Show Bad For All By JUSTIN J. LOS ANGELES i American Cancer It has been 10 years since the Advisory Committee to l the Surgeon General gave its report linking cigarette smoking as a causal factor in lung cancer of the and chronic SINCE THAT many additional scientific reports J have confirmed the evidence of cigarette smoking as a causal factor in the above named diseases and also with urinary bladder cancer and coronary heart Since smokers have stopped smoking making a total of about ex-smokers I v in the U.S. It has been estimated that over one-half of the Americans who still smoke cigarettes want to THERE HAS been a definite decline in smoking between 1963 and the end of There was a sharp drop in cigarette smoking between 1967 and 1971 when many televised anti-smoking messages were In when these TV anti-smoking messages were smoking of cigarettes when cigarette advertisements were removed by federal law from TV and the broadcasters no longer felt any obligation to continue the anti-smoking messages of the American Cancer Society as they had been required to do under the Fairness IN only 58 percent of all cigarettes sold had filter By this figure was 85 The per capita consumption of cigarette tars today is 32 percent less than it was 10 years This represents a definite recognition by the tobacco industry of the health hazards of There is no such thing as a safe The estimate is lung cancer cases diagnosed in 1974 in the with male deaths estimated from this disease and female Only about nine percent of lung cancer cases will survive five years and therefore a tremendous program directed toward elimination of cigarette smoking must be SINCE ONLY about 15 percent of the patients with lung cancer are diagnosed while localized and since present diagnostic and treatment methods leave much to be we must rely on preventive Those individuals who become addicted to cigarette smoking usually do so while they are The percentage of teenage female smokers now almost equals that of male teenage Women have more difficulty in stopping smoking than The death rate from lung cancer in the past 10 years has doubled for EMPHASIS must be given to the teenagers and educational programs started for children by at least 10 years of The smoking message must stress the effect on the general If the teenagers smoke throughout their teenage years and are not effectively by a great many will be lost to their Even those individuals who have smoked for varying periods of time can lessen the hazards of cigarette smoking by THE USE of tobacco has been found not only to be hazardous for the but for the non-smoker as More attention is being given to the rights of non-smokers by passing legislation to protect the health arid atmospheric environment of the |