WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1983
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+ IN ADDITION, RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND PUBLIC TALKS WILL BE ARRANGED DURING THIS PHASE,+ HE SAID.
THE THIRD PHASE, TO BE LAUNCHED IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, WILL AIM AT EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY SCHOOL CHILDREN, NOT TO START SMOKING.
PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THIS PHASE WILL INCLUDE A SEMINAR FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, A POSTER DESIGN COMPETITION AND A TERRITORY-WIDE INTER-SCHOOL ́ATHLETIC MEET. AN ANTI-SMOKING TEACHING KIT WILL BE SENT TO EVERY SECONDARY SCHOOL.
THE LAST PHASE, SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, AIMS TO PORTRAY THE SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE ASPECTS OF SMOKING.
+SPECIAL ATTENTION WILL BE PAID TO PROMOTING HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO SMOKING,+ MR BARNES SAID.
ALSO SPEAKING AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE WERE DR RUDY KHOO OF THE HONG KONG ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY AND DR S.C. LEUNG OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
ELABORATING ON THE HEALTH HAZARDS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING, DR KHOO POINTED OUT THAT STUDIES BY RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS HÁD ESTABLISHED THAT CIGARETTE SMOKING WAS A CAUSE OF LUNG CANCER IN BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
HE SAID IN HONG KONG, FIGURES OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS SHOW THAT FOR LUNG CANCER, THE RATE OF DEATHS PER 100 000 POPULATION HAS INCREASED BY 53 PER CENT ACTUAL DEATHS HAVE GONE UP BY 92 PER CENT FROM 949 IN 1972 TO 1 826 IN 1981, AND DEATHS FROM LUNG CANCER, AS A PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES, HAVE INCREASED BY 62 PER CENT.
DR KHOO ADDED THAT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION HAD ESTIMATED THAT SMOKING WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 90 PER CENT OF ALL LUNG CANCER DEATHS.
+ IN HONG KONG, THEREFORE, OVER 1 600 DEATHS FROM LUNG CANCER ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO SMOKING.
+IN OTHER WORDS, EVERYDAY IN HONG KONG, MORE THAN FOUR PERSONS DIE OF LUNG CANCER CAUSED BY SMOKING, HE SAID.
DR KHOO POINTED OUT THAT, ALTHOUGH THE RESULTS OF TREATING LUNG CANCER WERE EXTREMELY POOR, LUNG CANCER AND OTHER SMOKING-RELATED DISEASES WERE CONSIDERED TO BE THE LARGEST PREVENTABLE CAUSES OF DEATH.
+ON STOPPING SMOKING, THE RISK OF DEVELOPING THE LUNG CANCER DECLINES STEEPLY SO THAT AFTER 10 YEARS THE RISK IS ALMOST AS LOW AS FOR A NON-SMOKER, HE SAID.
HIS ADVICE TO SMOKERS WAS, THEREFORE, +STOP SMOKING. NOT TOO LATE..
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/SHARING DR KHOO'S