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...sharpest risk is lung cancer, from which cigarette smokers have a death rate almost eleven times as high as that for nonsmokers. Smokers' death rates from other diseases are: bronchitis and emphysema, 6.1 times the rate for nonsmokers; cancer of the larynx, 5.4 times as high; ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, 2.8; cancer of the bladder, 1.9; coronary artery disease, 1.7; hypertensive heart disease, 1.5. (Heart and artery diseases combined cause many more premature deaths than does lung cancer...
...women smokers the death rate from lung cancer appears to be increasing along the same lines as that for men. > There is not yet enough evidence to show whether filter cigarettes are really safer than "straights." > Quitting smoking definitely helps. >Pipe smoking is almost harmless. One risk: a slight increase in the incidence of cancer of the lip. > Cigar smoking, up to five cigars a day, is apparently safe; for men who smoke more than five cigars a day, the death rate is only slightly higher than for nonsmokers. > "Possible benefits" from the use of tobacco took only...
...independence, a lumbering, folksy engineer-turned-politician who in 1955 talked the Soviets into withdrawing troops from their zone of the partitioned country in return for a promise of neutrality, thereafter cut income taxes, stabilized the schilling, turned thriving Austria into a highly persuasive advertisement for capitalism; of a lung embolism; in Vienna...
...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...
Combining the results of Italy surveys, the committee concluded that "cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer in men." The incidence of the disease, the most frequent form of cancer in men, is almost ten times higher among smokers than non-smokers, the report said...