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Show Try "Great American Smokeout" If you can quitfora day.you can quit accountant, cigarettes make ' a poor investment, when you consider the cash costs for 1 medical expenses and shortened careers for those with cigarette caused disease. The lost income can . be an enormous amount. I PAROWAN - Want something that will make you prettier, richer, and allow you to live longer? Try the Great American Smoke Out a day without cigarettes, November 17th. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society you'll even smell better, and maybe no one has ever dared tell you this but kissing a smoker is like licking an ash tray. Mrs. Frankie Lou Bentley, Cancer Crusade chairman announces that the Great American Smoke Out is a National effort to point up the fact that 100,000 Americans will soon be dying from lung cancer. The American Cancer Society is dedicated to doing something about this problem, and the Smoke Out is one way of stimulating action against this death dealing habit. There are approximately fifty three million cigarette smokers in the USA. These staggering statistics show what an enormous amount of education and instruction it will take to show these people the terrible dangers associated with smoking. Nation wide it is hoped that at least ten million can be convinced to participate in the Smoke Out and gc ' without smoking for the day of November 17. Nearly 100,000 Americans die an-nuallv an-nuallv of lung cancer, many smokers would like to quit, but the thought of an endless future without cigarettes is overwhelming. The main premise behind the one day away from cigarettes is to show smokers that control of the smoking habit comes one day at a time. A pack a day smoker who quit today could pocket 150.00 to 200.00 in a year just for cigarettes not smoked, but thats just the beginning. Viewed from the eye of the Burns in table tops, carpets and upholstery are expensive ex-pensive nuisances to the smoker. Nearly $100 million . in property is destroyed each year in fires caused by smoking, an average of 1800 Americans die each year in these fires. Giving up cigarettes isn't fun and it isn't easy, but it is important. So take it one day at a time. Celebrate the Great American Smoke Out November 17 and start a new life. |