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Show Lung Cancer Clinic In Cedar City June 23 Facts about lung cancer, one of the most fatal forms of cancer can-cer and a leading cause of male cancer deaths, will be aired during dur-ing a 60-day educational campaign cam-paign conducted by the Iron County chapter of the American Cancer Society. he campaign will be highlighted highlight-ed by a lung cancer clinic to be held Thursday, June 23, at 8 p. m. in the South Elementary The cilinic will incude the presention of a film, "Who, Me," a 19 minute presentation emphasizing empha-sizing the responsibilities and role of parents in discouraging cigarette smoking by their children. chil-dren. Pamphlets on "Your Health and Cigarettes" will be distributed and a discussion of the problem will be presented by Cedar City Physician, Dr. A. L. Graff, Jr. Dr. Graff will answer questions at the clinic. Offered as a public service in an effort to helt the alarming rise in the death rate from lung Cancer, the campaign will be directed di-rected chiefly to the adult population. pop-ulation. A continuing teen-age and youth program on the health hazards of cigarette smoking has already been introduced at the elementary, junior high and high school levels by the Utah Division Divi-sion of the society. Lung cancer this year will kill about 47,000 persons in the U. S., ten times the toll taken 30 years ago. The increase in this disease in men is unequaled by any other disease. More men die from lung cancer (about 100 each day) than from automobile accidents. acci-dents. Lung cancer is largely a preventable pre-ventable disease. Medical evidence evi-dence shows that more than 75 of lung cancer cases are caused by cigarette smoking. Other ris-eases ris-eases traceable to use of cigarettes, cig-arettes, include heart disease (250) deaths daily), circulatory diseases, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and cancers of the larnyx, esophagus, mouth and oral cavity and urinary bladder. Regular cigarette smoker runs a risk of death from lung cancer ten times greater than a non-smoker. non-smoker. The best protection against lung cancer is not to smoke. |