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...last-minute added attraction staged by a performer who previously had been most unwilling to get into the act stole the show at the A.M.A. convention. The star: the American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond. His show-stopping material: figures proving that heavy cigarette smokers die younger than non-smokers-mainly from heart disease and cancer, notably cancer of the lung...
...Science) Hammond, Yale professor of biostatistics, was little moved when Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder reported their conclusion that long-term cigarette smoking can cause lung cancer (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.). Nothing proved, he said shortly, and went on smoking cigarettes. So did his assistant, Dr. Daniel Horn. But all the while Hammond and Horn were gathering deadly data. They had taken careful smoking histories of 187,766 white men, aged 50 to 69, in 394 counties in nine states, and were keeping track of them to see what killed them. Hammond and Horn figured it would...
...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...
...Mason Hammond '25, Master of Kirkland, said he will not extend the deadline past 8 p.m. because "I am very much opposed to competition among the Houses as to who has the most liberal parietal rules, so I shall keep the most conservative rule...