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What Dr. Graham stated as proven fact had long been suspected. Beginning in the 1930s, medical statisticians noticed an unusual rise in the number of cases of lung cancer. Part of the apparent increase was due simply to the fact that doctors were becoming more skilled in diagnosis, part to the fact that many more people were living long enough to contract cancer...
...there was something else. New Orleans' Surgeon Alton Ochsner noted that most of the patients on whom he performed daring and radical operations (removal of all or part of a lung) were men over 40 who had long been heavy cigarette smokers. He thought he saw a case of cause and effect...
First Correlation. Not until 1949 did an earnest young researcher, Ernest Wynder, then a medical student at Washington University under Surgeon Graham, supply statistical evidence: among 200 victims of lung cancer, 95.5% were men with long histories of cigarette smoking. Other researchers began to check their files on lung cancer patients and found the same thing. In Britain a massive study pointed even more sharply to the same conclusion (TIME, Dec. 22). In Denmark cancer experts who had once pooh-poohed the idea gathered more data and reversed themselves...
...bloody rotten for us that the British never feared any danger from Tibet," one Indian officer grumbled last week. "They would have fortified all the passes and we could just move in and make tea. As it is now, if we even build a blockhouse on the border. Mr. Lung [meaning the Chinese] would think we were showing bad intentions." The officer pointed down the slope of the Himalayas. "That is why," he said, "we have to stay back there...
...drop ads for alcoholic drinks.) The main reason: members do not feel that the A.M.A. should take business from manufacturers who in the lay press cram their ads with medical claims. Also, there is the matter of the extent to which heavy and long-continued cigarette smoking can cause lung cancer. Cost to the A.M.A. in lost revenue: about $115,000 a year...