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...American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at the gavel to explain what kinds of smokers get the most cases of lung cancer, and to discuss whether it does any good to quit. He and Assistant Daniel Horn drew from impressive data: the smoking and life histories of 188,078 men interviewed in 1952, and watched ever since. By the end of last October, 8,105 had died-285 from apparent lung cancer...
...striking enough: in 32 months, lung cancer had killed only 33 per 100,000 of the observed nonsmokers, but 246 regular cigarette smokers-more than seven times as many. Cigar smokers had about the same rate as nonsmokers; pipe smokers had double the rate. But when Dr. (of Science) Hammond pinpointed his attention on the 168 cases in which typical carcinoma of the lung had been most clearly proved, he found the disparities even more striking. In this category, there were only two deaths among men who had never smoked-a 32-month rate of 4.9 per 100,000. Among...
...Hammond had good news for onetime regular smokers who quit: 20 deaths gave a rate of 102 per 100,000. Yet among those who had never smoked, the rate was less than...
Voter's Choice. In Wibaux, Mont., denied the chance to vote because his name was not on the voters' list, W. L. Hammond testily halted the election by marching off with the ballot...
...Committee on Seals and Diplomas included Dean Bundy, Samuel E. Morison '08, retiring Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, David W. Bailey '21, Secretary to the Corporation, and Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature...