Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Cancer Society researchers last week reported their final figures on the connection between smoking habits and premature death-especially from cancer and heart disease. With a total of 11,870 deaths among the men (ages 50 to 70 when the study began in 1952), Drs. E. Cuyler Hammond and Daniel Horn were able to go far beyond the findings they had earlier reported (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.). From a mountain of crosschecked statistics submitted to the A.M.A. last week, they concluded: 1) all smoking shortens life; 2) cigarette smoking is by far the worst offender...
Other Cancers. For the first time Drs. Hammond and Horn found a significant tie between cigarette smoking and cancer in other sites: the pancreas, where the death rate goes up 50%; the kidneys, up 58%; the stomach, up 61%; the prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
Peptic Ulcers. Smokers' death rate was 116% higher for duodenal ulcers. When they got to the comparison for stomach-ulcer deaths, Hammond and Horn's graph bar ran off the chart; there was not a single such death among the nonsmokers, but there were 46 among cigarette smokers (five among other smokers...
...John Hammond finished fifth in the finals of the 100-yard butterfly in 56.4. Hammond's qualifying time was only a tenth of a second slower than that of Yale's Tim Jecko, who set a meet record in the finals with...
...yard medley, Bill Murray, Sigo Falk, John Hammond, and Dick Seaton finished ahead of the University of North Carolina in 3:56.3. Michigan tied with Michigan State for the first place which accomplished the astonishing upset of Yale