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"SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EY don'ts of "How to Stop Smoking" 11 the McKissick Memorial Library, S Paul Teel, Donald Ward, Robert S McBride. (Photo by Landis Perry) Want To Di Smoking W By BEN MeELVEEN Feature Editor The scene is the University Canteen. A group of students are discussing: " . . . and besides, why live a whole life without smoking? oKAY! oKAY! So you die a couple of years early. So what! Why live an entire life without some pleasure? Me? I'll get some enjoyment, some pleasure out of life . . . and die a couple of years early. "I wonder what the effect of smoking will be on future genera tions?" another student asks, exhaling a mushroom of smoke. "Nothing!" "Just a few more cases of lung cancer at the most. . . ." "STOP! STOP!" a nervous stu dent breaks in. "I can't stand it! You're talking so damn much about smoking and cancer and all . . . for God's sake! somebody give me another cigarette!" There has probably already been too much said about the effects of smoking on lung cancer during the past year to dismiss any further comment. The above seems to be the general attitude taken by tobacco addicts. How ever, the recent addition of a book, entitled "Smoking and Cancer" by Dr. Alton Ochsner, to the Mc Kissiek Memorial Library, as well as the subject's dlirect concern with college men and women, prompts this article. "Cigarettes cause cancer" is the first sentence in Dr. Ochsner's book, "Smoking and Cancer" (Julian Messner, Inc., New York. 1954. 86 pp. $2.00). "Some of the most eminent scientists in the world," he continues, "believe that to be the fact." "Every typ)e of smoking carries a dleadly risk. Tobacco is a loaded, often lethal, weapon. Time pulls the trigger." Dr. Ochsnor states that in 1955 approximately 25,000 Americans will die from cancer, and that in 95 per cent of the cases dleath will be traceable to smoking. This makes one ask: H-owv many of these 25,000 will be men and women who picked up the habit of smok ing while undergraduates in col lege? Certainly Dr. Ochsner's "Smok ing and Cancer" arouses hundreds of such similar questions in the college st6dent's mindi. Does lung cancer really result from smok Unversity Issues Weekly Newsletter "State Legislation," a weekly newsletter summaiziing the activi ties of the South Carolina General Assembly, is being issued by the university bureau of public ad ministration. The newvsletter, now in its third year of publication, contains con densations of bills andl resolutions currently being considered by the state legislature. "State Legislation" is dlistrib uted as a public service. All bills are in condensed form so that per tinent information may be imme diately observable. The sum matries are factual and without critical comment of any kind. The bills are headed by the name of the county to which they pertain, the typ)e of legislation, or both. Dr. Raymond UhlI, of the uni versity bureau of p)ublic admini stration, edits the Newsletter. Copies may be obtained free of charge by writing to him. ES . . . as several university tol k so many easy lessons. They havei noking and Cancer by Dr. Alton ( Igg, Mickey Rasheed, Dale Payne, le Young? S ill Help Yoi ing? And, if so, are the manu facturers of tobacco products going to be allowed indefinitely to go on making addicts for their own profit by their alluring ad vertising? Has the medical pro fession's advice on this subject been condoned -by the tobacco in dustry? And in direct concern to the college student's life, one might ask, "What effect will smoking have on my life?" "The rise in lung cancer incid ence has been so awesome that 'it is almost as though the population had been exposed to some new hazard,' Dr. Charles S. Cameron has stated for the American Cancer Society. Death statistics show that in 1920 lung cancer caused 1.1 of every 100,000 deaths. In 1948 the lung-cancer deaths rose to 8.3 per 100,000. 1 predict that in 1970, unless preventive measures are taken, lung cancer will account for 18 per cent of all cancer deaths. This means that one out of every 10 to 15 men who die in this country in 1970 will die from lung cancer." So states Dr. Ochaner. How many of these men and women are presently sampling their first cigarettes at Carolina? How many of them could be saved by the one cure possible: preven tive measures? "Cancer will be conquered. Better still," Dr. Ochaner states, "it will be prevented, as we learn to understand its profound and baffling causes. In lung cancer human studies and animal experi mentation, in my opinion, already have placed the key of prevention in our hands. It should be used promp)tly and widely-with all the e'nergy and resources at our com m and." "'Of the six forms of cancer on which the American Cancer So eiety is now concentrating,\ ~ae society announces, 'cancer of the lung has shown the most drantatic and challenging increase.' Yet cigarette apologists for years have tried to postpone, with their 'doubts,' the verdict of science on preventable cancer." "Again, the truly devastating question comes from Roy Norr, the first lay writer to sound an effective alarm about smoking and cancer. "Hie has written: "'We have become a nation of coughers, sneezers, snifflers, spit ters--and the greatest consumers of tobacco products in the world. WUSC Holds Elections For Spring Semester Spring elections were held at Radio Station WUSC. Elected for the spring term were Bill Hay, presidlent; Mickey Clerc, vice president and program director; Sloan Yates, secretary; Harold DeSoto, chief announcer; Dale Hawkinson, sports director. Manager Bill Hay states that there is a demand for a larger staff in anticipation of the extra work which will be necessary when the station is moved to the new Student Union Building. Anyone interested in radio work mech as announcing, engineering, script writing, or clerical work, la asked to got in touch with Bill Hay. W., . .... acco addicts take up the do's anti 't read a recent book addition to lehener. Pictured, left to right, are: Pat Palm, and instructor "Flash" lome Say a Do It You can spot the dishonest-and honest - doubters of whether smoking has been proved the Great Killer in cancer and heart disease by asking: To whom would they give the benefit of their doubt? To money or to men? To poison or to people?'" These are but a few of the startling facts, taken from Dr. Ochsner's book "Smoking and Cancer." They will not have been quoted in vain if they arouse some interest in but a few readers of this article. Perhaps these readers will be the college men and women who are wise, and who decide not to be a member of the 1970 group of lung cancer victims. "As Dr. James Ewing, famous pathologist and cancerologist, wrote: "'One may hardly hope to elim inate the tobacco habit, but cancer propaganda should empha size the danger signs that go with it.'" And at Carolina, the situation seems to be like this. .The scene is the Gamecock of fice. A group of students are working: Typewriters: clackelackelack rrrrrrrrr thud clackelackelack, etc. "What time is it, somebody?" a writer asks. "Twelve, fifty-five." Deadline in five minutes, I think. Gad! What'll I say? How'll I end this thing ? I am nervous. I fumble for keys, for words, for ideas. I hesitate. I pick up a pack of cigarettes. I light one. I inhale. I am nervous. I realize I'm smoking, again. Oh, well! I think. Cigarettes cause cancer. Yes! But without cigar. ettes there is .a worse dlisease. Much more closer! Nervousness. I exhale. lkE Nowthee'sa flte er1ilralyejy brings favor bakt. You'w thre'lly filtey bacco flavor. And yo1 &#ktWIN Admission, 23 and Aug. 6, L. Prince announced too.,. Depending upon the law school to which they wish to make appli cation, college seniors, juniors, and in some instances sophomores are eligible to take the tests. Each applicant should find out as soon as possible from the law schools in which he is interested whether University of Sout University of Calforna r------ ------------ Hughes Coc A program to assist Master of Science D, and making contribu Open to students wl Electrical Engineer necring during the < the Armed Servic holding such B. S. de Candidates nitist advanced study at U geice: or the Universi ipants wvill work ful] Hughes Laboratorie -- pursuing a half-time university. As many; ed each year. Salary is commens and experience. Tuiti university attendanct to assist in payving ti outside Southern Cal IN 0d a cigar A/NSTONS REAL FLAVC AND cigarette college smok- Wii It's new Winston and it ent liter smoking! dra Winston's full, rich, to- '1 i will really appreciate like STON th nA. letin of intornaLiorn registration procedures and con taining sample test questions should be obtained four or five weeks in advance of the testing date from the USC law school or directly from the Law School Ad hern California L ENGINEERS or PHYSICS MRADUATES jt Lo; A'g#des >perative Fellowship Pi individuals in studying for the grec while employed in industry tions to important military work. Lo will receive the 11. S. degree in ng, Physics or Mechanical Engi :om1ing year, and to members of es honorably discharged and grees. meet entrance requirements for liversity of California at Los An ty of Southern California. Partic time during thc summer in the s and 25 hours per week while schedule of graduate study at thc is 100 Fellowships wvill be award urate with the individualis ability on, admission fees and books for arc provided. Provision is made ave1 and moving expenses from ifornia. ette shoi SOT flrSSO RAWING! iston's finer filter. It's unique. it filters so effectively ! Winsto wing, too, for full flavor enjoyni 'ry a pack of Winstons! They ti a cigarette should! law schools throughout, the.United States along with previous scho lastic record and other evidences of suitable personal character istics, as a basis for admission of applicants. To those interested in adi'anced academic study hile associated with itnportat researci and dev'elopment in industry, Hughes offers this practical progran: rogram for Master of Sco HOW TO A PPL.Y for the Hughes Cooperative Fellowship Prog,r,m: Address all correspondewe to ti Comtmitteefor Graduate Study. Brochure - complete details will be sent to you promp HUGHES Research and Development Laboratories Culver City, Los Angeles County, Cah%/rnia [tastes 1 eI it's differ ns are easy ent. iste good -- heart, commanding officer of th University of South Carolina Al Force ROTC unit to which Ca. tain Alley is assigned as asso-atb professor of air science. it :ence Degrees ----------------- with ly. -U a \*.