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TKi IERAID-I•1E:FS Fontana, California SepteTnber 20, 19 j;? CLEVELAtJD- PLAIN D,^+LER Cleveland, Ohio $tu dy L i n ks S mok i ng, ~.. ' - December 1S', 1950 WASHINGTON l81--Tobacco amoking, especially heavy smoking, may be a mark of weak masculinity, a study of a group of Harvard alumni indi- cates. The findings were reported yesterday by a Harvard antliro- pologist who said that though admittedly te n t a t I v e they might eventually have a bear- i!ng on the question of the as- ~ tMI'1'E PLAnvS ' : ' Heart Ailments REPU3LICAN-DISPATCH . White Plains, New Yorh Sl~ll Qf Success, October 30, 1959 `Says Professor ~ ; AI.BANY (iPf - Heart aihments ttre a sign of civilization~ and iaudcess, a medcali school profes- sor says. And heart disease, said Dr. Paul Formc:, is much less com• Q~ mon amon;; several alcoholics , than nonalcohol[cs. ~ Formell a professor at Albany ~ Medical College, said that reaL sonable use of alcohol was a 'h., good thing. r1- He also said the statistical cor- relation;, behveen smoking an3- lung cancer did not mean there ~ Was a "cause-and•effect relation- ship,.,, ship." "I could draw a similar statis- ~ tical correlation between~ the `wearing of shves' and lung can- cer,"' he said in a talk before a hospital credit forum. Formel had this advice for dad: donit play football with Son just to be a good dad. Violent exercise is for adoles- cents„ he said. . English Scientists 'Claim mokingMa ' Be Health Aid . y BIRMINGHAM, England (UPI) iia survey of 1,000 men over fJJ lyears of age revealed that life- long non-smokers had the highest blood pressures. , McKeown and his fellow sciea tists reported chain smokers had the lowest blood pressures amonq the men interviewed, These were men smoking 20 or more cignr- ettes a day. Pipe smokers generally regis• tered blood pressures between the non-smokers and' the chain smok- ers: 14fcKeown's report said con- 4u:-r'on of al-cholic treverages tended' to raise blood pressure. However he said drinking dceg not raise blood pressure to the ex- tent that smoking lowers it. The doctors said the highest blood pressures of, all came W)m thos.- men who didn!.t smoke but did' drink. - A team~ of, Birmingham L'ni- versity scientists today reported smoking - especially a pack or more a day.-may help health. The scientists, led by Dr. Thnm- as McKeown, said research in- dicated cigarette smoking keep, blood pressure down. They said' sociation of smoking with Iung the "masculine component"-a cancer and coronary heart dis- body-build trait which also has ~~ ease. characteristic personality and In a report in the technical behavioral components - and Jourr.al Science, Dr. C a r I C. the smoking habits of male sub- Selfzer said a special anthro- jects pologica] study under way for ,; "More specifically," he said, triore than 13 Weakness of the masculine years had indI- component is qignificantly more cated: frequent in smokers than in ~;~ That there is a significant nonsmokers and significantly a s s o c i a t I'o n between the m o r e frequent in heavier strength of something called smokers than In nonsmokers .r,. -• and moderete• smokers com- ° bined," Component Deflned ' Seltzer defined this mascu- line component as "the ele- ' ment of masculinity in the.in- dividual as indicated by his ex- ternal morphological {bodily) features." He indicated that a man with an abundance of the maa- culine component tends to be one with an athletic, he-man builda Vice -versa, the chap whose build tends to be some-• what feminine is rated low in masculine component. The scientist said the study covered 252 Harvard men. They were studied Initially while they were sophomores during the period 1938-1942, and have since been followed annually by questionnaires. Smoking h a b i t s constituted only one of a number of ele- ments in the researCh, `{. t GroupR Studied Of the study group, 24.3 % w•ere found to be nonsmokers; 38% moderate smokers and the rest heavier smokers. Selt¢er, of Harvard's Pea- body Museum, indicated that the findings, if confirmed, might have a bearing on the smoking-and-disease controver- sy' for this reason: It might be possible to set up a study to determine wheth- er smokers and nonsmokers differ in their susceptibility to lun~ cancer and heart disease "beeause of their biological na- ture, apart from the element of smoking itself." Such a study, he, indicated, mieht then throw new light on whether smoking, of itself, con- tributes materially to an In- crease in the incidence of such diseases.