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EAGLE-BEACON Wichita, Kansas C March 20, 1962 McLemore's Musings ")O'bny yy39 He'll Keep Smaking Until Athletes Quit B9 HENRY hicLElIfORE and, finally,, to lohaceo.- Ttve ima^inable. " ,. I cast my lot with the ath- ' first cigaret L ever smoked I have read how skin divers letes, was a Violet Milo, and from , thanked a Fortunate Blow for that I worked up until I was calm nerves and the strength Leeothers go with the Phy- i willing to smoke any brand in to pierce the deeps and out- eicians if they choose. ; a pinch, fight am octopus, a mermaid, I am going to, continue I Today I am a mobile, t.zlk- , and a giant'~ eel. smoking until a baseball star ; Ing chimney. There isn't a:fur- I have been told by word falls down at the plate, a vic- ~ nace in Pittsburgh that, pound I and picture that a rodeo chanY« tim of nicotine,, or a sl.rer ,:for pound, gives out more pion would'have lost his nerve . swerves off a slope shouti ng, smoke a day. _~ on the top of the chute had it "The vilt+ weed did it to me' "~' IyIIEN I READ the find- not been for a last long, cool, . of the au drag on a North Carolina. IN THE PAST two weeks I mgs gust College of Wjlen I am working qn my have read some horrible find- Physicians, I started castutg • third pack in a day, it com- ings by the Royal College of about for hope. I found it in forts me to know that'~ there Physicians of England on the the people who have endorsed are ski jumpers who would dangers of smoking. If the cigarets for years. not dare risk taking off into ' findings are true, I should Some of the healthiest peo- space without a final puff of have been dead forty years ple in, the world, to judge by a cigaret, and that hockey ago, for I have been a chain: the advertisements, are smok- players are counting on a deep , smoker since I was ten. ers. inhalation of tobacco to pro- I started with what we in I have seen pictures of lum- vide them with the calmness : C;eorgia called "rabbit to- -, berjacks; high on a swaying - needed to face the flying puck. baceo," a grayish weed' that, tree, proclaiming that only a when wrapped in wrapping put`f oF a Droraedary enab;c.d AS A CONSTANT smoker, paper, proved a most fragrant them to keep a clear head and I reason this way: smoke. - firm spike while working at I have yet to see a doctor, After that I progressed to tha most dangerous work , or a Royal Physician, who ~ coffee, tea, dried'e grape leaves was as healthy as an athlete. C and contradictions. to government estirrtates. Two With 1961 cigarette sales up ^..2 years later, it was down 6.5 per per cent uL the nation over 1960, cent to 368.7 billion. and experts figuring on the same Then salrs started climbing increase in 1562, the controversy steading and are now 32.9 per is being watched closely by indus- cent above the 1954 trougti. try leaders. Had Effect In Fngiand It' is of special interest to the The British rep.)rt had its ef- burley tobacco growers centered feet in England. Cigarette sales around Kentucky, who have just have dropped sharply. One manu- pocketed a record $401.7 million factur' firm from the 1961' crop and look for "'g put workers on some $•425 million this year. half•pay: The British physicians found Smokers Spend $7.5 Billion "a great deal of evidence" that . cigarette smoke is an important The UsS. Agriculture Depart- cause of lung cancer. They sug- ment estimated Americans smok- gest that' tobacco may produce ed 488.5 billion cigarettes in 1961 chronic irritation which would. --about 18.4 billion more than in increase the chances of getting 1960. For all tobacco, smokers cancer, spent $7.5 billion. . The Tobacco Industry Research It remains to be seen whether Committee says the report should the British report will have the read that further research is, same effect' on cigarette smoking necessary to tie cancer and cig-- here as did the original reports arette smoking, of a luag cancer link. If nicotine is the lung cancer In 190, fust before the health villain, as some researchers con• controversy took hold, consump- t e n d, American maaufacturers' THE STATE JOURNAL ~ Frankfort, Kentucky ~ May 20, 1962 ~ W Controversy Over Possible Link In Smoking, Lung Cancer Flares By DONALD F. BOLLES LEXINGTON (AP)^A contro- versy over a possible link be- tweea lua?g c.ancer and smoking has @a:2d up again. It caim at an iroaic ttme-as lhv tobacro ir.dur;try rnarked' ts,e 350th anniversary of the planting of tobacco seeds in America by John Rolfe. Sixty million Americans are counted in the ranks of cigarette smokers this year. They give a slight edge to filter cigarettes but the trend is not as strong as in recent years. Cigar sales last year were the best since 1923. British Get Int. Act C In the 35oth year of tobacco ;rowing in America, the august British Royal College of Physio- ians concluded: "Cigarette smok- ing is a cause of lung caacer." This brought a quick retort from the tobacco industry re- search committee: "Tbe report in. a review of old and iacon- clusive data." and full of holes Most doctors I know drive big cars, are inclined' to fat, and couldn't swim the length of a pooliwithout resting on their backs or resorting to the dog paddle for the last twenty.. yards. I know of no doctor who could circle the bases without fainting at home plate, or turn ' fifty gates in a downhill sla- lom, or lyt fifty out of, fifty at' trap-shooting. As I write thi's I am smok- Ing, and what, a comfort it, is. Not only to me, as a whole, - but to my.lungs, heart and nervous system in particular. They seem to thank me for it. I can almost hear them asking for more. Let them worry not. They'll get more. My last, act in life, I am sure, will, be to reach for a cigaret and a matchi Pooh on doctors! Give me men - athletes - who are men enough to smoke and still break records. Until Roger Maris, Johnny Unitas, Pancho Gonzales, an& Mickey Mantle c o m e out against'cigarets, I shall con- tinue to puff away. . 1 ~ ~. ~ tine in cigarettes considerably.~ U. K.. Study A study by the University of Kentucky tobacco center showed that nicotine content in cigarettes has dropped from a former aver- age of over 2.5 pee cent to be- tween 1.3 and 2 per cent, an aver- age of 1.5. Health controversy aside, the tobacco industry tod$y has one ' worry and one hope. It voices con- cern that 16 states increased cig- arette taxes last year-the Agri- culture Department said that slow- ed buying in some states-and that anti~tobacco legisiation is proposed in Massachusetts and ,other..states. tion was 394.1 billlun according have reduced the amount of ntco- _,