Vapaus, January 5, 1956

              NORMIE ICWONG NAMED
LEADING MALE ATHLETE
Edmonton's Normie - Kwong's
outstanäing performance V w^
him the title of outstanding
male athlete for 1955. ,
^ • • •
Noxmie','tEwong one rot the finest
ba£ik£elders -in pröfesäonal footbäll
is ,Canada's outstanding nible' athlet^
of 1955. '
ano
sportscastöns put the tag on the 26-
. year"«ld 'lamonton
th^21staiinual Canadian Press yeai*?
end;:fii»rts poll Bi(d3 Pergu^
rento a^ex vho iheaded the 1954
poli, I was. of
the list of 45 athletes -mentioned. Fer­guson
received oidy one ivote.
ing Canadian athletes m order, more
than^ on-third. of! ;Qie i selectors put
Swong at the head of thelr list. Ba-.
6ed;.on three points for first choice
twi> for second and one for; third,
i5:wong's point total was 145, far
ahead of second choice Cliff Lumsden,
Toronto long-dlstanceswimmer •who
polled 90 points, ,
I Jackie :!Parker, the gangllng, shuf-led
&kbnQ0 to ibeir 8«-i9 bircy cup
victoqr over MOntrea! Alouettes Jast
mojitb, vas tiOra vitb n points.
Fourtti vas Slontreal Canadiess' Jean
Bdtveau witax tz potots.
, r«to ti«re in i t wa*n't *ven a
race. Selftctors praeöcsUy ^ the
tu31%anmt oi j ^ r t s , covering the top
meri in football, hocteyr svkimlngr.
ffcJdi^ tenpis, curling, fe^cing;"*3tilng:
hayfaan, racing and rifie ioiootlng.
The <voten'fr<mi !Nev(rf<mnd'and to^
BritUh CoIund>la Iooked;Wr the.re-cord
7 of. thft Ca|gäry>boxn Kvrong
in Westem Interprovinciar Football
X}!bl9h and Grey Cup' play :th's year
and inade~him thelr solid No. 1 choice
They had plenty to £^ oh.
fee;se1^. fäar'WIPU niSMng records
duriq^ the season, was chbsen as of-fensive
baäk on the OP all-star team
and barged -over: for two touchdowns
in the cUp fixial, his fifappearance.
in .the autumn «lassie. At the iend
of the seasqn vriters ia the e a s t and
w»st football clties named him the
cutstandlng Canadian player of the
year-liumsden
hit the sports pages last
Sept.. 9; when he plunged ir^to icy
Laite; Ontario with 29 others,-inc:ud-
Ing the vi<uiA's leading distance
swinupers and: was. the only one; to
f ö i e 32-niiIe : laJcefront,ygrind•
for a 415,000 fhst" priae.
iGerry James "VVinnlpeg ^Blue Bom-ber
haif :who gave « p f o o t b a l l at the
end of the ; S e a s o n v to joinj Toronto
<&läplö Leafs: of the Natkuial.Hockey
LeaguÄ, placed f if öi i a the OP. poll
ivith ,35 points, two inore than Cana-diens^
Maurice RichanL
Stan Leonard:: o f vVancouver..-»ho
forced a sudden-death playoff in the
$26,800.. open^ golf championship at
MOTtreal-. in-.August and; lost out to.
Gene Litfer of Palm i-Springs, Calif
Vi-as J i e x t Tvith 13 points.
i i i i i l i i i
PBE-SEASON TRAINING
Traihing £nsure Success In Sl<iin§
MARILYN BELL AGAIN
TOPS THE SPORTS POLL
Marilyn Bell, n-year-old Toronto
school girl who inakes history' neatly
everyi time • stoe goes! swinimine; wäs
naihed: Ganada's' outstanding' -female
athlete oi'1955. Shealso von "«he
honörhi 1^4/
.MarUyn became the youngest.8wim-mer
to ..conquer ttoe; -English C h a n n e l
last July 31 and'sports editors and
, sportscastgrs: ^e^yarded[^ her v i t h an
almost lUnanimous i^^vofe, Just as'j(they
did in 1954 when she was the''i«riy
human'-'l^^'swlm JLiaike Ontario be'-
tweeniN^ewYori:sta<re;imd-Ontario^ •
The 6 e l e c t o r s . ' ^ p t i n g ' i n t h e 2lÄt
aimual - Canadian ' Kess - year-end
sports'pollj ;were?asked. to. naaie the
three. outstanding female" athletes in
order of preference. It -»as Marilyn*s
show ali the way. Twenty-six-others
were mentioned and of ttoeseorfly
eight caugait the voters' eyes for n:o
1 choice. ,
The votes, computed on a 3-2-1
basls, showed Marilyn with a whop-ping
216 points, nearly three thnes
as many as jsecondrchoice Marlene
Stewart, the golfing whi2 froim Pon-thill,
Ont.i who received a 77 polnt-total,
Third on the listTvasErEfestlhfi
Russell, 16-year-old gymhast fröm
iWlndsor, Ont.- ; ' v '
• Swimming the C h a n n e l hasbeen
: ^old hatsince Captain I^latthe*^ Webb
did it f u-st hl 1875 but the distincCion
^ ^: of heing the youngest to do i t b e r
longed to Philip Mickman, 18^-year-old
Briton, unta MaTilyn's crosslng.
'Mickman swam it in 1949. ^
Adding to Marilyn's prestige in the
aquatio World was the marathon
madness laet summer ! W h e n 25 m e n
and women, hicluding some of the
best swimmers in the .worldr trled
the^ L ^ e Ontario swim. Kone made
It. "
von *both V - t h e OanBdlan;.'woraen's
Opett änd Close i^olf title&'at Victoria-kst
6ummer;-buts*e -received jonly
four fiist-choice "votes, against 65 for
Marilyn- •Märiy- seleötors jotted^down
only - •Marilyh's • •name - «on" 'the ' ballöt •
and Tfrrotc "iNo other competttors."
; Jackie. MäacDonald; Toronto ••• track
and iieid star • who: placed third" last
year; alipped two^^ notches to . fifth
pospöötjvith 22 i»ints, two less than
Raa' MiUigan, Jasper Alta. Crolfer^
whö i^i^' theOntanoOftenand plac^
ed «e«>nd. \Q Mts$ Stefvart in the
Caxi^dlan women's Close.
, 'd^hs f a r down In . t h e list in-ciuded:/'-,
i . - , ^ " t
I-Sfiixtaaets Shirley. Campbell, Fer-gus,'
Ont.r Betti -"VVhittall, Montreal,
double :wlnner In the Pan-American
Games at Mexico City; Lenore Fish-er,"
Ocean Falls, B.C.; Helen Stewart,
Vancouver; Sara Barber;:Brantford,
Ont.; Gladys Priestley, Verdun.-Que.;
Eila lindell, Montreal, vänd^Kathie
Mclhtosh öf St. Vital, Mähtth^' first
pärson to swim Lake Winnipeg.
•Three women TVho •wlll'' represent
Ciittada Itf the 1956 winteri piympic
games' at Cortina, -Italy, aläo r^eceived
votesi They are : Carole Jane (?1pachl;
x>ttawa; Canadian ladlesiseniorligure
—. skatlng C h a m p i o n ; Aimk- Heg^
gtvelt,; Ottawa skier, and Toronto's
Fratices Dafoe who, with Norris
Bowden. also of Toronto, will team
u p in the paks figureskating compe-;
tition.
;Mifis Stewart, No. 1 choice in 1953,^
A VPELCOME BELXEF
Salesman: Come now, just what
wtndd you hotel guys do, if it> wasn't
ior us travelling salesmen?
Hotel ownfir: 'Weil, tjie flxst ^öung
VK^^i^ is cut down on ejgpenses.
Wp'd fire aU the house detectives!
. B Y UNTO PENTTINEN. .
A cross-eoimtfy dd 'sdiool vnu^:H
r e c ^ l y hdd by ^ f i n a A.C: im-|E
, der -the SponscMhipof the^ aor-; ^'
; tbemOn'(3rlo Sfci Zone;^lt prov-ed
I)» be a vcry interestfnir event
at whieh mxmy hdpful hlnts vjere
passedvon b r tbe ;1954 CanadJ^
cross-comitry. - e h ^ .Airo
Ayräntö.
The pnrpose of «ritlnir.this ar- -
ticle Is prlmatily to benef U thoae ^
aiembers of Mthe FCASF viho did
nothave the-oi^rtiuilty of.at-i^v
tendini: the sehooL
By prs-season trainlng we mean
the trainiag ; one must ;go . throtigh
before actual snow condittons make
skiing possilile.: 'Tto get into: top f ora»
for cross-coimtry skiing. one -^ould
start his pre-season trainlng in late.
Ju'y or at least in August.
i The V preliminaiy trainlng . should
be start^ with gentle walks or hlkes:
of 6 — 6 miles twice a week- Cross-country
hikes over soft wooded paths
with as. httle hard: n>ad9 as posslble;
are recommended fo* thls f Jrst traiii-:
ing, Tlus is advised. durlng. the
break-fn period so ali muscles Involv-ed
wiM become gently adjusted to the;
strains that-^ill foMow. Thls type of
roadwork can becontinued for three
of four weeks,
After this period' the muscles should
i}e.used to- the starain.and'the number
of hikes per week shoiild ,be increased
to at- least>four..iDlst8mo«t'niay: also
b2 mcreased., But the'nutin thing Is
to put more effort into' walking.
Walks can: be conducted':On> harder
. loads; wh'oh, will gSive tt;' ifetter puMi
to thestrid6 and wiU also ihcreas^
strain on'the musdes.' \
flhe pi-oper way of :Wlking:ls to use~
the. same ystyle: of mövement and'
stride as l/used to ;actual\dcllnp. .1^
kn,ee .ofj tjie leadlngtleg.|iahould-rilp
&lightly;«ent^^e^th^'pdsll!is «w4-i
pleted with the other leg fully extfiai-ded
fromthe hip.to the>ball of :the
foot to complete the drlve. In doing
this one gets -the fuH benefit:of the
stride and. ali ^ the muscles; used in-sisUng
will 'become accustomed to the
st^in required ixf. competition.
.,bn these hikes it is advisable to
altemate from 'walklng to running as
this wiill.bring'ali- musclös;Into.:play,
It willt aaso help to break the mono-tonjr
of.these Tongalmost-daily hikes.
pärtioularattention should be pald
to the climbs and bC: sure •.whether
you:are running or'.walktog- to i In-crease;
your. speed on^-the cUmbs and
ccnttnue the increase in speed b?yond;
the top of the hiU or to the next
level spot. whlch ever the case xnay be.
Onse you get >used to this you will]
automaticaliydolt. In. competition
which is important asmany races axe
lost or won in-'the climbs. ^Tlienaoto
is: never give in or slacken pace un-til
you have conquered ih« c^ifl;^}:^
The use of poles is • reconunended"
on these hikes and - paröcularly f or
those who do not usei their: arms in;
the course of thelr regular woik.
Another good way of buUdhig the
strength of the arms i S ; to attach-bicycle
.tubes to : a treeäor- pole- or
what have you-and pulUng^Ott^ttie^
daily for 15 or 20 minutes.-::In addl«
tion to thls road wotk partlcular at-:
tentionshould /be' pald tp. exercises.
by attending a gym eläss at least
twice a weäk. This of course Is in: ad-dition
to the road work. * '
Rowing is a very good- way of
building the upper body affi ane
jShould row as nnich as poBsIb'« as the
upper boily gets the least benefit
^from the hikes.
, Frerseäson trainlng mustbe cairled
out Jigfat; if one intends t o ^ c ^^
and wln races. Only proper. trainlng
wlll get your muscles an^vind accus-tontsd
to the faazd atrain which you
wiU 7 encounterv In ;competlUon and
prevent iU effeets vhich hiJght other»
wlise occio'.
.These trainlng dlstances-for hikes
a r e of. course lor.skierslntending to
S k l S h o r t dlstanoes up to 20 ten. iBut
for skiers who pian to oompete i n ? ^
longer distaases of 30 or 50 Idlo-metenj;
they must Increase the length
o f thelr daily hlkes to 10 or 15 km.
Oflbce tcaitting: te staxted It^
be conducted. on - schedule regard*ess
of rajin orshlne. Mlsslng trainlng
perlods may hecome a serious hablt.
You can only get the full benefit pf
your trainlng if: you put your heart
and soul into it:?Only'proper;trabi-
Ing will assxu% that your muscles and
'Wind wil stand up to the hard strains
of • cposs-country competition. Once
we are condlttoned; to the-straln no
harm can be done to the body no
matter how rlgorous the competition.
• One m^st keep in mind that several
aionths training can be lost in two
weeks if training is not maintained on
a regular sdiedule. , '
After each training period a steam-bath,
shower or even a sponge bath
iwlth .warm :water is reccommended
f<dlow^ wit&. a cpmpieie duu^^ til^
cc^hes. ^ ,
ChIIls ixnpt be c^vol^^ durinef
trainlng E»isuffidentclpt^
wam to k e e p varm a a d ' ^ eaaUe you
topersplre-freely. ExerclslJDS^thehlps
is a very esseatial part ö f preRseasoa^
training SO emphasis should be'placed
o n ; swinging the hips: to keep them
limber.
Soft hut flrm shoes are reoommend^r
ed for pre^ason road work. A cork
compositlön soIe is one o f .the best..
The bcots should. f it properly to pre­v
e n t Gores c from deiveloplng: which
would hinder training.
The n e x t artide wlll deal wlt2i
training durlag actual 6now Mndi>
t l o n s . /
JOURNEY TO TIBET
Life in Legendary Lhasa
f'.
, Canada^s outstanding youz^ sw3Xttmer l^IarilynJSell demonstrates tltje style that
. carried her across.theJlngKsäi Channel,to jnoake hec the ypung^ sivnuner, to.
accomplisfa the feat.;;J'or this. deed :she was nanjed eahada's put^tahding female
athlete oJE 1955- Se woii:the samcÖtle in 1954 when she became the first perhon
The föUoviAg Is the second ot ^
a series of artlclesby British cor'.'-.
respcndent Alaa,IVlnalngton « h o -
' Is eurrently vblting Tibet* Ia bfs
^iitst artlde he «rote of th^road-r
trhleh the Chlaese have buiit iato. n
TIbet.
Imagnie drivlng In an open car to
Nottingham abqot the time of iRobto
Hood and you can ;get some Impres­sion
of the ^ ^ t mlies to Lhasa along
the new roäd from. China. ^
' . In.: sparse. barley? fields, peasaats
wltlh long matted halr. dressed In
unble^hed t home^un,; patchedvahd
shaples. lefui on thebr ,hjpes tq
the. car. Women with open boc^c-,
es.'feed- thelr; hables ot sicream aipdo-f
usly as some urohiaä dare eadi. other
to'cross-^pCrohtof the:;Jeep.
' -We come to a sectlon where TI-betaas
ar^/working on the^road—for
wäges, (i' rare thing in "TIbet. •As^.;iv^
fly;'3»ast th«ar Jtimp imd: clap tbe^^^
hands. .!lÄey'teck
the peas^nts, '„ , , -J
isUppipg through valley af^r go?f
geous valley, the aew road fo]lows the
rlver past'^moMsterlös?-and: stonei
buiit faouses of the JrlchV '''
A splash pf brlgtitcolor in the dis­tance
tums out to?be a. noble-woman
with' an.escort of three gallants,who
pass us.wavlng, vrith thelr' hamess
Jingllng.
'What seem to be automobiles: on
legs are men carrying the big light
boats of yak-skin stretc^ed on a
frame.. lEnormous ravens hop lazily
out of.^-the- way but mastiff s remain
sleeping, exaotly ih the middle of the
road. '
In the' dli^nce Is a black raln-cloud,
with the sun behind It sending
out blindlngrays that-hideeveryr
thing: below - in darkness. Suddenly
the sun comes .through, lighting; up
the whole valley.
And there In front Is iLbasa^leg-eadary
Lhasa^wlth the goUen-
Toofed Potala ^ l a c e domiaatiag the
whole laadscape : and. makingv the
mountabis : themselves seem Insigoir
ficant.
I had come 1,500 mlles by Jeep to
reach this city and It w'as a moment
I shall aever.forget.'I-:Caa understand
the feellngs: of ;&pilgrim after walk-ing-
the same distance when he Ttrst
sees the Potala, where the Dalai
Lama Ilves, and icnows that he' has
at last reached hls goal.
Lhasa; 12,000 feet above sea level,
is the capital of the Tibeläin region
of China, seat of. the local govern-ment
headed by the IMlai Lama
and holy of hoJies fcr Lamalsts every-where.
' Splendid as the city Is from- afar,
at close' quarters there has clearljr
been little Ohange tn sanitätion and
,layout eince ttie 7Öi century,
That was when Tibefs most pop-i>':
ar k'ng martled a Chlnese princeeii
and söt vp house where the f^otala
Tiow stands.
1 I t - is a city of relfglon,- arlstocracy
and commerce*. andthelr vcounter-parts
<^ pUgrintf, serfs-and :beggärs.
Uritil the new pover siation is
con^Ieted, a totteringr ol^ 100 kilo-
Watt gencrator, w h i ^ was repaired
by the:People'6 Liböfatloa Arfoy; «up--
pUes :a V Umited ntanberof fUckertng
bulbspart of theday.
, Ccrrles are now forlnging. tea f r «n
Idland China and the price of this
Tibetan essenUal has gone down.
Shanghai clgarettes /vracua bot-tles
and other cogsnmer, goods ar?
popular, but yaks aad <»meii stIU toil
into fUakea, <iai]y from Xadia and
"Nepal wfth 'lightweightluictiry goods
8ewnupria the «klas: of thelr d e ^^
ed hrotbers. ' , .
In this town. that never 8 a w a
=wheeled. vehicle before last year,, the
most obvlous ^ thing is traf f (c. It
islmply was not designed for ansrthing
r-Lbut men on loot and horseback. Its
zuitjrow,. windingstreets become quag-.
imires at the least: hint of rain. ;
'> I tumed my jeepinto one street^the
"other day ;to' flnd- myself facing a
•convoy of, 'tea , lorrles- from inland
China'.' I -i^pped,-the' crowd closed
i a to'examine the foreigners and that
wa$ that.
< (/ It took än hour to sort out the trafr
fic jam.
1 Apart from twffIc there are: mapy
ilgns of the new road's efffect. '
i "VVithout the rbad' it wo'uld nöt
!haW been posslble:to.equip the hos-pital,
experimental farm, schools or
newspaper. 1
»:to-tl^ecweiöf;|h4|nfaetaf^
ineWsp&per,* theuö^vas liotieveh any
Tibetan type untll^he first was east
^PÖUng.
' *^i&nong the wealthy here; it Is fash-ceiUngs
of houses. .^rmerly these
were shipped in sectlons of less
than a yard long and:then-bolted tOri
gether, because a yak can carry only;
120 pounds.
iNow' the newJbridge8 over the rlvcr
at Lhasa and Shigatse, as weU as
manyothers on the road, are of .steel
glrder construction.
As ^et the new thinge are hardly
vlslble on the surface. The main
streets of the towa are stiU as they
were: covered with stalls, .with dogs
sieeping^in the r^maln^tig patohes of
sunlight; pilgrims, dervishes and
beggars twirl prayer;wheel8vand^beg
r - very successfiilly, 1 'uiidörstand.
' From my'w^ndow,,Ij!an v^pmen
and children;,:carryihg ^ wat?ri-up^
the top of the 900-fopt high Potala,
for everydrop of wiaief here has'!^
1 (Dovln^ beid« - Higii 'ofticlals» in
. . . . . Ä
^ Iheir
jgöld röbes a^
a dozen seinra^tslnjred-frlnge
lönable to use steel ghrders in'the like'*electrlc lam •',->rff>iif
Just « b a t do HUnken think aboul;
vhen they « re thinking?
Ibis is a questioa vhlcb bas per'^;
plemt manklnd ever since aumkiad
became that kind of mm. Tbe fa>
mpus eduptor Rodla. indeed. entitled
m best tuur^pf^i^'p3ui Th{aker.|
.t;It ponra3« a^eUpw, d i la in hand,
thiaktngtU ."K* ' -
j lVhatiTbe.']^Inker was thioking
' about äobody - seenu to know.; Had
he forgottea a telephone aumber?
.»^Waji' he trying - to xecall what f t vas
> hlsÄrife had 0sked hhtt; ttf briDg Ixomm
•for supper? '
The laet ..tba,t,.the famous work
wa8 done niide has led ebme students'.
of .art to!jponder^ ori' whether The
Thiakör wa8 wonderlng where he
had left his dothes.
Thea there are others vtho' con-slder
that T3ie Thlnker s was an early
effldency expert type who was schem-;
ing up aew ways, npt to mentlon
means, to speedup the .workers at
Anciente Chariot & Ho^seshoe Facto--
We've heard It argued that^ The
Thlnker was inspired at Income
Tax tlme and the fellow was mere-y
figorlng out how to make out the
"new, fiimpimeld OD T^k forbi.'v
Other opinions run the gamut from
trying to flgur4 o i l t a way to get
out of doing vorkaround the/hpuse»;
rlght up to sUch serlouB toplcs, a^'
"Did iRome PalI:^or wfts It Pushed.'!
Our thoughts on The Thhiker,wer|
prompted when we saw recently in
the papers that, "thinkers' from ali
överthe world'^wer^ being invlted to
the palatiai summer' resldence öf - a^
Canadian mllllonalre at Sdckville.
N.B.'The purpose of Invitlng ali of
"the thinkers" was so that they coulä-have
a hollday and "bet and thlnk.|
Newspaper reportage on theHhink*
';er8' athembly' aptly bring :out; whai'
some of the "great minds" of the
World are concerned::Withwhen they
Just set ahh think. . i [ ' ^
One of the tlilnkera whien^aske$
what he was thlnkitig of> at the
moment an8wered^ that M e ; thoug^
"it ,waii abPilt'tInie' for \nnoh:',
Anptherj intel^ectuali.giantit redc-oned,
4iha:t; it^ loo^d l^e 41 ,migh|
'raij^|^gy?i;j^«^'(i'^^:^
But>y far' the' lottiest .Ihoughi
caniefrdma tJSA'pfö^eäÄPr-l!ype'w!HÄ'
Btatid' that' M "He-d^"knbwtt 'tliat'
thinfe* v^ere fi^%ood' as they '?were at
the Thinkers^Paradise, and for^fxee,!
he ,never wpuld. have ^nt ,hl$ ^p^n
mpoej^ ^«^^tilng| ^...»fi^gi 'jP^|
-ylojiflly:'
spme « I tbe «7«atiffi9ds nnfl|
On the tbenite of gmM^ inl
ane imlnded « f tbe^tta^^l
twp iamous, astn3qunie»/«}y» ,—
Jppktog Ihrough the iaö»t'aÄ^ J ^ j.
eqaipment et the tismvmr^*^?^
9--. -
gping to Ä in tomorrov/X "11491^1
"Bow come you «Unk-tlMrt?**?4«ie/'% J
We ;iiBed to lancy
spmewhat of a thiaker; too 0||"',Sri^ ' M
,Thb, thpugh,. wa» ttntll^^we«toWl;
our missus one'*'day duxlng VöftTl^ ^"'^^
tioiisebold debate' that,'1ier- fitfband' /-^'-{M
waÄ.a tbtoker. ,»Amy/' we a « a ^ . / . ; J
•:doa't,bug me »U thc;'ilme ^«hpttti^ft^i
dolag pdd-jbbs. After m"i^we, Ä V |;|
"thfre has to'be one,thlnker,Jriitbis ::M
'.There .thertainly 1 d o t k " ' ^ r ^ Q
kalbs. thus endiag our,a!a^pia(Wf^'''-
Now miad jrou ^m'n,noidag^tg!^/':;V
n?ChUjk«3J have 'contrnjutid'i,|ni«teh4,
Like.reiceatly, jtrtiea Utrd 'JÄrttK^f^y
«he läte Albert'^ Eii)8teln«:'ai)d''<^i^'^>^J
emtoeat «ctentlsts Issued" ar/»ii«nl>»45/"'j;fq
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Gigarettes - < Bigger an
; What is the tobacco companles'
answer' to^mounting evidence that
clgarette smoking causes or helps' ib
cause Ivmg cancer? On the basis
of evldence it appearg to be standard
big Inisiness practlce, reflecting * the
usuai big business dlsregard of
people'5 wel£are — more" and more
confusing advertlsing.
!Hbw ströng^ls the- case agamst
cgarettes? LeVs take a lo<*.
A recent study on older men con­ducted
for the American Cancer
Society a>y ^Drs. Hammond and Horn
revealed that cigarette smokers-had a
lung : cancer death rate ; seven tiipes
higher than non-^anokers. T h e study
Tävealed:
"The lung cancer death rate Is
more than three times as high for
those. who smoke over two packs a
day as for those who 'smoke less than
one 'pack.
Cancervof l^e lungs ranks second
cnly, to heart dlsease as a cause of
death for ,two-pack smokers.
:^en light smokers, those puffing'
less than a; half a pack daily have
considerably higher lung cancer rates
than non-smokers,
IThe relatlonship of clgarette smok­ing
and lung cancer, holds in rural
as well as Jn tuuban areas.
TSiere appears to be some relation-ship
between plpe smoking and lung
cancer, although lt's much less mark-edthan'With
clgarettes. Cigar smok­ers;
on th^ other hnad, don't appear
to have appredliab^or hi£^r lui\g
cancer rates than nonsmokers; .
This latest Hammond-Horn study
is only cne of the many Indications,
that c'gargttes contain elements that
cause lung cancer, and according to
Dr. Chai-les Camercn .medical dircct-or;
of the American Cancer Society:
"Cancer of the Ijmgs is showins the
mrst rapid Incxease ever- ascnbed to.
any noninfectlous dlsease in.medical
hlstory." •
This Increase has paralleled a rise
:n, smoking.
Oetting back to the^oigarettemakers
" a n 3 w e r * ' ta this evidence. lel's -take
a lock at some of the changes
broaght about in the Industry/ not
by ths heaUh probiem itself, but by
the pubi-city gjvenit,publicitywhich
has threatened the profits of the
giantVcorporations that make clga­rettes.
^
•Iheffirst change came about with
th«, iiftrodifction - of king stee dgar-e
t ^ S The advertlsing agencies soon
gotfbuff^ droppittg ali sorts of hints
t'nat''tbe longer the clgarettes, the'
more;heathfuLlx>ng clgarettes fllter'
mm 1M
impiu-Ities, tars ead nicotine out of
smcke, wa3>the'Jlbie. ' ''-
fThen," as publlb alarm grew oVer
the danger of clgarettes, the clgaret<i>
te people came up wlt]l^ a new answer,
the fllter clgaretto.
Unquestionably, the combination of
king.size a n d fllter snuÄes; preclpl"
tated a revolutiormry change in UJB.
smoking habl ts.-^ A dozen new brands
have spnmg up and lumped- into. po-pularity.
/ But the facts about these new
brands reveal a shocking.truth. Peor
ple today:;are.,actua'lly' getting^more
nicotine and more tar per >6moke
than bef ore. Here'» w h y ; -
^ filters
have less nicotine in thelr smoke (on
the average) than d o regular slze
dgarettes without fUters, but the
much more common klng.size. filter.
dgarettes a c t u a l l y h a A r e more nicotine
than regular ones .wlthout filters.
King slze.sigarettesjvlthout filters,
despite advertlsing clalms, actuaUy
have far more; nicotine than any
other style.
Regular clgarettes wlth filters have
one third less torUianregulars wlth-out
filters,: but king' slze' dgarettes
with filters produce only one nhitti
less tar than regular8without filters,
This dlfference Is not signlficant, but
hereVj one that Is: -King slze, non-filter
c'garettes yleld 30 percent more
tar than the conventlonal ones.
To makeimattcrs worse; according
to teats recently xcnducted by Con-sumers'
Union,: tc4t>acco .compunieti
'have-, greatly Increased the nicotine
ccntent, of thelr / oldjcstabllshed
brands. , f, .
;Statistically,whatdo.;these facts
m e a n in; tcrms,; of . j C u r r e n t > cigarette
s m o k i n g hablte? i - j • ' v -.
In 1952, 81^6 percent of.iaUpJgarr
ettc3.smolcedv^ereregulfu** nonri^
smokes, I7,per<^nt were, k'ng.8lze,
non-filter, while only \2 percent
werc filters,
Nov/ rcgularshave dropped to 63.22
percent of the market, klngs -have
jumpsd to 27.06 percent,v and filters,
mcstly king sl2S8, have; clmlbcd to
9.64 percent.
Thes3 figures indicate that t h e
greatest Jump: in clgaretto .smoking
occurs for king slze smokes vithout-filters.
the c'garettes which have the
highest nicotine and tar conteat.
And any: advantagegained from -the
move toward'filters is a l i but caa-ceUed
out„^y^ t h e fact tbatr' the
most, populäf^^ t > r a a < t e ; o f d g a r ­e
t t e s are t ä ^ ' s l z e / aadtbc^fore äa
deletedousaä regular smokes.
"Vjrhllc: recognlzing thp, dgarette*
Ivm/g. cancer, dangei- foi^ what It te,
we should noV fait into the trap of
thinking, that dgarettes alone are
responslbie i tor the' tremendous i n ­crease
in hmg oancer death/ Per-haps
equally important te'the danger
presented hy air poUutlon from. fac-tories,
and from exposure to noxlous
fumes fm, 'the Job.
The fact is that htng cancer te
nu)re comnjonä in. Industrial centres.
than In rural areas, and lung can­cer
te most common; among indus-npnferrous,;
n6tate»-Steel and , Jrim,ri'"'^
aio^lc iehergy* plastlcs tannsportii^^
,V|r(uall^ noihlng haa' beek^^döil^C'^ '
äbout the air poUuttpn' ah(t":tumM^'
menace, Jargely because to^^tjte^fionie-V
thing would co8t blgindustty;i|\^i9^ 1
of nioney. But untU ii^ probiem ;
te tfackled, and,cert«iinlsr ottMin^^
labor has the greatest ^f ali TiMm {
.M
mi
in seeing that it ted one, tbon^Gy^ m,m .
of ,i>eople wlll die each' yea^ ÖOTI ^''jf
lung cancer^ ' "/i 4 /
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"Since I got a glrl I_can't eat„
can't drlnk,'! C8n't amokc." "
"Why not?"
"I'm broke.",
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"You mean you don't 'knowJ" ex-daimed
the keeper. "What dpes your
wife call you?'< ,
"Do you mean to toll me," Mike
replled, "that thafs a skunk??
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