Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large increase in cases of lung cancer as compared with other types, said Snegireff, cannot be attributed to "better diagnosis" alone...
Recent epidemiological studies at the School of Public Health, have shown a high statistical occurrence of lung cancer in industrial workers who came into contact with chromates and asbestos...
...great deal of "emotionalism" is tied to the current campaign against smoking and emphasis on filters as a way of preventing lung cancer, Dr. Leonid S. Snegireff, associate professor of Cancer Control, said yesterday...
However, there is no "guaranteeing," Snegireff asserted, that a non-smoker will not contract lung cancer. But the results of a poll of physicians by the School of Public Health showed that the largest group of non-smokers are the thoracic surgeons, "who see at close range the ravage wrought by lung cancer...
...from tests at 880° had papillomas (precursors of cancer), and 27% had full-blown cancer. The tar from the wax contained all the cancer agents now known to exist in small amounts in cigarette tar, but Dr. Wynder doubts that these substances are the only cause of the lung-cancer increase, suspects there are others in the tar. One tentative conclusion: dewax the tobacco to make it less harmful. Dr. Wynder did not say what cigarettes would taste like if made from dewaxed tobacco. (He has tried them, but being a nonsmoker, he is a poor judge...