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Life Away ~ByJOHN CROSBY ALMOST 10 years after the American Cancer Society i>t- sued, its report linking cigaret amoltiag and, lung cancer, the '.lBriusfi Royail' „--,exv%}, College oE Physicians. has reported flatty; that' "ttigaret' smoking ts the', cause of' lung, pneer."' While! abitlate on the, scene,, the Brit• ish h'ave, react: ~ ed far, mor~e vigorously than Ctosby .we did. The Conservattve govern- i:} :.•i ment pledged It will do all in - in th Bit its powertor acquater• lsh public with,the dangers of smoking. The British Ministryof' Health has already h uin g - throughout, Great Britain ~ great sig~ -•hidiread: "DA13GERt 1~Ie zigaret smokers are, 30 times more likely to die of lung cancer than non-smokers. You have been warned:" The BBC.* immediately held _. a good many discussion pro- grams airingthe: linkingg of smokmg with lung cancer. The NewStatesman . commenttwd ~ dryly that. "thee cigaret: eom- had a fewminutesw discussion between doctors on "Calendar." a morning show with a small- ish audience.. Back in 1955 when Edward R. Murrow ;was still there, CBS ditl, ttvo 'Sce, It Iitow° programs on the con- troversy. In 'all, -preeious little time has been given over, to cau; tloning people not to s m o k e. especially in view of the hours and houcs of',welhpaid time giv- en over, to.trying to wheedle them into smoking by the cig- aret companiee. While the eigaret compatuea still scriously dispute there Is any. proof'.f cigaretY cause lungg eaneer, the one point on which there's noo dispute: Is thatt lung cancer is . gnllbping , along as acauseof death at a.a gx..eaiL rate. This year 3+1,OD0 American males are goingg to.dieof lUng Oaneer, according to thre esti- mates of the American Cancer Society; the death rate f oir American males . from lung . can- cer willi be:35.8 per 100,000 in 1962! as contrasted . to 318 p er100,000'in 1930. * * * MEANWHILE, the cigaret companies are ~~ pouring out pan, es3 nave ..+.6"• •~.r 15T2 million dbllarss a: year to point a deville advocate:"totvheedlr you into smoking, - appear on ihese:e pro„rams andd in neq•spApcr,., magazines,, bill- went.onto suggest,that il the},oards„ radioo andl television. BBC ever had a~ debate on While, newspaperarticlesr and while, slavery, 'thee industry' those: fewbroadcastetf p,ub- ahowldbe.represented."' lic affaitss showsalwayss give. In short. the: athtude Is far en industryspokesman a more honest;.vigorous, and out•chanee tosiate the casee for spoken, than ourown, aV leastt the ci,garct, nobody askss t hi e on the otficiall level. ciqaret industry for equal time 't * *. In thcirads which might . state THE cigarcf companies are in smalt' type th'at: the Atneri- among the largest advertisers can Canccr Society now holds in this country, Naturally; no: thnt "all evidencedemon- one,is going out of his way to stratcs beyondl a reasonable offend them. The newapapers ;doubt that cigaret smoking is have reported' the ciKarei-lung. „memajor causeof' lungg ean- caneer link, which seems be- car in1tlie United States:"' yond reasonaWee doubt,: fairty At issue- here is failureln forthriti;.hlly tat:le:+st the onesour communications which is I.read)I and then drop;pod the: n.allvmonrse~rioueithan ttioaa matter. ~ has network TY' done 34,000 deaths. to aint.t the publicc afaf menace to their health?, The American Broadcasting,Co:,and the:. National . Broadcasting , Qo:. have done exactly nothing on this particular m ia t t e r, CBS e're Puffing NOW LET ME TELL YOU a Ions Involved In Discussion Of Smoke Evils If there is anything to beieared it were:applied to tbe mouthpiece of the 1g txncen I'hate to read aboutitt cigaret'i a, smoker's ordinary molve+ I feel that if' ever a cure is dia• ments raise the body to potentials of covered it will,be the most,wonderful hundreds of'volts: Lboratory' aocident ever. "ESTABLISHED IN'A' NUMBER of We give our money wholeheartedly clinical studies is that' positive, lons for reeeareh although we know little decrease the vibration frequency of' about' what,actual progress has been the cilia in the mammalian tiachea~, made. One theory is dissipated and whereas negative ions increase itt ani another' pops up. It is the greatest excess of positive ions (produced by' battl• ever staged in medieai,h)story comtiustion)' has been reported to, vith a itvre apparently iis far off as ever. cause upper respiratory, system , dis- ?>IE SCALPEiw SEEM5 ST1Q„I. THE tress, headaches, malaise; negative' greatest weapon against cancer. Most ions have relieved these symptoms. will agree. "The Kingdon experiments indicate', I recall the story of the herb doctor that a smoker inhales small ions at a high in the Andes who had a concocr concentration of about 2x11D5 ions/cc. tibn that sup,posedly could cure skin all the time that he is smoking; this, cancer. The Rockefeller Foundation concentration is about one thousand, bad representauves there trying to times higher than that found in ani learn what the powder contained. It' ordinary city bedi•oom where there is, would be startling if' a cure should no smoking. come from someone like', tha4 Other "THE THEORY WOULD HELP to remedies have comefrom suchisourcesh explain why cigarets have been so I A.1i, ESPECIALLY Ih"rERESTED deeply impllieatedi in lung cancer in the Herpes Zoster virus because I whereas cigars and pipes have not; have had the shingles. I know of' 89, both cigars and'pipes are much weaker other cases and just the other day a,prod'ucers of ions and their smoke is man stopped me on the atreet'to say rarely inhaled. The site of lung cancer he had been, hospit+ilized. connected with smoking is usually in So I was all ears when the West. the lower bronchi; particles that dif: inghouse,awards for young scientists 'fuse rapidly, such as the small ions, were announced because theyincluded are more likely to be deposited in thee and award to a, chap in Miami. F1a., bronchi thani the slow droplets of who had, actually isolated the Herpes chemicals inhaled in smoking. Known virus. How happy I was to see this from numerous other experiments is higti sehool ;tudent e ven money and that electrically charged particles, in encouraged to try and,whip the pain passing through cellular tissues, cause ful shingles, chemical changes either in the cells or. I have over200'letters fromishingle in the intracellular fluid. such as trans- paUentk: They come in every weekL forming water into hydtlogen peroxide. IT7S WONDERFUL TO R'EAD, the . "A\DTHER SIGNIFICANT finding result'of scientafic investigation. I espe Is that numerous experiments have oially enjoy the medical magazine MD. failed to give lung cancer to mice with In MD I learned something new the use of smoking,machines, possibly for those who smoke cigarets. The old because small ions are removed during argument is on again and this is a new the passage of' smoke through the an e: The article is titled "Smokin cigaret; the mice were thus not ex- ~ ~-$ posed,to the cloud of ions at the cig- and Ions." Here it is: areG tip, although they were exposed "A NEW'TIIEDRY that'the glowing tb any possible carcinogenic chemtcalt tip of a cigaret produces ions that are,in the smoke." inhaled and' may be carcinogenic, has been proposed by a General Electric Research Laboratory physici'st: "Dr. Kenneth Hl Kingdbn reported itt:the British scientific.journaliNature that the small ions generated at the burning', tip were greatly increased when a few hundred etectron-volts v