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...smoke more than five cigars a day, the death rate is only slightly higher than for nonsmokers. > "Possible benefits" from the use of tobacco took only 1½ pages of the report. The committee decided that they lie in "a psychogenic search for contentment," and cannot be measured. Tar & Nicotine. The committee's report was presented in the auditorium of the Old State Department building last Saturday morning, a time carefully chosen to make the Sunday newspapers and because all stock exchanges were closed. It was handled with all the secrecy of a state document, but its tenor...
...regulations pertaining to cigarette advertising, with a view to tightening them. Paced by CBS, all TV networks decided to re-examine their advertising standards. Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger (whose husband had been a cancer victim) plans to introduce two bills aimed at forcing manufacturers to state nicotine and tar content. What more will result from the committee's call for "remedial action" remains to be seen...
Spreading Asphalt. I.P.C. is not the original villain in the piece. The U.S. company simply controls a piece of land under terms that have infuriated Peruvians for generations. In the early 1800s, the La Brea area was known only for its tar pits, which were leased by the government to private contractors for limited periods. In 1826 the tar pits, with 100 surrounding acres, were sold to private investors-and there the trouble began...
Over the years, the tar property became an oil property, and the original 100 acres grew to cover 416,140 acres of the La Brea basin. By World War I, the area was a major oil producer. A British company, the London & Pacific Petroleum Co., was now the owner, pumping millions of dollars worth of oil, but only paying taxes on 100 acres of land...
Last week the American Chemical Society whipped up the familiar enthusiasm for pentazocine, a drug developed by Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute. Synthesized from coal tar, pentazocine has been tested at Baylor University School of Medicine in Houston. "With this drug," says Baylor's Dr. Arthur S. Keats, "the fear of addiction in chronic pain will be eliminated." But because further tests are needed, not until December will the Food and Drug Administration be asked to approve pentazocine for general prescription use. And it will take much longer to show whether it is really better than many disappointing predecessors...