Word: hammond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surprise. Because men under 40 were judged too young to show the effects of lifetime smoking, Dr. Hammond limited the first report to 422,094 of his volunteers-men aged 40 to 89. The findings went far beyond previous studies as they indicted smoking...
...proved. Late in 1959 the American Cancer Society enrolled 1,078,000 American volunteers in a project designed to produce enough statistics to convince anyone. Last week at the American Medical Association's clinical meetings in Portland, Ore., the Cancer Society's chief statistician, Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, gave the first of a long series of reports on the million-subject study. The figures were indeed convincing...
...habit. In the 40-69 age bracket, the death rate of men who started smoking after 25 was 1.42 times that of nonsmokers; among those who had begun as striplings under 15, it was 2.29 times as high. The higher death rate can be traced, said Dr. Hammond, to three underlying factors: 1) precocious smokers tend to inhale more deeply, 2) they smoke more cigarettes a day, and 3) by the time they reach middle age, they have been smoking for many more years...
...Coincidence. In all areas, Dr. Hammond went out of his way to forestall argument. Earlier studies had classified subjects only as smokers or nonsmokers. Critics suggested that the apparent relationship between smoking and cancer might be largely coincidence, that other factors must be involved. What about race, heredity, occupation, nervousness, appetite for fried foods, use of tranquilizers, exercise-even circumcision and baldness...
...Yardling squad has been improving steadily since its loss to Dartmouth three weeks ago. The Crimson forwards, paced by Jim Saltonstall, have scored nine goals in the team's last two outings, and the defensive efforts of goalie Richard Hammond and fullbacks Alex Patton and Karl Lunkenheimer have held the opposition to only...