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When leading heart specialists from the U.S. and Europe gathered in New Orleans last week, the first and most significant report they heard was not exclusively about heart disease. A visitor from England re-emphasized some of the difficulties of diagnosing a lung disorder that has its origins in the blood vessels and eventually involves the heart...
...Johnson and Rowan developed a mutual respect. And so last week, Johnson appointed Rowan, 38, to be director of the U.S. Information Agency-an appointment that is likely to please Negro voters this fall. He will succeed Edward R. Murrow, 55, who resigned to recuperate from an operation for lung cancer...
...rarest of the naturally occurring elements and until recently one of the hardest to detect. Many radioactive elements are found in tobacco leaves, as in all vegetation; they occur naturally and have nothing to do with man-made fallout, and they have been exonerated as causes of lung cancer. Polonium is different, the Harvard researchers reported in Science, because it vaporizes at a mere 500° C., far below the 800° temperature of a burning cigarette...
Experiments with machine-smoked cigarettes showed that polonium attaches itself to smoke particles and may also pass into the lungs with the inhaled smoke in the form of gas. The amount of polonium in tobacco, as in a tossed green salad, would be negligible if, like the salad, it passed quickly through the system. But the polonium-bearing smoke appears to get trapped in the tissues and crevices of the airways, say Drs. Radford and Hunt. Because of this trapping, they suggest, polonium builds up to concentrations that are high enough so that its radioactivity could begin the process that...
...Tampa Tribune found a local physician with emphysema, only one serviceable lung, and an unconquerable craving for cigarettes. Between drags, the doctor advised against doing as he did: "Anyone who smokes is a damn fool." The Boston Traveler quoted a dental surgeon to the effect that smoking broils the palate, "just like a piece of meat on a grill." In Detroit, the News front-paged the decision of a mother of 14 children-" 'PACK-A-DAY' MOM SAYS SHE'LL QUIT"-alongside a family portrait showing the mother blithely puffing away. The Chicago Daily News asked Social...