Show Strikes At Pilot projects to combat alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking will be initiated by the National PTA at the beginning of the school term this fall in five different parts of the AT THE same local and districts in all states across the country will be continuing their long-standing programs in smoking and health and many will institute prevention programs on alcohol the help of government funds we are undertaking an experiment in which young people will be encouraged to develop their own preventive and control programs in smoking and alcohol said Elizabeth National PTA FROM their own efforts and initiative we hope to gain clearer insights into causes of personal choice behaviors and how they may be dealt with more effectively in the the and the she The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and a unit of the U.S. Department of and has provided funds to work toward solutions for the growing problems related to alcoholism in young IT HAS joined the National PTA and the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and also a unit of to launch an innovative education-Information This cooperative venture marks a milestone in relations between the PTA and the two government a program will enable parents and youth to work together to combat cigarette smoking and alcohol Mallory painted THE NEW program comes at a time when the problem of alcohol abuse among young people is increasingly being recognized as Seventy-five percent of high school students now drink alcoholic a Gallup poll Fifty-seven percent more admit that they have more than once drunk too Seventh and eighth-graders are drinking cheap wine by the and grade schools are increasingly requesting experts to come and talk to their students about Morris B. director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and doubts that teenage drinking is a new form of youth drinking problems rise as young people attempt to copy the drinking behavior of older peers and he told the American Medical Association at Its recent convention in San use of alcohol in America is here to adults must help young people learn to treat drinking in a socially responsible if they choose to And we must teach them to take a responsible attitude toward their peers who choose not to is the first year of funding for the National PTA program in alcohol Carolyn who has served as the National PTA's coordinator of smoking and health since will also direct the new For many the PTA has been seriously aJl m about the young people and has to the preventive efforts In 3 the National published m- a booklet Sl Straight About brill consisting of four from PTA MaX by Herman director of the Center on A National PTA resolution in 1963 on the alcohol and other emphasized health comprehensive public health edtH OVER the nearly ten million the National PTA lea First Cigarette MalS Matter of Life or Deal have been distributed tM and units o PTA all over the |