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...effort to stop the unscientific bickering that has raged for years over scientific evidence linking heavy cigarette smoking to lung cancer, four prestigious organizations* set up a seven-man study group. Chairman: the University of Wisconsin's Biochemist Frank M. Strong. Last week the group's findings were out. Big black headlines in the press notwithstanding, the report contained no new evidence, represented instead a careful appraisal of all the published (and some unpublished) data. Conclusions...
...Cigarette smoking is indeed a major cause of lung cancer. The risk increases with the amount smoked, averages five to 15 times greater (on half a pack a day or more) than among nonsmokers, is 27 times greater for those who smoke two packs...
...5moking is by no means the only cause of lung cancer: another is air pollution. In smoggy Liverpool (England) 50% of lung cancer deaths have been laid to smoking, and 35% to air pollution. (A U.S. estimate blames air pollution...
...smoking of tobacco, particularly in the form of cigarettes, is an important health hazard," the seven experts conclude. "The evidence of a cause-effect relationship [with lung cancer] is adequate for considering the initiation of public-health measures." But the group suggests no such measures. Instead, it urges more research to find the cancer-causing substance in smoke, and a simultaneous effort to remove it even before it is chemically identified. Possible answers to the problem: selection of tobacco strains, extracting the offending substance from the leaves or filtering it out of the smoke. Most of today's filters...
Died. Tom Barratt, 59, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent and senior detective, who hunted down some of Britain's most shuddery murderers (including John Christie, who killed at least seven women and buried them around the house); of lung cancer; in London...