Ninety years ago, Emily Bissell started the first Christmas Seals campaign to raise money for a Delaware tuberculosis sanatorium, in danger of closing its doors for lack of money. Bissell raised ten times the amount of money necessary that first year, and a tradition was born. The longest fundraising campaign in our nation's history, Christmas Seals help fund medical research, social programs, and the work of thousands of volunteers who contribute their time and talents to the mission of preventing lung disease. Ninety percent of all donations remain with the American Lung Association of Los Angeles County, helping those in need in your own community.
**If you haven't received your Christmas Seals yet, send us e-mail or contact Ruth Flores
at (213) 935-5864 (or 1-800-LUNG-USA), ext. 239.
**Visit the National American Lung Associations's Christmas Seals website.
Send an online Christmas Seal! Choose from ten traditional seals. Select a message to include or add your own personal message.
Obtain other interesting information about Christmas Seals at our National American Lung Association Website: www.lungusa.org.
Thanks to Gena Lee Nolin and Alexandra Paul of television's "Baywatch," this year's celebrity spokespeople, who donated their time and energies as role models to encourage young people not to smoke.
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When You Can't Breathe, Nothing Else Matters.®
The mission of the American Lung Association of Los Angeles County
is to prevent and eliminate lung disease
and to improve the quality of life and health of those with lung disease.
Your contributions to Christmas Seals help make the difference.
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