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...movie sponsored by the American Temperance Society, affiliated with the tobacco-fighting Seventh-Day Adventists. Purpose of the movie, available to churches and civic groups: to dramatize the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Star of the film: New Orleans' famed Surgeon and Anti-Tobacco Crusader Alton Ochsner (appearing anonymously...
...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...
...Said Dr. Ochsner: "This study of Drs. Graham and Wynder [published in Cancer Research, out this week] has proven beyond any doubt that in tobacco tar there is an agent 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...
Nowhere in medical history could the Ochsner staff find a record of successful separation of pygopagus Siamese twins. Yet Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne were thriving (by last week they jointly weighed 14 Ibs. 8 oz.). The doctors told Mayor and Mrs. Mouton that there was a good chance both would survive surgery. The Moutons agreed to the attempt...