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...statistical fact that heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to die of lung cancer than are nonsmokers has been known for years, but no one has yet been able to pinpoint the process by which smoking exerts its lethal effect. That the death rate from cancer of the bladder is more than three times as high for smokers as for nonsmokers has been recognized more recently, and it has seemed even more difficult to explain. Yet, ironically, it is the hard to explain bladder cancers that have backed up statistics by yielding the first biochemical evidence that smoking...
Some chemicals once used in dye-making have been clearly shown to cause bladder cancer in both industrial workers and laboratory animals, and last week Dr. William K. Kerr of Toronto's famed Banting Institute reported that he had found similar cancer-causing chemicals in the urine of heavy smokers. The villain in the piece, reported Dr. Kerr and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, is a group called the ortho-aminophenols...
...were using cigarettes excreted in their urine abnormally large amounts of an ortho-aminophenol known to be capable of causing cancer. Going off cigarettes reversed the effect. The researchers' conclusion: inhaling smoke into the lungs, a practice that would seem to have no bearing on cancer of the bladder, is directly related to that disease through the complex chemistry of human metabolism...
...using bribery and bluster. Early in his expansionist program, France or even Italy could have stopped him from grabbing the other German states and trampling Austria. Bismarck scared off Napoleon III by threatening general war; that was mostly bluff, but the appeasing Napoleon was so racked with pain from bladder troubles that he scarcely knew what was going on. The Chancellor then bought off Italy's vain Victor Emmanuel by giving him the Order of the Black Eagle and promising him the port of Venice, which Bismarck had not yet wrested from the Austrians...
...student political activity." The choice for acting chancellor: Martin Meyerson, 42, an internationally known authority on city planning who since 1963 has been dean of the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley. He takes over from Chancellor Edward W. Strong, 63, who has been suffering from a gall-bladder ailment as well as heavy nervous strain...