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...Lung cancer is definitely more common among smokers than among non-smokers, a professor at the University Medical School affirmed last night...
Stung by recent evidence that there is a definite connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer (TIME, Nov. 30), the tobacco industry organized to nail down the facts. In telling the U.S. public this week (in newspaper ads) of its decision, the Tobacco Industry Research Committee-challenged the conclusiveness of recent findings but said: "We accept an interest in people's health as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business...
...attitude toward money, whether healthy or not, is usually determined early in life, said Dr. Kaufman. If it is unhealthy, it may touch off a variety of psychosomatic illnesses, such as headaches, anxiety states, hysterical paralysis, panic reactions, depression, or disorders of the digestive system, heart and lung function, or muscular control...
February: The cigarette industry will launch a ten billion dollar Truth, Crusade to show that cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer. Televised "medical dramatizations" will disclose that tars and resins have been painted on the backs of three thousand woman with "no adverse effects." Magazine ads will portray prominent Park Avenue Russian wolfhounds smoking cork tips...
...true, said Pusey, that four faculty-men may have been Communists. But "what justice is done to the really typical member of the Harvard faculty, to the 2,900 or more others who are our true representatives-including the men who invented the iron lung, those on whose researches in atomic energy ... in radar and sonar ... the late military effort so largely depended; Dr. Cohn and his fractionation of blood and all the lives saved because of his researches ... or Harvard's six Nobel Prizewinners; and most important perhaps of all, the humanists whose efforts [bring] us into fresh...