Word: lungfuls
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...committee of Britain's top cancer specialists has taken a long, hard look at the connection between smoking and lung cancer, Health Minister Iain MacLeod told Parliament last week, and has reached these conclusions...
...know that tobacco smoke causes cancer," he pointed out, "but we do know there is a very clear cut association between those who in halo tobacco smoke and those who get lung cancer. I think that the American public must be told the facts as we are trying to tell them today...
...information in the report is based on studies of actual smokers compared with actual non-smokers, and is not based merely on the simultaneous increases in cigarette smoking and lung cancer...
...frequency of lung cancer in the United States is four to 13 times as great among people who smoke cigarettes as among people who don't smoke, according to the report. Just under 14,000 people died of lung cancer in the United States in 1950, compared to 15,000 who died of chest tuberculosis...
...present, men are the major victims of lung cancer. Dr. Ruststein could not say whether or not the increase of smoking among women in the past decade would result in an increase in female lung cancer...