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...newly converted non-smoker, Fieser wants to warn the young people of the nation. He would like to give the rights to his autobiographical book, "The Scientific Method" to the American Cancer Society in return for their incorporating in it the personal story of his case and distributing it to high schools across the country...
...Fieser admitted this week that he was a "three to four pack-a-day man" even while working as a member of the Surgeon General's Committee on Smoking and Health...
...letter to the members of the committee, Fieser stated that, "My case seems to me more convincing than any statistics...
...Fieser now attribution his narrow escape to his decision to give up smoking and a "lucky early diagnosis." Upon discovering that Fieser had a cancerous tumor, the professor's doctors postponed the operation long enough for a thorough physical examination which revealed a weakened heart, bronchitis and emphysema. The doctors told his wife Mary that it was doubtful he'd pull through. "But," says Fieser grinning...
With medication and a complete cessation of smoking, the accompanying disorders subsided and the operation was successful. "There was little doubt," said Fieser in his letter, "about the origin of these disorders and hence little ground for questioning the origin of the accompanying tumor...