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...never smoked, began work on cigarettes and cancer while still a medical student in St. Louis. Now at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, working with Chemist Dietrich Hoffmann, he has had tens of thousands of cigarettes smoked in machines, collected the vapors and "tar," and tested innumerable fractions as potential causes of cancer. Most early tests were on the backs of mice be cause the skin there is of the same cellular class as the inside of a man's lung. More recently, to study an approximation of what happens when smoke rushes past...
...first big gain, Drs. Wynder and Hoffmann find, comes from filters. "The smoker of filter cigarettes of 1964 is on the average exposed to approximately 50% less tar*and nicotine than he was while smoking cigarettes without filter tips ten years ago," they reported. Contrary to gloomy prophecies that smokers would cancel out the benefits of filters by puffing more of the newer cigarettes, the researchers found that in general this has not happened...
...drug to market. Aspirin was a registered trade name, and still is in Germany, though it lost that privileged status in the U.S. in 1917, when the Monsanto Co. began to make it in large quantities. Like nearly all other important chemicals, it is now made synthetically from coal tar...
...close second to the Tar Heel junior was Villanova's Dick McDonough, defending] champion at the distance. Yalies captured third and fourth places...
...industry is used to attacks, but the latest blast was the strongest ever because it carried the force of Government and called for "appropriate remedial action." Congress is considering six bills that would tighten Government controls over cigarette sales, label cigarettes as injurious, or force manufacturers to list the tar and nicotine contents on their packages. The bills have little chance of passing soon, but the Federal Trade Commission figures that it already has the powers to get tough. Last week it proposed to ban advertising that makes smoking out to be manly or glamorous, and to force manufacturers...