Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis F. Fieser, a member of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Lung Cancer, said yesterday that Lark cigarettes were probably safer than all other brands...
...cause of lung cancer is still unknown, but there is clinical evidence linking cancer with foreign matter in the respiratory system. Cilia are thin hairs that prevent such particles from lodging in the tract. The charcoal granules in the compartmentalised Lark filter adsorb such gases as hydrogen, cyanide, formaldehyde, acrolein, and ammonia, which interfere with this process...
...only way to relieve the danger of lung cancer from cigarette smoking is to remove the polonium, Radford said last night. He suggested that the tobacco companies would find it "economically feasible to treat tobacco leaves chemically" to remove the polonium...
...research scientists from the Graduate School of Public Health have discovered a radioactive element in cigarette smoke which may be the direct cause of lung cancer...
...deliver a radiation dose at least seven times the normal radiation exposure of non-smokers. It has been known for many years that ionizing radiation can produce cancer in man, but this report is the first to suggest that radic-isotopes in cigarettes are involved in the production of lung cancer...