240 Journal of Public Health Dentistry

In addition to many presentations of interest to health workers, there will be several sessions devoted to dental topics. Included will be papers covering the prevalence and etiology of selected oral diseases, a report on the WHO In- ternational Collaborative Study of Dental Manpower Systems, and papers fo- cusing on the development and evaluation of preventive and orthodontic ser- vices, dental field survey procedures and costs of care.

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RECENT REPORTS Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Comprehensive health program systems report: services, expenditures and programs of state and territorial health agencies, fiscal year 1975. Washington, the Association, 1977. ix + 220p.

The publication contains 116 pages of explanatory text and over 100 pages of detailed tables describing almost every facet of public health activity. Each activity is described by the amount of expenditure, source of funds, serv- ices provided and people served in each of 55 states and territories.

Dental health has its own small section but also is part of 14 other analyses. It is interesting to note that only three of the 55 states and territories (Massa- chusetts, California, and the Virgin Islands) are not reported to have separate dental programs, but all 55 units provide dental services.

Any dental director would find this publication of value in comparing his program with similar programs throughout the United States.

-Merle Menerey 0

ABSTRACT Garfinkel, Lawrence. Cigarette smoking among physicians and other health professionals, 1959-1972. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 26:373-5, Nov.- Dec. 1976.

In 1959, the American Cancer Society enrolled one million men and women over 30 years of age in 25 states, including 5,604 physicians, and asked them to complete detailed questionnaires about themselves. The subjects were then asked to complete short supplemental questionnaires in 1961, 1963, 1965, and 1972. The information obtained included details of the subjects’ current ciga- rette smoking habits. This 13-year follow-up study provided the data reported.

Of the 5,604 physicians included in this study, 5,407 were male and only 197 were female. Of the total, 2,426 physicians answered all of the questionnaires. Among these physicians, the percentage of cigarette smokers had dropped from 38.6 percent in 1959 to 19.5 percent in 1972. Of the physicians who smoked cigarettes in 1959, 41.4 percent had given up all forms of smoking by 1972, 13.8 percent had switched to pipes or cigars, and 44.8 percent had continued to