Show Resolve Not NotTo To Smoke Resolved that I will safe guard my heart and health by avoiding or dropping the cigarette cig arette habit TillS THIS NEW Years Year's resolution tion was proposed for adoption by teenagers this week by the Utah Heart Association which cautioned smoking non young young steps that the best method of dealing with the cigarette habit hab hab- it Is never to let It get started in the first place The Association said that young people who k e should resolve to discontinue cigarettes if they persist they run a real risk that their life span may be shortened due to heart disease or or other serious health problems WHETHER you are a teenager teen teen- ager or an adult said the Association you should remember reo re member that heavy cigarette smoking may contribute to or accelerate the development of coronary heart disease or its complications A number of medical studies stud stud- ies have demonstrated a sub association between cigarette smoking and illness Ulness and and- death from coronary artery ar ar- tery disease the Association continued In these studies death rates from heart attacks at tacks in middle middle- aged men were found to be 50 to per percent percent cent higher among heavy cigarette cig cig- arette smokers as compared with smokers nonsmokers and pipe or cigar smokers A FEW of these studies also offer evidence that Illness and death from coron coronary ry artery ar ar- tery disease decrease significantly cantly among those who have stopped smoking said the Association Parents were urged by the Heart Association to provide an example for their children since twice as many high school students smoke when both parents smoke as when neither parent smokes the Association said IT IS especially important for adults with a high risk of coronary heart disease to discontinue discontinue dis dis- continue cigarette tte smoking the Association noted This group includes those th se with a family history of heart att attack k kor or stroke in middle age hi h blood pressure high levels of fatty substances in the blood and other factors associated with greater proneness to hardening of the arteries artenes Statistical analysis of f exist ing data indicates that cigarette ciga ciga- rette smoking Is associated with a yearly increase of about premature deaths from coronary disease among merican I American men This is equal to the eStimated increase in deaths associated with cigarette smoking from all other diseases combined |