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...Other Lung Diseases. Smokers' death rate was almost twice as high as that of nonsmokers; almost four times as high for deaths from pneumonia and influenza...
Especially startling was the finding that, although the increased death rate from lung cancer was the most dramatic (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.), smoking may cause a far greater loss of life by speeding up the process of heart disease-where a relatively modest increase in the mortality rate means many more deaths because the disease is so much commoner...
...Lung Cancer. "A spectacular relationship." Among 32,392 men who had never smoked, only four died of microscopically proved cancer originating in the lung, but among 108,000 cigarette smokers there were 265 similarly proved cases (of 397 reported). Even men who smoked less than half a pack a day ran a risk of lung cancer 15 times as great as that of nonsmokers; between one and two packs 43 times as great; on two packs or more 64 times as great...
...kidneys, up 58%; the stomach, up 61%; the prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
...deaths among the men studied; actually, they recorded 7,316. Of the 2,665 "excess deaths," no fewer than 1,338 (52%) were attributed to coronary artery disease, 1,670 (64%) to all diseases of the heart and arteries combined. This compared with 360 deaths caused by lung cancer and 359 by all other cancers...