Word: smokerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare is a chain smoker [Jan. 24]. Ho, hum-file Robert Finch under...
...their incidence of heart attacks. The Framingham results to date, says Dr. William B. Kannel, indicate that a man with high blood cholesterol has almost three times the average risk of a heart attack. More alarming, if one man is exposed to two threefold risk factors-a heavy smoker with high blood cholesterol, for example-the two risks are not added together but multiplied, thereby giving him approximately a ninefold disadvantage...
...overt effects of the drug are transient, according to the study--the smoker reaches a high within 15 minutes and shows no effects from the drug three hours later...
...second time around a person gets more of a bang," explained Dr. Peter H. Knapp of Boston Medical School, in whose laboratories the study was conducted. "Is it because the smoker has learned to let go," he continued, "or is it that the drug is piling up in the nervous system? If so, it might cause physiological damage...
...latest of a long series of warnings, the U.S. Public Health Service reported to Congress last week that a man between 25 and 35 who smokes two packs a day shortens his life by an average of eight years. It added that even a light smoker, on less than half a pack a day, may cut off four years...