The Nation - News from May 19, 1986

Most Americans are well aware of how to stay in good health, but instead they smoke, drink, ignore seat belts and do not use smoke detectors, a federal survey showed. Oddly enough, however, at least one official saw the report of the Health and Human Services Department as encouraging. Patricia Golden said: “I would think that we are highly encouraged by the number of people that know (about good health practices) and we will begin to see the payoff of that knowledge as the years go by.”