Page 5 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 20, 1985 HEALTH & FITNESS ARIEL RESTAURANT & DELI 'Smokeout' rei By KYSA CONNETT University Health Service will offer campus cigarette smokers a deal tomorrow: Pledge to kick the habit for 24 hours and get a chance to win such prizes as a Cottage Inn pizza or a . gift certificate from Stein and Goetz Sporting Goods. "Deals" like this one will be offered to smokers all over the nation tomorrow as part of an event called the Great American Smokeout. The Amnerican Cancer Society is spon- soring the event to try to get people to stop smoking for at least one day. THE CAMPUS event will take place in the "Fishbowl" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday. Smokers will be asked to make a pledge to stop smoking for 24 hours and also to break one of their own cigarettes and throw it into a glass bin -'what Sherri Gorelick, an organizer of the event,calls "a sym- bolic gesture of quitting for the day." Non-smokers may also get in- volved. "We didn't want to penalize people who don't smoke," explained Gorelick. If you are a non-smoker you can, "...adopt a smoker and pledge to give that person moral support for the 24 hours," she said. When you pledge, either to stop smoking or to help a smoker, you are rewarded by having your name placed in the raffle with a chance at winning a host of prizes donated by area businesses. LAST YEAR, when the Health Ser- vice sponsored the event for the first time, only about several hundred people participated. "But last year it wasn't at the Fishbowl. We're hoping that this year more people who don't know about it and are just walking by will join," Gorelick said. A class called "Say No To Nicotine" that helps people attempt to stop smoking permanently will be publicized during the event. The 3- week class sponsored by Health Ser- vice costs ten dollars and has a proven . Patients undergo more . x-rays CHICAGO (UPI) - People are un- dergoing twice as many medical X- rays as they did in 1964 but are being exposed to less total radiation from the exams than they were 20 years ago, a Food and Drug Administration scientist said this week. Technological advances have allowed scientists to drastically reduce the size of X-ray beams and make other improvements, reducing dosages and risk of patient exposure to radiation by almost 50 percent, said David Johnson, a scientist from the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. "FOR THE population as a whole, the combined effect of improvements in beam limitation and decreases in exposure from medical X-rays have more than compensated for the in- crease in the usage rate of medical X- rays," he said. Johnson told an annual meeting of radiologists in Chicago that while X- rays are safer than ever, more sen- sitive X-ray film and a more efficient way to process it could help reduce radiation exposure even further. "We're not saying everything is at the ultimate state right now, but we're very happy with progress so far," Johnson said in a telephone interview. "THERE ARE still some areas where further improvements can be made, and with new technology we expect that will happen." Johnson said one problem in the past was that the size of the X-ray beam was much larger than the film that recorded it, meaning that a patient's body was exposed to a great deal of unnecessary radiation. Johnson said his agency has been monitoring the use of X-ray examinations since 1964, when about 100 million such exams were perfor- med. The number is now above 200 million, and there are currently more than 130,000 medical X-ray machines in the country. success rate, said Gorelick. "Unfortunately, I'm not so sure that if someone stops for one day it will prevent them from chain-smoking a pack the next day," said Gorelick. "I'm into kicking the habit totally." GORELICK noted that smoking is r FR JAZZI I FOR'r ORTW( I IJSTF( Just think. You, along a dancing up a storm, shai All of which will have a, the rest of your day a Just bring in this complimen Call for class inforr Ann Arbor Armo 313-9W New participants only.C wards quitters becoming a big problem among of lung cancer among women. women as more and more are star- you can't do anything to p ting. Lung cancer has replaced breast breast cancer, you can ce cancer as the number one cancer reduce your risk of lung cancer among women, she said. Gorelick also noted the nega "I think it's disgusting," said fects that cigarette smoke ca Gorelick of the increasing incidence on non-smokers. "Now t We have Canfield Pop - The only place in town! 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