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Lung Cancer. "A spectacular relationship." Among 32,392 men who had never smoked, only four died of microscopically proved cancer originating in the lung, but among 108,000 cigarette smokers there were 265 similarly proved cases (of 397 reported). Even men who smoked less than half a pack a day ran a risk of lung cancer 15 times as great as that of nonsmokers; between one and two packs 43 times as great; on two packs or more 64 times as great...
Heart & Artery Disease. Deaths attributed to disease of the coronary arteries went up step-fashion according to the amount smoked: less than half a pack a day, up 29%; half a pack to a pack, up 89%; one to two packs, up 115%; two packs or more, up 141%. (Pipe smokers' rates were up only 3%; cigar smokers' rates up 28%.) Cigarette smokers' death rate from strokes was 30% higher than among nonsmokers; from general arteriosclerosis, 46% higher...
...heavy cigarette smoker for many years, he can still reduce his risk of premature death by kicking the habit, declared Hammond and Horn. After a man had been off the weed for a year or more, his prospects improved; among men who had quit light smoking (less than a pack a day) ten or more years previously, the death rate from most causes was scarcely greater than among lifetime nonsmokers; ten years after heavier smoking, it was 50% greater-and markedly higher from lung cancer...
...enough to sell their act. The group considered and rejected a dozen names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally hit on the Hi-Lo's because their heights ranged from 5 ft. 5 in. (Burroughs) to 6 ft. 3 in. (Strasen). Three years ago they opened at Pack's nightclub in San Francisco, and from the beginning the jazz buffs recognized that here was a new sound and a good...
...chalk players figured, only bad luck could beat Sir Victor Sassoon's swift colt Crepello in the 178th running of Britain's Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs. And for a change, a short-priced (6 to 4) Derby favorite got the breaks. After loafing along in the pack, Crepello found the right opening in the last quarter-mile, moved up with ease and won by a widening length and a half from Ballymoss...