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Joo3dqqu38 HERALD Miami, Florida April 20, 1962 Fe're Puffing Our Life Away ByJOH.\ CROSBY AL,l1OST 10 years after the American, Cancer Society is- sued itss report linking ciiSaret amnkiag and lung cancer, the $rithsti Royali College of. PAysi'cians has reported flatly thaC "cigaret smoking is the cause of lunq caneer," While a bit late oni the scene, the Brit- Ish have react- ed far more vigorously than we did.l The. Conservalh~e govern- mont pledged it will do all' in its power to acquaint lhe.Arit• ish public wilh the dangersofs smoking. The British ; . Jtinist ry. of Health has already hu n g throu hout Great Britain great sig~ hich readl"IDANGARi He cigaret smokers are 30 times more likely to dlee of lung cancer than non-smokers. You have been warned: " The BBC immediately held a good many discussion pro- grams airing the linking of smokingwith lung cancer. The New Statesman commeriird dryly that "thee cigarercom- paniest have the right to ap- point a devil'as adt~ocate" toappcar on these programs and went on to suggest that if. uteBBC everr had aa deriate: on white alavery, "'the industryahouldiiie represented." In short, theattttude is farmore honest, vigorous,.and out•spoken than our ou•n, at~ least an the official level. * * * THEclgarct companiess areamongthae largest advertisers1n thiscountry. Naturally, no one is g..ing.out ctnis-ay too vffend them. The newspapera% have reported theeigarct-lunSe cancer link; whicR~ seems be•yond reasonable doubt, fairly forthrichtly(wt le,+sti theonesI read) and then dropped the matter. • has network TVdAneV to .iaint the public o6 a menace to theit health? T h e American Broadcasting Co. and the National Broadcasting Cahavedone. exactly nothing on this particular ma t t e r. CRS DISPATCH Columbus, Ohio March 30, 1962 e , T If there is anything to be feared It Ia cancer.:I hate to read about iti I feel that if ever a cure is dis- eovered it will be the most' wonderfull laboratory accident ever. We give our money wholeheartedly for research~ although we know little about what actual progress has been made. One theory is dissipated: and another pops up. It is the greatest battle ever staged in medical history with a cure apparently as far off as ever. THE SCAhPEL SEEifS STILL THE greatest weapon against cancer. Afost' will agree. I recall the story of the herb doctor high In the Andes who had a concoc- tion thati supposedly could cure skin cancer. The Rockefeller Foundation had representatives there trying to learm what the powder contained. It; would be startling if a cure should come from~ someone like thati Other remedies have come from such sources. I AM ESPECIALLY INTERESTED in~the Herpes Zoster virus because I have had the shingles. I know of 89 other cases and just the other day a man stopped me on the street to ~ aay. he had been hospitalized. So I was a1G ears when~ the West- inghouse awards for young scientists were announced because they ineluded Ions Involved In Discussion Of Smoke Evils were applied to the mouthpiece of the cigaret;, a smoker's ordinary move- ments raise the body to~potentials of hundreds of volts. "ESTABLISHED IN A NUMBER of clinical studies is that positive ions I decrease the vibration frequency of`, the cilia in the mammallam trachea;,; whereas negative ions increase itl an i excess of positive ions (produced! by combustion) has been reported to cause upper respiratory system dis- tress, headaches, malaise; negative had~ a few, minutes discussion between doctbrs on "Cnlendar,"' a morning show with a small- 1sh, audience. Back in 1955 when Edward R. Murrow was still there, CBS did two "See It Now" programs on the con- troversy. In 'all, precioua little time haa been given over to cau- tioning peopll~ hot to s m o ke, especially in view of the hours and hours ot well=paid time giv. en over to trying to wheedle them into smoking by the cig- aret companies. While the cigaret companies still seriously dispute there is any proof cigaretas cause lung cancer, the one point on~which there's nodispute Is that lungcancer is galloping along as a cause of death at~ a g r e a t rate. 'fhia year 34,000 American males aree goingg to die of lungqanccq according to the estl- matesof the American. Cancer Society; the death rate f,or Americanimaless from]ung can-crr will be 34.8:per 100,000 In~ 1962as2 contras.led to 3.8'p e r 100,000 in1930. * * * MEANIFH[LE, the cisare.tt companies are pouring out 157.2'million dollars a year to wheedle you intosmoking- In newspapers, magazines;, bill- hoards,. radio,., and teievision. Whilenewspaperarticlcsand thosce few tiraadcastcd pub- licaffaitsshowsalivays give an industryy spokesman a chance toszate ttre easefor lLe cigaret, nobody asks t h e~~ cigaret industry,for equallime in tticiradswhich might state in small typethat the Amcri- can Canccr.. Society, now holds rnat "ail.l crcidhncedemon- strntUsbrynnd a reasonable doubt that cigaret smokingg is themajor cause of lungg can- cnr in the Unitcd States:" At issue here is failure~ In our commuoications which, is rrally more serious than those 34,000 deaths. ions have relievedithese symptoms:, "The Kingdon experiments indicate that a smoker inhales small ions ati a concentration of about 2x10-5 ionsice: all the time that he is smoking;, this concentration is about one thousand times higher than that found in an ordinary city bedroom~ where there is no smoking: "THE THEORY WOULD HELP'to explain~ why cigarets have been so deeply implicated in lung cancer whereas cigars and pipes have not; both cigars and pipes are much weaker, producers of ions and their smoke is rarely inhaled, The site of lung,eancer connected w•ith, smoking is usually in the lower bronchi; particles that! dif- fvse rapidly, such as the small ions, are more likely to be deposited in the and award to~a chap in Miami; Fla.,bronchi than the slow droplets of who had actually isolated the Herpes,chemicals inhaled' in smoking; Known virus. How happy Ii was to see this from numerous other experiments is high school audent given money and that, electrically charged particles, in encouraged to tt-y and whip the pain, passing through cellular tissues, caus4 ful shingles.: chemical:changes either inithe cells,or i ln e m racel.u I have over 200 letters from shii;glE ar fh_:d, sueh as trans• ii p" patients.,They come in every week. fonming water into hydtogen peroxide.li ,~ "ANOTHER SIG11F'IC:1\T findin F}+~ IT IS F!°ONDERF UL TO READ the g i ~ result of scientific investigation I espe is that numarous experiments have'I cially enjoy the medical magaztnc 11'J. Ea'lod'to give lung cancer to rnice with GO In MD I iearn a sometning r,ew he use of <mnting maehints, possibly for those who smoke cigarets. The old b°`eacse smatt'ibns are removed during argument is on again and this is a new the passage of smoke through the i angle. The article is titled "Smokin cigaret; the mice were thus not ex-Ii and Ions."'Here it'is: posed'to the cloud of ions at the cig• aret tip, although they were exposed i "A NEW THEORY that the glowing to any possible carcinogenic chemicals tip of a cigaret produces ions that are in the smoke." - inhaled, and may be carcinogenic has I been proposed by a General Electric Research Laboratory physicist. "Dr. Kenneth H. Kingdon reported in the British~scientifie.journal Nature I that the small ions generated at the burning tip were greatly increased when~ a few hundred electron-volts NOW LET ME TELL YOU