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t ra s y - ~!+ ;>< i e hNx': ~.> NEW YORK NEWS - New York, New York Januax3='16; 1g60 ~ a;ti1• ,f.m i ''.HEAB, BOTH SIDES, 'SENATURS . t 1N 2~ ?i 7 i ~~'~1 Yw •., ~ ~ Students at' Staples High School, Westport; Conn., were r' treated this week to a scare le t ith ie 1 '' . c ure, w mov s, by Nea York cancer researcher Dr. *Ernest Wynder on the alleg ed connection betwe en lun c n d i r i 2,?}}>«Kyti (.~' ~. . .~~ c , R . g a cer an c ga et,.smok ng. The Staples Student Senate 'now plans to review at its ~ next meeting its rather liberall rules regarding smoking on : school property. h L`iguret :..,;Our tip to the Staples Senators, and to l school' students eve rywhere who have-to listen~ Dispute ~N' to cancer-and-cigaret propaganda :- Insist on hearing the other side of the ar gument before you do any thing about it. ~ 'The other side is that.no laboratory experiment yet re ~` ported has shown cigarets to have given lung cancer to any +.~ :. human being; that the cigaret-cancer theory is based en- tirely on statistics. This side of the argument is upheld by at least as many, and as respectable, cancer students "' as is the claim that the cigaret is the big villain in the lung-cancer melodrama. ' `- ^' r r " '} , .. . . . ~ .. ~ .A.4,_ , . . 1 ton D C W hin THE WASFIINGTON DAILY NEWS 3 :4> ~:~a . •?F Q !a`'sS7~~~~ ~ ~~j,~s~: . fi , t FebruaxY 17.,19 :~. d i ± ~~Scientific Snipe Hunt ONE nice thing about science: sonie erage longei than those dropped by the times its laboriouslv discovered middle and lower cIasses. , truths are sel•f-evidentt to the non-scien- purpose of the coilection• to inquire J{'' : tists• But, self-evid'ent or not, they have into the relat'ionship of butt length to io be p2•oved. So two New York doctors the incidence of lung cancer. The doctors went cigaret butt hunting in~ four Cana- reported, in the Journal of the Canadian dian cities. They discovered: a. - Medical Association, that there might' ~ • Cigaret butts left in department be some connection. store washrooms tend to be longer than They picked up 6428 butts in the ~ those left in transportation depots. course of their researches and must be ~ Sometimes planes, trains and buses are given high marks for industry. It seems, ~-, a long time coming. however, they might have employed a • Average length of filter-tip butts couple of professional bums for this ia greater than non-filter butts. Ever chore. It wouldn't have cost more than a 4 b ~ couple of bucks or the bums might have ~ '~_' try smokmg one of those filters . done it free, in the interest of science, t Butts left by the uppei• clacgex av- provided they got to keep the butts.