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...Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Edward P. Radford Jr. and Dr. Vilma R. Hunt worked with polonium,* one of the rarest of the naturally occurring elements and until recently one of the hardest to detect. Many radioactive elements are found in tobacco leaves, as in all vegetation; they occur naturally and have nothing to do with man-made fallout, and they have been exonerated as causes of lung cancer. Polonium is different, the Harvard researchers reported in Science, because it vaporizes at a mere 500° C., far below the 800° temperature of a burning cigarette...
...form of gas. The amount of polonium in tobacco, as in a tossed green salad, would be negligible if, like the salad, it passed quickly through the system. But the polonium-bearing smoke appears to get trapped in the tissues and crevices of the airways, say Drs. Radford and Hunt. Because of this trapping, they suggest, polonium builds up to concentrations that are high enough so that its radioactivity could begin the process that leads ultimately to lung cancer...
...economy and the U.S. Government, the demand for bright young lawyers has grown faster than the supply. The big firms' lists of acceptable law schools are swelled from two or three to ten or more; students near the top of the class rarely have to hunt down jobs-they are recruited even before graduation...
...Edward P. Radford, associate professor of Physiology, and Mrs. Vilma Rose Hunt '58, research associate in Physiology, released late yesterday a preliminary report which names polonium 210 as the element in cigarette smoke which produces cancer. This conclusion is based on studies they have been conducting since last August...
...researchers findings to date are reproduced in full in this month's issue of Science magazine. Radford and Mrs. Hunt plan to continue their studies of all radioactive elements in tobacco and of the other effects of polonium on the tissue of smokers...