Word: larynxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cigarettes & Liquor. Wynder and colleagues studied 209 U.S. victims of larynx cancer, 132 of lung cancer (for comparison), and 209 victims of other diseases, including some forms of cancer, of the same ages and backgrounds as the larynx-cancer cases. Their key findings...
...Heavy smoking alone, or in combination with heavy drinking, greatly increases the likelihood of cancer of the larynx...
...likelihood goes up with the amount smoked: if a light smoker (up to 15 cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
...Larynx cancer is ten times commoner among men than women...
...smoker who drinks more than six ounces of hard liquor daily is seven times as likely to get larynx cancer as a teetotaler who smokes the same amount. Below six ounces, the liquor does not seem to affect the cancer risk. Liquor does not influence the development of lung cancer...