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CfLICAGO DAILY NEWS hicago, Illinois ~ri1 16, 1962 _ • ~ i ht Lun;g Ca r~cer Weigh ~~ igare tScr~~-e to Fg the czample otl sonme cif, hrs felr -I he one t6at' has attracted the Lr.S. ConsideirS Con in~r i"Y L~ low scientihtF. He still smokes . •moNt popular response was in- ~ ' cigarers, nut nas swucneot w rrt- trodti~:edi by Sen. Maurine Neu- UICbp ~ 3 Cl1Cr+fWn~1 ~.aII1p'c`~1'bI1S ter tips• berKer (D-Ore:)„ whose late hu,- * * * band hau c neer a n d who a BY WILLIAM MCGAFFIN THE INEW' carcinogenesis r went a canc~r c tlv d c en un er Of Our.61!ashington Bureau branch Endicottt has established operation herself. ' ute WASHIINGTOI`'-U.S. officials are trying to iiecide whether at the [`lational Cancer Instit will he headed by Dr. Paul Kotin Six senetors have joined as ru- u~ a cigaret scare, such as that now raging in Europe, is the best of' the Uniiversitv of Southern sponsors of her resoltttion, which way to combaC the rising incidence of lung, cancer. ('aliifornia, would do two things: " "Without' question, excessive Atmospheric pollution, radia- -Request President Kenncdr, cigaret, smoking,is a major factor : THE UhTIN4A7•F. ,olution tiion and the effects of tobacco to inaugurate an aggresite in the rise of' lung, cancer," for the problem. he .ugg,e.t.. will he studied in the rrost con- health education campaign on saidi Dr. Kenneth M. FEndicotc may he to findl a way to "make centrated program of this kind ~'ho uOnnnccliI tro bitween smol:in; director of'ttoe National Cancer ,moking safe." ever undertaken at'the institute. and rancer. °ln.stitute. ''Fam also convinced : This is one.of the things * * * ---Set up a prc.iulential corn+ that it is not the only cause.•" that witl' be studied in a . I:NiD1COTT'S intiecisionon a mititee to study and make rec- He thinks that the various stepped-up research Prn• , • cmurcc rnf^actiion regarding cig- ommendations to thc President ' on how t h e toha.:cu indu,tin- anti-smoking experimcnrs nou ;.-m Endieptt has or- ' anets i: nnt shared by all govern- in iiperataon or unden consider- ganized. might be affected. :und on wicN mcnt officials or by some mEmr rofilems as tohauc,~ n ation in Britain, Italy. Den- p R~^i'~~L: mank and Sweden should hc The cigaret companies them- hers of Congress: distribution and ad~~~rt~i,m . selves already•are making a ma=' Three legislative proposals t1THI-:1i IIID1 A;c x,ti+r!t ,I,~ closelN. watched. But ' he is jor effonC in this field, he said!; . for dealing with the problem have `""```+ in ~""en"n~ent eircle~: franklv puzzled as to whut . uld be done in the Unitcd A hurd-driving man inihis M144 been advanced recently: -Ruttin, a liimit' on uhe. ~ 4tD.. F..nJlcott has not followe.i am~~tr:~t of tar and nicotine in : es. cig:nrets. -A requirement that ciFarct cumpanies must plaster a warn- ing label on every package of .l'1"'7tr1`tN: . THE EVENING STAR Was:hington,, D.C. April 13, 1962 . ~. S~n~o~Crng Tie, to Cancer- Affirmed, llSc ien#ist~ Say ~~s founat smoxuix uo oe conatso= when shires of iDnited States By WILLIAM GRIDCe1' ently relatedi ta, the ineidence tobacco companies are already Star etatt wruer of lung cancer. shaky on the New York Stock. Persons who smoke a pack of, cigarettes or more a day But they also found that for- Exchange. A recent price de- y~ttn 16' times as great a, chance of getting lung cancer as do eign-born and farm-born per- cline has been blamed on news nonsmokers, the director of an exhaustive Federal survey of sons who move to cit'ies had from Great Britain. There, the lung cancer victims said last night. , higher rates of' lung cancer Royal College of' Physieians is- William Haenszel said in an interview, here that the stirvey' than'' other poptilation groups sued a 70Lpage report thatt a'ith th lif e same eonfirmed t,he cigarette-lung-cancer link indicated in earlier etilne smek-• linked smoking with lung can- sthid'2es. He said it also; how-' The Government's research- ing habits. oer, tuberculosis, heart disease ever, appeared tb eonfJit t with ' No definite reason; has been and bronc , tts: some stiudies linking air pollu- -ers lntervieiwied the fsmililes established for this circum-. ~ tion to the disease:, or friends of-li0 per cent of all stance. Further research~ Dr. Mr. Haenzel is chief of' the ~rsons known to have died of Haenszel said, should' be done biomet'ry branch otl the Fed- lung cancer in the United in this group. This hlgh lung eral Govetztment's National. States during 1958. They not' cancer group has had less ex_, .' Cancer Institute in Bethesda, only checked for a link be- posure to air pollution and, Iie dlrected' the survey, wlth tween the victim's smoking-probably, less exposure to Donald B. hovelandi of thehabits and lung cancer but also viruses than, lifelong city National! Health Survey and' for a link between the vict'irn'$ dwellers. ,Montbe Sirken of' the Vital birthplace and residences and •~e Federal' survey ys being .Statistirs Division of the Pub-;, ~e disease. ;pubtishedi In this month's issue 11ic Health Service. In every population division,.~~of't'he Journal, of the National + wtoether rural or urban, they/: Cancer Institute at' a time