Show f- n£ -l 1 February 26 1975 QIC Page 10 Clinics across country help people to kick smoking of five nightly meetings now counting upon a communal bond with fellow sufferers to sustain a conviction the pain might be worth the reward Each had paid $3 to attend the clinic this one conducted by the Seventh-Da- y Adventist Church Hundreds of similar clinics are conducted in cities across the country by various groups and By WILLIAM STOCKTON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The crowd of irritable nervous hungry people stood on tiptoes and lifted arms into the air stretching as if to touch the ceiling Their thoughts were stop-smokin- on cigarettes Oh for just one Sucking smoke through the throat down into the organizations 50 million More than Americans still smoke They will spend close to $15 billion this year lungs Letting it slip slowly back out chest and shoulders relaxing tension melting away But they had come to stop smoking a solitary goal as noble for some as tithing on Sunday or shedding 20 pounds of fat “All together now Reach high high high and take three breaths” exhorted a beaming man standing before the crowd lifting his arms Noisy sighs and gasps filled the room “Doesn’t that feel great?” he — about $200 for a s the when the was public just learning about In mid-1950- potential hazards 40 per cent of all adults smoked In 1970 after 16 years of growing concern 37 per cent still smoked and the percentage is approximately the same today But Dr Daniel Horne outgoing head of the clearinghouse rejects suggestions that efforts of the last decade have been less than successful “There has been tremendous shouted 24-ho- ur pack-a-da- y smoker -p The night before everyone had tossed away his cigarettes and begun cold turkey withdrawal fast broken agreeing to a only with fruit juice They were back for the second g change change” tremendous just Horne a health and pioneer with a “We’re studies dealing said Dr in smoking Engineering awards given out at USU Honors to the outstanding and student professional engineers in Utah were announced Saturday night at the National Engineers Week State Banquet held at Utah State University The Utah Engineers Council made up of 15 professional societies engineering an- nounced the awards at the banquet attended by professional engineers and students and faculty of the colleges of engineering at USU University of Utah and Brigham Young University The award for being the outstanding practicing engineer this year went to Sidney J Green president of TerraTek of Salt Lake City The outstanding engineers service award went to Kenneth W Randle Salt Lake City chairman - of the Utah Engineers Council On the "college level Dr L Douglas Smoot chairman of chemical engineering at BYU was named the top engineering educator ’ different smoker now one who basically wants to quit” Evidence against smoking is largely epidemiological statisical studies comparing death and disease rates between smokers and The statistical studies are buttressed by research with animals But many doctors expert in epidemiology and the diseases implicated with smoking believe the evidence still isn’t persuasive The issue is complicated by lack of knowledge of how cigarette smoke might produce cellular or biochemical changes in the human body to initiate the disease for which smoking is blamed “If you ask me what relationship smoking has to arteriosclerosis I have ample epidemiological evidence to show you” said Dr Gardner McMillan of the National Heart and Lung Institute “But if you ask me how smoking causes arteriosclerosis then I will have to tell you I don’t rs non-smoke- know” The strongest data is found in a half dozen or so major studies since the 1950s that involved large groups people The longest running study to date now rs followed 300000 16 years noting when they died and the cause of death The results published by the National Heart and Lung Institute tound cigarette smokers had a 55 per cent greater mortality rate than when the age of death was adjusted to allow valid statistical comparisons a The Tobacco Institute inand Washington lobby formation arm of the industry agrees there is a statistical associaition between smoking and low birth weight babies between smoking and lung cancer and that smokers statistically appear to have lower blood pressure “We are careful not to make representations that it is perfectly safe to - smoke” said William Kloepfer the Institute ’s senior vice president “We feel those who make flat assertions about its harmful effects are abusing scientific knowledge” From AC Marple’s vantage point the problem is simply breaking the cigarette habit patterns that have become an intimate part of the smoker’s life Marple chaplain at the Seventh completed veterans for non-smoke- rs Day Advantist Hospital in Washington periodically runs a stop smoking clinic “We can break the addiction in five-nig- ht the week we’re together” Marple said “But the habit the psychological patterns aspects take weeks and months sometimes” Marple packs the hospital’s auditorium with anxious smokers for every clinic It blends sympathy exhortation praise and communal fellowship with sobering presentations by hospital doctors Participants can vent their frustrations to each other Marple who never smoked has cheered on 18000 people in 13 years He claims a 50 per cent success rate “Stopping smoking is not an easy thing It’s a terrible battle But anybody can stop if he really wants to” Marple said “We try to motivate them to take control of their own lives again” He passes out cards that declare “I CHOOSE not smoke” to strikes Utah State Flu by Deb Olson for Student Life Ripplinger a mechanical and manufacturing Many USU students have been feetftrgtired rundown irritable and generally rotten No it isn’t because of midterms poor skiing conditions or the lull in romantic engineering at USU season Awards for being the outstanding student engineers on the three campuses went to C Robert student in activities during the winter Brett Richards in civil engineering at the U of U and Bruce Craig Barrett in' civil engineering at The sickness that has been going around is a new type of flu and will be here for awhile yet “This is a different type of flu it is a type of respiratory Asian Flu and it’s still spreading Johel Williams a student nurse said Two different strains of flu one from the West Cost and one from the East Coast have both moved inland that is why it has hit us so hard” School grades and life in general at USU have been affected with at least 45 percent of BYU USU at Departments nominated their outstanding and researcher students teacher The dean’s office chose from the nominees A Bruce Bishop associate professor of and environmental civil engineering as the college’s outstanding researcher and William I Fletcher associate professor engineering teacher electrical of as the outstanding The department’s selections for outstanding senior students were Eric Clyde Logan Civil -- Environmental C Robert Ripplinger Logan Mechanical and Manufacturing and James Blair West Spanish Fork Electrical -- mmi- Hk' St 7:00 Thu 7:00 & inequities nonexistent TKtsirrg-'waritiTrg'tl- Every College Student Should See This Movie Wed STUDY Fri the campus missing classes because of this strange flu Around the state-- ' as many as 50 percent of the students in some schools have been affected flu differs from Dean Claude Burtenshaw says inequities in the USU housing theThe way this Asian Flu is that it is ordinary policy pertaining to contracts don't really exist viral “Because it is a virus” Ms Williams said “there are really no antibiotics that can fight it The best relief a person can get is taking a decongestant” The apparent inequities in the than legitimate reasons to take byThe starts out virus USU housing policy regarding the potential residents we have with a sore usually throat and scratchy sale of contracts to people on the already recruited he said the person "infected-feeiywe"The" waiting list usually ac'doifTTeaTTy" and achy In most cases a cough exist said Dean Claude Bur- crues during the summer until the sore throat and the first day of school and then is accompanies tenshaw can last up to 10 weeks tapering Burtenshaw chairman of the absorbed’’ Burtenshaw said off as the virus subsides housing appeals committee said “Rarely is there a waiting list The virus affects the lower the policy was designed to protect except during this period of lobes of the lungs In a few cases housing and insure that as many uncertainty” he said has been the result pneumonia If the situation did arise in The vacancies as possible are filled of the people majority but not at the expense of the which there was a waiting list at Logan Hospital have and the housing was 100 per cent students minor cases of bronhad only the situation The policy was made to protect full at chitis would be of reviewed Burtenshaw housing at the beginning Local doctors say that this quarters especially in the fall said virus is highly contagious and when they are uncertain as to “If there was someone waiting within 3 feet of someone who is stayingin housing and who for a vacancy and someone being infected with the virus can be is moving out Burtenshaw said trying to get out of a contract and enough to contract it We don’t want someone who is all other vacancies have been “That is why this particular breaking their contract for other filled the situation would be virus has reached epidemic worked out” Burtenshaw said in some cities” Ms The transaction still would not proportions Williams said be a direct sale of contract This strain of flu can however but a cancelation of one reoccurparticular even in those who have contract and the signing of a new caught it once already Doctors one Burtenshaw said say that because antibiotics can’t The policy is also designed to combat the virus one way to save protect the order of preference of yourself the suffering is to stay in the waiting list based on the date good physical condition Getting of application William Skid- enough exercise and eating right more coordinator of student are two good ways housing said “This is not too serious here in “We don’t want a vacancy Utah” Ms Williams said “You given to the bottom man on the surely won’t die from this virus list while Jhe first man is still but it sure can make you feel 533 M MAtfcO waiting” he said miserable” Sat 6:30 & 9:30 Sun 7:00 ed mid-quart- LEfflte EfC er ' |