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Show Smoke-free lungs--a holiday gift for smokers from the Lung Assoc. Some parents in Utah will get unexpected Christmas gifts this year. From children who care. Bundles of requests like this one are pouring into lung association offices across the country: Dear Lung Association: My mommy smokes all the time. The smoke gets in my eyes and nose and smells bad. In school we learned smoking can cause terrible lung diseases. I worry about what can happen. Mommy coughs a lot. Please send me your stop smoking booklet so I can wrap it up before Christmas and put it under the tree. Maybe it can help mommy.. Do you think so? "This heart-felt concern is hard to resist," said Dr. Franklin K. Brough, executive director of the Utah Lung Association. "More and more parents are quitting smoking because their children care so much." Anybody, at any age, can get anti-smoking booklets from the Utah Lung Association for Christmas gifts, he says. The Association has pamphlets provided free of charge as a Christmas Seal service by writing the Utah Lung Association, 1616 South 11th East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105. Dr. Brough notes that parents are also quitting because they realize that their own smoking may be harming their children as well as themselves. Studies show, he explains, that children, where one or both parents smoke, have more respiratory infections each year than children with non-smoking parents. |