Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday's editorial, "Live Modern," your excellent comments on smoking and lung cancer were marred by an ill-considered and overly-broad indictment of the AMA. You said that it seemed unlikely that the AMA would "take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives." Even though I am one of the most outspoken critics in my class at the medical school of the AMA's persistent and extreme economic short-sightedness, I can not let such a sweeping statement pass unchallenged. The most ardent liberal in the medical profession...
...consumption of cigarettes in England has continued to rise, the report finds, so has the number of deaths from lung cancer. In 1944, about 7,000 people died of cancer of the lung; in 1961, about 20,000 people succumbed to the disease. Granting that there have been immense gains in techniques of cancer diagnosis in the years since '44, the statistic is still alarming...
...report also strikes out against the argument that air pollution, rather than cigarettes, causes cancer. It points to Iceland, which has always been smokefree and cancer-free until recent years: since World War 2, when cigarettes were introduced there, lung cancer has, as predicted, shown a sudden and alarming increase...
...course, the U.S. government is prepared to take the kind of action the British report urges; a federal publicity campaign to inform the public of the dangers of smoking. Failing that, the Food and Drug Administration could require cigarette manufacturers to stamp on each package: DANGER--INCREASES PROBABILITY OF LUNG CANCER...
Died. Roscoe Ates, 67, slight, Mississippi-born Hollywood comedian who cured himself of stammering as a youth, made a lifelong hobby of helping other stammerers, but won his film fame and a lush living as a stuttering stooge; of lung cancer; in Encino, Calif...