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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Along with other skin specialists in the Southwest, he is seeing more and more harmful effects from exposure to the sun, now that leisure time is increasing and proportionately more of it is spent in "healthy" outdoor activity (and, he might have added, by bathers and sunbathers wearing proportionately less clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Aside from albinos, the most susceptible sun victims are redheads and blondes. Ironically, Dr. Knox noted, fair-skinned people, who are usually most anxious for a tan, run the greatest risk in the process. Olive-skinned people, who run less risk, do not need the tan anyway. (Blonde women, Dr. Knox added unchivalrously, show their age more than brunettes-mainly because of the obvious aging effects of sunlight on their skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive may use a para-aminobenzoic acid preparation, which will pass rays to provide a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Dormant Danger. But even moderate regular smoking went with a startling rise in the chart for atypical cells: for men who smoked less than half a pack daily, it soared to 90.6% of the slides. In the half-pack to one-pack bracket, it was 97%; for one to two packs, 99.3%; more than two packs, 99.6%; and in lung cancer victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...various stages of progression toward overt cancer, the graphs showed a similar increase with heavier smoking. Cancer-type cells lying dormant but presumably capable of erupting into fatal disease were not found in any nonsmokers or occasional smokers. But they occurred in .3% of slides in the group smoking less than half a pack daily; .8% in the half-pack-to-a-pack group; 4.3% in the one-to-two-packs group; and 11.4% of slides from men smoking more than two packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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