Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several hundred shivering students cheered the smoke-eaters as they lofted ladders and spotlights to the top floor of Little Hall, smashed in the front door of the book store, and evacuated all resident students from the Massachusetts Avenue block...
Students in Little Hall had detected smoke as early as 11 pm. They called University maintenance men, who searched vainly for an hour before summoning the fire department...
Vitamins & Smoke. Diet may be "an important predisposing cause" of cancer of the mouth, said the University of Southern California's Dr. Ian MacDonald. A lack of proteins and vitamins of the B-complex family (e.g., the sort of bland diet used to treat stomach ulcers) may be the trouble. Diets rich in proteins and B-complex may help prevent it. Smoking? Possibly a minor cause of cancer of the mouth, said Dr. MacDonald...
...smoking, argued New Orleans' Dr. Alton Ochsner, can be blamed for the increase of cancer of the lung. Surgeon Ochsner, a nonsmoker, was positive. Dr. Charles S. Cameron, A.C.S. medical and scientific director, who does smoke, was not so sure. For every expert who blames tobacco for the increase of cancer of the lung, he said, there is another who says tobacco is not the cause...
Three other investigators made a preliminary report on a scientific survey, the first of its kind, in which they looked for some connection between smoking and lung cancer. Chief Surgeon Evarts Graham and Medical Student Ernest L. Wynder of Washington University's School of Medicine, and Manhattan's Dr. Herbert C. Maier, checked 200 male patients who had lung cancer, and a group of 500 without cancer. Of the 200 with cancer, 95.5% had smoked at least one package of cigarettes a day for at least 20 years; only one was a nonsmoker, and all but 3% inhaled...