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The Herald and The lantern

Wednesday. March 26,1980

No Place

To Be Smoking Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your

health

Kducators teach the ability to. distinguish right from wrong > Schools are places of learning, where good habits are fostered and bad habits changed around ' Why, then, do so many school districts permit smoking on school property? Some districts permit students to smoke. Most schools allow teachers and other staff members to smoke And at school board meetings, it isn't unusual 'to see board members and others smoking, sometimes in clear view of No Smoking signs. ( KHTAINI.Y YOUNGSTERS pick up bad habits at home, and home should be the learning place above all others. But most parents aren't professionally trained educators, many parents aren’t concerned enough about their children, and some parents arcnl concerned at all. It falls upon the teacher and the school to'set the examples that ofttimes are missing in the home Indeed, if the educational system were operating at 100 per cent efficiency, the students would be helping to educate their parents in many ways: not to smoke, being one of them. The American Lung Assoflation has some startling statistics anout the incidence of marijuana smoking in this country by young people It reports that 4 million school-age children arc now using "pot." ONE WONDERS IF THE relaxed educational standards of the past decade or so have manifested themselves in other ways besides low test scores and near incompetance among too many graduates. Has the relaxed mood’ in education spawned a relaxation of personal health standards? The answer would be difficult to pin-point . without further Study. But the fact is, past Studies hiive shown cigarette smoking to be deleterious — and still it is condoned in our

schools

Isn’t it tifhe our educators — teachers, administrators, school board members — beghn setting good examples? Cigarettes have no place in school And it is hypocritical, to say the least, for educators to be bringing their cigarettes to school while trying to teach their students not to smoke.

Good Show! There, was some real pride, talent and showmanship displayed last Thursday eveninf! during the Richard M. Teitelman School s annual Sights V Sounds Derby. Principal Jeannette Babbitt used the occasion to proclaim her students are "the best kids in South Jersey," and after seeing only the talent show, few could doubt her. Seeing the youngsters perform and viewing their science displays, demonstrations and career skills exhibits - one could tell they had been motivated At Teitelman, they care!

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Herald

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Comprehensive Report On ‘Pot ’ Available Free

"I Tell You...You Gol To Spend Like Crazy To Keep Up With Thi» Irdlotloo! "

By Klainr Fisher HAMMONTON

Marijuana, now smoked by over 16 million American, is the third most frequently used substance, aftir alcohol and tobacco, which effects the body both physically and mentally. The hazardous of smoking marijuana or "pot’’ are examined in a new brochure Marijuana and the I rungs, prepared by the American Lung

Association.

All aspects of marijuana, from its contents to how the drug is marketed, is covered in the brochure It is the most comprehensive report on marijuana our agency has compiled. GOVERNMENT figures indicate that marijuana use is primarily an object

FIRST CALL FORySHELP

729-2255

Legislature Look-See

By NJPTA

TRENTON — With the official ending of the 1978-79 legislative session on Feb 29, the deadline for the governor’s signature on bills passed during the session,

Q. Is there any place an ^e post-mortems on the 19dth Legislature can be corn-

individual can call to p!«ted.

register a complaint and get Although the session officially terminated on Jan. 8, the action on a small local state constitution gives the governor 45 days (Sundays business transaction? Isn’t excluded) to act on any passed bills. The provision that a there any except Mr. Action bill become law if the governor doesn’t act on it within 10 columns or Small Claims days after he receives it doesn’t apply during the 45-day Court? There must be a period. Moreover, any measures which he decides not to county or state agency that sign, he files in the State Library, a process known as the can get results and alert the "pocket veto.” For most , bills vetoed, the governor government to bad business prepares a message explaining the reasons for his action, practice EMPTOR THE SECOND YEAR of the 1978-79 session made CAVEAT. Ivower Township, history in several respects. Probably the most significant

statistic is the record number of bills enacted into law in

A. Dear Caveat : You have 006 y® 31- since the 1947 Constitution — 501 compared with

asked a multi-answer the previous high of 472 in 1948

question. The number of pocket vetoes also set a new record — 83. •If your complaint is with Th® v °lume of legislation introduced in the two years, a Wildwood business. Action over 5 * 100 hills and resolutions in both houses, was several Line, 729-4444 will help you hundred under the record of nearly 5,800 set by the 196th

•Better Business Bureau. Legislature

836 Haddon Ave.. The number of days on which the legislature met to Collingswood. N.J 08108, dchherate bills was a few days under the high of the 1974(609 > 348-9520, sometimes ^session. The Senate met on 41 days in 1978and 38 in 1979 will mediate on complaints w hiletheAssemblymet43and35days‘respectively in 1978

against businesses. and 1979

Each house of the 1974-75 Legislature met on more than

80 days in the two years.

THE LIST OF IMPORTANT bills passed in the second year of the session (1979) will vary according to one’s viewpoint. To mention but a few of the 500: 'creation of a

1770 ( 800)792-8600, 24 hours) transit corporation *$475 million transportation bond issue investigates citizen com- •revision of workers’ compensation laws -pineland plaints against state protection •increases in fees for motor vehicle agencies. registration and in corporation net income and casino

•N.J. Office on Consumer taxes •parole reform •creation of a fulltime tax court

Protection, 518 Market St., •requirements for high school graduation •lifeline utility Parkade Bldg , Camden. crediU for senior citizens •reorganization of legislative N J. (609)757-2840, in- services •revision of the criminal code •appointment and

vestigates complaints certification of municipal tax collectors,

against businesses in New Among the hundreds of bills on which there wasn't Jersey, then settles the legislative agreement were: -state and local initiative complaint by mediation, an •referendum and recall •no-fault insurance •Civil Service informal conference or by reform‘taxation of New Jersey oil refineries and certain litigation. professional services •periodic review of state agencies

•If vour comolaint is with in '"t® 1 C ? p ,aw8 • financi *l disclosure of public

__ K. th officials -revision of ethics laws

AlUn AM0NC B,LLS WHICH died from ,h « PO"* 81 v <*o Affllrs T” , •* ub '™ lonal primary campalgn financin* brill™', ' •legislative oversight of executive regulations .legislative Ai fhr memeel '"'""I revi ' w of regulationa, and 8 number of bills in-

J!?X volvln * Additional coat or revenue loss in the state budget Legislation not enacted In 1978 can be reintroduced in

1980

•N.J. Office on Citizen Complaints, Dept, of the Public Advocate, P.O.B 141, Trenton, N.J. 08625. (609)292-

County does not have a daily operating Consumer Affairs

^'Stuuiy one’* STS k . H0P ' ,U " y ' ^ l '« i * l * lurt wi " hMd in ^ ^ ahead moment,’the above numbers d* - admonition and proposal in his annual

should be able m h„ln vn„ biesaage that "there is no reason to continue introducing Xo^mer k „;ibta' P . y0U "I legislation every y«r to deal wilE

with consumer problems If yo« have a question for the First Call For Help Column, write to David

every conceivable issue ” Instead, the legislature should "single out a few of the priority issues for legislative

action...”

Such restraint would permit the executive branch to

Quinlan, First Call For Help. administration of those laws presently on the

Social Services BMg., P.O.B. ° 00ta t

222, Rio Grande, N.J. 08242

or call 729-2255.

NJPTA la the non-partisan New Jersey Taxpayers Association. *

the SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS

of the young, with an estimated 50 percent of the population between 18 and 21 using the drug. These percentages are rising steadily - despite studies showing that marijuana is pqtentially more dangerous than tobacco. The most alarming figure is that 4. million schoolage children currently use

pot.

The 1 most alarming figure is that 4 million school-age children currently use pot. The American Lung Association has consistently approached South Jersey school systems to adopt a no-smoking policy. With these new findings a broader program will be encouraged, that being, to discourage smoking of any substances. THE HEALTH agency is concerned about the increased risk to marijuana users who. through either a family history of lung disorders, or by heavy cigarette smoking could be susceptible to pulmonary disease. Long-range dangers are examined by comparing marijuana to tobacco at equivalent stages of research. Cigarettes have been widely used for half a century, and there are significant findings documenting its hazards. In contrast, smoking marijuana did not begin to become a major health concern until the late

1960’s.

ONE OF the severest dangers to the lungs and body is that people who buy pot cannot be certain what it is mixed or sprayed with, or even if it is marijuana. The body’s reaction to the contents of marijuana, especially to the potent chemical THC, is also reported upon. THC is an abbreviation for the substance in marijuana which produces the intoxicating effect of "high." THE PAMPHLET was produced for distribution to schools and to the public, particularly parents of teenagers. A great deal of information is also presented about marijuana paraphernalia which includes pipes, masks and other devices which increase the effect of the

drug.

To obtain a free copy of the brochure, or for more information on smoking dangers, contact the American Lung Assoc., of Southern New Jeragy, 730 White Horae Pike, Hammonton, (609) 561-8700. Elaine Fisher is preventive service consultant for the American Lung Assn, of Southern New Jersey.

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