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...into the act stole the show at the A.M.A. convention. The star: the American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond. His show-stopping material: figures proving that heavy cigarette smokers die younger than non-smokers-mainly from heart disease and cancer, notably cancer of the lung...
...Science) Hammond, Yale professor of biostatistics, was little moved when Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder reported their conclusion that long-term cigarette smoking can cause lung cancer (TIME, March 7, 1949 et seq.). Nothing proved, he said shortly, and went on smoking cigarettes. So did his assistant, Dr. Daniel Horn. But all the while Hammond and Horn were gathering deadly data. They had taken careful smoking histories of 187,766 white men, aged 50 to 69, in 394 counties in nine states, and were keeping track of them to see what killed them. Hammond and Horn figured it would...
...have risen as they have got into the uranium business. Other big gainers: oil and rubber (up 37%), insurance (up 40%), office equipment (up 43%). Of 35 major stock groups, only the tobaccos have declined since September, and their 16% drop can be traced directly to the lung-cancer scare...
...After a panel of chest surgeons and physicians in Atlantic City, N.J. had reached substantial agreement that there is some connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer, Boston's Dr. Richard Overholt asked whether any of the doctors was so convinced that he was ready to swear off smoking. Not a hand was raised...
Last fall Cora Sutherland became too sick to teach and took a leave of absence. Her Christian Science practitioner certified that she was suffering from a "lung congestion aggravated by activity." And when her salary stopped, he cut his fees for treatment (prayer and readings from the works of Mary Baker Eddy) from $62 to $25 a month. Last March Teacher Sutherland's brother finally insisted that she go to a hospital. The day after she was admitted, Cora Sutherland, 55, died of tuberculosis. The coroner's report showed that she had probably had TB in active form...