Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some of your best friends are rats," declares the American Cancer Society in ads that hail the research variety's services to medical science. But the wild Rattus norvegicus is man's worst animal enemy. It bites his babies, inflicting deforming and infected wounds; it cuts down his food supply, and it spreads disease. It was used as an instrument of torture in the Middle Ages, and now it is torturing the Johnson Administration, which is trying to get Congress to enact a $40 million rat-control bill (see THE NATION...
...million buttons for cause carriers of all stripes ("Win with Willkie," "We Need Adlai Badly," along with such contemporary coinages as "Bomb Hanoi," "Make Love, Not War"), ever true to his own disk's boast: "I don't care who wins-my business is buttons"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Extraordinary sponsorship," said Dr. Ashbel C. Williams, president of the American Cancer Society, adding coolly that "we would welcome evidence on the biological effect of cigarettes with this new filter"-evidence that Strickman and Columbia might have been able to supply if they had held up their announcement for a few more months. One leading cancer researcher called it "downright peculiar" that Columbia had merely farmed out the filter experiments to a commercial laboratory-ignoring its own eminent medical researchers...
...wishes the evidence would be presented scientifically," chided Dr. Ernest Wynder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. A Columbia-trained doctor complained that his alma mater had put "a safety tag on a lethal habit." Even the New York Daily News, generally against reformers and do-gooders, labeled the Columbia press conference "giddy hoopla...
...nicotine are not the only dangerous elements in cigarettes. 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...