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Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder championed the view that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, he has been challenged to produce the substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
...that makes heavy smokers the commonest victims of lung cancer, the pioneer researchers in the field have brought out another cold-comfort report: the tar from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung cancer (TIME, March...
...Dominican Republic's air force and army, whooped it up in Los Angeles Harbor with an all-night party or two aboard his one-gunned warship Angelita, fluff-tressed Cinemacaroon Kim Novak gazed dazzle-eyed at a solid, if less spectacular catch: Cancer Researcher Ernest L. Wynder, M.D. (TIME, May 5), who escorted Kim on a tour of Manhattan night life...
Since the Adventists made up 8.8% of the total, and were comparable in age, sex, occupations, residence and other key characteristics, they might have been expected to be afflicted by disease in the same proportion. Not so, Drs. Wynder and Lemon found. Items: ¶Against an expected ten cases of lung cancer among Adventists, there was only one, a man who died of lung cancer in 1955. He had smoked a pack a day for 25 to 30 years before joining the church in 1941, then had sworn off. (As a former metal worker, he may have been exposed...
Other common cancers, which have not been associated with smoking or drinking habits, e.g., those of the breast, prostate, stomach, colon, rectum and uterus, as well as leukemia, occurred at just about the same rates in both Adventist and non-Adventist patients. This uniformity led Drs. Wynder and Lemon to conclude that heavy cigarette smoking and hard drinking are indeed major factors in lung or mouth cancer and in hastening death from atherosclerosis (hardening) of the coronary arteries. "We propose," they said, "that smoking, though not causing atherosclerosis as such, adds to the already damaging effect of atherosclerosis upon...