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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 7 Lung cancer |
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| | Drs. Alton Ochsner and Michael DeBakey in 1939 first reported the association of |
| | smoking and lung cancer. |
| | Surgery Gynecology Obstetrics 68:435, 1939 |
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| | A landmark article from the Journal of American Medical Association appeared on |
| | May 27, 1950: "Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic |
| | carcinoma" by E. L. Wynder and Evarts Graham. The same Journal of the American |
| | Medical Association issue featured a full page color ad for Chesterfields with the |
| | actress Gene Tierney and golfer Ben Hogan; the journal accepted tobacco ads until |
| | 1953. Another early article by Drs. Ochsner and DeBakey on lung cancer appeared in |
| | the March 1, 1952 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, p. 691. |
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| | If lung cancer deaths are excluded, total cancer mortality actually fell 13 percent from |
| | 1950 to 1982. Inclusion of lung cancer, however, results in an overall 8 percent |
| | increase in cancer deaths during this period. |
| | Executive Health Report, July 1990 |
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| | The amount of radiation as polonium-210 that a pack a day smoker absorbs into the |
| | lungs each year is equivalent to the radiation in 250 to 300 chest x-rays a year. This |
| | adds up to 80 REMS per decade, and is thought to be one of the main causes of lung |
| | and other smoking-induced cancers. |
| | Dean Edell, MD, ABC radio, September 14, 1993 |
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| | Lung cancer accounts for 22% of female cancer deaths, compared with 18% for |
| | breast cancer. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, September 1993, p. 1203 |
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