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A-4 The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Briefs Sweetheart pageant accepting applications The Sweetheart pageant is accepting applications from girls 0-18. The deadline to enter is January 24. The contest will be February 15 at 3 p.m. at the Winslow Community Center. For more information, call 380-3154. Indiana State Board of Education meeting postponed Due to severe weather and travel advisories throughout the state, the Indiana State Board of Education is unable to reach a quorum for its meeting scheduled for January 8. The Board will meet on January 15. Building move State Soil Conservation meeting cancelled The former Dr. Fenol building moves across Seventh St. into a new location at Seventh and Walnut St., Greg Willis purchased the building and had it relocated. It moved across the street on Thursday. Due to weather conditions, the State Soil Conservation Board meeting for January had been cancelled. The next meeting will be February 11, at the NRCS located at 6013 Lakeside Drive, Indianapolis. U.S. Surgeon General smoking report marks 50th Anniversary This Saturday, Jan. 11, marks the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking and health. Since 1964, smoking prevalence among U.S. adults has been reduced by half. Unfortunately, tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of dis¬ease, dis¬ability, and death in the United States. In Indiana, adult smoking has dropped to its lowest historic rate of 23 percent and per capita cigarette consumption dropped 40 percent from 2001 to 2009. Over 80 percent of students are protected from secondhand smoke exposure on their school campuses, and the high school-age smok- Survey calls not related to Doty Insurance in Petersburg Customers are receiving calls on behalf of Doty Insurance requesting they complete a survey. This is not the Doty Insurance that became a part of German American in 1999. We no longer use the Doty Insurance name and we are not conducting a survey. This Doty Agency is based in Mississippi and has no relationship to German American or to the former Doty Agency in Petersburg. STOP!!!! It takes 3 minutes to subscribe to Call 354-8500 PEACE of MIND ing rate has dropped from 31.6 percent in 2000 to 18.3 percent in 2008. "This is great news, but there is still much work to do. We still have one of the highest smoking rates in the nation, yet funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs continues to be cut," said Sally Petty, Coordinator of the Daviess County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coalition. "Indiana currently spends just a penny of every dollar in tobacco taxes and settlement dollars to fight tobacco use. Meanwhile, Big Tobac- co never stops marketing to kids in magazines that kids read and stores where kids shop because they know that almost all smokers start as kids. We have to do a better job of protecting our kids." The tobacco companies spend $271 million every year in Indiana marketing their deadly products. In fact, they spend more than $47 to promote tobacco use for every $1 Indiana spends to prevent tobacco use. Tobacco companies have tested several alternative tobacco products on Hoosier consumers, and Hoosiers ing Sew e al S J&P QuiltiNg thread Choose from Natural or White Your Choice. Reg. $2.75 SCHUM MONUMENTS, INC. Dale, Indiana www.SchumMonuments.com 937-4921 Local Representative RONALD WOODS 789-2009 ic cigarettes doubled from 2011 to 2012, and youth continue to use spit tobacco and cigars at rates similar to 12 years ago. Approximately 160,000 kids now under 18 and alive in Indiana will ultimately die prematurely from smoking. Tobacco is not just a health epidemic in our state; it is a drain on our economy as well. Annual health care costs in Indiana directly caused by smoking are $2.08 billion. The portion of those costs covered by the state Medicaid program is $487 million. 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