Word: broncho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just the day before Strickman's filter was announced, HEW Secretary John Gardner told Congress that one-third of all deaths among American men aged 35 to 60 are hastened by cigarette smoking. Quite apart from the cancer question, said Gardner, smoking is the most important cause of broncho-pulmonary disease, is linked to stomach ulcers and heart disease (in which the death rate is 70% higher for smokers). Many researchers argue that the carbon monoxide, aldehydes and phenols contained in cigarette smoke are also pernicious-and are not stopped by filters. Moreover, some tars and nicotine still...