Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editorship of the publication will also be divided between undergraduates Radcliffes and Howe, and Mac Hammond, a Cambridge resident, who will serve as advisory editor. Victor McElhenny '57 is managing editor and Charles Platt '54 will head the art board...
...after only a year and a half, 4,854 men had died, and the causes noted on death certificates caught Hammond's eye. He asked A.M.A. to put him on its convention program. A.M.A. said no. So Hammond gave A.M.A. bigwigs a sneak preview of his figures; they promptly changed their minds and gave him a top billing for the opening day's scientific sessions...
Pack-a-Day Deal. Among the 4,854 deaths, Hammond told a packed house, were 745 men who daily smoked a pack of cigarettes or more. Their death rate was almost twice as high as that of the men who never smoked. There were 334 deaths from diseases of the coronary arteries, and this again represented a death rate almost double that of nonsmokers. There were 161 deaths from cancer, and this was 2½ times the rate among nonsmokers...
...Positive Theory." No one piece of evidence taken alone proves a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and these higher death rates, said Dr. Hammond. But, he went on, every bit of evidence so far available fits the hypothesis that it is a case of cause and effect. Sallying from their statistical sanctuary, Hammond and Horn went out on a limb: "It is our opinion that regular cigarette smoking causes an increase in death rates from [heart disease and cancer]. We now advance this as a positive theory...
...least, they had convinced themselves: as the evidence flowed in, both Hammond and Horn gave up cigarettes and took to pipes. Their boss, Dr. Charles Sherwood Cameron, medical and scientific director of the A.C.S., quit his pack a day and switched to cigars. To those who want to stop smoking, his advice was: make a clean break, with no attempt at tapering off-"The best way to stop is to stop." But, said Cameron, he did not consider the Hammond-Horne theory entirely proved (neither do they). He added: "Personally, I believe that a life of outward productiveness and inward...