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Word: clemmesen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarette habit. Item: the U.S., with many of the heaviest cigarette smokers, had the eighth highest attack rate but the second lowest rate of increase. (Possible reason: the U.S. may have passed its period of sharpest increase before the 1948-52 period.) Says Copenhagen's Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, noting that Denmark's four-year increase in lung cancer among males was 49%: "The higher a country's cigarette consumption was 20 years ago, the higher is the lung cancer mortality now. These 20 years seem necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Lung Cancer Epidemic | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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