The Dallas Post Smoking (continued from page 1) didn’t want one. I'd had cigarettes before but I never inhaled. This time [ took the cigarette and I took three or four good puffs. I broke out in a cold sweat; I got dizzy and had to sit down.” The queasiness is not uncom- mon and not pleasant, but in the minds of many young people it is temporary and less troublesome than falling out with the in-crowd. “I didn’t want to be uncool or a I dork, so a few minutes later when i the same guy asked if I wanted g5: another smoke, I took it and ) thanked him,” he said. “By my senior year, I was smoking three- fourths of a pack of cigarettes every day and like many other teenage smokers, I was sneaking out of class to have a cigarette. I didn’t think any one would notice, because l couldn't smell the smoke on my own clothes.” After high school, Lyons joined the military where he discovered smoking was a tough habit to break. “I was in the service for four years and just about every- body I knew smoked,” he said. “By the time I got out I was smoking two packs a day. That's like hav- g ing a cigarette in your mouth ev- ery 15 minutes.” Inhaling tobacco smoke and years. “For the longest time, I had a dry cough and I would cough in my sleep,” said Lyons. “I didn't even know I was doing it, but it’s awonder my wife and kids got any rest.” Katie Lyons, said the smoking affected everyone in their home. “Second hand smoke wasn’t some- thing people talked about years ago,” she said. "Today everyone knows inhaling smoke from some- one else’s cigarette is harmful but back then we didn't give it a thought. Of course, our daughter, whois now 30 has very bad asthma and we feel it’s because of Kenny's smoking.” So far, Ken's health has been most seriously effected. “He's had a couple of strokes so his hearing and his eyesight aren’t so good,” said Katie Lyons. “He has trouble walking and he gets tired easily and then there's the cancer.” Cancer of the larynx, or voice box, was diagnosed 13 years ago. “The doctor came into the room you this but I have to. You have cancer.” That's when it hit me,” various toxins took a toll over the ° .and said, ‘Ken, I don’t want to tell. “1 thought it would be to hard to quit but it's nothing compared to what you'll have to go through if you keep smoking.” Ken Lyons Ex-smoker with cancer said Lyons. “There were warning signs for 10 years but I ignored them because [ was afraid to go to the doctor.” The terrible trauma associated with malignancy was detailed to Gate of Heaven students, who lis- tened attentively while passing around a small container filled with dark brown liquid, comprised of two ounces of water and the innards of a single cigarette. “That jar you're passing around has over four thousand chemicals in it,” said Katie Lyons. “I will name just a couple of the things they put in cigarettes, some of the more fa- miliar chemicals you might recog- nize. There's rocket fuel, asbes- tosy acetone, formaldehyde, car- bon monoxide, ammonia and rat poison in every cigarette. 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Posing with them were students Scott Grundowski and Kellie Casey. knew what could happen if | kept smoking but I didn’t stop. 1 thoughtit would be to hard to quit but it's nothing compared to what you'll have to go through if you keep smoking.” Lyons, with his hoarse voice of experience, offered a parting bit of advice to the sixth grade audience who had listened to his personal tale. “I'm warning you now, any- one who is smoking or has been approached by someone to start smoking, just say no. Save your life.” Start the new millennit with a bank 6.10 13-MONTH CD* Dallas, PA Wednesday, December 22, 1999 7 Shavertown UMC plans holiday services Shavertown United Methodist Church, announces holiday services will be held Christmas Eve at 7 p.m. with a Family oriented worship with strings, special music for the children, Children and Chancel Choirs, and Candlelight Communion. The 10 p.m. service of Lessons and Carols will feature Chancel and Youth Choirs, strings and Candle-' light Communion. Note: Prelude Music begins one half hour before each service. No Church, Dec. 25. Worship Sunday, Dec. 26,9 and 11. Peg Knapich guest preacher. All are welcome. For more information call 675-3616. Trucksville UMC welcomes members The Trucksville United Methodist Church recently welcomed 25 new members during the Sunday services. Rev. W. Charles Naugle, Pastor, was assisted by Margaret Johnson, Lay Leader. Following the service the new members are: Zane and Betty Heffner, Lois Rittenhouse, Karen Atkinson, Betty Kleiner, Heidi and Barry Wagner, Gerry Trynoski, Calvin Sutton, Janette and Larry Smith, Sue and Richard Tracy, Nancy and Michael Bohonko, Erik Sowga, Mary Lee Sowga, Wendy and George Christmas, Kim and Charles Smith, Nancy Evans, Peggy Kaplanski, Dawn and Brian Kaplanski, Mary Lou Moni omer. and Jane Lowery. 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