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...known in tobacco smoke, so medical researchers were careful not to fall into the error of arguing post hoc, ergo propter hoc. For a long time, their scientific caution would let them say no more than that there must be a "correlation" between heavy, continued cigarette smoking and lung cancer...
Working with Research Assistant Adele B. Croninger, Drs. Graham and Wynder obtained tar from a machine which "smokes" thousands of cigarettes, then painted the tar on the backs of mice. It produced scores of cancers. While these skin cancers are not identical with lung cancer in man, they are so similar that the researchers are confident that human lung tissue reacts the same...
...which produces cancer. If we could find it and extract it, smoking might not be harmful. But, on the basis of the number of people who are smoking now, I predict that by 1970 one out of every two or three men with cancer will have cancer of the lung-or one out of every ten or twelve men living...
...figures are not yet so horrendous as Dr. Ochsner foresees, but lung cancer is multiplying faster than any other form of cancer, and, as a cause of death, faster than any other disease. Since 1933 the U.S. death rate from lung cancer (allowing for the growth of population) has quadrupled for men and doubled for women. The 1953 toll is expected to be 18,400 men, 3,600 women; 94% of the men and 92% of the women will be over 45. In the same 20 years, U.S. cigarette consumption has shot up from 111 billion to about 433 billion...
...have a new problem with social implications-how to organize and pay for the research which will show us how to remove the mouse-cancer agent from tobacco, or render it inert, and also to track down the many other factors which may be contributing to the increase in lung cancer...