Show Anti-smoking seminar gives Youth reasons not to smoke ALTAMONT Over girls and boys heard athletic champions and medical personnel tell why Is Fun and Champions Don't as theme of the youth physical fitness rally held nt the Altamont High School on April THE RALLY FOR students from Tabiona and was sponsored by the West Duchesne County Unit of The American Cancer Coach Stan head basketball coach at the Brigham Young says BYU athletes are carefully screened and chosen for academic achievement and personal is not condoned by the A coach believes an athlete if he participates in smoking and He'll cheat on the on the and he'll be the one to let the team down in a closely contested Coach Watts told the group of high school ELDON former AH-American football told the youngsters he didn't that smoking is n deterrent to the body to to full and champions need the full usage of their bodies to do their Judy head at the BYU and homecoming said smoking was a and urged the young people to be and not smoke because this group or that group did not to become cripples who need a crutch to lean WALLACE L. Salt Lake City emphasized to the audience of young people and adults that cigarette smoking was known to cause lung that smoking a pipe and cigars would not cause lung it would cause cancer of the lips and that chewing tobacco would not cause lung but It would cause cancer of the gums and the He emphasized that filters on the cigarettes did not strain the harmful effects of use of and the filter itself is being questioned as to whether it adds to the harmfulness of tobacco use to the body and general MRS RUBY educational chairman of the West Duchesne County See page 10 Smoking from page Unit of The American Cancer correlated the use of tobacco by young people as a thing of appeasement something to latch onto when the baby bottle and pacifier were put All panel members agreed that they thought a young girl who starts to smoke cheapens and that the second time to quietly refuse a cigarette is easier than Uie Miss Green said she had to say quietly and thank I don't and her standards are admired by her friends and FRED folk singer from the BYU entertained the group with a number of songs and guitar Elroy national field representative of The American Cancer Salt Lake was panel He quoted statistics that last year men were killed in automobile accidents in the and died of lung cancer associated with the smoking of |