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Vol. 3 No. 12 Thursday, January 16, 1969
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The Publishers Desk
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The first sign that smoking is becoming less
popular with t e e n - a g e r s has been found in a recent
nationwide survey.
~ THe~surveyj"wHcTi"ihdicaTe^Thaf smolcing among
the nation's teenagers may be down by as much as
9 or 10 percent, was reported by Daniel Horn,
PH. D., at the recent American Cancer Society Writ­e
r s ' Seminar in San Diego. Dr. Horn is director of
the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health
of the U.S. Public Health Service.
During a three-month period (December 1967
through February, 1968) 4,414 telephone inter­views
were conducted with a representative sample
of boys and g i r l s aged 12 through 18. As~a~Tea>ult
of this study, Dr. Horn concluded that, "we can
now hope that the stalemate in our fight against
cigarette smoking has been broken."
Following a r e the major findings of the survey:
Teenagers are smoking less today than 10 years
ago.
The findings of the recent study were so startling,
Dr. Horn related, that he had many of the interviews
repeated and the computer operation double checked
before permitting them to be released.
According to the report, today 1 boy in 7 and one
girl in 12 is smoking regularly. The proportion
- smoking varies greatly at the different a g e levels
12 through 18 and shows a drop of approximately
9 percentage points for each group a s compared to
a similar teen-age smoking survey in 1957.
Studies have also shown that statements by junior
and senior high school students on whether or not
they expect to become smokers indicate that a s of
today only about one-half as many t e e n - a g e r s may
become adult smokers, compared with 10 y e a r s ago.
If these teen-age expectations a r e accurate predic­tions
of the future, Dr. Horn optimistically points
to an eventual downturn of lung cancer death r a t e s .
The survey verified e a r l i e r findings that smoking
is more common among children who come from
families in which t h e r e is smoking. Although par­ental
smoking is still an important factor, smoking
among ofder brothers and s i s t e r s may be an even
greater influence.
Teen-agers who a r e doing below average work in
school and who do not expect to go to college also
a r e more likely to be smokers.
The survey showed that fewer than 50 percent of
t h e parents of high school students a r e cigarette
smokers - a drop of 5 percent from a study con­ducted
in 1957 and concluded that educational ef­forts
to control smoking must work to reduce both
adult and teen-age smoking simultaneously and with
equal vigorous efforts, since they strongly influence
each other.
The South Oyster Bay Unit of
the American Cancer Society,
Nassau Division, is launching
its new educational program on
"Cigarette Smoking and Lung
Cancer."
Grumman
Award Boosts
Local Economy
The awarding of a multi-billion
dollar contract by the Navy
Department to Grumman Air­craft
Engineering Corp., Beth-page,
for the production of the
¥FJ^~jet--fighterr -was -hailed
Tuesday as a "major milestone
in the history of the Long Island
defense industry and the
economic development of Long
Island," by William J. Casey,
president of the 1,000-member
Long Island Association of
Commerce & Industry.
Casey said that the contract
award will serve \ as a
sorely needed shot-in-the-arm for
Long Island's presently -defense-c
o n t r a c t - s t a r v e d defense ; ij»*;«
•-••"Btrts^r. •**-?*» padded that he had'
been advised "ffiaT '{fie*""confracr
could mean the addition of as
many as 20,000 jobs on Long
, Island over the next five years.
"The significance of this
contract award is immense, and
the very fact that the Navy has
decided that Grumman is best
equipped to handle the job, is
worthy of our highest praise."
"There is every reason to
believe that this contract award -
although its total impact may not
be realized for years - will go a
long way toward fostering the
economic well-being and general
welfare of the Long Island
economy."
"This award will once-again
bring into the spotlight, Grum-man's
role as a pacesetter in the
aircraft industry. To Grumman's
friends on , Long Island it is
certainly the best news we have
received in many years."
Buses Go
To College
Students, faculty and staff of
C. W. Post Collete and New York
Institute of Technology Old West-bury
campuses can now commute
by bus, following instant imple­mentation
by the Mid-Island
Transit System of a Public Serv­ice
Commission order allowing
the bus company to operate over
a 2.3-mile stretch of Northern
Boulevard between Glen Cove
Road in Greenvale and Cedar
Swamp Road in Old Brookville.
Mid-Island Transit, which had
been operating bus lines along
Glen Cove Road between Hemp­stead
and Glen Cove and along
C edar Swamp Road between Beth-page
and Glen Cove, asked per­mission
to cut across Northern
Boulevard where the two colleges
are located and where until now
there had been no public trans­portation.
The southbound run originates
on Landing Road inGlenCoveand
runs through the City of Glen
Cove, Sea Cliff, Glen Head and
Greenvale and (hen turns east on
Northern Boulevard. The buses
resume their southern direction
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It Is More Blessed
To Give———
On Saturday, Jan 11, residents
of Bethpage, Wantagh, Massa-pequa,
Plainview, Amityville and
even as far as West Sayville
brought their donations of canned
goods, rice, dried foods and drugs
to the Bethpage Railroad Depot,
where members of the American
Photos By Jackson Pokress
Legion Post and Auxiliary waited
and packed food in boxes and car­tons.
By 11:30 the whole platform
was crowded with good-hearted
people and children working away
as quickly as possible to get the
food in cartons for the Biafra
train. Money was given in also