Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bladder specialist, had characterized much of the hard-won information on the subject of smoking and cancer. This week Dr. Hess-a smoker himself-was to hear some hard facts on the subject at A.M.A.'s convention in Atlantic City. Reason for the convention's preoccupation: lung cancer now causes around 24,000 deaths a year in the U.S., which puts it in the category of epidemic diseases...
...American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at the gavel to explain what kinds of smokers get the most cases of lung cancer, and to discuss whether it does any good to quit. He and Assistant Daniel Horn drew from impressive data: the smoking and life histories of 188,078 men interviewed in 1952, and watched ever since. By the end of last October, 8,105 had died-285 from apparent lung cancer...
Victims & Packs. The crude figures were striking enough: in 32 months, lung cancer had killed only 33 per 100,000 of the observed nonsmokers, but 246 regular cigarette smokers-more than seven times as many. Cigar smokers had about the same rate as nonsmokers; pipe smokers had double the rate. But when Dr. (of Science) Hammond pinpointed his attention on the 168 cases in which typical carcinoma of the lung had been most clearly proved, he found the disparities even more striking. In this category, there were only two deaths among men who had never smoked-a 32-month rate...
Town & Country. Doctors who doubt or deny a cause-and-effect relation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer have always seized on the fact that death rates from this disease are higher in the cities than down on the farm. Therefore, they argue, the cause must be smog or exhaust fumes, or simply the sinful exhalations of mass man. They may be half right, but no more, according to Dr. Hammond's figures: the smaller a man's home town, the less likely he is to smoke cigarettes heavily. This accounts for part of the urban-rural difference...
...Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow's Report on Cigarettes and Lung Cancer...