Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cutting out all suspected carcinogens from one's diet would mean eliminating many everyday foods. Studies have linked caffeine from coffee and tea, fats from beef, nitrates from bacon and lettuce, and even the fluoride in our drinking water to increases in cancer incidence...
Many doctors feel that the press has blown the cancer warnings out of proportion. "Most of the cancer scares are just that--scares," says George R. Kerr, associate professor of Nutrition. "They're just minor issues compared to the real hazards, like smoking...
Studies indicate that tobacco smoking is responsible for 85 per cent of lung cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that 84,000 Americans will die from lung cancer this year...
...could ultimately deplete the three-mile-thick ozone layer by as much as 7%. Public health authorities predict that the subsequent increase in the amount of ultraviolet light reaching the earth would raise by about 200 the number of Americans afflicted annually by malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer that now strikes an estimated 8,400 and kills some 2,700 each year. The ozone loss would bring an increase in other forms of skin cancer as well...
SftP says the capitalist system forces to focus on coercing the individual to fit the system, and that such a society places profit before people. Among the examples cited by SftP are: attempts to cure cancer through recombinant DNA research rather than by eliminating carcinogens from the environment; screening factory workers for genetic susceptibility to tungsten-caused cancer rather than eliminating the hazard; pinning the blame for deviant behavior and widespread social ills on the genes of individuals rather than on the structure of society...