Word: clemmesen
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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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...
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