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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1978 Mar DOC PAINT056 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal 1978 MARCH 1978 197819781978 Journal Journal A cael the Cover The winning entry in the IBPAT Coverup Contest Story page 4 Journal NEWS AND FEATURES page Inside Front Cover 7 8 14 31 From the General President AFL Calls for 2 Million Jobs Tomorrow's Home the Shape of the Future Smoking the Worst Thing for You The General Treasurer Reports DEPARTMENTS page 11 16 22 26 Bacon Forum ; Local and District Council News December Audit Report , Financial Report DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL 'SIGN 'PICTORIAL COACH @ AUTOMOBILE fiAIRCRAFT DECORATING fi PAPERHANGING WALL COVERING e DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK GLAZING @ CARPET @ LINOLEUM @ SOFT TILE fi@ PAINT AND VARNISH MAKING BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL Any member or subordinate body publishing programs souvenirs or other documents of any description must not designate them as The Official Journal of the Brotherhood or as The Painters and Allied Trades Journal either upon the publication itself on their advertising contract forms or stationery Robert J. Petersdorf Publisher Sam Parker Editor 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Published monthly by the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Second Class mail entry authorized at Washington D.C. POSTMASTERS ATTENTION Change of address cards on Form 3579 should be sent to THE PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES JOURNAL 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Subscription Price 2.00 per year Single copy 20 cents PRINTED ON UNION MADE PAPER PRINTED WITH UNION MADE INK : ; fi S. FRANK RAFTERY ; General President 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 ROBERT J. PETERSDORF General Treasurer 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 VOLUME 92 No. 3 MARCH 1978 ' The official journal of the Interna- - tional Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication issued under its auspices yteelitage LABOR PRESS 3 2 EGEer RE 3 {Ssogrates & PRINTED IN U.S.A. General Vice Presidents BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District . 1443 Westchester Boulevard Westchester III 60153 A. L. MONROE 2nd District 7909 Bayberry Drive Alexandria Va 22306 JAMES WOLFORD 3rd District 100 Devon Lane Williamsville N.Y. 14221 JACK T. COX 4th District 2212 DuPont Drive Irvin Calif 92664 GUY LEBER 5th District 1930 Bishop Lane Louisville Ky 40218 JAMES B. COX 6th District 8800 Blue Ridge Ext No. 10 Kansas City Mo. 64138 WILLIAM A. DUVAL 7th District 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Ask The Doctors Do you worry about the chemicals with which you have Dr. Holstein replies At this point most of my readers have probably guessed that I am going to bother them about cigarettes again Probably many of you exposed to causing materials Asbestos and uranium for instance multiply the risk of lung cancer cigarette smokers Thus if you can believe this the lung cancer risk for to work Do you have symptoms of an illness which may be connected to your occupation Ask the Doctors is the are tired of hearing that you should stop smoking I've had quite a few patients who felt that when their doctor didn't know what else to do he blamed all their disorders on smokers who are exposed to as bestos is 70-90 times as great as the risk for the person who doesn't smoke and is not exposed to asbes tos On the other hand the non JOURNAL feature designed to their cigarette habit And every smoker who must work with asbes of answer your questions about working man knows that smoking tos has almost no additional risk the hazards in the painting is brought up all the time by the lung cancer than if he did not work and allied trades insurance company to contest work- with this fiber He still must worry ; C. Hol- This month Dr. Edwin stein of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine man's compensation cases having to do with lung problems For these reasons I don't blame my readers if they suspect that the dangers of smoking may get exaggerated about asbestosis mesothelioma and intestinal cancer however ) Warren Dropcloth reacted ' these facts by saying to himself ae I'll take my chances on beating discusses the dangers of Unfortunately these dangers are not exaggerated smoking the lung cancer if and when I get it He was encouraged by the suc smoking is probably the single worst thing Dr. Holstein you can do to yourself other than Godfrey both of whom survived has been with shooting narcotics or drinking to the disease However he had ee New York's the point of alcoholism In this col- ce umn I am going to tell you all of powines July of 1976. Before joining MSSM's staff he was the the harmful effects of smoking and why this habit is particularly dan- Chief of Internal Medicine for gerous for working people That the United States Air Force way no one can say he didn't Hospital at Pease AFB in Portsmouth New Hampshire know But beyond that only you . can do something about it Most people are aware of the fact _ get lung cancer die of it Moder medicine still can't conquer this one that cigarette smoking can cause John Taper is a pessimist lung cancer What is not well known is just how powerful this effect of figured that there was no point giving up cigarettes that when Brother L.P. writes ; Within the last few years I've been wheezing while I'm sleeping The cigarettes is fact is that a cig- arette smoker has 8-10 times the chance of getting lung cancer as the number comes up it comes figures Here again the prove wrong if you give up smoking and my wife keeps telling me that it sounds like I'm dying So I put smoker About 85 percent of all cases of lung cancer are due to your risk of lung cancer gradually decreases until somewhere around the blame on the cigarette and cut smoking _ 5-10 years later itis no worse than down to 10 a day When the doc- JQ Pipe and cigar smokers have if you had never smoked So tor examined me he said I had about the same risk as smokers can do something about it AE bronchitis I'm 54 and hope to at least enjoy my retirement in 8 more unless they inhale the smoke into their lungs in which case their risk : Most of the things I have about lung cancer are also true years is similar to that of a cigarette cancer anywhere in the breathing Brother C.K. writes " have emphysema I quit smoking ten years ago smoker Unfortunately many pipe and cigar smokers can't tell whether they inhale the smoke or not The figures I just gave you should system the lips mouth throat voicebox and windpipe Howeve you don't hear as much about cancers because they occur musema There is : tweentween chr be enough to convince anyone not to smoke But the situation is even less often than lung cancer the case of lung cancer a worker worse for a worker who may be 14 THE JOURNAL . the non with asbes nal risk 1 not work nust worry elioma and I. eacted * causing substances has an extra reason not to smoke stand there is often a point of no return after which it is too late to : While we are on the subject of stop the progress of the disease cancer I should add that cigarette smoking seems to increase the chances of bladder cancer also As you know the nation lost Hubert H. Humphrey to this disease He was not a cigarette smoker But his can- cer may have been occupational When he was young he frequently helped out in his father's pharmacy Benzidine now known to cause That is why it is sad to get letters from people like Brother L.P. who cannot help himself just by cutting down to ten cigarettes a day and Brother C.K. who quit ten years . ago but has emphysema anyway All questions for Ask the Doctor should be directed to bladder cancer was freely used in many pharmacies to perform cer- ain urine and stool tests and would be expected to take several decades for effect to appear It is not known why cigarettes cause this tumor Finally we get to the subject of the letters we received Cigarettes are the main cause of chronic bronchitis and emphysema These lung diseases show themselves as increas- IBPAT Journal / Robert Petersdorf 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 If writing about a personal illness please include as much detail as possible Present work How long Years in the paint trades Usual work What are your complaints When did yon notice them If you have seen a doctor what does he or she feel is wrong with you that can produce the same problems Why add cigarette smoke to the hazards you already face especially when this habit may multiply the risk of chronic bronchitis or emphysema In the Mount Sinai So ed have said Iso true study of painters for instance we found that about 13 percent of the smokers had chronic bronchi- a8, while 50 percent of the smokers had it And no matter how terrible their job conditions may be the Smokers among them would have trouble winning a compensation case . However As fig t, is worker There is an important difference between chronic bronchitis and em- physema and the diseases described above Giving up smoking may not stop the disease from getting worse For some reason we don't under- at THE JOURNAL 15