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...Smoke Sir: Your article on lung cancer and cigarette smoking [TIME, Nov. 30] states the staggering fact that the people of the U.S. smoke 433 billion cigarettes a year. The ordinary cigarette measures 2¼ in., and a little arithmetic shows that if those cigarettes were placed in line in a single strand, they would encircle the earth at the equator 751 times. Thus...
...will be recorded in detail . . . The health histories of each of them will be followed for at least five years. At the end of that time, or possibly before, we should be able to correlate the relationship between their smoking histories and the extent of lung cancer among the smokers and non-smokers...
...share for every two shares held. Despite the good news, the dreary market slipped, under heavy selling of the tobacco stocks. In one day, the three biggest tobacco stocks fell more than three points each as investors took note of 1) published reports linking cigarette-smoking with lung cancer and 2) a slip in tobacco sales over the past few months. By week's end tobacco stocks perked up, but this week slipped again, along with the Dow-Jones industrial averages...
...third of its 71 minutes before the expedition is safely stowed in its base camp at 18,000 ft. in the western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story building dance along like pebbles; gaping...
...when the supply of blood oxygen gets thin. Divers fear narcosis. One came back from a record 306 ft. down, and lived to tell about it. Another, Maurice Fargues, plunged down to 396 ft., scribbled his name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going to dive for the same reason people climb high mountains. It's a challenge...