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...study after study has established a correlation between prolonged cigarette smoking and lung cancer, nobody has been more concerned, or more silent, than U.S. cigarette makers. Last week, following news that the tars from cigarette smoke have now been proved to cause cancer in mice (TIME, Nov. 30), one of the industry's leaders broke silence. To Paul M. Hahn, president of the American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes), the case against cigarettes is still unproved. Said...
...proved that lung cancer in any human being is directly traceable to tobacco or to its products in any form . . . There are a few scientists who report that by using a high concentration of cigarette smoke-entirely different from the smoke which a person draws from a cigarette-and painting it on the skins of mice, they have produced skin cancers on the mice. On the other hand, there are many more scientists of high repute who have made similar experiments and have reported that no cancers were produced. Moreover, all scientists agree that there is no known relation between...
There are many puzzling questions in the case against cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. With answers based on the best medical opinion today, some of these...
...indict cigarette smoking, and acquit the smoking of pipes and cigars? Because the cancer-causing factor apparently must be retained deep in the lungs, a condition usually found in cigarette smokers, who inhale deeply, not in pipe and cigar smokers, who seldom inhale. ¶ Why does lung cancer concentrate on men in middle life? Because the cancer-causing factor seems to be a slow-acting agent, which may need half an individual's normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung...
...things are certain: there is more than one type of lung cancer in humans, and there is more than one cause. Says Dr. Graham:"There are different varieties which are due to different causes. However, by far the most common variety, which makes up approximately 95% of all lung cancer, is the one that seems to be due largely to cigarette smoking...