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...Smokeout yesterday appeared to be as popular as those in previous years, said Kathleen M. Kniepmann, assistant to the director of UHS. She said UHS does not have figures indicating how many students and faculty have participated in the annual event...
Students and faculty picked up the packets for the Smokeout, an effort to persuade smokers to quit their habit for a day, in the lobby of Holyoke Center and in locations at the Law School, the Medical School and the Business School, organizers said...
Unlike in some previous years, no students tabled House dining halls to urge undergraduates join the Smokeout. This year, Kniepmann said, UHS decided to emphasize that faculty, staff and graduate students should participate in the event, because a greater percentage of them smoke than of undergraduates...
...Smokeout, despite its low-key approach, is characteristic of changes in attitudes toward smoking, said Joanne Schellenbach, a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society "We're in the middle of real social change right now," she said...
Coinciding with the Smokeout, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) this week introduced a bill calling for a $185 million program to help limit the use of cigarettes...