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AMA Opens 140th
Convention With
25,000 Atteding
. Atlantic City, N. J. (U.R)
The American Medical Associa
tion opened its 14th .. annual
meeting today with hundreds of
scientific papers and colorful ex
hibits to help physicians "catch
up" with the latest developments
in medicine.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
tcld the meeting "there is no
evidence at this time" to war
rant fears that A-bomb and H-
: bomb tests are poisoning the at
mosphere with dangerous radia
tion.
He said all. atomic tests to date
by all countries have "added only
fractionally to the natural back
ground radiation which we all
have been subjected since the be
ginning of time." He described
the increase as "about equal to
that of one medical chest X-ray."
The latest developments range
from the use of drugs in curing
juvenile delinquents and helping
heart patients to hospitals that
can be folded up and transported
by airplane.
x 25.000 Attend
Some 25,000 doctors and
guests attended the opening ses
sion of the five-day meeting in
spacious Convention Hall, which
has the largest indoor auditorium
in the world. Highlights of the
meeting will be discussions of
the control of polio by Or. Jonas
Salk, developer of the anti-polio
serum, and other top-flight
authorities.
Dr. Walter B. Martin, Norfolk,
Va., outgoing president of the
AMA, opened the business ses
sion with an address before the
association's house of delegates
in which he outlined the prob
lems confronting the nation's
doctors. He urged continued op
position to any more which may
cpen the door to federal "inter
ference or control" of medicine.
Mental Haalth Stressed
Dr. Elmer Hess, Erie, Pa., who
will take over as president Tues
day night, stressed importance of
mental health and suggest-
Cigaret Smoking Gets
Rough Going Over at
AMA Annual Meeting
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
Atlantic City, N. J. U.R)
Two American Cancer society
statisticians gave cigaret smok
ing a new and even rougher going-over
at the annual meeting
of the American Medical asso
ciation today.
At the same time and place,
another group of statisticians in
dicted cigaret smoking as a pos
sible cause of larynx cancer, es
pecially when the smoking is
combined with heavy whiskey
drinking.
According to the new lung
cancer statistics, the death rate
among heavy cigaret smokers
(two packs or more a day) is
more than 90 times that of non
smokers but the death rate
among men who once smoked
cigarets but stopped is 14 times
greater and is only half the rate
of moderate (one pack a day)
smokers.
Records Smoking Habits
These percentages were based
upon 285 proven or suspected
lung cancer deaths among 188,
000 men who were between 50
and 70 years old when their
smoking habits were recorded
by Cancer Society volunteers
beginning in November 1951.
Since then, 8,105 of these men
have died. The society believes
the 188,000 and what has and
is happening to them are repre
sentative of all American males
of the same age group. Critics
of the study, especially the to
bacco industry research commit
tee, disagree.
In their new statistics, the so
ciety's statisticians found that
pipe - smoking is "associated"
with lung cancer, too, but to a
far less degree than cigaret
smoking. They added that cigar
ed doctors take increasingly ac
tive parts in developing more
psychiatric units in hospitals. He
also urged doctors to give one
day a week to work in state or
county mental hospitals near
their homes.
IT'S A PSYCHOLOGICAL FACT:
PLEASURE HELPS YOUR DISPOSITION!
Feel scratchy
as a cat?
When somebody rubs
you the wrong way, a
little pleasure helps
your disposition. That's
a psychological fact!
for mom pure plsasure
havea
Com
Another fact if you're
a smoker, you'll get more
pure pleasure from
Camels. Really mild . . .
richer-tasting ... no won
der more people smoke
Camels than any other
brand!
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No other
cigarette is so
rich-tasting, yet so mild!
smoking "sowed no significant
association." They gave no
amount of cigaret smoking, no
matter how light, a clean bill
in short, they said their figures
indicated the heavier the smok
ing of cigarets, the higher was
the chance of lung cancer..
Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, di
rector, and R. Daniel Horn, as
sistant director of statistical re
search for the Cancer Society,
made the report. Hammond also
is a professor of biometrics at
Yale university. The larynx can
cer statisticians, who were on
the same program, were; from
the Slan-Kettering Institute of
New York.
To complete the report at the
scientific session on "cancer and
medicine," Dr. Charles S. Came
ron, medical and scientific di
rector of the society, said he
had polled scientists who see
the most cancers or are quali
fied cancer experts and. found
that a majority of them believe
that "heavy smoking of cigarets
may lead to lung cancer." He
said that 63 per cent of the chest
surgeons,. 50 per cent of the
pathologists, and 54 per cent of
the cancer research scientists
whom he polled, answered "yes"
to that statement. ... ,,' ' ...
New York U.R) Timothy B.
Hartnett, chairman" of the To
bacco Industry Research com
mittee, urged smokers today not
to be "misled by sweeping gen
eralities" in a doctors' report on
the relationship between smok
ing and lung cancer.
Hartnett, whose organization
is conducting its own survey
into lung cancer, charged that
the report released today in 'At
lantic City, N.J., "ignores im
portant environmental, geo
graphical, occupational, physical
and emotional factors affecting
disease and longevity."
"The use of big percentage
figures . . . obscures the fact
that they are dealing with only
168 proven, primary lung cancer
cases among 285 reported cases,
out of 8,105 deaths Which oc
curred in a 32 -month period
among 187,000 men who were
50 to 70 years old at the start of
the survey over three years
ago," he said.
Hartnett aslo charged that the
questionnaire used by Drs. E.
Cuyler Hammond and R. Daniel
Horn contained bias "so great as
to make questionable the valid
ity of any conclusions . . ."
Laboratory research during
the past year has failed to pro
vide any proof that smoking
causes lung cancer, Hartnett
said.
Youngster Drowns
Near Springfield
Springfield, Ore. (U.R) ' A
2-1iryear-old child wandered off
from her parents and drowned
in a slough yesterday afternoon
during a family picnic at Hend
ricks Bridge state park nine
miles east of here.
. Little Sandra Arlene Floyd,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grady
W. Floyd of Springfield, was
missed by her parents about 10
minutes after she toddled off
while playing with an older
child.
The body was located in a
slough of the McKenzie river,
the county coroner said, but ef
fort at resuscitation failed.
Portland Bakers Okay
Wage Increase Offer
': Portland (U.R) AFL bakers
here voted unanimously to ac
cept an industry wage increase
offer of 8 cents an hour Saturday
afternoon, ending a month of
negotiations.
The Bakers and Confectionary
workers said the agreement also
included a 6 cent hourly wage in
crease in November and some
retroactive pay. .
. John Leffelman, business
agent of the union, said some
''hand" shops would take a re
duction in hours in place of the
wage increase.
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