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"Convinced opping Smoking Does N'ot Wuce H'eart IDisease:"' (Channel 9' News. F:~iday„ n:ay 4, 1979. monitored through GTV9,, N,elbourne: 6.30 p.m0 Newsreader: For the past two ni~hts, we've broug'r. -u youi news about people giving up smokino; but now, from aiHarvard University •• professor co: es wordi that 'Xickino, the habit will' NOT lessen the risk of'heart disease. In fact, Dr. Carl Seltzer told Robyn Miller today that recent international studies have sho•rn no relationship between smot:ing, and heart dY'lsease,i and! that the l::i.g-held opinion linkin;,the two is one of the biggest fallacies in medical history: Dr. Seltzer: Smokers are different kinds of persons tnan, non-smokers,, with different kinds of'traits. They're different in morphology, physiology and personality' and way of'life;, and that's what causes the differences in disease rates,,. rather tt~:an smoking, itself. Reoorter: Well, you, yourself, have smoked since you .wer How dangerous do you, personally,believe that smoking IS? middle-aged' men. Practically here in this country virtually 50 per cent of'aIl deaths in middle-aged new evidence that stopi:inr smoking dbes no,, reduce heart disease„ thenithe whole heart disease picture.iss eliminated from the potential smoking hazard. Now„ heart di~sease is the largest cause of'death in r. Seltzer: Now that Ii''m qui'te convinced from the men init'r,e United States or in Britain or in Austra'wia,, are due to heart disease. And'if'it"s true that heart disease is not related too smoking, thern what ils left is very, very' minor and insignificant in terms of actual numbers of deaths. A. _ I MELBOUR\E:. ~ Friday, .,ay 4, 1979 e f,b W49