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Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder began trying to convince the world of the dangers of cancer in cigarette smoking, he has looked as cheerful as a basset hound being dragged through a cactus patch. Last week he looked as sad-eyed as ever, but he had good news for smokers. Cigarettes, he told the American Association for Cancer Research, have been made " less hazard ous" - he would not say "safer" - in the last few years, and they are being made still less hazardous...
Mouse Backs. Dr. Wynder, who has 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...
...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute has discovered that a nonflammable part of a waxlike chemical in tobacco smoke acts to inhibit substances that can cause cancer. The anticancer agent (Wynder once thought that the entire substance caused cancer) is also present in auto fumes, where it seems to block cancer-causing substances more effectively-despite the fact that auto exhausts contain 60 times more of the cancer-causing agents. Wynder warned that the presence of the waxlike chemical in tobacco tar does not prevent lung cancer, hopes that eventually enough of the chemical...
...Ernest Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, who, with Dr. Evarts Graham, started the cancer controversy by inducing cancer in mice with daubings of tobacco tar, is only one of many prominent medical authorities (including the Surgeon General of the U.S. and the public health services of Britain and The Netherlands) who now believe that the link between smoking and cancer is definite. Last week the World Health Organization identified cigarettes as a major cause of lung cancer. Many smokers themselves are convinced of the link; in a worldwide poll, 33% of them said they thought smoking...
Have filters helped? Dr. Wynder thinks they have, fears that the FTC's decision to end the filter race was a mistake that "may have discouraged the industry's efforts toward improving their cigarettes," set back the increased protection the smoker has received since 1952. He thinks that far safer cigarettes can be developed...