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Cancer society says
Smoking shortens lives
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So you're 25 and you feel
pretty good. You smoke two
packs of cigarettes a day, but
you get some exercise You
can keep up with your
n o n s m o k in g
f r ie n d 's
backhand, and you can climb
that hill almost as fast.
Chances are, he’ll live
almost eight and a half years
longer than you.
The difference between 65
and 73 may seem pretty
remote right now. But the
facts about death rates,
health hazards and economic
loss due to smoking are not
hazy. Before you scoff at
your chances, consider
statistics reached after years
of research by the American
Cancer Society.
A pamphlet by the cancer
society gives straight an
swers to questions most often
asked by teenagers in health
classrooms around the
country.
Probably the most star
tling fact is the life ex
pectancy rate. “Of American
men aged 25, twice as many
two pack-a-day smokers may
expect to die before age 65 as
nonsmokers,” the pamphlet
reads.
“The chances of a heavy
cig arette smoker dying
during his prime are almost
twice as great as a non-
smoker’s.”
The death rate from lung
cancer in cigarette smokers
is about 10 times that of
nonsmokers, according to
statistics reached by a panel
of doctors and scientists in a
1964 study. Eighty percent of
all lung cancer is caused by
smoking, they said.
That conclusion convinced
the U.S. Surgeon General to
require
all
cigarette
packages and ads to carry a
warning that smoking can be
hazardous to your health.
Occupational
hazards
cause most other lung
cancers. The excuse that
“ I'd probably get lung
cancer anyway from air
pollution goes up in smoke,
as the cancer society states
“ air pollution figures in
dicate it plays no significant
role in lung cancer.”
About 85,000 people in the
United States die of lung
cancer each year. The
chances of being cured are
about one in 10, because most
cases are incurable once
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discovered. “ When lung
cancer is large enough to be
visible by X-ray, it is no
longer in its early stages and
is often not curable,” the
pamphlet reads.
Even if you don’t get
cancer, smoking damages
your lungs. “Autopsies have
shown that a ll cigarette
smokers have some lung
damage even if they did not
have lung can cer,” the
society said.
So maybe you’ve just got
that morning cough That
means hair-like structures
along the bronchial tubes
called cilia, which carry
irrita tin g particles away
from the lungs, may be
seriously damaged. When
the cilia action is impaired,
coughing is the only way a
smoker can get rid of
irrita tin g substances and
mucus in the lungs.
Smoking can increase your
chances of death in other
ways, too. Death from heart
disease is at least double
among smokers as non-
smokers. A probable cause is
that nicotine causes con
striction of the arteries. The
arteries thus carry less blood
to the heart, damaging heart
tissue. Nicotine also in
creases the pulse rate.
Cancers of the pharynx,
lary n x , esophagus, lip,
tongue and mouth were
found six times higher
among smokers aged 45-64 in
an American Cancer Society
study of 500,000 men. Pipe
and cigar smokers had death
rates from these diseases
about four times as high as
nonsmokers.
The cancer society points
out you can’t use the
argument that what's done is
done.
When
you
quit
smoking, “ damage to the
lungs is repaired starting
almost immediately There
is actual repair to pre-
cancerous lesions and the
normal healthy condition of
the lung tissue is restored.
“ Chronic cough, sinus
congestion, fatigue, and
shortness of breath are
among the symptoms that
disappear.”
If those things seem worth
the risk to you, consider what
effect your smoking may
have on your children.
“ Studies show that the
number of high school
students
who
smoke
cigarettes is twice as high if
their parents smoke,” the
pamphlet tells teenagers.
Women who smoke while
they are pregnant have
babies who weigh an average
of six ounces less at birth
than those of nonsmoking
women.
“ Lower-than-nor-
m al
birth
weight
is
associated with a child’s poor
physical and emotional
development,” the cancer
society said.
Its studies also show
pregnant women who smoke
increase the risk of stillbirths
and death among newborns.
If you holler about high
taxes, consider how much
you’re paying the govern
ment when you light up.
American smokers paid $12.3
billion for cigarettes in 1973.
Of this, $2.4 billion went to
the federal government, $3.1
billion to states and $200
million to municipalities in
cigarette taxes.
Finally, if you think you
are in the majority when you
light up and are indignant
when someone asks you to
extinguish your smoke, think
again. Of the total adult
population, 37 percent are
smokers.
Hearing set for chapel
The Chapel of Divine Love
on E. Sylvan Drive in Sandy
will present a request to the
Clackamas County hearings
officer Jan. 4 to make ad
ditions to the church.
Plans are to build a dining
room, kitchen and an ad
dition to the library.
Approval of the request
would require exemptions to
two LCDC land planning
goals.
Also before the hearings
officer will be a request by
William and Beverly McCoy
of Bluff Road to create a two-
acre parcel not in con
junction with farm use
containing the existing
house, and a 12-acre parcel to
be used for agricultural
purposes.
The meeting time is 7:30 at
the dfcurthouse in Oregon
City.