Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When heavy cigarette smoking was first indicted as the major cause of the radical increase in lung cancer, scarcely more than 1% of cigarettes had filter tips. Today at least 40% have them, and tobacco experts expect the figure soon to hit 75%. But do the filters help? Up to now. the cynical answer has been that they help to sell cigarettes, and nothing more. Last week a congressional committee* opened an investigation of cigarette filters, for which the public pays a premium of $500,000 a day. Weight of the evidence: there is hope in improved filters...
...smoke less than a pack a day run a markedly reduced risk of lung cancer (compared with the much higher risk for those who smoke two packs or more). So, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute told the committee, a filter that stops 40% or more of tar from a regular cigarette made of good tobacco "will be a partial answer." But during the five-year boom in filters, no such tip has been marketed. Testified Dr. Wynder: "Some companies have taken advantage of the public's desire for filtered cigarettes and its equal...
...Congressmen examined researchers on both sides of the smoking-and-lung-cancer controversy, they won from Scientist Clarence Cook Little of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee the surprising admission that he knew nothing about filters one way or the other. He had. he confessed, never received any reports on filters from the industry which pays his salary, had never been shown filter experiments on trips to cigarette factories...
...added pointedly that Dr. Burney's statement, with supporting data, will be sent to state health officers and others in public health work "as a further step in bringing the matter of smoking and lung cancer to public attention...
Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney made this statement because of PHS concern "with broad factors which substantially affect the health of the American people." He was careful to add that "smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer." Therefore, "more research is needed to identify, isolate and try to eliminate the factors in excessive cigarette smoking which can cause cancer...