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The series of conferences helped the profession to evaluate pharmacy practice and move forward. In addition, they provided a platform for pharmacy to work with other healthcare professions, healthcare administrators, consumer groups, and public and private agencies. 

The information dissemination programs which I have just discussed are aimed primarily at the private sector. However, in the public sector, we have a different situation. Here our efforts are directed to demonstrating that aerospace technology can be useful in solving recognized public oriented problems in areas such as health, transportation, public safety, environment and so on. Since the primary beneficiaries of these projects are basically the public-at-large and not private industry, we work with other federal agencies on a cooperative basis. 

We will find increasing activity, both promotional and regulatory, on the part of public agencies such as the Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, state regulatory boards, and others. It will be in our best interest to work and interchange ideas and problems freely with these groups to allow Government, carrier, and producer-... 

The lessons, then, of the successful effort to reduce tobacco use by minors are that an intense public education and awareness campaign can work if, at the same time, there are limits on the opposition s ability to market young people to use potentially harmful, addictive substances. In addition, attitudes toward a public health problem can be changed over time with consistent messages from government agencies, combined with laws and policies that restrict access to the substance, make it expensive to purchase, and inconvenient to use. 

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