Word: lungfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very well to show that there is something in cigarette smoke that can cause lung cancer, but the proof of this (TIME, Nov. 30) still left a further question unanswered. Why do city dwellers seem to get more lung cancer than folk down on the farm with the same smoking or nonsmoking) habits? Could it be something...
Stare said the discovery could be used in further experiments to find out what if anything cigarette smoke has to do with cancer. He suggested that tars from cigarette smoke could be injected along with dmba to note if the mice developed lung cancer...
...factory worker from Festus, Mo. (pop. 5,199) made medico-legal history last week by suing four cigarette manufacturers and a grocery chain for $250,000. Ira C. Lowe, 39, filed his suit in St. Louis blaming them for the cancer which caused him to lose a lung...
From 1930 to 1952, complained Lowe, he smoked more than two packs of cigarettes a day. Then he got cancer. His right lung was removed at the very time when, at nearby Barnes Hospital, Drs. Evarts Graham and Ernest Wynder were doing experiments on mice with tobacco tar (TIME, Nov. 30). In suing (for breach of warranty) the four companies whose brands he said he had smoked and the chain store where he bought them,* Lowe said that he had "accepted the defendants' public assurances that their cigarettes were free from harmful substances...
...Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis...