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. e Fa.t; S11r'y k~ t, ^WS t3 ~~ rti~1~ t~~~S,. {i ~i ~,~~lt Nfateriel on tobaQCO and health was iven the author of this artieLe g ~ 4 iJ..:~ F~ ~ `a + '' 1 + J U { The scientifia world i ; -Action Suggested +y~ LQS ANGELES TIMS'}; has been cutious in l f} y,i v~ longa This actian, he says in a ~ ~ California t y'k i, Los Angeles, tc ` cure forgancer1 1Ve sF owld' recent issue of the Amerl-- y -'October 20, 1959 can Journal of Publlc c be Just as cauticus today Heajpr'can be directd ,,e at three points: the cigarette,`t the smo:cer or the expo-': sure of the smoker to cig- ^; !lS CANC'. R C~U S E "Dhe statistical assoeia- arettes. f''~ f'Y ~L• f1 , tions reported between ez- Concerning t h e ci~-~ . T?: cessive cigarette smoking rette, it may be possible to' lung cancer have determine the cancer caus ' t pointed aut the need fo ' r Tobaeeo (ndt7stry ClaimsCharges Againsor ing chemical in tobacc g t e a t I y intensed re and remove it or alter the ' Ctgarettes in Lung Cases Are Not Proven search. They have not'pro- cigarette in such a way; ~ ~• r "~• 'vided the answers-nor that the caneer caustng ae'i » This Is the 15th of 16 articles on cancer presenting a can any purely statistical tivity is lessened ti,f,4 summary of current techniques in treatment and pre- association do so• "To achieve this objee k veation of the disease. i,; No Simple Cause ttve a great deal of ehem- Ical nd researeh is in progress BY HARRY NELSON, Times Medical Editor '"Nonsmokers get lung a perkaps in the near' cancer The vastity, ~ . major ; Is smoking a factor in lting cancer, the Ieading cause future this wi11 he thP ma- ; ~ of heavy smokers, never jor control measure; Dr, „of cancer death in men_ get lung caneei; Ohvious - Lilienfeld' ° Yes, says the American Cancer Society: ly, there is no simple causesays..+. tr.tt ns~ • But the tobacco Endus- and eilect mechanism re As Eor the smoler, the ~7s evidence w h i c h proved1ti ft p hysician be4iet es there k~ s vnrom ctarete try, which has put up that smoking was the g g are factors infiuencing host nearly $3.5 million for re- cause of the disease. smokin susceptibility to the can- search Into tobacco and The statistical relation- Other medical men have cer-causing activity of to- '" health by independent ship has been strong demicdliketincrease mey bacco and this is why all ~ J points out that enougH h o w e v e r to b dull heavy cigarette smokers scientists,,,ee to factors totay the ACS assertion has not prompt the surgeon gen- unrelated to cigarette con- do not develop lung can ~ nc~{ ,{~ 1 been proved and rests en- eral of the Lntted States sumption These factors: cer. . tirely on statistical evi- to deetare:, "'The Public they suggesti are the de Very little is presently H eaithdence eaith Service feels the v]tf btte di known about susceptibiL 1~ . eo men oena Therefore, - o n- weightof the evidence is p g ty, however. More re ' nostic facties and lon- , cludes the'Tobacco Indus- increasingly poiitting in search is needed in thts Y; try Researeh Committee- ona directiom, that exaes- gevity of ttie papulation: area in order to learn a as well as many medical' aive smoking is one of the A Canadian researcher method for determining '~fi men who have no axes to causative factors in lung has found no X-ray e i- the susceptible state so ;~~ ' grind - no one can say ~ncer:" dence of lung cancer in that persons possessing tt .s f with scientifio convietion It has also caused the northern Indians and'~ Es, coultl'~ be motivated not to ~S that smoking is a causa- B r i t i s h governmenti to Llmos, almost all of whom take up smoking. ?~ ~~p ~ ' tive factor in lung cancer. Iaunch an educational smoke heavily. This sug- The third approach, try- campaign warning of the gests that smoking alone ing to influence the smok- Rapid Rise Noted dgnger of cigarette smok- is not'the cause of the dis- ing public to give up the ' 4 According to ACS, lung ~g; ease. habit and to educate teen "I cancer incidence has in- And a Scot `investi a• agers not to begin smok creased eight-fold in the Emphasis on Futiure tor, Dr. T. IV. Lees, Law ing, also i n v o l r e s un i;_i past 20 Scot- known factors, In this - c. years, the most And here in California Hospital, Carluke, rapid' rise ever reported such evidence has been land, has analyzed the eci- case tf e unknown factors suggesting a rela- voh e h u m a n motiva for a non-infectious dis- instruntental in a renewed dence N ease. Nearly 30,000 men attempt to incorporate in tionship between smok- U0n and approximately 5,000 school curriculums an ed- ing and lungcancer and Strtling Feature , women v•ill die of lung ucatioral p r o g r a m on concluded that smoking is "T h e striking featurr the so- smokin nd'ks t "' cancer this yea.,g. more intimately con- about these remar ciety reports. "Educating adults in cerned with lung cancer that even after we have A two-pack-a-day male the dangers of smoking is than the increase in ba- decided that action should cigarette smoker who has doomed to failure,',' a nana eating, cinema going be taken in the field of. ' ' been smoking for years spokesmanfortheLos_4n- and many other habits preventive medicine 'we has,about 1 in 10 chances geles County branch of which hace grown the past are faced with a lack of of' developing lung can- ACS told The Times. 50 years. knowledge necessary for , cer. A less than a pack "The emphasis must be Obviously, the tobacco developing adeouate con a day smoker has about 1 on the future-on the ed- industry and the ~merican trol measures," Dr. Lilien in 36 chances of develop- ucation of our children. Cancer Society cannot both feld'tvritesd t: ' ing the disease. The odds Such a course should be a be right. "Many basic problems in for a non-smoker a r e s i m p l e presentation of According to Dr. Abra• the fieid of cancer can about 1 in ?70, facts, not a condemnation: ham INL Lilienfeld of'Johns only be solved by a more These ACS figures are It should be taught the Hopkins School of-Hygiene intensive public health re based' entirely on statisti- same way that arithmetic and Public Health, a lead, search effort. It'is not nee- ,, cal evidence gathered in is taught." ing authority on cancer essary to await the time studies of the smokinp, Clarence Cook Little, Prevention, some sort of when the biochemists and habits of thousands oPvic- Sc.D action must be taken if biophysioists hace solved tims of lung cancer. ., scientific director ob success in contrallin lung the 'tiddle of the cancer ac}{ieved. cell for the development + They are not based on '~e Tnbaeco Indu;try Re- pro- any clinical or laboratory search Committee; has this cancer is to be of a sound, scientific pro- to say: gram for cancer preven- tion and control."' In accepting claims that a direct cause of cancer ;u {_, , - - - - - - - has been found: