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...~~ s . ., .~ --v -^I Paint `(irim Pietur~e ?` 1 ~ t . .. .• .; _ i ~ _.... . .. . . ..~ .. ..:1 . .. . - .a " - ... z., .. .-.. :1~- A> March 7)__~19'62 11 L BLADE ,. J ;!Toledo, TOhi~o. . .,, .~~,. ;ritish Doctors Say Smoking rla 461 Cause Of Lung Cancer . * It said heavy cigarette smok- smking. It said czgarette advertising u e o ~~ ancy can • beattr as smoking «s~ v r•- ~~ r .:i.~.; : is of such general importance, the' difference ' in life expect- t d t ib w , ne e t n an and ,substances met in, a few one oecupations;" the report said. Theneport notkd that'nnt alli "hTone of these (other causes) Have 30Tim~s Death Rate Of Mon-Smokers , .;...-; . ~ ~. _ 4~ . ' l iRp# Hy ':=.,e©reaw Cigarette Users Might 1, 1 ~v'~q ~' U!f~' ~ A}1~ LA'h1DOhT, March • 7, (Reu- ~ ~e chance of dying in' I T h e uadustry's committee ; ters) - Smoking is a majt~rLthe next 10 years for a man said things which need looking ;,';cause of lung cancer, a Royal of 35' who smokes heavily is into are personal and' environ- '.Coldega of Physicians and Sur-` one in 23; the risk for a non• mpntal' conditions of persons smoker is one in 901 who contract lung cancer or : geons committee said today in . six who is ~ One man in ronc i is e ef ects of ai b h t th f , r •a longauva~ited report, amoker; one 35 is a heav ti ll ri f l th h d po y w e arm u on an er u -> The nine-member comrnittee,, ' set up in A~pril, 1959, was.of' every three heavy smok- substances could be pinned ~ iheaded by royal col1egee pres- ers will die before 85: down and removed from to- ~ The risk of dying of']ung bacco. , ~" ident Sir Robert Platt. „ ' cancer for a smoker of' 25 or f l ~. -+t. . i~ t.. Ar S : fr{'syry X a`R ung moig S s a cause o h tliere are otner more cigarettes daily is one th oug cancer, causes, such as air pollution in 14between ages 35 and 74 eea 35 b t i u d p death in smokers, mainly cig- proach, to these problems." arette smokers, t h a n non- The tobacco men said more smokers, it said. research is needed and more- ' Smoking delays healing of over "there ss a growing, body gastric and duodenal ulcers as of evidence that smoking has well,, the report, said. pharmacological and psycho- It painted this picture of•life logical effects that are of real expectancy for cigarette smok- value to smokers." ers: . demnation of cigarette srnok • are a more frequent cause of ,ing is not a constructive a - ~ e nves ga . cs n e d c The committee was charge with inquiring into the relation Tobacco lndustry between l;xng cancer and other ~4i ailments and sn*_oking. asaila Doctors' Report Arterial Disorders The tobacco industi y qnmck- IK said smoking could cause rly counter - attacked with~ a -bronchidis, might help develo charge that the case against p".cigarettes was not proven• ment of' tuberculosis, especi- • A committee set up by the I ally in the aged, and appeared. tobacco industry in 1!956' to pro- to play a role in causing ar- ; mote researchi into the effects terial disorders other than high of smoking on health corn- blood pressure• menrted that a "general con- ' Cononary h e a r t conditions ' death nate, „ iin Britain and that purchasers Some means of persuading be informed of the tar, and ~ cigarette smokers to stub out nicotine content of cigarette t a their cigarettes before the sec. ond half was burned' would al~ srnoke. most certainly reduce t h e The committee suggested risk," it said, that the valiae of anti-sirloking, ~ tI t d l' n i b i rpnr n r g po There was a bright spot' in steps to educate the public, the report for smokers in the especially children, on hazards United States. T h e British of smoking and to restrict ta smoke their butts down farther bapco advertising, it said• than the Americans, it said, tional It ~s° tax, be urged that an addi- nd have a higher lwng, cancer slapped on al~ a ready heavily-taxed cigarettes a t ~ The government' should take t I R B ht S l Cigarette smokers, it said, arer"romantic" line apparently to much niore affected!than pipelwoo younger persons "not yet• ".or cigar smokers. ; ad'dicteV" ers might' have 30 times the ; : death rate as non-smokers.' in Britain had . shifted to . a, ~ r 4