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4 i t u., . cancer-tendencies received some attention from the U. S. press. •. . ,. _,. .. A British study which suggested personality traits as a possible clue to , r staying up longer and gen SOME L('~f~ IT UP • erally living it up more:" the re ort Smoker s P e rso n a I i t ~ ncluded eOmlay thus have - Y a low ered resistance to dis ~ ee n , 1ease or become exposed to .condit'ions that could direct ,Ty cause cancer. n ey to, Cac~r May 14 f1N--A~introverted as pipe smokers LONDOV' , . S might be prone to cancer be- .cause they generally "live it up"' more than non-smokers. A report in the British Medieal Journal said the key to the smoking-cancer con- troversy may be personalit'y. Smokers and non-smokers ~ ~'; - are t w o totally different ,\ types and have different per- sonallt'ies the report said. It ~ suggested a man's personali- ~}\ ty, rather than the amount of tobacco he consumes. may ' make him more--or less- ~.. prone to cancer. Spend Year on Study The report was compiled• ~ ;. by four research workers, led by Dr. H. J. Eysenck of the ~ Institute of Psychiatry, who ~ kpent' a year studving the smoking habits of 7,UC(; ~ ' Britons. _ ~':This is how they classified ~ . the subjects according to personality: are_tte smokers - the most extroverted and hearty. Pipe smokers-the mobt introverted' and preoccupieu with themselves, gett'ing sat- isfaction with inner thoughts "-"an& fancies. Non-smokers - 1\'early as TIt'4ES Lcs Angeles, California. May 15, 1960 and the personality of the smoker, the British Medical Journal reported today. Cigaret smokers tend to be extroverts, "living it up," while pipe smokers as a rule are more in- trospective, the Journal said after weighing evidence gath- ® s i'V g:: Y~ ~ 1 q{. ..Z y a. - ~ yp'~ vealed no proof that smoking causes lung cancer but deII- nit'ely has connected smoking h x NEW YORK DAILY NEWS New York, New York Ma,y 14, 1960 f London, May 13 (UPI),- A new c:garette study has re- ;i A New Slant On Smoking ered in an investigation of " 2,350 men. In between the two types of smokers, said the re- port, are ex-smokers-almost all of whom are neurotics. r a_. 4 a+ . , British research team sug-II Ex-smokers - the most gested' today that smokers;;nervous; likely to chew en- p cils and bite their nails. The report said it may be that "extroverts live at am accelerated rate, drinking hard'er, smoking harder, liv- ing more irregular lives, 0 r