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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 22. 1991
Despite knowledge of risks, many still smoke
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
Yesterday's nationwide Great American Smokeout was not a flaming success at KU, according to organizers of the campus effort to help smokers quit smoking for the day.
"it's just not the turnout we hoped it would be," said Kimberly Morgan. Eduardo villoethoon
Morgan is a member of Forming Awareness of Cancer Through Students. The organization provided informational displays in the Kansas and Burge unions and in Watkins Memorial Health Center. Members traded bubble gum and lollipops for cigarettes.
But she said few smokers turned in cigarettes while she was monitoring the table.
Morgan said many non-smokers stopped by for information and bought gum and lollipops.
The event, which has been sponsored by the American Cancer Society since 1978, is designed to encourage smokers to give up tobacco for 24 hours.
The society's goal for 1991 was to help 20 percent of all smokers give up tobacco for the day.
Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life at the University of Kansas, quit smoking yesterday.
the university of Kansas, quit smoking yesterday. During the afternoon he said he was managing
"I'm keeping busy and hoping people won't ask
me what to do," he said, laughing. "I bought
something at lunch."
But some KU smokers just did not want to quit.
"Like to smoke, and I wasl' going to quit itquin"
said Amy Stack, Kansas City, Kan. junior
"Basically, because I quit for 96 days during the war, he insisted," he said, scanning his eyes for guards.
Bean said he might try to quit in the future, but
it's not easy. He and spends about $12
$14 a week on cigarettes.
Kyle Bean, Lawrence sophomore, did not quit either.
Some students pass by the Smokeout display in the Kansas Union joked about not quitting for the day.
"Hey, can I take these," one student said as he passed by the cigarettes other smokers had turned
Students who smoke need to have the motivation to quit, said Janine Demo, coordinator of health services.
"I think maybe the message didn't really reach the smoking population this year," said Jair Hahr, the smoking coordinator.
Demo said that despite the negative effects of smoking, such as reduced lung function and other respiratory problems, young people would start smoking and older people continued to smoke.
One smoker said she might have quit for the day bedside mood is indulgence on the getting level.
"It is amazing," Demo said. "We know so much about smoking and its hazards, but people still want it."
Although not a smoker herself, Bethany Keidel, Wayne, Neb., senior, stops to buy a loi-lipop from Chip Lavely, Topeka Sears, Burlington, la, ja. Junior. The group Forming Awareness of Cancer Through Students sold candy and traded candy for tobacco products yesterday at the Kansas Union.
"It will come back to haunt them."
Smokeout activities give Lawrence smokers variety of ways to put out cigarettes for day
By Heather Anderson
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence smokers were given a variety of incentives to quit smoking yesterday in honor of the Great American Smokeout.
Jane Levings, program director for the Eastern Kansas American Cancer Society in Kansas City, Kan., said the society offered survival kits to people who wanted to quit for the day.
The kits included headless matches, wrist snaps that smokers could wear to snap their wrists if they got the urge to smoke and rings that held them together; and together so they could not hold a cigarette, she said.
The society also provided educational information to elementary school children as incentives to take up learning.
KLWN radio gave away approximately two dozen kits, which they received from a private company, said Julie Boyle, disc jockey at the station.
The kits included a behavior-modification audio tape, gum and a self-analysis survey, she said.
Boyle said the first people to call after hearing a smoke alarm warning sound on the radio won the kits.
Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson is one person who had a special incentive to quit smoking for 24 hours.
He was named the honorary co-chairperson of the Douglas County Smokeout.
terday because he was named co-chairperson but that he probably would smoke today.
"it's not as bad as I thought," he said.
Anderson said that he did not smoke his pipe yes-
This was the first smokeout Anderson had ever participated in, he said.
"It's not as bad as I thought." he said
Paula Whatley, company nurse for Packer Plastic Inc., 2330 Packer Road, said the society had given the company posters to hang around the pamphlets to put in employees' paychecks.
Lynn Cogley, who works in the patient services department of the American Cancer Society in Denver, said many people had called a telephone hotline to receive information about the Smokeout and to learn about how they could quit smoking.
People are more concerned with the effects of second hand smoke than ever before, she said.
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