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i 0 , SMOKING q'IME MAG'ZINE Tar, Nicotine & Filters March 24, 1967 Cigarette smokers who wanted to pick a winner in the tar-and-nicotine sweepstakes got a form sheet last week from one of the nation's leading cancer research, organizations, the New York State-supported Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo. Director George TIIE WASHINGTON POST E. Moore reported that machine smok- Ma r c h 4, 1967 ing and chemical analysis disclosed the following yields (in milligrams) for 56 brands: Brand Type° Tar Nicotine Marvels .............. KF....... 8.3..... 0.32 Caswde............. KMF..... , 9.1. . . . .034 Carlton .............. KF....... 9.7..... 0.74 King Sano ............ .KFD ..... 12.0 ..... 039 Duke ................ KF. ...... 12.3... . .0.46. Life ................. K F . ...... 13.6 ..... 0.97 True . ............... KF....... 15:8..... 0:80 ~ Kenti ................ KF....... 18.8..... 1.10, Montclair ............ KMF. . . . .21.1. ....1.15 Spring . .............. KMF. . . . .21.7.... .1.16 Galaxy ............... KF ....... 221 .1.43 Ma rl boro ............. K F ....... 22 4 ..... 124 Winston. ............. KF....... 22.9 ..... 132 Old Gold ~............. KF ....... 23.0. ....1.32 Waterford ............ KF... ...230.,....1.40 i Lark._ .............. KF. ...... 23.1..... 1.26 , Philip Morris .......... KF. ..... 23.2..... 1.46 Newport.............. KMF. . ... 23.3..... 134 Yiceroy .............. KF. ...... 23.4..... ,1.68 Salem ............... KMf ..... 23.6 ..... ,1.43 Paxton .............. K M F ..... 23.8 ..... ,1.43 Parliament ........... ..KF ....... 24.0. ....1144 ,,L & M ............... .RF....... .24.9..... 1.1Q Benson & Hedges...... RF....... 25.0..... 1.55 Tempo . .............. K F ....... 25.11. .... U8 Tareyton ............. KF ....... 253 ..... 135 Alpine............... KMf ..... 26.4..... 152 Kool................ KMF. . .,.,. 26.6. .. . .1.88 Chesterfield .......... R ........ 27:0..... 1.18 Lucky Strike .......... R- ....... 27:1..... 1.42 Oasis................ KMF..... 27:1..... 1.38 Lucky Strike .......... KF ....... 27:3..... 1.42 Chesterfield ........... KF....... 27:6. .... 1.72 Raleigh'_....•••••••..KF....... .27:8..... 1.98 Philip Morris ............ R ........ 28.8. .... 137' / O ld Gotd ............. ..:R . ....... 29.7 ..... 1.63 . . KMF. . _ .,.29.7..... 2.11 , elair...........,..,.. KF.......30.0..... 1.96 duMaurier...... ~~~ Ptayers .............. ..R ........ 31.0..... 1.67 Camel ............... .R ........ 31.3 ..... 1.69 York ................ K ........ 32:4. . . . .1.69 . Camel ............... K F ....... ,32:4..... 1.77 PaltMall............. K........ 33:0..... 1.75 Half & Half........... KF....... .33.6..... 1.99 Domino .............. K........ 34:1..... 1.48 Old Gold ............. K ........ 34.8 . .... 1.89 Masterpiece .......... KF....... 35:9. ....2.23 Kool ................ R M ...... 36:3 . . . . . 2.21 Fatima .............. K........ 36,7.....1.73 Philip Morris.......... . K........ 37.2..... 2.11 Brandon. . ........... K ........ 385 ..... 235 Benson ~& Hedges 10o's. . KF....... 39:3, . . . .2.29 Hot iday . ............. K ........ 41.1. .... 2.45 Tareyton ~ ............ K ....... 41.5 ..... 1.97 Pall Mall. ............ KF....... 41.6..... 2.20 Ralei9h.............. . .,. . K ........ 43.4..... 2.64 Filtered brands, which made up only j 3% of total cigarette sales in 1953. now account for 68%. But, said Dr. Moore, "although some filter cigarettes are delivering less tar and nicotine to the smoker than regular cigarettes, most are not: adequately protecting him from a medical point of view. We believe that improved filters would help stop pre- mature loss of life from lung can- cer, emphysema, heart-artery disease, and other diseases associated with heavy smoking." Smokers who want to switch may have a problem. The two top-rated brands, Stephano Bros.' Marvels and Cascade, are sold in relatively few stores and even fewer machines. Carlton, made by American Tobacco Co., is more widely distributed but by no means as widely as the old stand-by brands. Sloan-Kettering Links Cancer 6 To Low Resistance to Bodily Ills ~ By Thomas O'Toole bodies it alone is responsible, With antmals, Sloan-Ketter- Waehlhaton Post Staff Wrtter for in the body, Sloan-Ketter-!ing has already managed to Cancer apparently seeks out ling said. do some repair work on that people whose ability to ward' Not only does. the thymus! meehanism. Mice who had can- off infection and disease of seem to roduce antibodies any kind is at a low ebb. p leer induced on them were in- For years„ cancer has beenlWhtch fight diseases like TB,{jected,at the time tumors first it also makes lymphocytes„appeared with a preparation thought to strike indiscrimin- ceils which help the body to~known as Bacillus Calmette- ately, against young and old,, re'eet tiss e fr th u o e rich and poor, strong and weak. But there now seems to ~ m o r per- Guertn (BCG) vaccine. Not sons. only did the mice show an in- be a direct link between can-I ~Vhile normal people reject ~rease in their Immunity to cer and a breakdown In thelgrafts of skin from other peo disease, they also were able to body's defense mechanisms. pie in about 30 days, victims keep their tumors in check. This was a c on c 1 u s i o n' of Hodgkin's disease survive "The BCG experiments in drawn in bhe 17th Progres, with foreign skin grafts 'el- mice," concluded Sloan-Ket- Sloan-Ket- Report of New York'sSloan• most indefinitely. Bone mar-;tering, "suggest that they row transplants also survivelmight function as a model sys• Kettering Institute for Cancer r„_ ,___ _ Research, whose annual budg-; `` .'w"6 Y°"1°' et of more than $9 millionipatient's. makes it one of the world's largest organizations in can-~ cer research. . "Evidence is now accumulat- 'ing;" stated Sloan-Ketteringll over the weekend, "that im- munologicab disi'urbances may promote cancer." So far, Sloan-Kettering said, at least three specific cancers have been tied to the body's inability to manufacture anti- bodies to ward off, disease and , infection. One is chronic lymphatic leukemia„ whcse victims suf.' fer abnormally from pneumo- coccal pneumonia. "Their levet of circulating antibodies," Sloan - Ketterint; , found, "are below normal, and reflects a retative deficiency In Immune response as com- pared, to expected response." Patients• suffering f r o nt acute leukemia, a more sud- den and serious from of the I disease, also seem to suffer al, lowering of their antibody ' levels, and as a result are "unusually susceptible'' to all types of bacterial disease. A third cancer linked by,' Sloan-Kettering to lack of anti-; body function was Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph! nodes that is usually fatal aft-! er it spreads to the spleen and the blood, I A large number of people with Hodgkin's disease fall victim to tuberculosi's. This I linkage Is triggered by an ap- parent Inability of the thymus I gland to produce certain anti- in these,tem for Investigating delays in ithe onset of human cancer."