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Cigarettes, Cancer and the Campus
Cort, Daivd | August 15, 1959 issue

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The present moment in cancer research yields a certain amount of material that the layman can grasp, but it is hard to find. Despite recent cover stories on cancer in Newsweek and Time, the big news on cancer was a July 9 dispatch that British mice had failed to get lung cancer after five years of inhaling cigarette smoke. This was reprinted "in the public interest" by the Tobacco Institute, at small cost when compared to the paid propaganda of the cigarette companies. Newsweek's story recounts the "miracle of modern surgery" on lung cancer, and miracle it is, except that after the surgery most of the patients are dead in two years, and 80 per cent in five years.

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CANCER -- Research; CIGARETTE smoke; PUBLIC interest; TOBACCO; LUNGS -- Cancer; PLANTS, Smokable
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