic mothers and daughters and Protestant Prote-stant fathers and sons are the least j frequent smokers. I ;; jji ASSOCIATED PRESS Xm girls as boys smoke, school students find it harder i;V(i He habit than adults. r flSE ARE some findings in a r . 3d University study of smok-Mtyhigh smok-Mtyhigh school students and lUes Newton MasS" a :, j) of Boston. f -. American Cancer Society that, because much of the Snakes Newton's smoking hab-i:- .insistent with national pat-r; pat-r; the study could reflect a s: -al trend. - ' report on Newton by Drs. 3 J. Salber and Jane Worcester f; intes that 57.4 per cent of the z irs smoke cigarettes compared E i m per cent of the fathers. f. a Results of the Harvard study, lis spttd by the American Can-si Can-si Society, appear in the curst: cur-st: at issue of Cancer, a medical bt final, j.jl Salber began the study in ,iafcr, 1959, by having 6,810 I-. m high school students fill lt ;: questionnaires on their own |