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13, 1977 - North Shore News —_

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If you’ve managed to kick the cigarette habit “
or would like to -- you may be heartened to learn
that North American “medics themselves are
setiing an impressive example. During the past 25
years two-thirds of all the doctors who ever

So if your medical adviser
tells you to cut out the weed,
the chances are high that.
he’s talking from strength. —
Personal strength. And if .
he’s removed the ashtrays -
from the waiting room, you'll’.

bers below the border,

 there’s little reason to doubt

smoked have quit (the weed, I mean, not their
practice). :

This and other interesting

data about the smoking. and | '
non-smoking habits of the [

people who look after our
health comes in a survey
recently released by the
Center of Disease Control in

Atlanta, Georgia. Since Ca-.

nadian professionals gener-
ally tend to follow patterns
set by their opposite num-

that the picture in Canada is
broadly similar.

The survey made -.an
intensive study of smoking
habits among 20,000 health
professionals. Among other

things it discovered that the:

60 per cent of physicians who

smoked cigarettes in the.

1950s had been haived by
1967, and had dropped to a
mere 21 per cent by 1975.

NURSES SMOKE MORE |

Smoking dentists also de-

‘clined from 34. per cent to 23

“
if

per cent between 1967 and.

1975, but some other health

"professionals didn’t do as.
well during the same period.

a ~ Puffing pharmacists. drop-.
- ped only from 34 per cent to.
28 per cent, while nurses |
“actually
smoking from 37 to 39 per
‘gent -- a figure nearly twice.
as high as that for doctors.
. The only consolation Dr.
- Daniel Horn, director of the
‘study, could find in that sad. .

‘increased their

statistic was that nurses in
the 20 to 40 year age group

- were quitting at a higher rate

than women in the general
population.

Back with the physicians
and surgeons, Dr. Horn also

found that they had been

trend-setters. More than half
the doctors who have given

up smoking kicked the habit

10 years or more ago. »

Nine out of ten of them

told him they felt a re

sponsibility to set a good

example. In addition, Dr.
Horn discovered that his
colleagues were beginning to
carry the gospel to their
patients with more vigor.

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“In our. 1967 study,” he

said, ‘‘we found that al-

_. though many physicians had
stopped smoking themselves
: to protect their own health,
. they were still loath to advise
- others to. stop:
-unless they were ill or had a
condition which -
' made worse by smoking. |

HIDING THEIR SIN. .

_. “In our ‘recent. ‘study we i
found doctors: are “trying to -~
‘get their patients to stop to”
protect their health. There is:

avery striking trend towards
the preventative aspect.”

And “what about that
naughty 21 per cent who still
persist in lighting up? Even
here the good Dr. Horn and

his co- -researchers came
‘across one or two encourag-

ing signs.

The survey showed that
the average smoking doctor

today smokes less and tends_

to buy cigarettes with a lower

_tar content than the average

male in the general popula- 7
“tion.:

Also, he mostly tries to

hide his sin. During the past
eight years the percentage of |

smoking physicians who re-

frain from doing it in front of |
patients has increased from

39 to 54 per cent.

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smoking, |
-would be.

use the still photos in our

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know he’s not fooling.

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The placard and banner-
bearing demonstrators were
out again in force last Friday
at Presentation House, when
. Prime Minister Trudeau .
stopped by for an hour to
bless the new Studio Theatre
-- protesting everything from
the B.C. Pen to grain
elevators and nuclear power.

I wonder how long it. will
take them. to realize that
they’re rapidly becoming a
mom-news item? Their pre-.
sence at every unrelated
public event, however inno-
cent, is becoming as predict-
able as the mayor’s hand- |
shake and the bouquet of

roses for the visiting lady
celebrity. In skort, demon-.
. Strators are becoming a
yawn.

, rena
-T’ve been told that German
television had the bright idea
of lumping all the commer-
_cials together in a single -
half-hour period before the
‘programs. began -- ‘the '
programs themselves there- |
after running without inter- |
ruption.

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“Maybe there’ sa thought
“here. for our local- “news
media.

if ‘the occasion ‘being.
‘recorded ‘has no direct. -
connection with the causes.
being promoted by the-
placard-carriers, why not
_keep the cameras pointed .
- firmly in the opposite direc-. .
tion. - . °

‘Then, to be fair to
everyone, let’s gather all the
demonstrators and. their pla-.
cards together in ' Stanley —

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