Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pack-a-Day Deal. Among the 4,854 deaths, Hammond told a packed house, were 745 men who daily smoked a pack of cigarettes or more. Their death rate was almost twice as high as that of the men who never smoked. There were 334 deaths from diseases of the coronary arteries, and this again represented a death rate almost double that of nonsmokers. There were 161 deaths from cancer, and this was 2½ times the rate among nonsmokers...
...have enough cases to be certain. But on the basis of gleanings to date, they concluded that death from lung cancer is three to nine times as common among cigarette smokers as among nonsmokers, and five to 16 times as common among those who smoke a pack a day or more...
...less striking were the statisticians' findings that even the most moderate cigarette smokers (half a pack or less a day) also showed significantly higher death rates from both heart disease and cancer than nonsmokers, and that the increase includes all types of cancer, not only in the lung. Cigar and pipe smokers show no consistent increase in mortality. There is less chain-smoking of cigarettes in rural than urban areas, and the rural death rates from heart disease and cancer are lower...
...least, they had convinced themselves: as the evidence flowed in, both Hammond and Horn gave up cigarettes and took to pipes. Their boss, Dr. Charles Sherwood Cameron, medical and scientific director of the A.C.S., quit his pack a day and switched to cigars. To those who want to stop smoking, his advice was: make a clean break, with no attempt at tapering off-"The best way to stop is to stop." But, said Cameron, he did not consider the Hammond-Horne theory entirely proved (neither do they). He added: "Personally, I believe that a life of outward productiveness and inward...
...tough course licked. He curved a long, lovely iron shot out onto another fairway, was on the apron of the green in three, chipped up neatly and dropped a tricky, downhill putt for his par five. He had finished with an impressive 284, and he was ahead of the pack...