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Show Jr ae to smokeomt for record No matter what the weather is l?Wy.Kf?T the BYU-C01orado State football game, fans are asked to go cold turkey" to set a world record. And that means no smoking during the first half. BYU is cooperating with the Utah County Unit of the American Lancer Society in launching the reat American Smokeout testivities and set a world record for the number of people "not smoking" at an outdoor sporting event. The number will be documented and sent to the Guiness Book of World Records John N. Mavros, chairman of the ACS board for Utah County, said the smokeless two hours will help fans to be aware of the Great American Smokeout celebrated nationwide on Thursday, Nov. 17. In conjunction with the Great American Smokeout, the Utah County ACS is sponsoring a day of festivities (Nov. 17) at the new Excelsior Hotel in Provo, culminated by a grand prize drawing of a five-day trip for two to Bermuda. Other prizes will also be given away in the drawings. Tickets for the drawings are being sold for $1 each at the Ex celsior and Showbiz Pizza in Orem beginning Saturday (Nov. 12). Winners of the grand prize will stay in the Bermudiana Hotel, a member of (he Truslhouse Forte chain which owns bolh hotels. Many of the hotels in the chain have non-smoking floors of rooms. The drawings will be held at 9 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 17) at the Excelsior's grand ballroom at the conclusion of a two-hour free variety show being produced by Oneal Miner. During the day, special speakers will talk about cancer beginning at 9 a.m. with BYU quarterback Steve Young. As state ACS Youth Chairman, he has spoken to thousands of youth about the effects of smoking and chewing tobacco. Free ice cream provided by Meadow Gold Dairies will be served to children all day at the hotel. Booths and displays from various Utah County health agencies will be set up, movies will be shown all day, K-96 radio will broadcast from the hotel from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and a release of hundreds of balloons will take place at noon in conjunction con-junction with several schools in the county, Mavros said. The Great American Smokeout festivities will climax Saturday (Nov. 19) with a Conquer Cancer relay race between BYU student organizations and the University of Utah sororities and fraternities. The runners, who will get sponsors for the 50-mile race, will leave Rice Stadium at 6 a.m. Team members will pass along a football to the next runners. The race will end at Cougar Stadium about noon before the beginning of the BYU-Utah football game. About 100 runners from each university will participate. |