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Previous reports citing the increased risk of lung cancer in heavy smokers of cigarettes "are not exaggerated, but are indeed conservative," according to Dr. Leonid S. Snegireff, associate professor of Cancer Control at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Snegireff, speaking before a scientific session of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association in New York, reported on a five-year study of the epidemiology (mass behavior) of lung cancer. The cancer expert spoke on "Lung Cancer and Smoking" in a symposium at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel yesterday afternoon...
TOBACCO WAR between the industry and the American Cancer Society is flaring up again. E. A. Darr president of the R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Cavalier) Tobacco Co., has flatly charged the society with trying to destroy the industry by claiming a link between lung cancer and smoking...
...incredible good fortune to land in Peking, where the Union Medical College had an iron lung-probably the only one in all Asia at the time. But thereafter, young Fred could never draw a carefree breath for fear that the machine that breathed for him might fail. And there was no hope of substantial recovery. His neck, back and arms were paralyzed; so were his chest and abdominal muscles. His left leg was 90% paralyzed; in his right he had a little movement...
...first 14 agonizing months in Peking cost $150.000, by his father's estimate. Then came a logistic problem as complex as it was costly ($50,000) to get Fred home, across 9,000 miles to River Forest, near Chicago. In his hospital room the iron lung was unplugged from the power supply and whisked to the ground floor. The lung was plugged in again to let Fred get his breath, then out again as he was rolled onto a waiting truck with a gasoline generator chugging. The off-on routine was repeated at the station, where a special train...