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FOLE-BEA(a0N r 'sT~ lJj Wicliita, Kansas r March 20, 19E<" 0 , MeLemore's Mvsings Most doctors I know drive big t - n c 0 RCS ma y o n acco. aa;.inne able. ~s I east uty lot with the ath- rrsY cigaret I' ever smoked . I, have read how skin d9ven ~~°' for, the last, twenty. " ad f' II t t b -T 7m " backs or resorting to thr dog HEJfRY M ' E7L>!^tf ,~le`lY~ Keep Srroz~Jcing1 UntiJ'Atfiletes Qiuut ~a°~einclii,ed to fet, and couldn'rt swim the length of a pool without reating on their Not '1He vilrweed did it to me." yygEN I READ the find- . not been far a lhst long eool, ~t only to rnv to l me, unes: as a whole; • heart and. me, or a s aer , P n J gives out more pion would have lost h s nerve ~g and what a com[ort it is; awerves oft a slope ahouting, i smoke a day. ~ on the top of the c5ute had it falls down at the plate a vfc- naoe in Pittsburgh that pound 1 and icture thata rodeo cham+ at trapnti°°tmgn tfm of nirnt k for d p As I wrlte thia l am amok- ou l en°king until~ a baseball' star ' fng chimney. There isn't a fur- I have been told i by word ' 1°m• or lyt fifty out of fifty ' I am going to. continue I I oday I am a mobile, talk- . giant eeC ' gf'~ gatea m a downhill sla- ad i a ddans it they choose. 1 a incH. fight an octopusJ a mermaid amUrig at home,plate, or turn r e up un was calm nerves and t e sttengt i could circle the bases without. I:et'others go withthe ph3•- willing,to anoke any brand in to pierce the, deeps and out- was a Vwlet Milo, and from . thanked a Fortunate Blow for that I wo k d tii I I know of no doctor who h i oun e o ow a r s m n ene t ~ aakin Physieiansaf.England'~ontHe a thr. ut or peoplewho ope. I have en8orsed~, aree skil~ jumpers who~ would g for more. ' dangexa of. smoking,. Ifth'e Let them~worrynot;.4lhey'll cigarets torr years. not dAre riske takingoft into'5ndings are tnue... f' should gbmeof the healthiest peo- space without a final puff of ~~ more. hfylastact..in life, have been dead forty years ple, in the world, to judge by . a cigaret; and' that hockey ' I am sune, will be to reach ago, for I have tieen a chain•, the advertisements, are smok- players are crounting on a deep fOp~hgon doctorsfmateh. smoker since I was ten em inhalation of tobacco to pro. Give me men - athletes - ~I ~ rte~~ ~bbitreto- • I have seen pictures of ]im, v_ide mhem with the calmness,; who are men enough to smoke bacco," a grayish~ weed that ' berjaeks, high on a swaying - needed to face the flying pu¢k: and stillibreak records. tree, proclaiming that only aahen wrapped in wrapping puff-o'f'-a'-"DMreedaTy enabied AS A' CONSTANT smoker' Unitha, P cho~Gonaeles,hand paper. proved a most fragranY them to keep a iclear head and I reason this way,: Mickey ManUe, e o m e out smoke. - firm spike while working at I have yet to see a doctor Afterr that I. progressed'.d tbagainst~-cigarets, I aHall eon< coffee„tea. dried grape leaves~ the most dangerous work.k or a Royal Physician, w•hof ~ueto,puff away. ' : was as healthy as an athlete. . i, m en am wor g,9nyThey seem to, thank.me forhave readlsome horrible find- Physiciaru, I started casting, .tMrd pack in a,day, it mm, tt, I ean almost hear them inga by the Royal College of'" tht th ~ f h f d 1n fo t t k • . nervous system~~.in, .particular... IN.THE~~PA'ST~~two~wecks~..I'.ings. of~~..th'e sugust~.Coilege of, "'''c `~ I," ~ j~"° ,~' '1HE STATE' JC)1DRNAL Frankfort, Kentucky May 2CD, 1962 C~ntroversy -Over Po~ss~'i ~le Link In Smo ' , Lung Cancer Flia.res .- By. DONALD . F:. BOLLES md eontradictionsb government, estimstes. Two.- tineiaeigarettes :.consideratily. LEXINIU'poN (i1.°t-A eonti•o, With 1961 cigarette sales up 4.2 years later; it was down 6.S'per u. K, gwdy veray over a pos_?ble link be; per cent in the nation over 1960, cent to 368.7 billion:, treen i lung , caccer and smoking', and experts figuring on the same Then sales started , elimbingAstudy by the . University of has 6ared up again. increase , in IHet• the :wotro.er_ry, steading and i am now S2!9 per Kentucky tobacco eenter, showed lt eame at an iiooic tana-as, is being watched closely by fadus- cent above the 19sf trough: that nicotine eonteot in cigarettes the tobacco industry, marked, . the . ti'Ay leaders. Had ERect In England has . dropped from aa former aver- 350th anniversary of', ihe, plantiag It is of', special interest, to the ~ British re )rt' had its ef. age of over 2;5 per cent to be, of tobacco seeds in America by burley tobacco growers centered r tween 1.9 and 2 per ceat, an avea John Rolfe. around Keotacky,. wtw~have past'feotia Eogland... Cigarette. sales age ot. 1.5: Sixty milliow Atnereana we pocketed a record I tnt01.7 million have dropped sharply. One manu- Health controversy aside, the ooanted in the ranks of cigarette from, the 1961i crop and, look for facturiitg firm put workers oa i tobacco industry today has ooe smokers this year. They give, a some W5 million1 this year. half-pay. 'worry and one hope. It'voiees coo- slight edge to filter cigarettes but The British physicians found' cern that 16 states iocreased eig- the trend is not as strong as in Smoken Spead rf.S BWlioa "a great deal of evidence" that, arette taxes last year-tbe Agri-- cigarette smoke is an iin rtant were best ~~t The, US. Agriculture Ikpart. cause of lung caneer. Tbey~ sug- ~~~~~°~ that y ment estimatedlAmericans smok-.- gest that tobacco may prodiice that aMi4obacoo legtslation, is leitlsi GM Lde Act ed 488.6 billion cigarettes in 1961, chronic irritation which would p~sed ini Maeaaebusetti< and bIDi th i b t' ' ou on imore an a - 15.4, f n , increase the chances o getting other statea. ( Ia i the 950th year, of tobacco 196D. For all tobacxro; snwkers cancer- %„¢ouiog in Amrrica, the august' spent $7.5 billion. The Tobaeeo Industry Research British Royal College of Ptiysio• It remains to be seen whether Committee says the report' should l.ns amciudedi "Cigarette smok• the British report will have the read that further research i is, , Ing is a cause of hmg cancer:" same effect on eigarette smokina seoeasary to tie cancer and eig- This brought a i quick retort hete as did the original reports arette smoking; from the tobacco isdustry re- of a hmg cancer link: If nicotine is the lting', caneer searclk committee: '71he report' In 1968, just before the health w7)ain, as some researchers con- la- a revien of old, and ineon- controversy took hold, coasumis t'e nid, American mamofaeturers elusive data." and fuB of botes, tian was 3N.1, b'illion according have reduced the amount of oico.