Pago 6
Tuesday, November 13, 1934
Daily Nebraskan
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Help a friend quit smoking
On Great American Smoke
out Day, Thursday, everyone
tries to be especially kind to
smokers who are trying to quit.
It's a time of light-hearted fun.
Preaching and scolding are
taboo. Never-smokers of former
smokers who are "adopting"
current smokers for the day
should offer moral support,
encouragement and incentives
to help get them through the
day and hopefully longer.
Show that you care you
have a vested interest in keep
ing your adoptee in good
health.
Provide your adoptee with
a survival kit of low calorie
nibbles carrots and celery,
cinnamon sticks or sugarless
gum.
Dont nag or threaten!
Try to make yourself avail
able either in person or by
phone for the entire day.
Take your adoptee out for
breakfast or lunch. Or promise
a special dinner in a favorite
restaurant.
Go public with your adop
tion. Enlist the help of others
in giving moral support to your
adoptee.
Especially if you're a never
smoker, consider giving up
something for the day, too, like
candy, desserts or coffee.
If you're a former smoker,
share your experiences rather
than lecture on the dangers of
smoking. What worked for you
may work for others.
Keep in contact.
Send flowers for a post
smokeout celebration.
Offer a lilt to work or home
in the afternoon.
Schedule an evening activity
that minimizes the temptation
to smoke see a movie in a
theater that prohibits smoking
in at least one section or try a
strenuous activity like racquet
ball, bowling, or a swim at the
local pool or stage a get
together with fellow adopters
and their "foundlings."
Urge your adoptee to stay
off cigarettes now that he or
she has made it for a day!
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By Kevin Dugan
Diily Nebrt&kan Stymie porter
Some smokers say the Great
American Smokeout is just a day
when people give smokers more
grief than usual
But the facts of a recent report
suggest smokers have a respon
sibility to quit if not for them
selves, then for others.
The most recent U.S. Surgeon
General's report states that
cigarettes contain Toluene, a nar
cotic affecting the central ner
vous system, and vinyl chloride,
which causes liver cancer.
Apart from remaining health
ier, non-smokers also can save
more money. A pack-a-day habit
costs about $100 annually. Manv
insurance ccr.ipar.ics give dis
counts to non-smokers.
But even if smokers are not
concerned with their health or
pocketbeoks, they have a public
responsibility because smoking
affects safety of others.
The American Cancer Society
(ACS) claims that local, state and
national fire data list cigarette
caused fires as the leading cause
of fire fatalities.
A recent Gallup Poll indicates
there are almost as many women
smokers as there are men smok
ers. This is largely because of the
fact, according to the ACS, that
more men have given up the habit.
However, the ACS agreed more
women are smoking and smoking
more heavily than in the past.
Experts say lung cancer will sur
pass breast cancer as the nation s
No. 1 cancer killer among women
by the mid-1930s.
Contrary to the trend of fewer
men smokers in an upper income
bracket, women earning more
than $25,000 annually smoke
more than any other group of
working women, according to the
ACS. The ACS also claims that
blacks smoke less than whites.
Deb Tremblay, the southeast
area executive director of the
seer:
The Great
American
ACS, said the lung condition of a
smoker will Improve if smoking b
stopped.
The AC3 claims that according
to the experience of many former
smokers, quitting "cold-turkey"
seems to work better than a
gradual tapering oft Eight mil
lion people have given up the
smoking habit in the past she
years, claims the ACS.
Gene Lilla, director of public
information and education for
the Nebraskan division of ACS,
said no matter how long a person
ha3 smoked it is always more
beneficial to quit, regardless of
the ramifications of shock-trauma
to the body and nervous system.
He said that apart from irrepar-
Advice column. . .
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Men can write in as well.
Le Sage graduated with a social
science degree from Emporia State
in Kansas. He spent the last nine
years doing freelance writing
mostly marketing and promo
tional writing.
Le Sage said people and rela
tionships interest him. He has
been "acutely aware of malefe
male relations" throughout his
life. He hopes to advise women
about their relations with men.
He said most women don't know
what men think and feel. Le Sage
said he thinks his column will
serve as an outlet where women
can get male feedback through
him, and other men who write in.
"It seems like there's got to be
some movement of men express
ing themselves," he said.
Le Sage predicts that he will
get many similar questions on
certain tipics. He plans to study
these topics in depth and form a
commentary that answers many
questions at once.
Le Sage said he thinks this
column will be a learning expe
rience for him, as well as his
readers.
"I look forward to learning more
about women," he said.
"I'm very much of a thinker. I
will give each person an honest,
useful and fair response."
To do this, Le Sage said, he
able damage to lung tissue or a
tumor, the human body begins to
repair itself immediately.
Nicotine causes blood vessels
to constrict, which increases a
person's blood pressure, Lillasaid.
Within 48 hours after a person
stops smoking, he said all traces
of nicotine are removed from their
body.
When a foreign material like
smoke fa ingested into the lungs,
Lilla said, the cilia lose their abil
ity to cleanse the lung. If a person
stops smoking, the ciltoloosen up
and bein removing dirt and other
airborne particles, he said.
Lilla did not downphy the with
drawal from a smoking habit, but
he did fay the benefits of quitting
are substantial Ha edd a former
smoker will fed better, have more
energy and be less susceptible to
colds and bronchitis. He said
withdr&vab subside after a cou
ple cf weeks and the body benef
its from net being subjected to
chemicals.
According to the ACS, after
stopping smoking, the risk of a
woman developing lung and
laryngeal cancer drops steadily,
equaling that of non-smokers
within 10 or 15 years. Lilla said
this holds true for men as well.
ACS data implies the people
most likely to succeed in kicking
the habit are those men and
women at higher education and
higher income levels. Half of the
college graduates who smoked
cigarettes are now former smok
ers, according to the society.
thinks about each question to
give the best response.
Le Sage is single, but only be
cause he chose to remain that
way, he said.
"Freelancing doesnt promise a
steady income," he said. "I do look
forward someday, to a long-term
relationship or marriage.
'The newspaper is easy for
women to relate to," Le Sage said.
This (column) could easily be
incorporated in the same manner
as Ann Landers."
People with questions can send
them to: Guy Le Sage, Box 777,
1 025 Jefferson, Santa Clara, Calif.,
95050. Writers who want personal
replies must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
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A plan to get residence hall
students more involved in cam
pus activities is another goal of
the board, according to Marcy.
The plan has two objectives:
To give information to resi
dence directors and student as
sistants so they can inform resi
dents about campus activities,
thus encouraging participation.
To reach out to residence
hall students with flyers and in
formation sessions, explaining cam
pus programs.
The board also discussed re
moving the big-screen television
in the union. Biarcy said the board's
video committee has a program
ming contract with Campus Net
work to produce shows that will
be shown on the television. The
nature of these shows will be
decided in a later meeting. The
board also has ordered a new tele
vision to replace the one cur
rently in use.
0"Neil presented the planning
committee's report on how the
union will use space in the re
cently acquired Commonplace
Building at 333 N. 14th St She
said the chapel in Commonplace
would be ideal for large group
meetings. Smaller rooms could be
used for office space. The union
bought Commonplace to provide
more space for cfilce3 and meet
ing rooms.