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'r . Pollution u>~ representative" of the air dur-' the frequency of Iung cancers ing the month-long samplingf during recent decades." period. All can be created As to cigarette smoking, when any' fuel is burned or Dr. Hueper ridiculed claims distilled in many industrial that it causes between 60 and processes. They were injected 96 per cent of all lung can- under the neck skin of thou- cers in males. sands of mice at ~he Cancer He conceded' that quite Institute In Bethesda and at' likely it plays both a direct the University of Southern and iqdirect role. But, he California. : Isaid, it cannot have over • His research was hailed as a to any uniform analysis. Ontyi The $irmingham extracts, Whelming importance In the . Iandmark by Dr. Richard A. a massive assault can inpoint' Dr. Hueper said, caused an face of such factors as p Prindle, medical air pollution the air's cancer potential, he incidence of tumors related '• A lung cancer rate much chief of the Public said HeaIth ,, to the rate of human lun higher among urban than S Service. Air samples were collected cancer there. rural smokers. •: Dr. Hueper said his study in the eight cities, which have He said the pollutants other ~• An upswing In European shows the rate of lung caneer different types and causes of than benzpyrene in the ex- 'ung cancers before cigarette in Birmingham, Ala., triple air pollution, and separated tracts from all eight cities pro• smoking was commona the nattonali average. cori'e• into extracts by E. C. Tabor duced tumors in the mice. • A much greater rate of sponds closely with the level and Eugene Sawicki of the And; he said, the evidence lung cancer among Britons of benzpyrene in its air. PHS Robert A. Taft Sanitary "makes it likely" that pollu• kvho emigrated to New Zea• Birmingham Is thus indi* Engineering Center here. tants of these t'qpes "have land and South Africa than cated to be like the British The extracts were "roughly played an Important role in among the native-born who industriai cities that have a the progressive increase of smoke as much. 'Q similar correlation and also THE WASHINGTON POS T burn coal In large quantities. Washington DC - ,.. TIMES Pawtucket, Rhode Island MAy 7v 196' ood News For TI~e Farmer :f Variation In Cities ~ pollution as a prime cause of Dr. Heuper concluded that lung cancer-and de empha the "atmospheric carctnogenic sizing the role of cigarette spectrum" in American cities {°` t smoking-was reported today . ~~ u; of almost' incredible indi- "^ 'by Dr. W. C. Hueper of the %National Cancer Institute. viduality, varying with local conditions and not susceptible • BenzpTrene in Air : Y May 26j, 1960 Last month PHS said benz- ;. pyrene was in all the air sam- ples It collected in 103 cities. The concentrations were puzzling - Washington's, for example, was higher than in- dustrial Pittsburgti'S. Dr. Hueper told the Air Pol- lution Control Assaciation to- day that benzpyrene was found to be a reliable index to the - eancer danger in the air only in Birmingham. It was found in. lesser - amounts in the other cities studied - Atlanta, Cincinnati, t Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Francisco. But it had no cor- relation with the potency of other cancer - producers in their air or with their lung- cancer rates. Benzpyrene, also cigarette smoke, is By Morton Mintz of many airborne pollutants ~; stafr neaorter :. = thst cause cancer in labora- .CINCINNATI, May 25tory animais and are sus pected to cause it in man: ;:New evidence pointing to air found in only one upi - 62 (TOBACCO) May 10, 1960 ~wh 0 CINCINNATI -- A SURVEY INDICATES TAAT A NON-SMOKER'IN A BIG CITY INHALES MORE OF A o CAEMICAL SUSPECTED OF CAUSING LUNGCANCERTHAN A PACKAA --DY SMOKER IN TfiE SUBCJRBS, A SCIEN'ITIST SAID YESTERDAY . CIGARETTES MAY, or may not, be the air would inhale as much benzpyrene as from cause of cancer of the lung. Doctors and re- smoking two or more packages of cigarettes searchers do not' know the role of cigarettes in the cancer problem, but that fact did not deter a cigarette smoker from seeking dam- ages from a cigarette manufacturer whose product was cited in the background of lung cancer surgery. The court did not hold with the cigarette smoker. The court could not do otherwise, because the United States Public Health Service has found a suspected cause for can- ter in the air we breathe, not only in the cig- arette smoke we inhale. In the air of 103 American cities researchers have found a sub- stance called benzpyrene. It is so abundant in some cities, that an inriividupl brea+hing such daily. Where does this perilous substance come from? It comes mainly from the burning or distilling of fuels in furnaces. The average city dweller inhales air that is 16 times more p o 11 u t e d with benzpyrene than the air breathed by the rural dweller. If the farmer finds the air he breathes is less polluted than the air consumed by his city cousin will he be more satisfied with hix lot, which is not so bad, what with crop sub- sidies and allotments for taking land out of production and the multitude of other farm benefits which cost the rest of us taxpayers $6 billion annually. DR. EUGENE' SAWICKI OF THE' ROBERT A. TAPT~ SANITARY ENGINEERING CENTER IIERE, REPOR7ED C4 ON' RFSULTS OF AN 18-MONTH PRELIMINARY S'IUDY OF' THE BENZPYRENE CONTENT OF' THE AIR IN ~ 103 CITIES AND 28 RuRAL AREAS. co BENZPYRENE IS BELIEVED T0 COME FROM THE INCQMPLETE BURNING OF FUELS, WASTE MATERIALS, ~ AND OTHER COP4BUSTIBLE SUBSTAIVCES IT ALSO IS'ASSOCIATED WITH TARRY SUBSTANCFS ., SAWICKI SA'ID A PACK-A-DAY SMOKER INHALES ABOUT 60 MICROGRAMS OF THE CHEMICAL PER YEAR, WHILE THE AVERAGE NONSMOKER HERE WOULD INHAIE ABOUT THE SAM -E AMOUNT. HE SAID AN AVERAGE NON-SMOKER WOULD BE A PERSON WHO WORKS IN A CITY AND LIVES IN A ~ SUBURB. A PERSON' WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN THE' DOWNTOWN AREA WOULD INHA.LE MORE', HE SAID.