Smoke Signals, Tuesday, May 3, 1983— Page 3
Chowan Grad in Australia
Keith R. Lawson, a Chowan College
graduate of 1981 with the associate
degree of science in pre-denistry, is
currently studying as a Rotary Scholar
in the science faculty at the University
of Tasmania in Australia. While a stu
dent at Chowan, I^awson was endorsed
as a candidate for the Rotary Scholar
ship by members of the Rotary Club of
Murfreesboro.
After graduating with honors from
Chowan, Lawson transferred to the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill where he continued his studies in
science. After his year in Australia he
will return to UNC- Chapel HilL His
long- range career objectives are in
dentistry.
Recently Dean Lewis received a let
ter for Lawson who wrote, “I have ad
justed quickly to different foods and a
different way of life. The people have
accepted me and are very helpful.
However, I was disappointed to learn
that Australians view Americans as
conceited. Australians also think we
carry guns and shoot innocent
passersby. I am hoping to change this
attitude among Australian friends
whose image of Americans have been
too greatly influenced by television. My
visions of the wild bush country and
aborigines have changed, too! ”
Lawson graduated Cum Laude. While
at Chowan he served as Resident Assis
tant and President of Phi Theta Kappa.
He is from Lawsonville of Stokes Coun
ty in North Carolina.
Keith R. Lawson
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Lung Association Warns Of
Marijuana’s Hazards
Marijuana smoke may be even
more harmful to the lungs than to
bacco smoke, says the American
Lung Association, The Christmas
Seal People®.
Compared to tobacco, marijuana
produces a smoke that contains 50
percent more of the cancer-causing
agents benzpyrene and benzanthra-
cene, according to the Association.
Marijuana smoke also contains 50
substances called cannabinoids, not
found in tobacco smoke, which are
respiratory irritants.
In one study with healthy college
students who smoked five mari
juana joints a day for two or three
months, highly significant effects
on lung function were found. The
researcher-Donald P. Tashkin,
M.D., professor of medicine at Los
Angeles School of Medicine —
stressed the surprising degree of
damage that developed after such a
short period of marijuana smoking.
“If lung function continued to de
teriorate at the same rate that was
observed during the course of the
study,” he said, “individuals who
continued to smoke an average of
five joints a day would become dis
abled by respiratory insufficiency
in a few years.” Dr. Tashkin is a
member of the American Throacic
Society, the medical arm of ALA.
In 1982, the U.S. Surgeon Gen
eral Everett Koop, M.D., issued this
alarm: “As Surgeon General, I urge
other physicians and professionals
to advise parents and patients about
the harmful effects of using mari
juana and to urge discontinuation of
its use.” The problem of marijuana
smoking, especially among young
people, Dr. Koop said, justifies na
tional concern. “1 am especially
concerned about the long-term
developmental effects of marijuana
use on children and adolescents,
who are particularly vulnerable to
the drug’s behavioral and physio
logical effects,” he said.
Among the damaging effects he
listed: impaired short-term memory
and slowed learning; impaired lung
function; Interference with ovula
tion and prenatal development. In
males, there can be interference in
sperm production and levels of tes
tosterone.
“The age at which people first use
marijuana has been getting consist
ently lower and now is most often in
the junior high school year,” he said.
“More high school seniors smoke
marijuana than smoke cigarettes.”
Sixteen million adult Americans-
and four million teenagers-
smoke marijuana regularly. Mari
juana habits also begin early. A na
tional survey showed that half of the
high school seniors who used mari
juana regularly had first tried pot by
the eighth grade. Another third
started in the ninth grade. One of
the Lung Association’s concerns is
the effects of marijuana on young,
still developing lungs.
Although there are few studies on
long-term effects, researchers sus
pect that marijuana smokers-like
cigarette smokers-may be at in
creased risk of developing long
term lung diseases such as chronic
bronchitis and emphysema.
One complicating factor, says the
American Lung Association, is that
marijuana smokers deliberately in
hale deeply to get high concentra
tions of the smoke into their lungs.
Some pot users have “power hitters”
and other paraphernalia that blast
high concentrations of the damag
ing smoke into their lungs.
Inhaling any smoke assaults the
lungs. But smoke from burning
marijuana and tobacco is especially
hazardous, even to healthy lungs.
“Wliatever it is, don’t smoke it,”
advises the American Lung Associ
ation. “That’s the best policy for a
healthy lifestyle.”
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