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Medfokd Tribune SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 One Boy Out of Four Before Finishing Hig Smokes h School Washington - IUPD - While millions of adult smokers are guiltily wondering whether (or how) to give up the cigar ette ' habit, millions - of teen age boys and girls are delib erately forming it. , You don't need statistical surveys to confirm this. fact. Just take a look at any group of American young people -in a soda shop near a high school, in a bowling alley on Friday night, or at any teen age social function, i But if you really want fig ures, they can be had. A study in Portland, Ore., shows that one boy out of four begins smoking before he leaves high school. One girl out of eight smokes hefnre shp's 17. Some boys - and girls - are lighting up before they're out of jun ior high. i- . Disturbing ' i' This may be good news for the tobacco industry, which can look forward to another generation of cigarette ad dicts. But it, is prof oundly . dis turbing to- organizations and individuals who are concern ed about the future health of America's youngsters. - . The current issue .of the P.T.A. Magazine, published by the National Congress of Par ents and Teachers, carries an article entitled "Don't Let' To bacco Trap Your Teenager." It was written by Dr. W. W. Bauer,' director of health, edu cation for the American Medi cal association, . v j- Dr. Bauer urges parents and schools to acquaint young peo ple, before they begin smoking,- with "the best informa tion available about tobacco and its known effects upon the human physiology." " Never mind the old saw about "stunting your growth," he says. Give the kids the straight dope - for example, the figures from the Hammond-Horn study showing that death rates from all caus es are 70 per cent higher among pack-a-day cigarette smokers than among non smokers; the official , warning of the U. S. Public Health Service that the "weight of the evidence" clearly indicat es a cause-and-effect relation ship between cigarette smok ing and lung cancer; the half dozen studies which show that - I the incidence of -coronary ar tery disease tends to rise with the .number of cigarettes smoked,.... . .j., , v , '-I Give Facts. ','(, VT-vrT , Just ;give, them' the facts, Dr.-rBauer says, with no 'at tempt . to propagandize or brainwash, or above, all -to bribe . them'.in to nqt smoking. Offering a young person a bribe; not to smoke until he's 21, or threatening him with various punishments if he does smoke, is a futile ap proach, according to Dr. Bau er. The only no-smoking rule that is likely to stand up un der . social pressure, he be lieves, is one that a young person has laid down for him self, with complete freedom of choice. ' , . , the big hitch, in Dr. Bau er's view, is that adults set such a lousy example. .He quotes the teenage boy who asked: x "Why should I pay atten tion to my Dad's lectures on the dangers of smoking when he - shaves every morning with a cigarette dangling from his mouth?" - It's a good question, and Dr. Castro Executes Two More Cubans Havana-flJPD-Premier Fidel Castro's firing squads took the lives of two more Cubans early today- increasing their toll for this year to at least 17. . , . The men executed were Carlos M. Delgado Duardo, found guilty of killing one of economic czar Ernesta Che Guevara's bodyguards, and Balamacio Palmet Soret, con victed of terrorist activity. Delgado was one of 12 de fendants in a military trial Wednesday from which Cas- troite authorities barred UPI Correspondent ; Henry Ray- mont, the only newsman pres ent.' : Bauer suggests that parents had better have a straight answer. 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