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When heavy cigarette smoking was first indicted as the major cause of the radical increase in lung cancer, scarcely more than 1% of cigarettes had filter tips. Today at least 40% have them, and tobacco experts expect the figure soon to hit 75%. But do the filters help? Up to now. the cynical answer has been that they help to sell cigarettes, and nothing more. Last week a congressional committee* opened an investigation of cigarette filters, for which the public pays a premium of $500,000 a day. Weight of the evidence: there is hope in improved filters...
...smoke less than a pack a day run a markedly reduced risk of lung cancer (compared with the much higher risk for those who smoke two packs or more). So, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute told the committee, a filter that stops 40% or more of tar from a regular cigarette made of good tobacco "will be a partial answer." But during the five-year boom in filters, no such tip has been marketed. Testified Dr. Wynder: "Some companies have taken advantage of the public's desire for filtered cigarettes and its equal...
...Congressmen examined researchers on both sides of the smoking-and-lung-cancer controversy, they won from Scientist Clarence Cook Little of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee the surprising admission that he knew nothing about filters one way or the other. He had. he confessed, never received any reports on filters from the industry which pays his salary, had never been shown filter experiments on trips to cigarette factories...
Died. Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which...
...added pointedly that Dr. Burney's statement, with supporting data, will be sent to state health officers and others in public health work "as a further step in bringing the matter of smoking and lung cancer to public attention...