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KENTUCKY N'E`VSCLIP INCORPOR'AT-O P. 0.Box 158 btIDDLETOWN, KY. 40043 (Ky. Clipping Service) Ky. New Era HOPKINSVILLE;, KY. Circulation: 10,931, AUG161968 yne Kismg Nuier4q.,\o ~ What isthe fastest growing killer and r&iearehers have not yet diffcovered what crippler in the United States? the cause or causes of emphysema are. d to l t it' di h k d e sease re a s a ey now o This question, asked of a random sampl- T ing of the population, would produce sev- polluted atmospheres. It doesn't seem to eral' different answers. But probably no matter what kind of pollutants. Ci ette -,smoke, smoke-filled rooms, dustrial, po1- one -,or very few persons - would name lution, pollen, smog or dust all appear to emphy iema. .. contribute to the increasing number of EmpEysema is not well known to the `rcases of emphysema. genoiaB?ublic, and not too well understood ~, gnt not necessarily in the same propor- by the :nedical profession. In fact, medical tion. ' ~ - Heavy cigarett_~okers have been found to be the most susceptible to the disease, whether or not they live and work in a.polluted atmosphere. Dr. E. C. Ham- mond, vice president of the AMgXjcaa Cancer Socift told Congress of a recent study of 128,000 men and the differing in- cidences of emphysema found in them de- pending on their pollution backgrounds. - Of those who neither smoked nor were exposed to polluted atrnosnheres, about; one-half o#• one percent showed signs of the disease. Non-smokers who)worked in a pollutqd atmosphere showed a 1% percent inddence rate. ' ::8nt heavy smokers who were not expos- eii to air pollutants recorded an 8.8 per- aent disease rate, and heavy smokers who were. otherwise exposed to pollutants suf- V fered a 13.9 percent rate of affliction. ~ One of every 14 A.merican workers over 45 years of age is disabled by emphysema. ~ An estimated 20,000 persons in the United ,p . States will lose their lives to the disease C this year, up seven-fold in just 10 years. IV ~ Obviously emphysema is a rising chal- lenge lenge to industrial America, another is a ~ growing list of ailments directly associat- ed with pollut " ~. .. s (8)