European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To Page 16 the stars and stripes Jaq Ondoy May 13  plans anti smoking Campaign for kids by Mary Ann Reese staff writer does your 13 or 14-year-old puff puff puff that cigarette enough of them do to have caused concern Amon some us Desea Pat members who plan to launch an anti smoking Campaign through school health classes and the ptas next year. We have no idea How Many of our youngsters pick up the habit says Joe Rosenfield personnel officer at Hahn Germany and an officer of the District 1 Pat. But we know quite a few students do Start smoking in Junior High.". Studies show major reasons Johnnie takes his first puff in the seventh or eighth Grade Are because he thinks it s sophisticated thinks it gives him status among his Peers or sometimes out of rebellion said Rosenfield a major Force in the anti smoking Effort. Studies also have shown it s easier to prevent people from smoking at that Early age than to try and break the habit As they become older he added. Although teen aged american students in Europe Aren t subjected to As intensive a cigarette advertising Campaign As their counterparts at Home Rosenfield said cigarettes Are More readily available to them Here and surprisingly their parents of Tendon t seem to care if they  four years ago the National Pat launched an anti smoking program in . Schools stressing health hazards of the habit. But Rosenfield said it still has not caught on in us Desea. But he added we be talked to director Desea and they have agreed to and lectures on hazards of smoking i classes next  to further coordinate the Campaign the pro will be discussed at a series of Pat Conss planned throughout the system during Jun is chairman of the five Pat District conferee met in Heidelberg earlier this month i convention plans. Rosenfield said they Are ring organizing a statistical study among Juno school students in Europe to determine big the smoking problem is. Each Pat has been Aske Iuo elect a Delegate smoking to attend conventions. Special she a 3�ea sched Jed a for Aiem during each the Pat schedules Are As follows june 3-4, Columbia club London. June 6-7, Terrace club Frankfurt for ptas Fingerman areas West of the Rhine River and so Fulland. Bal Giutta Denmark Norway % for ptas in Sou Camp Darby leghorn  Turkey exact location to be in-1 " is photos by Jim Cole teen agers air their views on smok Irig habit pull out a cigarette in the presence of a group of american High school students Fumble for a Light and chances Are half of them will offer you a match. A lot of High school students in de pendent schools in Europe smoke and Don t think it s anybody s business but their own. I Don t see what s wrong with teen agers smoking said one pretty blonde nigh school senior. I made my own decision my parents know about it and i Don t think school authorities have an right to say anything about  i smoke and so do a lot of a friends added a tall slender boy a student Council member. If we can thave a smoking lounge in the school i think we at least ought to be allowed to smoke on the school grounds. It s ridiculous to have to hide  students interviewed on the subject in several american military communities in Germany expressed opinion son the subject ranging from disgust for the habit to an i Don to see what a wrong with it attitude. The High school students who will re main unidentified said they thought about half their friends smoked. Mostof them weren t impressed with health arguments against smoking although most admitted they had t studied the matter extensively there Are so Many ways to die argued one Young lady we hear so much about air and water pollution and there Are so Many kinds of diseases and other problems around i can t see that smoking makes much of a differ  other students however did t like the smoking habit. I tried it once but i just Don t like it said one Broad shouldered youth. Besides i like athletics and i can Tsee that smoking s going to help me much on the football  some of the a and 18year-Oldswho do smoke said they consumed up to one pack a Day. Some said their parents bought cigarettes for them while others bought their  Mother used to buy me cigarettes said one girl. But when she found out my friends were bumming smokes from me she said she was buying them for everybody. So now i buy them out of my own  Many said they started smoking when they were in the seventh or eighth Cades just to try it and then got he habit. Very few seemed to regret it although a couple students said the would discourage friends from starting. One school Counselor interviewed said smoking would never be allowed on her school s grounds she said he students read a lot on smoking but my u had to do with smoking pot marijuana. She said generally they were too Young and too healthy to the health pid although some admitted they had tried it and others said they kind of liked one seventh Grade girl thought one Outi of four kids in her class smoked but she thought it usually was by Low trying to be neat or trying to get at  she said they usually chewed gum to hide the smell or they drink lots we Arents own students said they usually smoked during the lunch hours either in their cars or standing around wit groups of friends in nearby housing so1u5 a s ave smoking the girls used to smoke in the school rest room said one senior but that was pretty bad. During Breaks the rest room was so thick with smoke in nerf w girls you could hardly get in. I did t like smoking like that. Many Junior High school student interviewed thought smoking was a  some said their Parent care too. Much but Oiher 13 and a year Olds said their parents wow a furious if they knew they smoked irishmen to usually ranged from group was. To parents forcing them to Smojice whole Cigar. One Young boy s opinion of so was t too complimentary. Usually kids who smoke a ones we Low grades and who wish they popular but who Aren  Ai some Junior High school smokers saw they borrowed ? cigarettes from theft parents and others bought them two vending machines. A ill never Start smoking said one seventh grader a class office smells awful and besides i have f Ter things to spend my Money on. I